# List of prizes won by The Washington Post

The following is a list of awards won by the American newspaper The Washington Post.

## Pulitzer Prizes

The Washington Post has won 65 Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, the second highest of any newspaper or magazine in the United States. It has won the gold medal for Public Service, the most distinguished award, six times. The newspaper won its first prize in 1936 for Editorial Writing and its most recent in 2022.

## General awards
### Aldo Beckman Award

The Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage, also known as The Aldo Beckman Award, is an annual award given by the White House Correspondents' Association for "overall excellence" in White House coverage.
| Year | Recipient |
| 2003 | Dana Milbank |
| 2009 | Michael Abramowitz |
| 2012 | Scott Wilson |
| 2017 | Greg Jaffe |

### Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award

The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, presented by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, honors excellence in broadcast and digital journalism.
| Year | Entry | Notes |
| 2019 | "The Whistleblower" & "Too Big to Prosecute" | Co-winner with 60 Minutes |
| 2021 | "Lafayette Reconstruction" | |

### Bastiat Prize

The Bastiat Prize was an annual journalism award, given by the Reason Foundation, that recognizes journalists whose writing "best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence."
| Year | Recipient |
| 2017 | Radley Balko |

### Edward R. Murrow Award

The Edward R. Murrow Award is an annual award that honors the best achievements in digital journalism.
| Year | Category | Entry | Notes |
| 2004 | Website Non-Broadcast (Over 200,000 circulation) | washingtonpost.com | |
| 2005 | Website Non-Broadcast (Over 200,000 circulation) | washingtonpost.com | |
| 2006 | Website Non-Broadcast (Over 200,000 circulation) | washingtonpost.com | |
| 2007 | Website Non-Broadcast (Over 200,000 circulation) | washingtonpost.com | |
| 2012 | Breaking News | "Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot in Tucson" | |
| 2012 | Use of Video | "Under Suspicion: Voices about Muslims in America" | |
| 2012 | Website | washingtonpost.com | |
| 2013 | Overall Excellence | Portfolio | |
| 2013 | Investigative Reporting | "Convicted defendants left uninformed of forensic flaws found by Justice Dept." | |
| 2014 | Overall Excellence | Portfolio | |
| 2014 | Feature Reporting | "Shelley & Bill: A Love Story" | |
| 2015 | Feature Reporting | "Romanian Orphan" | |
| 2015 | Investigative Reporting | "Your Property Is Guilty" | |
| 2015 | Writing | "Lee Powell writing" | |
| 2016 | Overall Excellence | Portfolio | |
| 2016 | Continuing Coverage | "Ten Years after Katrina" | |
| 2016 | Writing | "There's a better way to stand in line but you won't like it" | |
| 2017 | Continuing Coverage | "America's Opioid Crisis" | |
| 2017 | Excellence in Social Media | Portfolio | |
| 2017 | Excellence in Writing | "Lee Powell writing" | |
| 2017 | Reporting: Hard News | "Tainted Water, Little Hope" | |
| 2018 | Video: Investigative Reporting | "Too Big To Prosecute" | Co-winner with 60 Minutes |
| 2018 | Digital: Investigative Reporting | "Hacking Democracy: The Russian Investigation" | |
| 2019 | News Documentary | "The Foreign Consultant" | |
| 2020 | Digital: Overall Excellence | Portfolio | |
| 2021 | Breaking News Coverage | "How a night of protest turned deadly in Kenosha" | |
| 2021 | Excellence in Writing | "Politics and Airlines in a pandemic" | |

