# List of George Polk Award winners

The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York.

## Awards

| Year | Category | Winner | Organization | Work |
| 2023 | Foreign Reporting | The New York Times | The New York Times | “for unsurpassed coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas" |
| 2023 | National Reporting | Joshua Kaplan Justin Elliott Alex Mierjeski Brett Murphy staff of ProPublica | ProPublica | "for revealing secret, lavish and highly questionable gifts that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has received for decades from wealthy benefactors" |
| 2023 | Local Reporting | Jesse Coburn | StreetsBlog NYC | "for "Ghost Tags: Inside New York City's Black Market for Temporary License Plates," the product of a seven-month investigation that uncovered an extensive underground economy in fraudulent paper license plates that motorists used to evade detection while driving on suspended licenses, dodging tolls and tickets and committing other more serious crimes" |
| 2023 | State Reporting | Chris Osher Julia Cardi | The Gazette of Colorado Springs | "for exposing the heartbreaking consequences of a family court system that relied on the advice of unqualified and incompetent parental evaluators to return young children to abusive fathers, leading to four deaths in a two-month period" |
| 2023 | Business Reporting | Staff of Reuters | Reuters | "for penetrating reports on nefarious practices at companies owned by multi-billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk" |
| 2023 | Medical Reporting | Anna Werner Brett Kelman Fred Schulte Holly K. Hacker Daniel Chang | CBS News, KFF Health News | "for "When Medical Devices Malfunction," which reported on the failure of FDA-approved knee implants; hip implant failures that led to emergency surgery; faulty heart pumps; the recall of insulin pumps three years after an FDA official hailed them as technology that would "give patients greater freedom to live their lives," and (literally) jaw-dropping dental devices that totally escaped the agency's attention" |
| 2023 | Medical Reporting | Michael D. Sallah Michael Korsh Evan Robinson-Johnson Debbie Cenziper | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ProPublica | "for "With Every Breath," a series exposing the scope of a corporate cover-up that allowed Philips Respironics to continue marketing breathing machines around the globe years after the FDA received warnings about contaminants in the machines and the company's own experts concluded that the devices posed severe health risks to users" |
| 2023 | Justice Reporting | Brian Howey | freelance | "exposé on a tawdry police practice was published by the Los Angeles Times and developed into a segment of a podcast by Reveal, The Center for Investigative Reporting" |
| 2023 | Magazine Reporting | Luke Mogelson | The New Yorker | "for "Two Weeks at the Front in Ukraine."" |
| 2023 | Photojournalism | Samar Abu Elouf Yousef Masoud | The New York Times | "for chronicling Israel's bombardment and invasion of their homeland, Gaza" |
| 2023 | Podcast | Meribah Knight Ken Armstrong Daniel Guillemette | WLPN Nashville, ProPublica, [The New York Times] | "for a four-part Podcast, "The Kids of Rutherford County," which chronicled the shockingly misguided approach to juvenile discipline by a domineering judge in one Tennessee county" |
| 2023 | Television Reporting | Julia Steers Amel Guettatfi | VICE News | "for "Inside Wagner," compelling on-the-ground coverage of Russian mercenaries on the Ukraine front and in the Central African Republic" |
| 2023 | Commentary | Masha Gessen | The New Yorker | "In the Shadow of the Holocaust," a deeply personal and highly nuanced examination of how Germany and other European nations equate opposition to Israeli policies with anti-Semitism" |
| 2023 | Sydney H. Schanberg Prize | Jason Motlagh | Rolling Stone | "for "This Will End in Blood and Ashes," a vivid account of the virtually complete collapse of order in Haiti" |
| 2022 | Foreign Reporting | The New York Times | The New York Times | “The Making of Vladimir Putin,” a 6,750-word opus by Paris bureau chief Roger Cohen, tracing Putin’s “22-year slide from statesman to tyrant,” and “Putin’s War,” the 13,000-word product of two-months of research replete with invasion maps, cell phone intercepts and diaries from Russian soldiers, exposed the vaunted Russian military as unprepared, ill equipped and badly managed |
| 2022 | War Reporting | Mstyslav Chernov Evgeniy Maloletka Vasilisa Stepanenko Lori Hinnant | Associated Press | Narratives and images of the Siege of Mariupol |
| 2022 | National Reporting | Josh Gerstein Alex Ward Peter Canellos | Politico | Revealing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade |
| 2022 | Local Reporting | John Archibald Ashley Remkus Ramsey Archibald | AL.com | Revealing abusive policing in Brookside, Alabama |
| 2022 | State Reporting | Joshua Schneyer Mica Rosenberg Kristina Cooke | Reuters | Abusive employment of underage migrants in Hyundai auto parts factories and poultry slaughterhouses in Alabama |
| 2022 | Health Reporting | Kendall Taggart John Templon Anthony Cormier Jason Leopold | BuzzFeed News | Decline in quality of care at group homes for people with disabilities operated by KKR |
| 2022 | Financial Reporting | Ian Allison Tracy Wang | CoinDesk | Revealing the financial situation of FTX and Alameda Research, ultimately leading to the Bankruptcy of FTX |
| 2022 | Environmental Reporting | Terrence McCoy | Washington Post | Examination of the exploitation of natural resources in the Amazon rainforest |
| 2022 | Education Reporting | Eliza Shapiro Brian M. Rosenthal | The New York Times | Inadequate quality of education at Hasidic yeshivas in New York City |
| 2022 | Justice Reporting | Brett Murphy | ProPublica | “Words of Conviction,” a report debunking 911 call analysis |
| 2022 | Political Reporting | Sarah Blaskey Nicholas Nehamas Ana Ceballos Mary Ellen Klas | Miami Herald | Reporting on the Martha's Vineyard migrant airlift |
| 2022 | Foreign Television | Sharif Abdel Kouddous Kavitha Chekuru Laila Al-Arian | Al Jazeera English | Report on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh |
| 2022 | National Television Reporting | Shimon Prokupecz | CNN | Reporting on the failed law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary School shooting |
| 2022 | Photojournalism | Lynsey Addario | The New York Times | Iconic photo of the bodies of a woman and her two children alongside a friend who lay dying moments after a mortar struck them as they sought to flee Ukraine |
| 2022 | Special Award | Theo Baker | The Stanford Daily | Reporting on significant flaws in research published by then-president of Stanford University, Marc Tessier-Lavigne |
| 2022 | Sydney H. Schanberg Prize | Alex Perry | Outside magazine | Account of a 2021 ISIS attack on the town of Palma, Mozambique |
| 2021 | Foreign Reporting | Maria Abi-Habib Frances Robles | The New York Times | Award for "detailed accounts" attributing the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse to "a plot by drug traffickers likely concerned that the president might expose them." The reports "debunked official versions of events" and "exposed disturbing aspects of Moïse’s past." |
| 2021 | National Reporting | | Washington Post | "The Attack," a three-part online series that "cited systematic security failures" in the lead-up to the attack on the United States Capitol, as well as documenting President Donald Trump's "incitement of the insurrectionists and refusal to heed pleas to intercede," examining "the continued growth of radical hate groups," and the "resumption of Republican efforts to promote baseless claims of 2020 election fraud." |
| 2021 | Local Reporting | Corey G. Johnson Rebecca Woolington Eli Murray | Tampa Bay Times | For reports ("funded in part by PBS' Frontline's Local Journalism Initiative") that exposed "unsafe conditions" at a lead-smelting factory; the conditions "endangered low-wage employees working with inadequate protection from the effects of lead dust and other toxic chemicals." |
| 2021 | State Reporting | Carol Marbin Miller Daniel Chang | Miami Herald in partnership with ProPublica | "Birth & Betrayal," a series of reports exposing the consequence of a 1988 law designed to shelter medical providers from lawsuits by funding lifelong care for children severely disabled by birth-related brain injuries, and how an agency responsible for "stewarding" nearly $1.7 billion in funds "repeatedly refused pleas for care." |
| 2021 | International Reporting | Ian Urbina | The New Yorker in collaboration with The Outlaw Ocean Project | Award for an article revealing that "the European Union equipped and trained Libyans to intercept migrants from sub-Saharan Africa at sea and hold them in secret prisons." During their reporting, Urbina and his team were seized, detained, beaten, and intererogated and by Libyan agents at a "black site" for 6 days. |
| 2021 | Medical Reporting | Adam Feuerstein Matthew Herper Damian Garde | STAT | Reports revealing "covert lobbying" of the Food and Drug Administration by Biogen, which led to the FDA overruling its own scientific advisors "to grant approval for Biogen's new and costly treatment for Alzheimer's disease despite questionable trial results." |
| 2021 | Business Reporting | Jeff Horwitz | The Wall Street Journal | "The Facebook Files," a series that exposed how the social media company and its top executives "ignored internal findings" and rejected fixes to company practices promoted extremism and divisiness, endangered teenage girls to negative discussions of body image and emotional health, and protected drug cartels — all out of fears that "political friction" and profitability would decrease were those fixed put into place. |
| 2021 | Environmental Reporting | David Muir Almin Karamehmedovic Esther Castillejo | ABC News | Award for "The Children of Climate Change," a series airing on World News Tonight and Nightline that showed "how global warming led to a famine devastating a remote, drought-stricken region of Madagascar." |
| 2021 | Magazine Reporting | Sarah Stillman | The New Yorker | Award for “The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters,” which explored how federal contractors benefitted from "the multi-billion-dollar disaster recovery industry" while putting the lives their employees, many of whom are undocumented immigrants or foreign guest workers, at risk. |
| 2021 | Military Reporting | Azmat Kahn Dave Phillips Eric Schmitt | The New York Times | Award for exposing "a record of deadly errors" that led to "intelligence failures and civilian deaths associated with Middle East air strikes." |
| 2021 | Political Reporting | Linda So Jason Szep | Reuters | Award for reports uncovering "widespread intimidation efforts by acolytes of Donald Trump to undermine the electoral process by threatening and vilifying poll workers and government officials in 16 states," and how those aggrieved by such false narratives made threats against election officials (and were prosecuted for doing so). |
| 2021 | Technology Reporting | | Forbidden Stories Network Washington Post The Guardian | Award for "The Pegasus Project," reporting that revealed how spywear sold by NSO Group was used to tap into the phones of business executives, human rights activists, journalists, and politicians. |
| 2021 | Local Television Reporting | Dave Biscobing | KNXV-TV/Phoenix, AZ | "Politically Charged", a series of reports that revealed how police and prosecutors fabricated, yet testified as real, the existence of a street gang "in order to convince a grand jury to authorize surveillance of political protestors." |
| 2021 | National Television Reporting | A. C. Thompson | ProPublica PBS Frontline Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program | Award for "American Insurrection," which examined the emboldening of far-right extremist activity across the United States. |
| 2021 | Foreign Television Reporting | Clarissa Ward | CNN | Award for "real-time coverage" of the "rapid rise" of Taliban forces as U.S. Troops withdrew from Afghanistan. |
| 2020 | Foreign Reporting | David Culver Yong Xiong Natalie Thomas | CNN | "for giving much of the world its first on-the-scene look at the dangers posed by the coronavirus and the Chinese efforts to control its spread. Tapping into independent sources they developed during a trip to Wuhan that was cut short when the government ordered a lockdown of the city, the CNN crew did much of its early reporting from an enforced 14-day quarantine site." |
| 2020 | Science Reporting | Ed Yong | The Atlantic | "for his clear and insightful analysis of factors behind the spread of COVID-19 and failed efforts to bring it under control. Yong’s March 25 account, “How the Pandemic Will End,” correctly predicted its inordinately severe impact in the U.S., a circumstance his August 4 story, “How the Pandemic Defeated America,” explained in devastating detail." |
| 2020 | Medical Reporting | Dan Diamond | Politico | "for multiple accounts of Trump Administration interference with the Centers for Disease Control and other sources of medical and scientific expertise. Among the actions he revealed were efforts to reduce COVID-19 testing, pour $300 million into a celebrity ad campaign, send seniors $200 drug discount cards, ignore a “pandemic playbook” inherited from the Obama Administration and install a spokesman at the Department of Health and Human Services with orders to withhold or revise reports that did not hew to the official line." |
| 2020 | Public Service Award | Helen Branswell | Stat | "for relentless coverage of all aspects of the pandemic that became must reading for the medical community and the general public. From her first posting January 4 alerting readers to a “growing cluster of unexplained pneumonia cases” in Wuhan to her December 31 take on experts’ frustration over how little they knew about a new variant of the virus, Branswell tracked the spread of the virus in 161 articles — more than three a week —that were almost uniformly timely and astute." |
| 2020 | Health Reporting | Staff of ProPublica | ProPublica | "for two series examining the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on Black Americans and meatpacking workers. Using data and anecdotal evidence, a team of reporters revealed high rates of infection in Black communities because of limited access to proper medical care. In another series, reporters Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung found global corporations exposed low-wage food handlers to conditions that caused widespread Covid-19 outbreaks, even lobbying the federal government to declare them essential workers." |
| 2020 | Oral History | Eli Saslow | The Washington Post | "for “Voices from the Pandemic,” 25 compelling personal narratives he crafted based on extensive interviews with individuals deeply affected by the virus. Saslow chose each to represent a segment of the American populace coping with grief, fear, guilt, bitterness, frustration, tension, dejection and other emotions, relating their stories in their own words while keeping his role invisible to the reader." |
| 2020 | Military Reporting | Matthias Gafni Joe Garofoli Tal Kopan | San Francisco Chronicle | "for disclosing the Pentagon’s punishment of Navy Captain Brett Crozier who sought to evacuate nearly 5,000 sailors in tight quarters aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt to protect them from exposure to Covid-19. The Chronicle story forced the Acting Navy Secretary to resign and called into question the military’s approach to the pandemic. In the end a crewmember died and a thousand others tested positive for the virus, including Crozier, who lost his command, was almost reinstated and finally lost it for good." |
| 2020 | Magazine Reporting | Katie Engelhart | The California Sunday Magazine | "for “What Happened in Room 10?”. Focusing on one room in the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, scene of the nation's first deadly COVID-19 outbreak, which led to 46 deaths, Engelhart's seamless 17,000-word narrative was at once riveting storytelling and a deft analysis of what went so wrong in nursing homes across the country." |
| 2020 | National Reporting | Luke Mogelson | The New Yorker | "for three magazine articles putting his extensive experience as a foreign war correspondent to use with firsthand accounts of domestic upheaval that sometimes turned violent. He produced probing portraits of Black Lives Matter activists in Minneapolis, anti-lockdown militia members in Michigan and competing left and right militants on the streets of Portland." |
| 2020 | Local Reporting | Staff of the Star Tribune | Star Tribune | "for coverage of the death of George Floyd and its aftermath, starting with spot-on deadline work by police reporter Libor Jany and then delving into the background on Floyd and the officers indicted for killing him. Other articles explored the unsavory history of a precinct, destroyed by protestors, that was considered a breeding ground for renegade cops. The articles portrayed an ineffective police disciplinary process and reported on attempts to rethink the role of police and pick up the pieces in neighborhoods ravaged in the protests." |
| 2020 | Justice Reporting | Staff of The Washington Post | The Washington Post | "'George Floyd’s America,' a six-part series by a team of Washington Post reporters illustrating how uncanny a match Floyd’s life and death were for the national movement he came to symbolize, has won the award for Justice Reporting. Based on more than 150 interviews, the Post series detailed how entrenched poverty, structural racism, inferior education, police intimidation and a rigged criminal justice system dogged Floyd’s life from beginning to end." |
| 2020 | Television Reporting | Roberto Ferdman | VICE News | "for breakthrough coverage of the shooting death of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor in a “no-knock” police raid in Louisville and the investigations that followed. Their reports revealed a pattern of over-heavy police enforcement amid a culture that condoned misconduct and called into question official accounts of the raid and ensuing probes, including a highly suspect grand jury investigation." |
| 2020 | Political Reporting | Stephanie McCrummen | The Washington Post | for deftly capturing Georgia’s shifting political winds in three perceptive profiles in the run- up to the election. One highlighted the conversion of a suburban woman whose turn away from President Trump presaged his ultimate defeat. Another portrayed the re-election of a 76-year-old Democrat-turned-Republican sheriff as a reflection of resistance to change in the rural South. And the third chronicled the collapse of a Democratic Congressional campaign against a far-right conspiratorialist whose outlandish views would soon make her a pariah for many colleagues on Capitol Hill. |
| 2020 | Business Reporting | Ryan Mac Craig Silverman | BuzzFeed News | "for a series demonstrating how Facebook exposes the public to disinformation, fraud and violence. They found the $800 billion social media giant was slow to remove extremist content, fired a whistleblower who determined it favored right-wing publishers and disregarded another who detailed how fake accounts were undermining the democratic process in India, Ukraine, Spain, Brazil, Bolivia and Ecuador as well as the U.S. In one egregious example, Mac and Silverman revealed that Facebook ignored 455 requests to remove an event page urging militants to bring weapons to a Wisconsin protest where two people were later shot to death." |
| 2020 | Financial Reporting | Ross Buettner Susanne Craig Mike McIntire | The New York Times | "for accessing and analyzing a trove of Donald Trump’s income tax information, a reportorial coup suggesting why Trump went to such lengths to hide it from public view. They reported that in 11 years before 2017, he paid no federal income tax, benefitting from such questionable write-offs as $70,000 for hair care, over $2 million in property taxes on a family retreat and almost $800,000 in “consulting fees” paid to his daughter. Perhaps their most stinging revelation was the amount Trump remitted in each of two years he did pay tax: $750." |
| 2020 | Local Reporting | Ian Shapira | The Washington Post | for laying bare overt racism at the state-supported Virginia Military Institute. Among other things, he persuaded aggrieved Black cadets to open up about their experiences at the hands of whites. His series of articles led Governor Ralph Northam (an alumnus) to order an independent investigation. They pressured VMI’s board to remove a statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson and forced the resignation of VMI’s superintendent, who was succeeded by the first Black to lead the 181- year-old institute. |
| 2020 | Education Reporting | Robert Lee Tristan Ahone | High Country News | "for 'Land Grab Universities,' the result of a two- year investigation exploring the dark side of a federal initiative considered a hallmark achievement, the 1862 Morrill Act. The law transferred nearly 11 million acres to the states to fund the establishment of 52 land grant colleges. Nearly all that acreage, now worth an estimated half-billion dollars, was seized from 250 Indigenous nations, the magazine found. Its well-documented account sent shockwaves through campuses across the country where students and faculty demanded that institutions like MIT, Cornell and Cal-Berkeley find ways to right a 150- year-old wrong." |
| 2020 | Special Award | Regina Martínez Pérez | Proceso Forbidden Stories | Eight years after the 2012 murder of Martinez, journalists following her leads produced “The Cartel Project,” which linked politicians to drug traffickers in the state of Veracruz and discovered that she had been preparing to publish an explosive report about thousands of individuals who had mysteriously disappeared. Forbidden Stories reporters interviewed sources who had never spoken on-the-record, revealing how local authorities sabotaged the investigation into Martinez's death and put a scapegoat behind bars without proof — a tactic similar to one used by the Greek government in the aftermath of George Polk’s murder. |
| 2019 | Foreign reporting | Azam Ahmed | The New York Times | "for risking his safety time and again to portray the reality and impact of violence perpetrated by gangs, drug cartels and even police in firsthand dispatches from Brazil, Jamaica, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, where he is stationed as the Times Bureau Chief." |
| 2019 | National reporting | Lomi Kriel | Houston Chronicle | "for revealing previously unreported aspects of the Trump Administration's immigration policy and tactics that extracted a heavy and sometimes lethal toll on Latin American refugees, including the continued separation of some families without apparent reason." |
| 2019 | Metropolitan reporting | Staff of Newsday | Newsday | "for Long Island Divided, a series three years in the making that exposed an endemic pattern of discrimination by suburban realtors steering homebuyers of color away from white enclaves in violation of federal and state law. It drew promises of action from officials at every level of government." |
| 2019 | Local reporting | Brian M. Rosenthal | The New York Times | "for unearthing a pernicious scheme by unscrupulous lenders to drive up the price of taxi medallions and turn huge profits by selling them to unsophisticated cab drivers with loans they could never repay, leading borrowers into financial ruin so devastating at least nine committed suicide." |
| 2019 | International reporting | Mark Scheffler and Malachy Browne and the Visual Investigations Team | The New York Times | "for using local plane spottings, satellite imagery, cockpit recordings, and Google Earth tools to map and geolocate the attacks to establish that Russian pilots in Syria bombed four hospitals, a busy commercial street, and a refugee camp, killing scores of civilians. It was one of a number of wide-ranging coups the team pulled off combining advanced technology with ground-level reporting in Venezuela, Afghanistan, Libya, North Korea and Hong Kong." |
| 2019 | Financial reporting | Noah Buhayar and Caleb Melby and David Kocieniewski | Bloomberg News | "for groundbreaking stories on how wealthy, well-connected individuals perverted the stated intention of "opportunity zone" incentives in the 2017 federal tax code for their own profit. The program was aimed at spurring economic growth in depressed areas, but some developers reaped tax breaks by using it for such high-end projects as a long-planned $4 billion luxury North Miami development and the construction of a Ritz-Carlton hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon." |
| 2019 | Business reporting | Dominic Gates and Mike Baker and Steve Militech and Lewis Kamb | The Seattle Times | "for first exposing the cooperative arrangements between Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration that led to the approval of design changes in 737 Max jets blamed for two crashes, killing 346. Times reporters traced FAA approval of the flawed flight control system to its decision to defer to Boeing's own safety analysis, which they attributed to pressure from leaders of the company and the agency to speed production and avoid adding costs." |
| 2019 | Environmental reporting | Helena Bottemiller Evich | Politico | "for describing how a politicized Department of Agriculture ignored its own climate action plan, devoted a minuscule portion of its budget to climate change, which it acknowledges is the gravest threat to food production, and buried a study warning of lost nutrients in rice, the leading source of nutrition for 600 million people, provoking a highly regarded scientist to quit in disgust." |
| 2019 | Military reporting | Craig Whitlock | The Washington Post | "forcing the release of interviews conducted about the Afghan War as part of a five-year, $11 million federal Lessons Learned project. After Whitlock received more than 2,000 documents, including some initially withheld, he puzzled out key redactions before producing "The Afghanistan Papers," which demonstrated that "senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable."" |
| 2019 | Justice reporting | Lisa Gartner | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for Beaten, Not Silenced, which exposed a pattern of violent physical abuse of boys housed at the Glen Mills Schools, a 193-year-old reformatory in suburban Delaware County. Gartner's reporting was so devastating that within days state officials ordered Glen Mills closed and pledged to do a better job of monitoring conditions at juvenile justice facilities across Pennsylvania." |
| 2019 | Political reporting | Chance Swaim and Jonathan Shorman and Dion Lefler | The Wichita Eagle | "for turning journalistic intuition into deep dives into public records that revealed municipal misconduct." |
| 2019 | Political reporting | Luke Broadwater and staff | The Baltimore Sun | "for turning journalistic intuition into deep dives into public records that revealed municipal misconduct." |
| 2019 | Magazine reporting | Lizzie Presser | ProPublica and The New Yorker | "for The Dispossessed, an account of how speculators use legal loopholes associated with "heirs' property" laws in the South to seize black-owned ancestral lands, uprooting lifelong residents who assume their homes and property have been passed down to them. Especially poignant was Presser's portrait of two brothers in a North Carolina coastal town jailed for nearly eight years for refusing to leave." |
| 2019 | Television reporting | John Sudworth | BBC News | "for Inside China's Hidden Camps, which documented the reality of camps authorities established in Xinjiang province to indoctrinate hundreds of thousands of Muslims in an effort to erase their religion and culture. Allowed by authorities to visit one camp depicted as a model of agreeability, Sudworth used satellite photos, leaked documents and interviews with forlorn parents separated from their children to paint a very different picture." |
| 2019 | Special Award | Nikole Hannah-Jones and contributors | The New York Times | "for The 1619 Project, a supplement published on the 400th anniversary of the advent of American slavery, using essays by journalists and scholars to explore the role of slavery in history and its enduring effects in contemporary American society. A powerful introduction by Hannah-Jones, the project's creator and driving force, examined efforts of black Americans to advance the nation's expressed ideals of democracy, liberty and equality in the face of centuries of oppression and exclusion." |
| 2018 | Special Award | David Ignatius and Karen Attiah | The Washington Post | "for eloquence and resolve in demanding accountability in the wake of the gruesome murder of Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi" |
