Applicants are invited to apply for the 2026 Local Media Award.
Donor Name: National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 01/30/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The NIHCM Foundation Local Media Award recognizes excellence in local reporting that can help health plans, policymakers, health care delivery, health care consumers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability, accessibility, and quality of US health care.
Funding Information
A $15,000 prize will be presented to the winner.
Eligibility Criteria
- Articles or stories must originally have been published during the calendar year 2025.
- Entry can be either an individual story or a series. Stories must be advertised and disseminated as an official series in order to be submitted as one entry.
- Entries must be produced by a local media outlet and principally focused on a local market. Entries from national media outlets will not be accepted in this category, and should instead apply in the Investigative and General Reporting Award category.
- All entries should include a focus on health care affordability, including increasing knowledge of the drivers and impacts of rising health care costs, or identifying solutions to improve health care access and quality. Entries should produce new insights that are relevant to health plans, policymakers, health care delivery, and/or related stakeholders.
- All entries should focus on health care in the United States.
Selection Criteria
- Quality, originality, and creativity of reporting on a local market.
- Entry produces new insights or impact that can inform efforts to improve health care affordability, including by increasing knowledge of the drivers and impacts of rising health care costs, or identifying solutions to improve health care access and quality.
- Entries should produce new insights that are relevant to health plans, policymakers, health care delivery, and/or related stakeholders.
For more information, visit NIHCM Foundation.