### George Polk Awards

The George Polk Awards in Journalism, also known as the George Polk Awards, are an annual journalism award, given by Long Island University, honoring the best reporting in a number of categories.
| Year | Category | Recipients | Description of entry | Notes |
| 1961 | Local Reporting | Laurence Stern | for a series on troubled savings & loan institutions in Maryland. | |
| 1962 | Special Award | Morton Mintz | for stories on the fight to keep the drug thalidomide off the market. | |
| 1965 | Foreign Reporting | Dan Kurzman | for coverage of a revolt in the Dominican Republic. | |
| 1966 | National Reporting | Richard Harwood | for exposing the FBI's use of unauthorized wiretapping. | |
| 1968 | National Reporting | Bernard D. Nossiter | for exploring how the aerospace industry might fare in a peacetime economy. | |
| 1970 | Editorials | James E. Clayton | for raising questions about U.S. Supreme Court nominee G. Harrold Carswell. | |
| 1971 | Criticism | Richard Hardwood | for “The News Business,” a column evaluating American journalism. | |
| 1972 | National Reporting | Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward | for bringing to public attention the Watergate bugging story. | |
| 1972 | Community Service | Ronald Kessler | for two series, on hospital mismanagement and illegal fees charged to homebuyers. | |
| 1977 | National Reporting | Walter Pincus | for revealing Defense Department plans to develop a neutron bomb. | |
| 1978 | National Reporting | Ronald Kessler | for articles on corruption in the General Services Administration. | |
| 1980 | National Reporting | Jonathan Neuman and Ted Gup | for a series on conflicts of interest in awarding of federal contracts. | |
| 1983 | Medical Reporting | Benjamin Weiser | for "As They Lay Dying," a series on removing hopelessly ill patients from life support. | |
| 1987 | Foreign Reporting | Nora Boustany | for stories on Palestinian refugees and “the breakdown of civilization in Lebanon.” | |
| 1989 | National Reporting | Rick Atkinson | for a series on the secret history of the B-2 Stealth bomber. | |
| 1990 | Foreign Reporting | Caryle Murphy | for chronicling the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait as she remained in hiding inside the country. | |
| 1993 | Foreign Reporting | Keith Richburg | for chronicling the effects of war and famine in Somalia. | |
| 1995 | National Reporting | Michael Weisskopf and David Maraniss | for “Inside the Revolution,” a series on the inner workings of the first Republican-controlled House of Representatives in 40 years. | |
| 1997 | International Reporting | Michael Dobbs | or tracing Madeleine Albright's Jewish roots, unknown to her even though many in her family died in Nazi concentration camps | |
| 1998 | Economic Reporting | Mary Jordan, Keith Richburg, and Kevin Sullivan | for a series on the human toll of Asia's economic crisis. | |
| 2000 | National Reporting | Michael Grunwald | for analyzing risky billion-dollar projects undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers. | |
| 2005 | Foreign Reporting | Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway | for documenting false claims and sweeping failures in an American program to reconstruct schools and clinics in Afghanistan. | |
| 2005 | National Reporting | Dana Priest | for exposing a secret network of detention centers in Eastern Europe where the C.I.A. held terrorism suspects. | |
| 2007 | Political Reporting | Barton D. Gellman and Jo Becker | 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. | |
| 2010 | National Reporting | Dana Priest and William M. Arkin | for “Top Secret America,” detailing the proliferation of a huge ecosystem of military, intelligence and corporate interests spawned after 9/11. | |
| 2012 | Medical Reporting | Peter Whoriskey | for “Biased Research, Big Profits,” a series on pharmaceutical industry payoffs to doctors to promote misleading findings sometimes endangering patients. | |
| 2013 | National Reporting | Eli Saslow | 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 | National Security Reporting | Barton Gellman | for investigative stories on massive NSA surveillance based on top-secret documents disclosed by former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden. | Co-winners with The Guardian |
| 2013 | Political Reporting | Rosalind Helderman, Laura Vozzella, and Carol Leonnig | for revealing that the Virginia governor and his wife received $165,000 in loans and gifts from an entrepreneur. | |
| 2014 | National Reporting | Carol Leonnig | 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. | |
| 2015 | National Reporting | Staff | for a series tallying and categorizing Americans shot dead by police over the course of a year. | |
| 2015 | Regional Reporting | Terrence McCoy | for exposing companies in Maryland and Virginia that convinced unsophisticated victims to accept pennies on the dollar for court-ordered compensation. | |
| 2016 | Political Reporting | David A. Fahrenthold | 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 | Political Reporting | Lenny Bernstein, Scott Higham, and David Fallis | for tracing the DEA's lax regulation of narcotic painkillers despite a deadly national addiction epidemic to drug industry pressure. | |
| 2017 | Political Reporting | Stephanie McCrummen and Beth Reinhard | for disclosing accounts of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore's sexual assault upon a 14-year-old girl and pursuit of other teenagers. | |
| 2017 | Special Award | Staff | for revealing ties between the Trump campaign and Kremlin-connected Russians that gave rise to the investigation into possible collusion during the 2016 election. | Co-winner with The New York Times |
| 2018 | Special Award | David Ignatius and Karen Attiah | for eloquence and resolve in demanding accountability in the wake of the gruesome murder of Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. | |
| 2019 | Military Reporting | Craig Whitlock | for “The Afghanistan Papers,” for exposing an official study detailing two decades of failed U.S. policy. | |
| 2020 | Oral History | Eli Saslow | for 25 compelling personal narratives based on extensive interviews of individuals deeply affected by the COVID-19 virus. | |
| 2020 | Political Reporting | Stephanie McCrummen | for deftly capturing Georgia's shifting political winds in three perceptive profiles. | |
| 2020 | State Reporting | Ian Shapira | for stories exposing overt racism at the state-supported Virginia Military Institute. | |
| 2020 | Justice Reporting | Staff | a six-part series illustrating how uncanny a match Floyd's life and death were for the national movement his murder came to symbolize. | |

