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2014 The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Medium Newsroom winner

Overdose

 

Winner(s)
Jeff Gerth, Lena Groeger, T. Christian Miller, Krista Kjellman Schmidt, Al Shaw, Amanda Zamora

Organization
ProPublica

Award
The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Medium Newsroom

Program
2014

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About the Project

“Overdose: Use Only as Directed” explains how acetaminophen, America’s most popular painkiller, is much more dangerous than people believe, leading to 150 accidental deaths and tens of thousands of hospitalizations a year. What’s more, the FDA and McNeil, the maker of Tylenol, have failed — over decades — to take steps that would reduce the toll.

Exquisitely reported over two years, the material supporting the story included thousands of arcane documents as well as a raft of scientific information. The news applications team at ProPublica used this to transform an important investigative story into a data-rich interactive story. In addition to striking photographs and videos, our package includes: