The judges of the Discovery Health Journalism Awards have announced the finalists in the various categories of the third annual awards dedicated to health reporting. The judging panel received over 180 entries from a cross-section of South African media.
Each category winner will receive R25 000. The overall winner, the Discovery Health Journalist of the Year, will walk away with a total prize of R75 000. Winners will be announced on May 5.
FINALISTS: Category 1, Best Health Economics Journalism
No winner in this category
FINALISTS: Category 2, Best Analysis and Commentary Writing
Mari Hudson – Our babies are dying and Organ Trafficking, What’s New Doc
Antoinette Pienaar – Jou Lewe in ‘n leek se hand, Beeld
FINALISTS: Category 3, Best Health News Reporting
Anna-Maria Lombard – Hospital Left to Rot and Healthcare Sick as Dog Media 24, City Press and Volksblad,
Zinhle Mapumulo – Poor infection control leads to death of babies at Charlotte Maxeke, Series of articles appearing in the Sowetan and The New Age,
FINALISTS: Category 4, Best Investigative Reporting
Jo-Anne Smetherham – Origins of an outbreak, Men’s Health
Lebogang Seale – Mentally ill patients stuck in hospital hell, The Star
Morne Malan – The tarnished ‘gold’ of medical research, Health Intelligence,
FINALISTS: Category 5, Best Health Lifestyle Feature
Colette du Plessis – My triomf oor diabetes, Baba & Kleuter
Glynis Horning – Too close for comfort, Men’s Health,
Lori Cohen – Breast in show, Women’s Health,
Emily Pettit-Coetzee – “Are you addicted to…Sex?” Men’s Health
FINALISTS: Category 6, Best Health Consumer Reporting and Feature Writing
Patricia Anne McCracken – The price of life and death in SA, Bona
Miles Masterson – Plastic panic, Men’s Health
Xanet van Vuuren – Preventing pneumonia, Living and Loving
Glynis Horning – Lifting Spirits, Raising Hope, O Magazine
FINALISTS: Category 7, Best Trade Publication Health Journalism
No winner in this category
Finalist, Category 8 – Radio Health Journalism
In the Radio Health Journalism category only one entrant was selected as a finalist and this winning entrant will be announced at the gala awards.
Finalist Category 9: Television Health Journalism
Peter Groenewald – Rift Valley Fever, Carte Blanche
Sasha Wales-Smith – In the line of duty and Thula Mama, SABC 3, Special Assignment
Michael Duffet – Progeria, Carte Blanche
Joy Summers – Intersex, Carte Blanche
Odette Schweigler and Nicole de Chaud – Cure for blind children, Carte Blanche
Anna-Maria Lombard – Baby Blues – coerced sterilisation, 3rd Degree, ETV