### Gerald Loeb Award

The Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, also known as the Gerald Loeb Award, is a recognition of excellence in journalism, especially in the fields of business, finance and the economy.
| Year | Category | Authors | Entry | Notes |
| 1971 | Editorial | Philip Greer | "Wall Street Changes" | |
| 1978 | Columns/Editorials | Hobart Rowen | "IMF, World Bank Face Grave Issues" | |
| 1981 | Large Newspapers | Jonathan Neumann and Ted Gu | "Government Out of Control: Contracts" | |
| 1984 | Large Newspapers | Dan Morgan | "High Tech: Leaving Home Series" | |
| 1984 | Medium Newspapers | Ted Gup | "The King of Gems Series" | |
| 1990 | Large Newspapers | David A. Vise and Steve Coll | "The Man from Wall Street: John Shad's Reign at the SEC" | |
| 1992 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Hobart Rowen | | |
| 2000 | Deadline and/or Beat Writing | Ianthe Jeanne Dugan | "The Rise of Day Trading" | |
| 2000 | Commentary | David Ignatius | "Business and Technology Columns" | |
| 2003 | Large Newspapers | Alec Klein | "AOL's Adverising Deals" | |
| 2004 | Large Newspapers | David B. Ottaway and Joe Stephens | "Big Green" | |
| 2006 | Commentary | Steven Pearlstein | "Business and Economic Columns" | Tied with The Wall Street Journal |
| 2011 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Steven Pearlstein | | |
| 2014 | Large Newspapers | Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras, Ellen Nakashima, Craig Timberg, Steven Rich, and Ashkan Soltani | "Five of the NSA Stories" | |
| 2021 | Beat Reporting | Kimberly Kindy, Taylor Telford, Robert Klemko, Abha Bhattarai, Nicole Dungca, Jenn Abelson and Meryl Kornfield | "Essential Workers on the Front Lines" | Tied with The Wall Street Journal |
| 2021 | Commentary | Michelle Singletary | "Sincerely, Michelle" | |
| 2021 | Feature | Greg Jaffe | "The Recession's Reach in Florida" | |

## Herblock Prize

The Herblock Prize is an annual journalism award, given by the Herb Block Foundation, for excellence in editorial cartooning. The award is named after Post cartoonist Herbert Block.
| Year | Recipient |
| 2011 | Tom Toles |

### Hillman Prize

The Hillman Prize is an annual journalism award, presented by The Sidney Hillman Foundation, honoring journalists, writers, and public figures "who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good."
| Year | Category | Recipient | Description of Entry | Notes |
| 1955 | Newspaper | Murray Marder | for articles on the government security program | |
| 1971 | Newspaper | Alfred Friendly | for "Victims of the Great American Red Hunt" | |
| 1973 | Newspaper | Carl Bernstein and Robert Woodward | for the Watergate investigation | |
| 2009 | Photojournalism | Carol Guzy | for "Birth and Death: Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone" | |
| 2010 | Blog | Ezra Klein | for Wonkblog | |
| 2017 | Newspaper | David A. Fahrenthold | for reporting on the Trump Foundation and 2016 presidential election | |
| 2018 | Broadcast | Scott Higham and Lenny Bernstein | for "The Whistleblower" and "Too Big to Prosecute" | Co-winner with 60 Minutes |

### John Chancellor Award

The John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, also known as the John Chancellor Award, is an annua journalisml award given by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, honoring one reporting with "courage, character and integrity for cumulative professional accomplishments."
| Year | Recipient |
| 2003 | Mary McGrory |
| 2017 | Dan Balz |