| 2018 | Special Award | Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark | APM Reports | "for 'In the Dark: Season Two,' a compelling case for the innocence of a death-row inmate tried and convicted six times for a quadruple murder in 1996." |
| 2018 | Local Television Reporting Award | Joe Bruno | WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C. | "for stories on ballot tampering in a rural North Carolina Congressional race." |
| 2018 | Foreign Television Reporting Award | Jane Ferguson | PBS NewsHour | "for her graphic portrayal of a humanitarian disaster resulting from the proxy war between forces allied with Saudi Arabia and Iran in northern Yemen." |
| 2018 | Magazine Reporting Award | Ben Taub | The New Yorker | "for a firsthand account of 'Iraq’s Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge' by minority Sunnis against Shiites in sham trials sometimes leading to summary executions." |
| 2018 | Environmental Reporting Award | Larry C. Price, reporters for Undark Magazine | Undark Magazine | "for “Breathtaking,” a global examination of the sources and effects of deadly particulate pollutants." |
| 2018 | Education Reporting | Craig Harris, Anne Ryman, Alden Woods and Justin Price | The Arizona Republics | "no-bid contracts and political chicanery that provided windfall profits for investors in a number of prominent Arizona charter schools" |
| 2018 | Immigration Reporting Award | staff of ProPublica | ProPublica | "for “Zero Tolerance,” exposing the separation of young children from families as a tactic to deter border crossings and uncovering harsh conditions in federal shelters." |
| 2018 | Justice Reporting Award | Julie K. Brown | Miami Herald | for “Perversion of Justice,” exposing how a federal prosecutor helped a hedge-fund billionaire evade punishment for sexually abusing dozens of under-age girls. |
| 2018 | Medical Reporting Award | Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy | Netflix | for “The Bleeding Edge,” a documentary aired by Netflix linking the failure of risk-prone medical devices to lax regulation. |
| 2018 | Political Reporting Award | David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner | The New York Times | "for tracing President Donald Trump’s wealth to an inherited fortune and 'dubious tax schemes.'" |
| 2018 | Local Reporting Award | Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi | Tampa Bay Times | for “Heartbroken,” a series on deadly missteps at a children's hospital. |
| 2018 | State Reporting Award | Jeff Adelson, Gordon Russell, John Simerman | The Advocate of New Orleans | "for a series spurring elimination of split jury verdicts that victimized black defendants" |
| 2018 | National Reporting Award | staff of The New York Times | New York Times | " for demonstrating how social media giants promulgated hatemongering and misinformation to maximize profits" |
| 2018 | Foreign Reporting Award | Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo | Reuters | for “Massacre in Myanmar,” exposing the execution of 10 Rohingya Muslims in a remote village. |
| 2018 | Career Award | Bill Siemering | NPR | |
| 2017 | Special Award | staff | The New York Times and The Washington Post | " uncovering connections between Trump campaign officials and well-connected Russians " |
| 2017 | Foreign Reporting Award | Iona Craig | The Intercept | "documenting the destruction and civilian casualties of a covert U.S. Navy SEAL raid upon a remote village in Yemen" |
| 2017 | National Reporting Award | Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey & Ronan Farrow | The New York Times and The New Yorker | "exposing the decades-long sexual predation of the movie producer Harvey Weinstein and the campaign to cover it up" |
| 2017 | Local Reporting Award | Melissa Segura | BuzzFeed | "drawing attention to innocent men framed for murder by a Chicago police detective" |
| 2017 | Immigration Reporting Award | Maria Perez | The Naples Daily News | "exposing the practice of Florida companies hiring undocumented workers in dangerous jobs" |
| 2017 | Immigration Reporting Award | Antonia Farzan and Joseph Flaherty | Phoenix New Times | "revealing that Motel 6 motels in Phoenix, Arizona, provided nightly guest rosters to ICE" |
| 2017 | Financial Reporting Award | The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | | "mining a trove of 13.4 million records to reveal how corporate giants and prominent wealthy individuals use financial manipulations to evade taxes." |
| 2017 | Medical Reporting Award | Nina Martin & Renee Montagne | ProPublica & NPR | "explaining the reasons and portraying the tragedies behind an alarming increase in maternal deaths" |
| 2017 | Political Reporting Award | Stephanie McCrummen and Beth Reinhard | The Washington Post | "digging into the past of U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama " |
| 2017 | Magazine Reporting Award | Ben Taub | The New Yorker | "for showing the humanitarian devastation caused by the shrinkage of Lake Chad in Africa" |
| 2017 | Photography Award | Adam Dean and Tomas Munita | The New York Times | "capturing the plight of the Rohingya people desperately fleeing burning villages" |
| 2017 | National Television Reporting Award | Elle Reeve | VICE News | "on-the-scene up-close coverage of the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia" |
| 2017 | Foreign Television Reporting Award | Nima Elbagir and Raja Razek | CNN | "uncovering a hidden modern-day slave auction of African refugees in Libya." |
| 2017 | Public Service Award | David Begnaud | CBS News | "capturing the destructive power Hurricane Maria unleashed on Puerto Rico" |
| 2017 | Commentary Award | Gail Collins | The New York Times | |
| 2016 | George Polk Career Award | Anna Deavere Smith | | |
| 2016 | Foreign Reporting | Nicholas Casey and Meridith Kohut | The New York Times | "for defying government resistance to portray the depths of privation result from Venezuela’s economic collapse." |
| 2016 | Political Reporting | David Fahrenthold | The Washington Post | "for a string of stories on matters Presidential candidate Donald Trump had long sought to keep secret, including his foundation’s deceptive activities and the existence of a video in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women." |
| 2016 | National Reporting | Alec MacGillis | ProPublica | "for prescient dispatches late in the Presidential campaign citing momentum for Donald Trump" |
| 2016 | Local Reporting | Darwin Bond Graham and Ali Winston | East Bay Express | "for exposing a sordid sex scandal inside the Oakland police department involving a teen-aged prostitute that led up the ranks and cost three police chiefs their jobs in a single week." |
| 2016 | Financial Reporting | | The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | "for 'the Panama Papers,' using leaked files to expose billions in hidden investments in offshore companies tied to Syria’s air war, the looting of Africa’s natural resources and Russian associates of Vladimir Putin" |
| 2016 | Medical Reporting | Lenny Bernstein, Scott Higham and David Fallis | The Washington Post | "for tracing the DEA’s lax regulation of narcotic painkillers despite a deadly national addiction epidemic to drug industry pressure." |
| 2016 | State Reporting | Craig Harris | The Arizona Republic | "for exposing the wholesale termination of women, minority and older state employees, including an award-winning teacher diagnosed with cancer and an African-American correctional officer injured on he job who were both reinstated." |
| 2016 | Justice Reporting | Christie Thompson and Joseph Shapiro | The Marshall Project, National Public Radio | "for revealing an oxymoronic abuse of prison inmates in double solitary confinement – sometimes resulting in violence and death." |
| 2016 | Sports Reporting | Rebecca R. Ruiz | The New York Times | "for an account of a Russian state-run doping program to enhance the performances of Olympic athletes and evade detection by secretly substituting test samples." |
| 2016 | Education Reporting | Brian M. Rosenthal | The Houston Chronicle | "for exposing a statewide quota denying special education services for more than 8.5 percent of students in any of the 1,200 school districts in Texas." |
| 2016 | Radio Reporting | Robert Lewis | WNYC | "for questioning New York City’s lax oversight of conflicts of interest among police leading to inappropriate dealings such as a commander’s purchase of discounted property from a distraught woman whose father’s disappearance was under investigation." |
| 2016 | Television Reporting | A. J. Lagoe, Steve Eckert, and Gary Knox | KARE-11 | "a series disclosing that the VA deployed unqualified diagnosticians, some not even physicians, to diagnose veterans for traumatic brain injuries." |
| 2016 | Magazine Reporting | Anand Gopal | The Atlantic | "a wrenching 9,000-word account of the travails of an Iraqi family caught in the crossfire between Islamic State terrorists and U.S.-backed forces." |
| 2016 | Photojournalism | Daniel Berehulak | The New York Times | "depicting the wanton carnage of President Rodrigo Duterte’s murderous drug crackdown in the Philippines." |
| 2016 | Documentary Film | Nanfu Wang | | Hooligan Sparrow |
| 2015 | George Polk Career Award | Simeon Booker | Jet | |
| 2015 | National Reporting | The Washington Post | The Washington Post | "for a series tallying and categorizing Americans shot dead by police over the course of a year" |
| 2015 | Military Reporting | Nicholas Kulish, Christopher Drew, Matthew Rosenberg, Mark Mazzetti, Serge Kovaleski. John Ismay, Sean Naylor | New York Times | "for examining allegations that daring Navy SEAL teams operated with little oversight and often used excessive force." |
| 2015 | Foreign Reporting | Ian Urbina | New York Times | "for 'The Outlaw Ocean,' a series on lawlessness on the high seas." |
| 2015 | Foreign Reporting | Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza, Esther Htusan | The Associated Press | "for 'Seafood Slaves,' on abysmal treatment of seafood workers in Thailand, some held against their will and others buried in unmarked graves" |
| 2015 | Justice Reporting | Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller | The Marshall Project and ProPublica | for 'An Unbelievable Story of Rape,' vindicating a teenaged rape victim initially charged with filing a false report of the crime." |
| 2015 | Medical Reporting | Jason Cherkis | The Huffington Post | "for revealing that pressure from 12-step programs barred many publicly funded addiction treatment centers from prescribing effective medication-assisted therapy." |
| 2015 | Radio Reporting | Nikole Hannah-Jones | This American Life | "for 'The Problem We All Live With' aired on “This American Life” examining how parents and politicians contrived to re-segregate a Missouri public school and its impact." |
| 2015 | Financial Reporting | John Carreyrou | The Wall Street Journal | "for stories cast doubt on innovative claims by a Silicon Valley blood-testing company." |
| 2015 | Legal Reporting | Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Michael Corkery, and Robert Gebeloff | New York Times | "for “Beware the Fine Print,” a series on how arbitration clauses deprive people of their right to settle disputes in court." |
| 2015 | Regional Reporting | Terrence McCoy | The Washington Post | "for exposing companies in Maryland and Virginia that convinced unsophisticated victims to accept pennies on the dollar for court-ordered compensation." |
| 2015 | Education Reporting | Cara Fitzpatrick, Lisa Gartner, and Michael LaForgia | The Tampa Bay Times | "for tracing a decline in black student success to a 2007 school board decision effectively re-segregating schools." |
| 2015 | Photography | Andrew Quilty | Foreign Policy | for 'The Man on the Operating Table,' depicting the devastating effects of an errant U.S. airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan." |
| 2015 | Magazine Reporting | Noreen Malone, Jen Kirby and Amanda Demme | New York Magazine | "for 'Cosby: The Women, An Unwelcome Sisterhood,' a cover story presenting on-the-record accounts of 35 women accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault." |
| 2015 | Local Reporting | Jamie Kalven | Invisible Institute | "for 'Sixteen Shots,' an account published inline by Slate that contradicted the official narrative of the fatal police shooting of a black teenager in Chicago." |
| 2015 | Television Reporting | Jim Axelrod, Emily Rand | CBS News | "for 'Compounding Pharmacy Fraud,' revealing how some pharmacies billed insurers for worthless potions and supplements." |
| 2015 | Documentary Film | Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin | | "Cartel Land" |
| 2014 | International Reporting | Rukmini Callimachi | New York Times | "for revealing that European nations secretly paid the Islamic State millions of dollars to ransom hostages." |
| 2014 | Documentary Film | Orwa Nyrabia | Proaction Film | |
| 2014 | Foreign Reporting | Rania Abouzeid | Politico magazine | for “The Jihad Next Door,” an authoritative account of the rise of the Islamic State published online by Politico Magazine. |
| 2014 | Health Reporting | Adam Nossiter, Norimitsu Onishi, Ben C. Solomon, Sheri Fink, Helene Cooper, and Daniel Berehulak | New York Times | "for early coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa." |
| 2014 | National Reporting | Carol Leonnig | Washington Post | "for series of exclusive reports on serious security lapses and misconduct by the U.S. Secret Service, which filed false and incomplete accounts of the missteps." |
| 2014 | Local Reporting | Tim Novak, Chris Fusco, and Carol Marin | Chicago Sun-Times | "for reports leading police to reopen a 10-year-old homicide case involving a nephew of former mayor Richard M. Daley." |
| 2014 | Business Reporting | A consortium of 120 journalists from 58 countries and 42 news organizations | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | "for showing inventive methods big companies and wealthy individuals use to avoid paying taxes." |
| 2014 | Environmental Reporting | | Seattle Times | "for linking a mudslide that cost 43 lives to corners cut, safeguards disregarded and warnings ignored." |
| 2014 | Justice Reporting | Julie K. Brown; Michael Schwirtz and Michael Winerip | Miami Herald; New York Times | "for revealing rampant brutalizing of mentally impaired inmates that caused injury and death." |
| 2014 | Magazine Reporting | James Verini | National Geographic | "for an 11,000-word report on the Democratic Republic of the Congo that asked, 'Should the United Nations Wage War to Keep Peace?'" |
