First place winner: Terrence McCoy, "It Was an Accident, Baby" (The Washington Post), relates how a family in Alabama coped after the family's four-year-old accidentally killed his nine-year-old sister.
Second place: Hannah Dreier, "A Child's Scraped Knee" (Associated Press), which depicts how medical supply shortages in Venezuela turned a simple injury into a life-threatening condition for a three-year-old.

Third place: Billy Baker, "The Power of Will" (The Boston Globe), focuses on a family's search for a cure for their son's rare form of cancer, which led them to a maverick doctor.
Runners-up include John Woodrow Cox, "A Marine's Conviction" (The Washington Post); Christopher Goffard, "Framed" (The Los Angeles Times); Steve Thompson, "The Long Way Home" (The Dallas Morning-News); N. R. Kleinfield, "Fraying at the Edges" (The New York Times); Anna Kuchment and Steve Thompson, "Seismic Denial" (The Dallas Morning-News); Lauren Caruba, "55 Minutes" (The Houston Chronicle); and Lisa Wangsness, "In Search of Sanctuary" (The Boston Globe).