### Livingston Awards

The Livingston Awards is an annual journalism award, given by the University of Michigan, recognizing journalists under the age of 35 for local, national, and international coverage.
| Year | Category | Recipient | Entry |
| 1986 | Excellence in International Reporting | Blaine Harden | "Notes of a Famine Watcher" |
| 1987 | Excellence in Local Reporting | Benjamin L. Weiser | "No Exit: Juvenile Justice in Washington" |
| 1990 | Excellence in Local Reporting | Michele Norris | "Six-Year-Old's Maryland Home was a Modern Day Opium Den" |
| 1991 | Excellence in International Reporting | David Remnick | "Millions of Soviet Lives Pervaded by Poverty" |
| 1992 | Excellence in International Reporting | Steve Coll | "Crisis and Change in South Asia" |
| 1999 | Excellence in National Reporting | Laura Meckler | "Organ Transplantation" |
| 2003 | Excellence in International Reporting | Philip P. Pan | "High Tide of Labor Unrest in China" |
| 2013 | Excellence in National Reporting | Rachel Manteuffel | "The Things They Leave Behind" |
| 2021 | Excellence in National Reporting | Hannah Dreier | "Trust and Consequences" |
| 2022 | Excellence in National Reporting | Jose A. Del Real | "Truth, Trust, and Conspiracy Theories in America" |

### Peabody Award

The George Foster Peabody Awards, also known as Peabody Awards or the Peabodys, is an annual award that recognizes distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by television and radio stations, networks, producing organizations, individuals, and the World Wide Web."
| Year | Entry | Notes |
| 2010 | "The Cost of War: Traumatic Brain Injury; Coming Home a Different Person" | |
| 2017 | "The Whistleblower" | Awarded jointly with CBS' 60 Minutes |
| 2021 | "The Life of George Floyd" | |
| 2022 | "Fatal Force" | |

### Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award

The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism is an annual journalism award, named after Robert F. Kennedy, and given by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The awards honor journalism's best work in several categories.
| Year | Category | Recipient | Entry title |
| 1994 | International Print | Molly Moore, John Anderson, Julia Preston, Lena Sun, and Caryle Murphy | "Third World, Second Class" |
| 1995 | Print | Leon Dash | "Rosa Lee's Story" |
| 2000 | Grand Prize | Peter Finn | "Kosovo" |
| 2000 | International Print | Peter Finn | "Kosovo" |
| 2001 | International Photojournalism | Dudley Brooks | "Thou Shalt Not Kill" |
| 2001 | International Print | Steve Coll | "Peace Without Justice" |
| 2001 | Lifetime Achievement | Herbert Block | |
| 2002 | Grand Prize | Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham, and Sarah Cohen | "The District's Lost Children" |
| 2002 | Domestic Print | Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham, and Sarah Cohen | "The District's Lost Children" |
| 2002 | International Print | David Finkel | "Invisible Journeys" |
| 2004 | International Honorable Mention | Anthony Shadid | "The Soul of Iraq" |
| 2008 | Grand Prize | Anne Hull and Dana Priest | "The Other Walter Reed" |
| 2009 | Grand Prize (International Photo) | Carol Guzy | "Birth and Death" |
| 2010 | Domestic Photography | Carol Guzy | "No Greater Love" |
| 2010 | International Photography | Sarah Voisin | “In Mexico's war on drugs, battle lines are drawn in chalk” |
| 2014 | Domestic Print | Debbie Cenziper, Michael Sallah, and Steven Rich | “Homes for the Taking: Liens, Loss and Profiteers” |
| 2015 | Cartoon | Darrin Bell | "Darrin Bell 2014 Editorial Cartoons" |
| 2015 | International Photography | Michel du Cille | "Ebola: A Desperate Struggle" |
| 2018 | International Photography | Michael Robinson Chavez, Joshua Partlow, Nick Kirpatrick, and MaryAnne Golon | “Mexico's Misery” |
| 2019 | Domestic Photography | Carolyn Van Houten | “The Road to Asylum: Inside the Migrant Caravans” |
| 2020 | International Print | Craig Whitlock | "The Afghanistan Papers" |
| 2021 | Radio | Amy Brittain, Reena Flores and Bishop Sand | "Canary: The Washington Post Investigates" |
| 2022 | Domestic Photography | Joshua Lott | "Social Injustice" |