| 2014 | Military Reporting | Denis Wagner | Arizona Republic | "for disclosing that VA officials in Phoenix and elsewhere won bonuses based on false wait-time data for treatment of veterans, some of whom died awaiting care." |
| 2014 | State Reporting | Doug Pardue, Glenn Smith, Jennifer Berry Hawes and Natalie Caula Hauff | Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.) | "for linking 300 deaths of women in South Carolina to the indifferent response to domestic abuse by authorities." |
| 2014 | Television Reporting | John Carlos Frey, Marisa Venegas, Solly Granatstein | The Investigative Fund, Telemundo, The Weather Channel | "for “Dying to Cross,” on the deaths of 400 migrants abandoned in the Texas desert" |
| 2014 | Commentary | Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Atlantic | "The Case for Reparations" |
| 2014 | Career Award | Garry Trudeau | Doonesbury | |
| 2013 | National Security Reporting | Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras | The Guardian | "for investigative stories on massive NSA surveillance based on top-secret documents disclosed by former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden." |
| 2013 | National Security Reporting | Barton D. Gellman | Washington Post | "for investigative stories on massive NSA surveillance based on top-secret documents disclosed by former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden." |
| 2013 | Foreign Reporting | Jim Yardley | New York Times | "for documenting Bangladesh workers’ unsafe conditions and paltry wages at the hands of garment manufacturers with political ties in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza collapse, which claimed more than 1,100 lives. " |
| 2013 | National Reporting | Eli Saslow | Washington Post | "for profiling six of the families receiving federal nutrition assistance in a $78 billion program serving 47 million recipients in a program that tripled in scope in a decade." |
| 2013 | State Reporting | Shawn Boburg | The Record | "for articles linking a huge traffic jam created by lane closures on an approach to the George Washington Bridge to retribution by Governor Chris Christie’s campaign operatives against a mayor who failed to endorse his reelection." |
| 2013 | Local Reporting | Andrea Elliott | New York Times | for “Invisible Child,” a five-part series about one of New York City's 22,000 homeless children. |
| 2013 | Justice Reporting | Frances Robles, Sharon Otterman, Michael Powell and N. R. Kleinfield | New York Times | "for uncovering evidence that a Brooklyn homicide detective used false confessions, tainted testimony and coercive tactics to convict dozens of defendants." |
| 2013 | Sports Reporting | Tim Elfrink | Miami New Times | "for revealing that some of baseball’s biggest stars received banned performance enhancers from a Florida anti-aging clinic." |
| 2013 | Medical Reporting | Meg Kissinger | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | for a series on the Milwaukee County’s dysfunctional mental health system |
| 2013 | Medical Reporting | Cynthia Hubert Phillip Reese | Sacramento Bee | "for exposing a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital’s practice of exporting patients — 1,500 over five years — to locales across the country via Greyhound bus." |
| 2013 | Magazine Reporting | Matthieu Aikins | Rolling Stone | for 'The A-Team Killings,' which made a strong case that a U.S. Army Special Forces unit had executed 10 civilians outside a base in Afghanistan |
| 2013 | Political Reporting | Rosalind S. Helderman Laura Vozzella Carol Leonnig | The Washington Post | "for revealing that the Virginia governor and his wife received $165,000 in loans and gifts from an entrepreneur. |
| | Business Reporting | Alison Fitzgerald Daniel Wagner Lauren Kyger John Dunbar | Center for Public Integrity | "for 'After the Meltdown,' a series demonstrating that the federal government failed to call any major Wall Street figure to account for financial crisis and many had resumed the sort of reckless investing that plunged the nation into The Great Recession." |
| | Television Reporting | Michael Kirk Jim Gilmore Mike Wiser Steve Fainaru Mark Fainaru-Wada | PBS Frontline | "for 'League of Denial,' tracing longstanding NFL efforts to quash evidence linking head injuries to high instances of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in former players." |
| | Local Television Reporting | Noah Pranksy | WTSP | "for disclosing how government officials and a contractor bilked drivers in Florida out of millions in fines by shortening yellow lights at intersections." |
| 2012 | Political Reporting | David Corn | Mother Jones | "for obtaining a recording of presidential candidate Mitt Romney confiding that 47 percent of voters 'dependent upon government' would oppose him 'no matter what.'" |
| 2012 | Foreign Reporting | David Barboza | New York Times | "for 'The Princelings,' tracing a $2.7 billion fortune accumulated by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s family." |
| 2012 | Foreign Reporting | Staff of Bloomberg News | Bloomberg News | "for 'China Betrayed,' on the wealth of a municipal official ousted after the murder of a British businessman |
| 2012 | Television News Reporting | Holly Williams Andrew Portch | CBS News | "for coverage of Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who fled to the West after years of house arrest." |
| 2012 | War Reporting | David Enders Austin Tice McClatchy Newspaper "Inside Syria" Correspondent Team | McClatchy Newspapers | "for chronicling the complexities of the civil war in Syria." |
| 2012 | Video Reporting | Tracey Shelton | GlobalPost | "for reports on the Syrian war’s human toll including one on a 4-year sole survivor of an entire family." |
| 2012 | National Reporting | John Hechinger Janet Lorin | Bloomberg News | "for 'Indentured Students,' a series revealing that the U.S. paid $1 billion in commissions to student loan debt collectors who often misled borrowers." |
| 2012 | Local Reporting | Gina Barton | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | "for an investigative report on the death of a man in police custody, leading to its re-categorization is a homicide and a medical examiner’s resignation." |
| 2012 | Magazine Reporting | Sarah Stillman | The New Yorker | "for 'The Throwaways,' an account of how authorities jeopardized and abandoned teen-aged drug informants." |
| 2012 | Justice Reporting | Sam Dolnick | New York Times | "for 'Unlocked,' exposing gang activity, drug use, lax security and decrepit conditions at New Jersey halfway houses owned by a crony of Governor Chris Christie." |
| 2012 | State Reporting | Ryan Gabrielson | California Watch | "for exposing how a special police force for developmental centers was failing to solve crimes against the disabled residents." |
| 2012 | Medical Reporting | Peter Whoriskey | Washington Post | "for 'Biased Research, Big Profits,' a series on pharmaceutical industry payoffs to doctors to promote misleading findings sometimes endangering patients." |
| 2012 | Business Reporting | David Barstow Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab | New York Times | "for 'Wal-Mart Abroad,' demonstrating how the giant retailer used bribery to fuel overseas growth." |
| 2012 | Education Reporting | Colin Woodard | Maine Sunday Telegram | "for detailing how online education companies steered development of Maine’s digital education policies." |
| 2012 | Documentary Television Reporting | Martin Smith Michael Kirk Marcela Gaviria Jim Gilmore Mike Wiser | Frontline | for 'Money, Power and Wall Street,' an inside look into the derivation and impact of the global economic crisis. |
| 2011 | Career Award | Ronnie Dugger | | |
| 2011 | Radio Reporting | Ira Glass | This American Life | "for 'Very Tough Love,' a report on excessive punishments ordered by a Georgia drug court judge." |
| 2011 | Legal Reporting | Thomas Farragher, Marcella Bombardieri, Jonathan Saltzman, Matt Carroll, Darren Durlach | Boston Globe | "for delving into a high acquittal rate in Massachusetts drunk driving cases." |
| 2011 | Television Reporting | Brian Ross, Anna Schecter | ABC News | "for 'Peace Corps: A Trust Betrayed,' accusing the Peace Corps of covering up its failure to protect a woman slain in West Africa and other volunteers." |
| 2011 | Medical Reporting | Lance Williams, Christina Jewett, Stephen K. Doig | California Watch | "for a report on how a hospital chain used false diagnoses of rare conditions to over-bill Medicare." |
| 2011 | International Reporting | Ben Elgin, Alan Katz, Vernon Silver | Bloomberg News | "for revealing how Western companies sold surveillance technology to repressive governments to use against their opponents." |
| 2011 | Local Reporting | A.M. Sheehan, Matt Hongoltz-Hetling | Advertiser Democrat (Oxford County, Maine) | "for a report on Maine’s failure to address abysmal and unsafe conditions in government-subsidized housing." |
| 2011 | National Reporting | staff | Wall Street Journal | "for a series on ways federal officials and well-connected investors exploited insider stock trading." |
| 2011 | Metropolitan Reporting | Matt Apuzzo Adam Goldman Chris Hawley Eileen Sullivan | Associated Press | "for a revealing look at expansive New York City Police intelligence operations including the targeting of mosques" |
| 2011 | Foreign Reporting | Jeffrey Gettleman Tyler Hicks | New York Times | "for coverage of fighting in South Sudan and Somalia, where Shabbab militants prevented starving people from fleeing." |
| 2011 | Military Reporting | C. J. Chivers | New York Times | "for coverage of wars in Libya and Afghanistan, especially dispatches from Misurata where he authenticated Libyan forces’ indiscriminate use of brutal weapons." |
| 2011 | Magazine Reporting | Jane Mayer | New Yorker | for 'The Secret Sharer,' a case against the prosecution of an official for espionage for leaking information that led prosecutors to drop all major charges. |
| 2011 | Television Documentary | May Ying Welsh, Hassan Mahfood | Al Jazeera English | for 'Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark,' |
| 2011 | Sports Reporting | Sara Ganim | Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) | "for revelatory coverage of Penn State’s cover-up of a coach’s pedophilia, allowing him to abuse more victims." |
| 2010 | Career Award | Sandy Close | | |
| 2010 | Television Reporting | | ProPublica PBS, Frontline New Orleans Times-Picayune | "for 'Law and Disorder,' examining claims police shot 10 people, killing four, in post-Katrina New Orleans." |
| 2010 | Radio Reporting | Daniel Zwerdling, T. Christian Miller | National Public Radio; ProPublica | "for 'Brain Wars,' which found that the U. S. military provided inadequate diagnoses and treatment of traumatic brain injuries suffered by thousands of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan." |
| 2010 | Commentary | Juan Gonzalez | Daily News (New York) | for columns on a failed $700 million overhaul of New York City's electronic payroll system and the mayor’s failure to pick up on persistent signs of mismanagement. |
| 2010 | Military Reporting | Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti | New York Times | "for a sobering behind-the-scenes look at U. S. conduct in Afghanistan" |
| 2010 | Criminal Justice Reporting | John Diedrich, Ben Poston | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | "for 'Wiped Clean,' a series revealing how infrequently the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revokes the licenses of lawbreaking gun dealers." |
| 2010 | Education Reporting | | Bloomberg News | "for 'Education Inc.,' a series showing that for-profit colleges recruited unlikely students for dubious programs to cash in on $26.5 in annual federal financial aid." |
| 2010 | Metropolitan Reporting | Amy Brittain, Mark Mueller | Star-Ledger (New Jersey) | "for 'Strong at Any Cost,' a series on New Jersey police officers and firefighters’ rampant use of steroids, often obtained with fake prescriptions." |
| 2010 | Local Reporting | Jeff Gottlieb Ruben Vives Staff of the LA Times | Los Angeles Times | "for exposing conditions in Bell, a small working-class city near LA rife with corruption and exorbitance – an administrator was paid $800,000 a year – prompting charges against eight past and present municipal officials." |
| 2010 | National Reporting | Dana Priest, William M. Arkin | Washington Post | for 'Top Secret America,' detailing the proliferation of a huge ecosystem of military, intelligence and corporate interests spawned after 9/11. |
| 2010 | Foreign Reporting | Clifford J. Levy, Ellen Barry | New York Times | "for 'Above the Law,' a series that examined corruption and abuse of power in Russia two decades after the fall of Communism," |
| 2010 | Environmental Reporting | | Associated Press | "for coverage of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico" |
| 2010 | Magazine Reporting | Michael Hastings | Rolling Stone | "for 'The Runaway General,' a profile of General Stanley McChrystal that led President Obama to dismiss him as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. |
| 2009 | Career Award | Gene Roberts | | |
| 2009 | Foreign Reporting | David Rohde | New York Times | for 'Held by the Taliban,' a series detailing Rohde's own seven months in captivity." |
| 2009 | Videography | people recording the death of Neda Agha-Soltan | | |
| 2009 | National Reporting | Mark Pittman, Bob Ivry, Alison Fitzgerald, Craig Torres | Bloomberg News | "for articles challenging the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Board to open their books on trillions of dollars in bailout aid that went to financial institutions." |
| 2009 | State Reporting | Raquel Rutledge | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | "for portraying Wisconsin’s $350-million child-care system as a hotbed of criminal activity that repeatedly endangers children." |
| 2009 | Local Reporting | George Pawlaczyk, Beth Hundsdorfer | Belleville News-Democrat (Belleville, Illinois) | "or 'Trapped in Tamms' a series on harsh conditions at an Illinois “supermax” prison where inmates, many mentally ill, were held in solitary confinement 23 hours a day for more than 10 years." |
| 2009 | Sports Reporting | Alan Schwarz | New York Times | "for a report on long-term dangers of concussions and the National Football League’s flawed response to the issue." |
| 2009 | International Television Reporting | Dan Rivers, Kit Swartz, Kocha Olarn, Theerasak Nitipiched | CNN | "for tracking the nightmarish existence of Rohingya refugees in southeast Asia." |
| 2009 | National Television Reporting | Steve Kroft, Leslie Cockburn | CBS News, 60 Minutes | "for 'The Price of Oil,' which detailed Wall Street’s growing influence on speculative oil prices. |
| 2009 | Business Reporting | Kathy Chu | USA Today | "for 'Credit Trap,' which documented how banks and other credit card issuers reap tens of billions of dollars in profit each year from steep fees and unscrupulous practices." |
| 2009 | Military Reporting | Charlie Reed, Kevin Baron, Leo Shane III | Stars and Stripes | "for 'Shaping the Message,' a series that revealed that the Pentagon had used a public relations company to profile journalists and steer them toward positive coverage of the war in Afghanistan" |
| 2009 | Magazine Reporting | David Grann | New Yorker | "for 'Trial by Fire,' debunking expert testimony in a 1991 arson case as pseudo science in presenting what may be the first thoroughly documented case of the execution of an innocent man under the modern American judicial system." |
| 2009 | Environmental Reporting | Abrahm Lustgarten | ProPublica | "for examining possible carcinogenic effects of natural gas drilling by hydraulic fracturing." |
| 2008 | Career Award | Gay Talese | | |
| 2008 | Foreign Reporting | Barry Bearak, Celia W. Dugger | New York Times | "whose coverage of violence in Zimbabwe after the disputed re-election of President Robert Mugabe was unimpeded by the four-day jailing of Bearak." |
| 2008 | International Reporting | Paul Salopek | Chicago Tribune | "for articles on rendition of suspects and other U.S. antiterrorist activity in remote areas on the Horn of Africa in Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea." |
| 2008 | National Reporting | David Barstow | New York Times | for 'Message Machine,' a two-part series documenting how retired military officers turned news analysts mouthed Pentagon talking points and plugged defense contractors who employed them as consultants |
| 2008 | Military Reporting | Eric Nalder | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | "for 'Demoted to Private: America's Military Housing Disaster,' a series revealing that the Pentagon awarded a billion dollars in contracts to politically connected contractors in a dubious effort to privatize military housing construction." |
| 2008 | Local Reporting | Jim Schaefer, M.L. Elrick | Detroit Free Press | "for revealing Detroit’s mayor used $8.4 million in city funds to settle a whistle-blower case in exchange for destroying evidence of his affair with an aide and lied under oath about it, leading to his resignation and jailing. |
| 2008 | Labor Reporting | Paul Pringle | Los Angeles Times | "for 'Union Boss Under Fire,' an account of how a union local representing 160,000 mostly low-wage workers paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to companies owned by relatives of its president, who was subsequently removed from office." |
| 2008 | Justice Reporting | Ryan Gabrielson, Paul Giblin | East Valley Tribune (Mesa, Arizona) | ”a five-part series on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's extra-legal campaign against illegal immigrants" |
| 2008 | Magazine Reporting | Richard Behar | Fast Company | "for 'China Storms Africa,' published in the business magazine Fast Company, detailing China’s drive to invest in sub-Saharan African nations to acquire raw materials for manufacturing." |
| 2008 | Environmental Reporting | Susanne Rust, Meg Kissinger | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | "for a series on the failure of federal agencies to monitor and regulate potentially harmful toxins found in everyday materials from microwave-safe plastics to baby bottles." |
| 2008 | Sports Reporting | Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry | Seattle Times | for 'Victory and Ruins,' a series revealing that two dozen members of the 2001 University of Washington Rose Bowl team were allowed to play despite their arrests, some for violent felonies. |
| 2008 | Television Reporting | Scott Pelley, Solly Granatstein, Nicole Young | CBS News, 60 Minutes | "for 'The Wasteland,' exposing how U.S. companies paid to recycle electronic waste dumped it in China, leading to ecological despoliation and health concerns." |
| 2008 | Documentary Reporting | Stefan Forbes | Independent producer | "for 'Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story,' a portrait of a multi-faceted Republican strategist whose controversial tactics continued to influence politics long after his death". |
| 2008 | Radio Reporting | Alex Blumberg | This American Life | "for 'The Giant Pool of Money,' a collaborative explanation of the complex chain of events that led to the subprime mortgage crisis." |
| 2007 | Career Award | John McPhee | | |
| 2007 | Television Reporting | Jim Sciutto, Angus Hines, Tom Murphy | ABC News, ABC World News with Charles Gibson | "who posed as tourists to secretly tape violent government crackdowns on protestors in Myanmar." |
| 2007 | Political Reporting | Barton D. Gellman, Jo Becker | Washington Post | "for a series on Vice President Dick Cheney's role as the architect of tortuous interrogation, military tribunals and other hard-line U.S. policies." |
| 2007 | Foreign Reporting | Leila Fadel | McClatchy Company | "for chilling, first-hand accounts of ethnically inspired violence and murder in Iraq." |
| 2007 | Environmental Reporting | Shai Oster | Wall Street Journal | "for disclosing how China’s $22 billion Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River devastated villages, causing landslides and displaced 4 million residents." |
| 2007 | Medical Reporting | Charles A. Duhigg | New York Times | "for exposing unethical practices by nursing homes, long-term care insurers and allied businesses and investors that put the elderly at risk." |
| 2007 | Legal Reporting | Josh Marshall | Talking Points Memo | "for reports uncovering politically motivated dismissals of United States attorneys." |
| 2007 | Consumer Reporting | | Chicago Tribune | "for accounts of children suffering injury and death from exposure to lead-tainted toys, defective cribs and other dangerous products, many imported from China." |
| 2007 | Book Award | Jeremy Scahill for Blackwater | Nation Books | |
| 2007 | Magazine Reporting | Joshua A. Kors | The Nation | for articles in The Nation, on the U.S. Army's denial of disability and medical benefits to thousands of Iraqi War veterans, asserting they had pre-existing 'personality disorders.' |
| 2007 | Financial Reporting | Edward Chancellor | Institutional Investor | for 'Ponzi Nation,' sounding an alarm months before the crisis in financial markets over subprime mortgages and poorly regulated hedge funds emerged. |
| 2007 | Economic Reporting | | Charlotte Observer | "for a prescient series tying the area's high rate of housing foreclosures to subprime mortgage loans." |
| 2007 | State Reporting | Jerry W. Mitchell | Jackson Clarion-Ledger | "for revealing that outbreaks of tuberculosis and syphilis and an alarming increase in infant mortality went unreported by the Mississippi Department of Health." |
| 2007 | Local Reporting | Chauncey W. Bailey, Jr. | Oakland Post | "slain while investigating a business linked to kidnapping, rape, torture, and several killings, now including his own." |
| 2006 | Documentary Television | Spike Lee, Sam Pollard | HBO | "for When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts on HBO on the human misery and paltry government response in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina" |
| 2006 | Foreign Reporting | Lydia Polgreen | New York Times | "for coverage of a under-reported war in Darfur in western Sudan and Chad that killed 200,000 and displaced 2.5 million." |
| 2006 | Network Television Reporting | Lisa Myers, Adam Ciralsky | NBC News, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams | "for detailing the awarding of a $70 million defense contract to a U.S. company despite a far cheaper alternative developed in Israel." |
| 2006 | Military Reporting | Lisa Chedekel, Matthew Kauffman | Hartford Courant | for "Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight,' a four-part series on the high rate of suicide among American troops. |
| 2006 | Medical Reporting | Robert Little | Baltimore Sun | "for 'Dangerous Remedy,' a series on an experimental blood-coagulating drug administered to more than 1,000 soldiers despite links to fatal clots in the heart, lungs and brain." |
| 2006 | Environmental Reporting | Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling | Los Angeles Times | "for 'Altered Oceans,' a five-part series linking rashes among Australian fishermen, brain-damaged sea lions in California and red tides in Florida to damaging pollution." |
| 2006 | Business Reporting | Charles Forelle, James Bandler, Mark Maremont | Wall Street Journal | "for exposing backdating of stock options to enhance executive compensation prompting resignations and charges." |
| 2006 | National Reporting | Jeff Kosseff, Bryan Denson, Les Zaitz | Oregonian | "for articles chronicling the failures in a $2.25 billion federal program intended to help people with disabilities find jobs but instead enriched executives at the expense of taxpayers and underpaid workers." |
| 2006 | Metropolitan Reporting | Debbie Cenziper | Miami Herald | "for 'House of Lies,' an investigative report documenting mismanagement in the Miami-Dade Housing Agency allowing developers and consultants to amass fortunes while families suffered in shelters and rat-infested buildings." |
| 2006 | Local Reporting | staff | Lakefront Outlook (Chicago) | "for revealing that a $19.5 million community center hailed by a city alderman as a local treasure was a deficit-ridden political plum staffed by her family and friends." |
| 2006 | Political Reporting | Ray Ring | High Country News | "for revealing that referendums campaigns in six Western states to roll back environmental protections were financed by a wealthy libertarian real estate investor." |
| 2006 | Radio Reporting | Producers | University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism; American Public Media; Living on Earth | 'Early Signs: Reports From a Warming Planet,' a documentary on global impacts of climate change produced by students at Cal-Berkeley and aired by “Living on Earth,” American Public Media. |
| 2005 | Career Award | Frederick Wiseman | | |
| 2005 | International Reporting | Cam Simpson, José Moré | Chicago Tribune | |
| 2005 | Television Reporting | Brian Ross, Richard Esposito | ABC News | |
| 2005 | National Reporting | Dana Priest | Washington Post | |
| 2005 | Foreign Reporting | Joe Stephens, David B. Ottaway | Washington Post | |
| 2005 | Commentary | Frank Rich, Barry Meier | New York Times | |
| 2005 | Metropolitan Reporting | staff | New Orleans Times-Picayune | |
| 2005 | Justice Reporting | Jerry Mitchell | Jackson Clarion-Ledger | |
| 2005 | Health Reporting | David Evans, Michael Smith, Liz Willen | Bloomberg News | |
| 2005 | Political Reporting | Marcus Stern, Jerry Kammer, Dean Calbreath | Copley News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune | |
| 2005 | Local Reporting | A. C. Thompson | San Francisco Bay Guardian | |
| 2005 | Book Award | Victor S. Navasky | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2005 | Radio Reporting | JoAnn Mar | Independent producer | |
| 2004 | Career Award | Bill Moyers | | |
| 2004 | Foreign Reporting | Paisley Dodds | Associated Press | |
| 2004 | War Reporting | Dexter Filkins | New York Times | |
| 2004 | Sports Reporting | Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada | San Francisco Chronicle | |
| 2004 | Television Reporting | Diane Sawyer, Robbie Gordon | ABC News, Primetime Live | |
| 2004 | National Reporting | Walt Bogdanich | New York Times | |
| 2004 | Military Reporting | Diana B. Henriques | New York Times | |
| 2004 | Economic Reporting | Ellen E. Schultz, Theo Francis | Wall Street Journal | |
| 2004 | Magazine Reporting | Seymour Hersh | The New Yorker | |
| 2004 | Labor Reporting | Justin Pritchard | Associated Press | |
| 2004 | Regional Reporting | four reporters and a photographer | The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California) | |
| 2004 | State Reporting | John Hill, Dorothy Korber | Sacramento Bee | |
| 2004 | Local Reporting | Tim Novak, Steve Warmbir | Chicago Sun-Times | |
| 2003 | Foreign Reporting | Somini Sengupta | New York Times | |
| 2003 | Radio Reporting | Anne Garrels | National Public Radio | |
| 2003 | Photojournalism | Carolyn Cole | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2003 | Economics Reporting | Nancy Cleeland, Abigail Goldman, Evelyn Iritani, Tyler Marshall | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2003 | Business Reporting | Pete Engardio, Aaron Bernstein, Manjeet Kripalani | Business Week | |
| 2003 | Labor Reporting | David Barstow, Lowell Bergman, Neil Docherty, Linden MacIntyre, David Rummel | New York Times; PBS, Frontline; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | |
| 2003 | National Reporting | Cam Simpson, Flynn McRoberts, Liz Sly | Chicago Tribune | |
| 2003 | Internet Reporting | | Center for Public Integrity | |
| 2003 | Magazine Reporting | Michael Hudson, Bill Barrow, Mary Kane, Taylor Loyal, Kenneth Harris, Keith Ernst, Robert Manning | Southern Exposure | |
| 2003 | State Reporting | Dave Altimari, Jon Lender, Edmund H. Mahony | Hartford Courant | |
| 2003 | Education Reporting | Daniel Golden | Wall Street Journal | |
| 2003 | Local Reporting | Duff Wilson, Brian Joseph, Sheila Farr | Seattle Times | |
| 2003 | Television Reporting | Andrew Smith, Liviu Tipuriță | CNN, CNN Presents | |
| 2003 | Career Award | F. Gilman Spencer | New York Daily News | |
| 2002 | Career Award | Morley Safer | CBS News | |
| 2002 | Foreign Reporting | Anthony Shadid | Boston Globe | |
| 2002 | National Reporting | reporters and editors | Boston Globe | |
| 2002 | Regional Reporting | Clifford J. Levy | New York Times | |
| 2002 | Health Care Reporting | Walt Bogdanich, Barry Meier, Mary Williams Walsh | New York Times | |
| 2002 | International Reporting | Sonia Nazario, Don Bartletti | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2002 | Environmental Reporting | Debbie Salamone, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Sargent | Orlando Sentinel | |
| 2002 | Criminal Justice Reporting | Michael Luo | Associated Press | |
| 2002 | Financial Reporting | Ellen E. Schultz, Theo Francis | Wall Street Journal | |
| 2002 | Medical Reporting | Stephen Kiernan, Cadence Mertz | Burlington Free Press (Vermont) | |
| 2002 | Magazine Reporting | Arnold S. Relman, Marcia Angell | New Republic | |
| 2002 | Local Reporting | Jason Riley, R. G. Dunlop | Louisville Courier-Journal | |
| 2002 | Television Reporting | Phil Williams, Bryan Staples | WTVF (Nashville) | |
| 2002 | Cultural Criticism | Susan Sontag | New Yorker | |
| 2001 | Television and Radio Reporting | Stephen Evans | BBC World and BBC World Service | |
| 2001 | Foreign Reporting | Barry Bearak | New York Times | |
| 2001 | National Reporting | | New York Times | |
| 2001 | Magazine Reporting | Bernard Lewis | New Yorker | |
| 2001 | Book Award | Joan Didion | Political Fictions | |
| 2001 | Medical Reporting | Duff Wilson, David Heath | Seattle Times | |
| 2001 | Financial Reporting | Susan Pulliam, Randall Smith | Wall Street Journal | |
| 2001 | Metropolitan Reporting | Bill Theobald, Bonnie Harris | Indianapolis Star | |
| 2001 | International Reporting | Sudarsan Raghavan, Sumana Chatterjee | Knight Ridder | |
| 2001 | Regional Reporting | Jesse A. Hamilton, Stephanie Earls, Tom Roeder, Mark Morey | Yakima Herald-Republic (Yakima, Washington) | |
| 2001 | Local Reporting | Heidi Evans, Dave Saltonstall | Daily News (New York) | |
| 2001 | Environmental Reporting | Lisa Davis | San Francisco Weekly | |
| 2001 | Career Award | Edna Buchanan | Miami Herald | |
| 2000 | Magazine Reporting | Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele | Time | |
| 2000 | Book Award | Laurie Garrett | Betrayal of Trust | |
| 2000 | Career Award | John B. Oakes | The New York Times | |
| 2000 | National Reporting | Michael Grunwald | Washington Post | |
| 2000 | Transportation Reporting | Scott McCartney | Wall Street Journal | |
| 2000 | Local Television Reporting | Anna Werner, David Raziq, Chris Henao | KHOU-TV (Houston) | |
| 2000 | Network Television Reporting | John Larson, Allan Maraynes, Lynne Dale, Neal Shapiro, Andy Lehren | NBC News, Dateline | |
| 2000 | Political Reporting | Virginia Ellis | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2000 | Statewide Reporting | Kevin Corcoran, Joe Fahy | Indianapolis Star | |
| 2000 | Healthcare Reporting | Sam Hodges, William Rabb | Mobile Register (Alabama) | |
| 2000 | Foreign Reporting | Alma Guillermoprieto | New York Review of Books | |
| 2000 | Special Award | | New York Times | |
| 1999 | Foreign Reporting | Paul Watson | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1999 | Television Foreign Reporting | Giselle Portenier, Olenka Frenkiel, Fiona Murch | BBC News | |
| 1999 | International Reporting | Sang-hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley, Martha Mendoza, Randy Herschaft | Associated Press | |
| 1999 | National Reporting | Jason DeParle | New York Times | |
| 1999 | Regional Reporting | Todd Richissin, Andre Chung | Baltimore Sun | |
| 1999 | Criminal Justice Reporting | Ken Armstrong, Steve Mills | Chicago Tribune | |
| 1999 | Local Reporting | Kevin Carmody | Daily Southtown (Illinois) | |
| 1999 | Local Television Reporting | The "I" Team | WWOR (New Jersey) | |
| 1999 | Editorial Writing | | New York Daily News | |
| 1999 | Financial Reporting | Ellen E. Schultz | Wall Street Journal | |
| 1999 | Medical Reporting | Andrea Gerlin | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1999 | Special Award | National Security Archive | | |
| 1999 | Career Award | Studs Terkel | | |
| 1998 | Book Award | Philip Gourevitch | New Yorker | |
| 1998 | Career Award | Russell Baker | New York Times | |
| 1998 | Commentary | Juan Gonzalez | Daily News (New York) | |
| 1998 | Economic Reporting | Mary Jordan, Keith Richburg, Kevin Sullivan | Washington Post | |
| 1998 | Environmental Reporting | Gardiner Harris, R. G. Dunlop | Louisville Courier-Journal | |
| 1998 | Foreign Reporting | Tracy Wilkinson | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1998 | International Reporting | Alix M. Freedman | Wall Street Journal | |
| 1998 | Legal Reporting | Joe Stephens | Kansas City Star | |
| 1998 | Local Reporting | Clifford J. Levy | New York Times | |
| 1998 | Medical Reporting | Robert Whitaker, Dolores Kong | Boston Globe | |
| 1998 | National Reporting | Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele | Time | |
| 1998 | Radio Reporting | Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill | Pacifica Radio, Democracy Now! | |
| 1998 | Television Reporting | Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz | ABC News, 20/20 | |
| 1997 | Career Award | | Pittsburgh Courier | |
| 1997 | Foreign Reporting | Laurie Garrett | Newsday | |
| 1997 | Network TV Reporting | Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz | ABC News, Primetime Live | |
| 1997 | Military Affairs Reporting | | Dayton Daily News | |
| 1997 | Medical Reporting | | Wall Street Journal | |
| 1997 | Business Reporting | Kurt Eichenwald, Martin Gottlieb | New York Times | |
| 1997 | National Reporting | Keith Bradsher | New York Times | |
| 1997 | Local Reporting | | Pensacola News Journal | |
| 1997 | Environmental Reporting | Will Englund, Gary Cohn, Perry Thorsvik | Baltimore Sun | |
| 1997 | Book Award | Horst Faas, Tim Page, Requiem | Random House | |
| 1997 | Sports Reporting | | Kansas City Star | |
| 1997 | International Reporting | Michael Dobbs | Washington Post | |
| 1997 | Magazine Reporting | Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | |
| 1996 | Criticism Award | Blair Kamin | Chicago Tribune | |
| 1996 | National TV Reporting | Matt Meagher, Tim Peek | Inside Edition | |
| 1996 | Economics Reporting | | New York Times | |
| 1996 | National Reporting | Elizabeth Marchak | Cleveland Plain Dealer | |
| 1996 | Political Reporting | | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1996 | Cultural Reporting | Chuck Philips | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1996 | Magazine Reporting | Anne-Marie Cusac | The Progressive | |
| 1996 | Local Reporting | Kevin Collison | Buffalo News | |
| 1996 | Transportation Reporting | Byron Acohido | Seattle Times | |
| 1996 | Foreign Reporting | John F. Burns | New York Times | |
| 1996 | Foreign TV Reporting | Christiane Amanpour, Anita Pratap | CNN | |
| 1995 | Career Award | John K. Cooley | ABC News | |
| 1995 | Foreign Reporting | David Rohde | Christian Science Monitor | |
| 1995 | National Reporting | Michael Weisskopf, David Maraniss | Washington Post | |
| 1995 | Local Reporting | Elizabeth Llorente | The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) | |
| 1995 | Metropolitan Reporting | Frank Bruni, Nina Bernstein, Joyce Purnick, Lizette Alverez | New York Times | |
| 1995 | Magazine Reporting | Richard Behar | Fortune | |
| 1995 | Education Reporting | Steve Stecklow | Wall Street Journal | |
| 1995 | Business Reporting | Kurt Eichenwald | New York Times | |
| 1995 | Health Care Reporting | Chris Adams | New Orleans Times-Picayune | |
| 1995 | Medical Reporting | | Orange County Register (California) | |
| 1995 | Local Television Reporting | Tom Grant | KREM-TV (Spokane, Washington) | |
| 1995 | Consumer Reporting | Lea Thompson, Jack Cloherty, Sandra Surles | NBC News, Dateline | |
| 1995 | Network TV Reporting | Jim Clancy | CNN | |
| 1994 | Magazine Reporting | Allan Nairn | The Nation | |
| 1994 | Medical Reporting | Dave Davis, Joan Mazzolini | Cleveland Plain Dealer | |
| 1994 | Education Reporting | Olive Talley | Dallas Morning News | |
| 1994 | Environmental Reporting | Jim Lynch, Karen Dorn Steele | Spokesman-Review (Spokane) | |
| 1994 | Political Reporting | Joe Stephens | Kansas City Star | |
| 1994 | Local Reporting | Sonia Nazario | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1994 | Metropolitan Reporting | David Armstrong, Shelley Murphy, Stephan Kurkjian | Boston Globe | |
| 1994 | National Reporting | Joel Brinkley, Deborah Sontag, Stephen Engelberg | New York Times | |
| 1994 | Foreign Reporting | Barbara Demick | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1994 | Television Documentary | Steven Emerson, Martin Koughan | SAE Productions | “Jihad in America,” aired on PBS |
| 1994 | Network Television reporting | John Martin, Walt Bogdanich, Keith Summa | ABC News, Day One | |
| 1994 | Career Award | Philip Hamburger | New Yorker | |
| 1993 | Medical Reporting | Larry Keller, Fred Schulte | Sun-Sentinel | |
| 1993 | Magazine Reporting | Oliver Sacks | New Yorker | |
| 1993 | Business Reporting | Paul Nyden | Charleston Gazette | |
| 1993 | Foreign Reporting | Keith Richburg | Washington Post | |
| 1993 | Local Reporting | Ying Chan | New York Daily News | |
| 1993 | National Reporting | Eileen Welsome | Albuquerque Tribune | |
| 1993 | Political Reporting | | State Journal-Register | |
| 1993 | Financial Reporting | Scot J. Paltrow | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1993 | Regional Reporting | Isabel Wilkerson | New York Times | |
| 1993 | Radio Commentary | Daniel Schorr | National Public Radio | |
| 1993 | Book | David Remnick for Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire | | |
| 1993 | Career Award | Richard Dudman | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | |
| 1993 | Television Reporting | Christiane Amanpour | CNN | |
| 1992 | Local Reporting | | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1992 | National Reporting | Gregory Vistica | San Diego Union-Tribune | |
| 1992 | Foreign Reporting | Roy Gutman | Newsday | |
| 1992 | Legal Reporting | Marianne Lavelle, Marcia Coyle, Claudia MacLachian | National Law Journal | |
| 1992 | Magazine Reporting | Lawrence Weschler | New Yorker | |
| 1992 | Health Reporting | Seth Rosenfeld | San Francisco Examiner | |
| 1992 | Environmental Reporting | John Thor Dahlburg | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1992 | Photography | Carlos M. Guerrero | El Nuevo Herald | |
| 1992 | Radio Reporting | Tom Gjelten | National Public Radio | |
| 1992 | National TV Reporting | Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz | NBC News, Dateline | |
| 1992 | Foreign TV Reporting | Chris Wallace, Neal Shapiro, Anthony Radziwill | ABC News, Primetime Live | |
| 1992 | Social Commentary | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | New York Times op-ed | |
| 1992 | Career Award | Herbert Mitgang | New York Times | |
| 1991 | Radio Reporting | Nina Totenberg | National Public Radio | |
| 1991 | Local Television | Christopher Scholl | KWWL (Iowa) | |
| 1991 | National Television | Glenn Silber, Robert Krulwich, David Fanning, Sharon Tiller | PBS, Frontline; Center for Investigative Reporting | |
| 1991 | Cultural Reporting | Konstantin Akinsha, Grigorii Kozlov | ARTnews | |
| 1991 | Special Award | Andrew Schneider, Mary Pat Flaherty | Pittsburgh Press | |
| 1991 | Education Reporting | Jeff Gottlieb | San Jose Mercury News | |
| 1991 | Economic Reporting | Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1991 | War Reporting | Patrick J. Sloyan | Newsday | |
| 1991 | Local Reporting | Holly A. Taylor | Berkshire Eagle | |
| 1991 | Regional Reporting | Dan Barry, John Sullivan, Ira Chinoy | Providence Journal-Bulletin | |
| 1991 | National Reporting | Jeff Taylor, Mike McGraw | Kansas City Star | |
| 1991 | Foreign Reporting | Francis X. Clines | New York Times | |
| 1991 | Foreign Reporting | Barbara Crossette | New York Times | |
| 1991 | Career Award | Claude Fox Sitton | | |
| 1990 | Foreign Reporting | Caryle Murphy | Washington Post | |
| 1990 | National Reporting | Susan Rasky, David E. Rosenbaum | New York Times | |
| 1990 | Regional Reporting | Gayle Reaves, David Hanners, David McLemore | Dallas Morning News | |
| 1990 | Local Reporting | Heidi Evans | New York Daily News | |
| 1990 | Environmental Reporting | Adam Seessel | Independent Weekly | |
| 1990 | Business Reporting | Dianne Marder | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1990 | Special Publications | Joseph M. Belth | Insurance Forum | |
| 1990 | Special Award | | Globalvision | for “South Africa Now,” defying censors to report on the country's turbulence and violence against its black majority. |
| 1990 | Documentary Television | Hedrick Smith, Martin Smith | WGBH-TV (Boston) and Martin Smith Productions | “Inside Gorbachev's U.S.S.R." |
| 1990 | Local Television Reporting | Kevin Kerrigan | Guam Cable Television | |
| 1990 | Network Television Reporting | Peter Jennings, Leslie Cockburn, Tom Yellin | ABC News | |
| 1990 | Career Award | Fred Friendly | | |
| 1990 | Metropolitan Reporting | Laurie Bennett, Alan Fisk, Robert Ourlian | Detroit News | |
| 1989 | Foreign Reporting | Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn | New York Times | |
| 1989 | National Reporting | Rick Atkinson | Washington Post | |
| 1989 | Local Reporting | | Hartford Courant | |
| 1989 | Local Television Reporting | | WCSC-TV/Charleston, SC | |
| 1989 | TV Investigative Reporting | Jonathan Kwitny | WNYC-TV (New York) | |
| 1989 | Network TV Reporting | | CBS News | |
| 1989 | Radio Reporting | Robert Knight | WBAI (New York) | |
| 1989 | International Reporting | Stephen Engelberg, Michael R. Gordon | New York Times | |
| 1989 | Medical Reporting | John Crewdson | Chicago Tribune | |
| 1989 | Political Reporting | Andrew Melnykovych | Casper Star-Tribune | |
| 1989 | Regional Reporting | Miranda Ewell, David Schrieberg | San Jose Mercury News | |
| 1989 | Career Award | Fred Hechinger | New York Times | |
| 1988 | Foreign Reporting | John Kifner | New York Times | |
| 1988 | National Reporting | Keith Schneider | New York Times | |
| 1988 | Local Reporting | David Gomez, Patricia Guthrie | Albuquerque Tribune | |
| 1988 | Financial Reporting | | National Thrift News | |
| 1988 | Environmental Reporting | Mary Bishop | Roanoke Times & World-News | |
| 1988 | Local Television Reporting | | KING-TV (Seattle) | |
| 1988 | Network Television Reporting | Brian Ross, Ira Silverman | NBC News | |
| 1988 | Economic Reporting | Donald L. Barlette, James B. Steele | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1988 | Radio Reporting | Patricia Neighmond | National Public Radio | |
| 1988 | Cultural Reporting | Lawrence Weschler | Shapinsky’s Karma, Bogg’s Bills (North Point Press) | |
| 1988 | Photojournalism | Mary Ellen Mark | Streetwise | |
| 1988 | Career Award | William Shawn | The New Yorker | |
| 1987 | Foreign Reporting | Nora Boustany | Washington Post | |
| 1987 | National Reporting | Mike Masterson, Chuck Cook, Mark N. Trahant | Arizona Republic | |
| 1987 | Local Reporting | Ron Ridenhour | New Orleans CityBusiness | |
| 1987 | Financial Reporting | Daniel Hertzberg, James B. Stewart | Wall Street Journal | |
| 1987 | Metropolitan Reporting | | Charlotte Observer | |
| 1987 | Local Television Reporting | Margie Nichols | WSMV-TV (Nashville) | |
| 1987 | Network Television Reporting | | CNN | |
| 1987 | Radio Reporting | Larry Bensky | Pacifica Radio | |
| 1987 | Sports Reporting | Chris Mortensen | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | |
| 1987 | Science Reporting | | Science News | |
| 1987 | Political Reporting | Washington Bureau | Knight Ridder | |
| 1987 | Foreign Television Reporting | Gordon Manning | NBC News | |
| 1987 | Magazine Reporting | Roger Rosenblatt | Time | |
| 1987 | Career Award | Murray Kempton | Newsday and New York Newsday | |
| 1986 | Foreign Reporting | | Newsweek | |
| 1986 | National Reporting | Andrew Wolfson, Daniel Rubin | Louisville Courier-Journal | |
| 1986 | Local Reporting | Sally Jacobs | Raleigh News & Observer | |
| 1986 | Regional Reporting | Alex Beasley, Rosemary Goudreau | Orlando Sentinel | |
| 1986 | Financial Reporting | Peter G. Gosselin | Boston Globe | |
| 1986 | Science Reporting | | Science Times | |
| 1986 | Environmental Reporting | | High Country News | |
| 1986 | International TV Reporting | David Fanning, Martin Smith | PBS, Frontline | |
| 1986 | National Television Reporting | Bill Moyers | CBS News, CBS Reports | |
| 1986 | Local Television Reporting | Lee Coppola | WKBW-TV (Buffalo) | |
| 1986 | Book | Richard Kluger | | Award for The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune |
| 1986 | Career Award | James Reston | New York Times | |
| 1985 | Foreign Reporting | Alan Cowell | New York Times | |
| 1985 | International Reporting | Pete Carey, Katherine Ellison, Lewis M. Simons | San Jose Mercury News | |
| 1985 | National Reporting | Diana Griego, Louis Kilzer | Denver Post | |
| 1985 | Local Reporting | Stan Jones | Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | |
| 1985 | Metropolitan Reporting | Jimmy Breslin | New York Daily News | |
| 1985 | Political Reporting | Frank Greve | Knight Ridder | |
| 1985 | Business Reporting | Spotlight/Business Team | Boston Globe | |
| 1985 | Medical Reporting | Lawerence K. Altman | New York Times | |
| 1985 | Criticism | Arthur C. Danto | The Nation | |
| 1985 | Radio Reporting | Peter Laufer | NBC Radio News | |
| 1985 | Network Television Reporting | Ted Koppel, Richard N. Kaplan | ABC News, Nightline | |
| 1985 | Local Television Reporting | Vic Lee, Craig Franklin, Brian McTigue | KRON-TV (San Francisco) | |
| 1985 | Career Award | George Tames | New York Times | |
| 1984 | Foreign Reporting | Mark Fineman | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1984 | National Reporting | Robert Parry | Associated Press | |
| 1984 | Local Reporting | Ellen Whitford | Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Virginia) | |
| 1984 | Medical Reporting | William R. Ritz, John Aloysius Farrell | Denver Post | |
| 1984 | Environmental Reporting | Tom Harris, Jim Morris | Sacramento Bee | |
| 1984 | Special Interest Reporting | Lois R. Ember | Chemical & Engineering News | |
| 1984 | Magazine Reporting | John Vinocur | New York Times Magazine | |
| 1984 | News Photography | Ozier Muhammad | Newsday | |
| 1984 | Special Award | "Amnesty International Report" | Amnesty International | |
| 1984 | Foreign Television Reporting | Michael Buerk, Mohamed Amin | BBC, Visnews, NBC News | |
| 1984 | National Television Reporting | Alex Kotlowitz, Kwame Holman, Susan Ades | PBS, MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour | |
| 1984 | Local Television Reporting | Rick Nelson, Joe Collum | KPRC-TV (Houston) | |
| 1984 | Career Award | Red Barber | | |
| 1983 | Foreign Reporting | Joseph Lelyveld | New York Times | |
| 1983 | National Reporting | Robert M. Frump, Timothy Dwyer | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1983 | Regional Reporting | Paul Lieberman, Celia Dugger | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | |
| 1983 | Local Reporting | Jim McGee | Miami Herald | |
| 1983 | Foreign Affairs Reporting | Philip Taubman | New York Times | |
| 1983 | Economics Reporting | Dennis Camire, Mark Rohner | Gannett News Service | |
| 1983 | Consumer Reporting | Marcia Stepanek, Stephen Franklin | Detroit Free Press | |
| 1983 | Medical Reporting | Benjamin Weiser | Washington Post | |
| 1983 | Network Television Reporting | Don McNeill | CBS News | |
| 1983 | Local Television Reporting | John Fosholt, Ward Lucas | KBTV (Denver) | |
| 1983 | Documentary Television | "Vietnam: A Television History" | WGBH-TV (Boston), and aired on PBS | |
| 1983 | Special Interest Reporting | The Amicus Journal | Natural Resources Defense Council | |
| 1983 | Special Award | Youssef M. Ibrahim | Wall Street Journal | |
| 1983 | Career Award | William Lawrence Shirer | | |
| 1982 | Foreign Reporting | Thomas L. Friedman, David K. Shipler | New York Times | |
| 1982 | National Reporting | Richard Halloran | New York Times | |
| 1982 | Regional Reporting | Jim Henderson | Dallas Times Herald | |
| 1982 | Metropolitan Reporting | Doug Cumming | Providence Journal-Bulletin | |
| 1982 | Local Reporting | David Johnston, Joel Sappell | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1982 | Magazine Reporting | Roger Rosenblatt | Time | |
| 1982 | Financial Reporting | Phillip L. Zweig | American Banker | |
| 1982 | Criticism | Stanley Kauffmann | New Republic | |
| 1982 | News Photography | Robby Castro | Associated Press | |
| 1982 | Network Television Reporting | Martin Smith, Ed Rabel | CBS News | |
| 1982 | Local Television Reporting | Dick Gelfman, Theresa Crawford, John Sur | WBAL-TV (Baltimore) | |
| 1982 | Documentary Television | Andrew A. Stern | PBS | How Much Is Enough: Decision Making in the Nuclear Age |
| 1982 | Special Award | Rod Nordland | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1981 | Foreign Reporting | John Darnton | New York Times | |
| 1981 | National Reporting | Seymour M. Hersh, Jeff Gerth, Phillip Taubman | New York Times | |
| 1981 | Regional Reporting | Stephanie Saul, W. Stevens Ricks | Jackson Clarion-Ledger | "Mississippi Gulf Coast: Wide Open and Wicked" |
| 1981 | Local Reporting | "The Federal Impact" | Orlando Sentinel-Star | |
| 1981 | Consumer Reporting | Phil Norman | Louisville Courier-Journal | |
| 1981 | Magazine Reporting | William Greider | The Atlantic | |
| 1981 | Book | Edwin R. Bayley for Joe McCarthy and the Press | University of Wisconsin Press | |
| 1981 | Science Reporting | "News and Comments" | Science | |
| 1981 | Television Documentary | Pierre Salinger | ABC News | for "America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations." |
| 1981 | Television Reporting | Ted Koppel | NBC News, Nightline | |
| 1981 | Radio Reporting | John Merrow | Institute for Educational Leadership and National Public Radio | |
| 1981 | Career Award | George Seldes | In Fact | |
| 1980 | Foreign Reporting | Shirley Christian | Miami Herald | |
| 1980 | National Reporting | Jonathan Neuman, Ted Gup | Washington Post | |
| 1980 | Local Reporting | | Miami Herald | |
| 1980 | Regional Reporting | | Charlotte Observer | |
| 1980 | Editorials | Editorial Board | New York Times | |
| 1980 | Commentary | Roger Angell | New Yorker | |
| 1980 | News Photography | Oscar Sabatta | United Press International | |
| 1980 | Satiric Drawings | Edward Sorel | | |
| 1980 | Cultural Reporting | | ARTnews | |
| 1980 | National Radio Reporting | | National Public Radio | |
| 1980 | Local Radio Reporting | Station | KMOX (St. Louis) | |
| 1980 | Political Reporting | Bill Moyers | WNET (New York) | |
| 1980 | Local Television Reporting | Stephen Talbot, Jonathan Dann | KQED (San Francisco) | |
| 1980 | National Television Reporting | Charles Kuralt | CBS News | |
| 1980 | Special Award | Leonard Karlin | LIU alumnus/Polk Citation Writer | |
| 1979 | Foreign Reporting | John Kifner | New York Times | |
| 1979 | National Reporting | Brian Donovan, Bob Wyrick, Stuart Diamond | Newsday | |
| 1979 | Regional Reporting | Jim Adams, Jim Detjen | Louisville Courier-Journal | |
| 1979 | Metropolitan Reporting | Walt Bogdanich, Walter Johns Jr. | Cleveland Press | |
| 1979 | Local Reporting | Ed Petykiewicz | Saginaw News | |
| 1979 | Documentary | Jack Willis, Saul Landau | New Time Films, Inc. | Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang |
| 1979 | National Television Reporting | | WRC-TV (Washington, D.C.) | |
| 1979 | Foreign Television Reporting | Ed Bradley | CBS News, 60 Minutes | |
| 1979 | Political Reporting | Jack Newfield | Village Voice | |
| 1979 | Commentary | "Notes and Comments" Talk of the Town, | New Yorker | |
| 1979 | Book | William Shawcross for Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1979 | News Photography | "Firing Squad" - Name Withheld | United Press International | |
| 1979 | Special Interest Reporting | Wilbert Rideau, Billy Sinclair | The Angolite (Louisiana State Penitentiary) | |
| 1979 | Career Award | Alden Whitman | New York Times | |
| 1978 | Foreign Reporting | John F. Burns, John Darnton, Michael T. Kaufman | New York Times | |
| 1978 | National Reporting | Ronald Kessler | Washington Post | |
| 1978 | Local Reporting | | Dallas Times Herald | |
| 1978 | Public Service Reporting | Jane Shoemaker, Thomas Ferrick, Jr., William Ecenbarger | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1978 | Regional Reporting | | Southern Exposure | |
| 1978 | Educational Reporting | | Chronicle of Higher Education | |
| 1978 | Television Reporting | Don Harris, Bob Brown | NBC News | |
| 1978 | Film Documentary | Scared Straight | Golden West Television Productions | |
| 1978 | News Photography | Eddie Adams | Associated Press | |
| 1978 | Commentary | Russell Baker | New York Times | |
| 1978 | Career Award | Richard S. Salant | CBS News | |
| 1977 | Foreign Reporting | Robert C. Toth | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1977 | National Reporting | Walter Pincus | Washington Post | |
| 1977 | Local Reporting | Len Ackland | Des Moines Register | |
| 1977 | Magazine Reporting | Daniel Lang | The New Yorker, Local Radio, Television | |
| 1977 | Radio, Television Reporting | Barry Lando | 60 Minutes | |
| 1977 | Local Radio, Television Reporting | John Stossel | WCBS-TV (New York) | |
| 1977 | Science Reporting | | New England Journal of Medicine | |
| 1977 | Criticism | Peter S. Prescott | Newsweek | |
| 1977 | Commentary | Red Smith | New York Times | |
| 1977 | Editorial Cartoons | Jeff MacNelly | Richmond News Leader | |
| 1977 | News Photography | Eddie Adams | Associated Press | |
| 1977 | Career Award | Carey McWilliams | The Nation | |
| 1975 | No awards presented | | | |
| 1974 | No awards presented | | | |
| 1974 | Foreign Reporting | Donald Kirk | Chicago Tribune | |
| 1974 | National Reporting | Seymour M. Hersh | New York Times | |
| 1974 | Metropolitan Reporting | Richard Severo | New York Times | |
| 1974 | Community Service | William E. Anderson, Harley R. Bierce, Richard C. Cady | Indianapolis Star | |
| 1974 | Magazine Reporting | Edward M. Brecher, Robert H. Harris | Consumer Reports | |
| 1974 | Television Documentary | | NBC News, NBC White Paper | for examining global malnutrition in "And Who Shall Feed This World?" |
| 1974 | News Photography | Werner Baum | Deutsche Presse-Agentur | |
| 1974 | Book | Mary Adelaide Mendelson for Tender Loving Greed | Vintage Books | |
| 1974 | Special Award | Sydney H. Schanberg | New York Times | |
| 1973 | Foreign Reporting | Henry S. Bradsher | Washington Star-News | |
| 1973 | National Reporting | Andrew H. Malcolm | New York Times | |
| 1973 | Metropolitan Reporting | James Savage, Mike Baxter | Miami Herald | |
| 1973 | Local Reporting | Carol Talley, Joan Hayde | Daily Advance (Dover, New Jersey) | |
| 1973 | Community Service | William Sherman | New York Daily News | |
| 1973 | Investigative Reporting | Seymour Hersh | New York Times | |
| 1973 | Magazine Reporting | John F. Osborne | New Republic | |
| 1973 | Television Reporting | | Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Affairs Center for Television | |
| 1973 | Television Documentary | Jeremy Isaacs for "The World at War" | Thames Television (London) | |
| 1973 | News Photography | George Brich | Associated Press | |
| 1973 | Book | David Wise for The Politics of Lying: Government Deception, Secrecy, and Power | Random House | |
| 1973 | Special Award | Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1972 | Foreign Reporting | Jean Thoraval, Jean Leclerc du Sablon | Agence France-Presse | |
| 1972 | National Reporting | Carl Bernstein, Robert Woodward | Washington Post | |
| 1972 | Metropolitan Reporting | Joseph Martin, Martin McLaughlin, James Ryan | New York Daily News | |
| 1972 | Local Reporting | Doris Ellen Olsten | Santa Maria Times (Santa Maria, California | |
| 1972 | Community Service | Ronald Kessler | Washington Post | |
| 1972 | Investigative Reporting | Jean Heller | Associated Press | |
| 1972 | Magazine Reporting | Frances FitzGerald | New Yorker | |
| 1972 | Television Reporting | Jim McKay | American Broadcasting Company | |
| 1972 | Television News-Documenta | 60 Minutes, First Tuesday | CBS News, NBC News | |
| 1972 | News Photography | Huynh Cong Ut | Associated Press | |
| 1972 | Book | Sanford J. Ungar for The Papers & The Papers: An Account of the Legal and Political Battle Over the Pentagon Papers | E.P. Dutton & Co. | |
| 1972 | Special Award | Lesley Oelsner | New York Times | |
| 1971 | Foreign Reporting | Sydney H. Schanberg | New York Times | |
| 1971 | National Reporting | | New York Times | |
| 1971 | Metropolitan Reporting | Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele | Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1971 | Education Reporting | Joseph Lelyveld | New York Times | |
| 1971 | Public Service | Frances Cerra | Newsday | |
| 1971 | Magazine Reporting | Ross Terrill | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1971 | Television Documentary | Peter Davis, Perry Wolff, Roger Mudd | CBS News | for “The Selling of the Pentagon,” which examined the U. S. military's public relations program. |
| 1971 | Television Reporting | Phil Brady | NBC News | |
| 1971 | News Photography | Horst Faas, Michel Laurent | Associated Press | |
| 1971 | Criticism | Richard Harwood | Washington Post | |
| 1971 | Book | Erik Barnouw for A Tower in Babel: A History of Broadcasting in the United States | Oxford University Press | |
| 1970 | Foreign Reporting | Gloria Emerson | New York Times | |
| 1970 | National Reporting | | Knight Newspapers | |
| 1970 | Metropolitan Reporting | Richard Oliver | New York Daily News | |
| 1970 | Community Service | Karl Grossman | Long Island Press | |
| 1970 | Editorials | James E. Clayton | Washington Post | |
| 1970 | Magazine Reporting | | Washington Monthly | |
| 1970 | Television Reporting | Alan M. Levin | National Educational Television | "for a documentary on U.S. involvement in underdeveloped nations, Who Invited Us?" |
| 1970 | Freedom of The Press Award | Walter Cronkite | CBS News, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite | |
| 1970 | News Photography | John Darnell, John Foli, Howard Ruffner | Life | |
| 1970 | Criticism | Pauline Kael | New Yorker | |
| 1970 | Book | Otto Friedrich for Decline and Fall | Harper & Row | |
| 1970 | Special Award | I. F. Stone | | |
| 1969 | Foreign Reporting | Henry Kamm | New York Times | |
| 1969 | National Reporting | Walter Rugaber | New York Times | |
| 1969 | Metropolitan Reporting | William Federici | New York Daily News | |
| 1969 | National TV Reporting | Tom Pettit | National Broadcasting Company | |
| 1969 | Local TV Reporting | Lee Hanna | WCBS-TV (New York) | |
| 1969 | Magazine Reporting | William Lambert | Life | |
| 1969 | News Photography | Stephen Dawson Starr | Associated Press | |
| 1969 | Book | Richard Ellmann for The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde | University of Chicago Press | |
| 1969 | Special Award | Wes Gallagher | Associated Press | |
| 1969 | Special Award | Seymour M. Hersh | Dispatch News Service | |
| 1968 | International Reporting | David Kraslow and Stuart H. Loory | Los Angeles Times | |
| 1968 | National Reporting | Bernard D. Nossiter | Washington Post | |
| 1968 | Regional Reporting | James K. Batten, Dwayne Walls | Charlotte Observer | |
| 1968 | Community Service | David Burnam | New York Times | |
| 1968 | Political Reporting | Martin Arnold | New York Times | |
| 1968 | Television Reporting | | NBC News, CBS News, ABC News | |
| 1968 | Magazine Reporting | Norman Mailer | Harper's Magazine | |
| 1968 | News Photography | Edward T. Adams | Associated Press | |
| 1968 | Criticism | John Simon | The New Leader | |
| 1968 | Book | Charles Rembar for The End of Obscenity | |
| 1967 | Foreign Reporting | R. W. Apple, Jr. | New York Times | |
| 1967 | National Reporting | Clayton Fritchey | Newsday Specials | "for a syndicated Washington column" |
| 1967 | Local Reporting | J. Anthony Lukas | New York Times | |
| 1967 | Community Service | | Newsday | |
| 1967 | Television Documentary | | ABC News | for “Africa,” a four-hour overview of the continent |
| 1967 | Magazine Reporting | | The Paris Review | |
| 1967 | News Photography | Catherine Leroy | | |
| 1967 | Criticism | Saul Maloff | Newsweek | |
| 1967 | Book | Alan F. Westin for Privacy and Freedom | Atheneum | |
| 1966 | Foreign Reporting | Harrison E. Salisbury | New York Times | |
| 1966 | National Reporting | Richard Harwood | Washington Post | |
| 1966 | Local Reporting | Cal Olston | The Fargo Forum (North Dakota) | |
| 1966 | Interpretive Reporting | Murray Kempton | New York Post | |
| 1966 | Magazine Reporting | | Ramparts | |
| 1966 | Criticism | Alfred Kazin | | |
| 1966 | Book | Wilson Follett | Follett's Modern American Usage | |
| 1966 | News Photography | Horst Faas | Associated Press | |
| 1966 | Special Award | Arnold Gingrich | Esquire | |
| 1966 | Special Award | Time Essay | Time | |
| 1965 | Foreign Reporting | Dan Kurzman | Washington Post | |
| 1965 | Editorial Comment | John B. Oakes | New York Times | |
| 1965 | Metropolitan Reporting | Barry Gottehrer | New York Herald Tribune | |
| 1965 | Interpretive Reporting | Bernard B. Fall | | |
| 1965 | Criticism | Susan Sontag | Partisan Review | |
| 1965 | Television Documentary | Beryl Fox | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam |
| 1965 | News Photography | James A. Bourdier | Associated Press | |
| 1965 | Television News | Morley Safer | Columbia Broadcasting System | |
| 1965 | Caricature | David Levine | New York Review of Books | |
| 1964 | Foreign Reporting | Malcolm W. Browne | Associated Press | |
| 1964 | National Reporting | Paul Hope, John Barron | Washington Star | |
| 1964 | Metropolitan Reporting | A. M. Rosenthal | New York Times | |
| 1964 | Community Service | Samuel F. Marshall | Cleveland Plain Dealer | |
| 1964 | Criticism | Robert Brustein | New Republic | |
| 1964 | Radio Reporting | Edward P. Morgan | American Broadcasting Company | |
| 1964 | Television Reporting | Ted Yates | National Broadcasting Company | |
| 1964 | Special Award | Oron J. Hale | | |
| 1963 | Foreign Reporting | David Halberstam | New York Times | |
| 1963 | National Reporting | | American Broadcasting Company, Columbia Broadcasting System, National Broadcasting Company | |
| 1963 | Metropolitan Reporting | Norman C. Miller | Wall Street Journal | |
| 1963 | Magazine Reporting | Gilbert A. Harrison | New Republic | |
| 1963 | Criticism | | New York Review of Books | |
| 1963 | News Photography | Roger Asnong | Associated Press | |
| 1963 | Special Award | A. H. Raskin | New York Times | |
| 1963 | Special Award | | WNEW (radio) | |
| 1963 | Special Award | Peter Lyon | | |
| 1962 | Foreign Reporting | Dana Adams Schmidt | New York Times | |
| 1962 | National Reporting | Mary McGrory | Washington Star | |
| 1962 | Local Reporting | Kitty Hanson | New York Daily News | |
| 1962 | Magazine Reporting | James Baldwin | New Yorker | |
| 1962 | Television Reporting | | WNDT (Newark) | |
| 1962 | News Photography | Héctor Rondón Lovera | La Republica (Caracas) | |
| 1962 | Special Award | Michael Harrington | The Other America | |
| 1962 | Special Award | Morton Mintz | Washington Post | |
| 1962 | Special Award | Theodore E. Kruglak | The Two Faces of TASS | |
| 1961 | Foreign Reporting | Morris H. Rubin | The Progressive | |
| 1961 | National Reporting | Gerard Piel | Scientific American | |
| 1961 | Local Reporting | Laurence Stern | Washington Post | |
| 1961 | Radio & Television Reporting | Robert Young, Charles Dorkins | National Broadcasting Company | |
| 1961 | News Photography | Anonymous Photographer | Associated Press | |
| 1961 | Community Service | Arnold Brophy, Joseph S. Gelmis | Newsday | |
| 1961 | Special Award | Jules Feiffer | | |
| 1960 | Foreign Reporting | James Morris | The Guardian (Manchester) | |
| 1960 | National Reporting | John T. Cunniff | Associated Press | |
| 1960 | Metropolitan Reporting | William R. Clark, Alexander Milch | Newark Evening News | |
| 1960 | Radio & Television Reporting | Albert Wasserman, Robert Young | National Broadcasting Company | |
| 1960 | News Photography | Yasushi Nagao | Mainichi Newspapers (Japan) | |
| 1960 | Community Service | | Village Voice | |
| 1960 | Special Award | Douglass Carter | Reporter | |
| 1959 | Foreign reporting | A. M. Rosenthal | New York Times | |
| 1959 | National Reporting | Nathaniel Gerstenzang | New York Times | |
| 1959 | Metropolitan Reporting | William Haddad, Joseph Kahn | New York Post | |
| 1959 | Radio & Television Reporting | Av Westin, Howard K. Smith | Columbia Broadcasting System | |
| 1959 | Magazine Reporting | | The Times Literary Supplement (London) | |
| 1959 | News Photography | Rangaswamy Satakopan | Associated Press | |
| 1959 | Special Award | Wilbur Schramm | Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University | |
| 1958 | Foreign Reporting | Chet Huntley, Reuven Frank | National Broadcasting Company | |
| 1958 | National Reporting | Richard L. Strout | Christian Science Monitor | |
| 1958 | Metropolitan Reporting | William Haddad | New York Post | |
| 1958 | Television Reporting | Gabe Pressman | WRCA-TV (New York) | |
| 1958 | Radio Reporting | Jay McMullen | Columbia Broadcasting System | |
| 1958 | Magazine Reporting | Marya Mannes | Reporter | |
| 1958 | News Photography | Paul Schutzer | Life | |
| 1958 | Community Service | | Brooklyn Heights Press | |
| 1958 | Special Award | Justice William O. Douglas | | |
| 1958 | Special Award | Samuel Blackman | Associated Press | |
| 1958 | Special Award | Walter Sullivan | New York Times | |
| 1957 | Foreign Reporting | Harrison E. Salisbury | New York Times | |
| 1957 | National Reporting | Relman Morin | Associated Press | |
| 1957 | Metropolitan Reporting | Mitchel Levitas | New York Post | |
| 1957 | Radio & Television Reporting | | Columbia Broadcasting System | |
| 1957 | Magazine Reporting | Edmund Stevens, Phillip Harrington | Look | |
| 1957 | News Photography | Jack Jenkins | United Press Newspictures | |
| 1957 | Community Service | Edward Wakin | New York World-Telegram & Sun | |
| 1957 | Special Award | Richard D. Heffner | WRCA-TV (New York) | |
| 1956 | Foreign Reporting | Hal Lehrman | | |
| 1956 | National Reporting | Jack Lotto | International News Service | |
| 1956 | Metropolitan Reporting | Phil Santora | New York Daily News | |
| 1956 | Suburban Reporting | Mel Elfin | Long Island Press | |
| 1956 | Radio & Television Reporting | | Columbia Broadcasting System | |
| 1956 | News Photography | Jack Young | United Press Newspictures | |
| 1956 | Special Award | Emanuel R. Freedman | New York Times | |
| 1956 | Special Award | Endre Marton | Associated Press | |
| 1956 | Special Award | Ilona Nyilas | United Press | |
| 1955 | International Reporting | Thomas J. Hamilton | New York Times | |
| 1955 | Foreign Reporting | Barrett McGurn | New York Herald Tribune | |
| 1955 | National Reporting | Milton Mayer | The Reporter | |
| 1955 | Metropolitan Reporting | Fern Marja, Peter J. McElroy, William Dufty | New York Post | |
| 1955 | Suburban Reporting | Bob Greene | Newsday | |
| 1955 | Education Reporting | Gertrude Samuels | New York Times | |
| 1955 | Radio & Television Reporting | | National Broadcasting Company | |
| 1955 | Magazine Reporting | William Attwood | Look | |
| 1955 | News Photography | William Sauro | United Press Newspictures | |
| 1955 | Community Service | Selwyn James and Robert Gorman | Redbook | |
| 1954 | International Reporting | Thomas J. Hamilton | New York Times | |
| 1954 | Foreign Reporting | George Weller | Chicago Daily News Syndicate | |
| 1954 | National Reporting | Luther Huston | New York Times | |
| 1954 | Metropolitan Reporting | James McGlincy, Sydney Mirkin | New York Daily News | |
| 1954 | Suburban Reporting | Thomas Finnegan | Long Island Star-Journal | |
| 1954 | Wire Service Reporting | Alan J. Gould, Don Whitehead, Saul Pett, Ben Price, Relman Morir, Jack Bell | Associated Press | |
| 1954 | Radio & Television Reporting | Eric Sevareid | Columbia Broadcasting System | |
| 1954 | Television Documentary | Henry Salomon, Jr. | National Broadcasting Company | for “Three, Two, One, Zero,” a documentary on atomic power, |
| 1954 | News Photography | Maurice Johnson | International News Photos | |
| 1954 | Special Page | School Page | New York World-Telegram & Sun | |
| 1954 | Community Service | | WNYC (New York) | |
| 1954 | Special Award | Dan Parker | New York Mirror | |
| 1954 | Special Award | Leo Rosten | Look | |
| 1953 | Foreign Reporting | Jim Lucas | Scripps-Howard Newspapers | |
| 1953 | National Reporting | James Reston | New York Times | |
| 1953 | Metropolitan Reporting | William Longgood | New York World-Telegram & Sun | |
| 1953 | News Photography | Peter Stackpole | Life | |
| 1953 | Community Service | | Newsday | |
| 1953 | Special Award | John Crosby | New York Herald Tribune | |
| 1953 | Special Award | | Business Week | |
| 1953 | Special Award | Leonard Engel | freelance writer | |
| 1952 | Foreign Reporting | Marguerite Higgins | New York Herald Tribune | |
| 1952 | National Reporting | A. H. Raskin | New York Times | |
| 1952 | Metropolitan Reporting | Edward J. Mowery | New York World-Telegram & Sun | |
| 1952 | News Photography | Bob Wendlinger | New York Mirror | |
| 1952 | Community Service | | Brooklyn Eagle | |
| 1952 | Special Award | Jack Gould | New York Times | |
| 1952 | Special Award | | The Reporter | |
| 1952 | Special Award | Edward R. Murrow | Columbia Broadcasting System | |
| 1952 | Special Award | | New York Daily News | |
| 1951 | Foreign Reporting | Milton Bracker, Virginia Lee Warren | New York Times | |
| 1951 | National Reporting | Jay Nelson Tuck | New York Post | |
| 1951 | Metropolitan Reporting | Richard Carter | New York Compass | |
| 1951 | Suburban Reporting | | Yonkers Herald-Statesman | |
| 1951 | Education Reporting | Kalman Siegel | New York Times | |
| 1951 | Science Reporting | Alton Blakeslee | Associated Press | |
| 1951 | Religious Reporting | Ann Elizabeth Price | New York Herald Tribune | |
| 1951 | Sports Reporting | Ben Gould | Brooklyn Eagle | |
| 1951 | Community Service | | New York World-Telegram & Sun | |
| 1951 | Special Award | Edward R. Murrow | Columbia Broadcasting System | |
| 1951 | Special Award | | Sponsor | |
| 1950 | Foreign Reporting | Homer Bigart | New York Herald Tribune | |
| 1950 | National Reporting | Ira H. Freeman | New York Times | |
| 1950 | Metropolitan Reporting | Fern Marja | New York Post | |
| 1950 | Suburban Reporting | | Long Island Daily Press | |
| 1950 | Wire Service Reporting | Don Whitehead | Associated Press | |
| 1950 | Education Reporting | Fred Hechinger, Judith Crist | New York Herald Tribune | |
| 1950 | Sports Reporting | Red Smith | New York Herald Tribune | |
| 1950 | Science Reporting | George Keaney | New York World-Telegram & Sun | |
| 1950 | Weekly Newspaper Reporting | | New Canaan Advertiser (New Canaan, Connecticut) | |
| 1950 | Community Service | | Newsday | |
| 1950 | Special Award | Straw Poll | New York Daily News | |
| 1949 | Foreign Reporting | Team of Six | New York Herald Tribune | |
| 1949 | National Reporting | Ted Poston | New York Post | |
| 1949 | Suburban Reporting | Fred Hechinger | Bridgeport Herald (Bridgeport, Connecticut) | |
| 1949 | Wire Service Reporting | Kingsbury Smith | International News Service | |
| 1949 | Education Reporting | Lester Grant | New York Herald Tribune | |
| 1949 | Science Reporting | William Laurence | New York Times | |
| 1949 | Radio Reporting | Don Hollenbeck | Columbia Broadcasting System | |
| 1949 | Community Service | | Brooklyn Eagle | |
| 1948 | Foreign Reporting | Homer Bigart | New York Herald Tribune | |
| 1948 | Metropolitan Reporting | Malcolm Jonson | New York Sun | |
| 1948 | Suburban Reporting | Larry Andrews | Nassau Review-Star | |
| 1948 | Education Reporting | Benjamin Fine | New York Times | |
| 1948 | Science Reporting | Albert Deutsch | PM Magazine | |
| 1948 | Community Service | | Brooklyn Eagle | |