### Scripps Howard Awards

The Scripps Howard Awards is an annual journalism award, given by the Scripps Howard Foundation, that honors the best work in journalism across more than a dozen categories from multiple platforms, including television stations, networks, visual media, and newspapers.
| Year | Category | Recipient | Description of Entry | Notes |
| 2013 | Investigative Reporting | Spenser S. Hsu | for "Forensic Science," a series that exposed the Justice Department's use of flawed data in more than 20,000 criminal convictions. Congress, the courts and the FBI have responded to the series, and now hundreds, if not thousands, of defendants will get another chance at justice. | |
| 2017 | Human Interest Storytelling | John Woodrow Cox | for “Children and Gun Violence,” an examination of how deadly gunfire impacts young people. | |
| 2019 | Breaking News | Staff of The Washington Post | for “The El Paso - Dayton Shooting:” coverage of mass shootings less than 24 hours apart in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in which 29 people died. | |
| 2020 | Excellence in Human Interest Storytelling | Stephanie McCrummen | for telling poignant human stories about Georgia's changing demographics and evolving politics. | |
| 2020 | Excellence in Innovation | Harry Stevens | for "Flatten the Curve," a visual explainer that explored how viruses such as COVID-19 spread exponentially and how that spread can be mitigated, and even stopped, if social distancing protocols are diligently observed. | |
| 2021 | Excellence in National/International Investigative Reporting | Staff of The Washington Post | for "Pandora Papers," a global investigation involved more than 600 journalists at more than 140 news outlets in 117 countries, leading to 20 investigations, toppled multiple governments around the world, and led to anti-money laundering reform in the U.S. | Co-winner with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and other media partners |
| 2021 | Impact Award | Staff of The Washington Post | for "Pandora Papers," a global investigation involved more than 600 journalists at more than 140 news outlets in 117 countries, leading to 20 investigations, toppled multiple governments around the world, and led to anti-money laundering reform in the U.S. | Co-winner with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and other media partners |

### Sigma Delta Chi Awards

The Sigma Delta Chi Awards are an annual award, given by the Society of Professional Journalism, for excellence in journalism across multiple categories.
| Year | Category | Recipient | Notes |
| 1999 | Investigative Reporting | Katherine Boo | |
| 1999 | Feature Writing | David Finkel | |
| 2000 | Investigative Reporting | Joe A. Stephens, Mary Pat Flaherty, Deborah Nelson, Karen Deyoung, John Pomfret, Sharon LaFraniere, and Doug | |
| 2000 | Sports Column Writing | Michael Wilbon | |
| 2000 | Magazine | Peter Perl, of The Washington Post Magazine | |
| 2001 | Sports Column Writing | Sally Jenkins | |
| 2002 | Foreign Correspondence | Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan | |
| 2005 | Magazine Writing | Michael Leahy, of The Washington Post Magazine | |
| 2007 | Public Service | Staff of The Washington Post | |
| 2007 | Magazine Writing | Gene Weingarten | |
| 2008 | Sports Column Writing | Sally Jenkins | |
| 2009 | Washington Correspondence | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | |
| 2010 | Public Service | Dana Priest and William M. Arkin | |
| 2010 | Informational Graphics | Todd Lindeman, Brenna Maloney and David S. Fallis | |
| 2010 | Public Service in Online Journalism | Staff of The Washington Post | |
| 2011 | Non-Deadline Reporting | Staff of The Washington Post | |
| 2011 | Sports Column Writing | Sally Jenkins | |
| 2012 | Non-Deadline Reporting | Robert O'Harrow, Jr. | |
| 2012 | Washington Correspondence | David S. Fallis, Scott Higham, Kimberly Kindy, and Dan Keating | |
| 2012 | Public Service | Spencer S. Hsu | |
| 2013 | Washington Correspondence | David A. Fahrenthold | |
| 2013 | Informational Graphics | Todd Lindeman, Wilson Andrews, and Julie Tate | |
| 2014 | Washington Correspondence | David A. Fahrenthold | |
| 2014 | Informational Graphics | Staff of The Washington Post | |
| 2015 | Feature Reporting | Eli Saslow | |
| 2015 | Editorial Writing | Lee Hockstader | |
| 2015 | Public Service | Staff of The Washington Post | |
| 2016 | Investigative Reporting | Lenny Bernstein, David S. Fallis, and Scott Higham | |
| 2016 | Washington Correspondence | David A. Fahrenthold | |
| 2017 | Washington Correspondence | Staff of The Washington Post | |
| 2017 | General Column Writing | Petula Dvorak | |
| 2017 | Public Service in Television Journalism | Lenny Bernstein and Scott Higham | Co-winner with 60 Minutes |
| 2017 | Audio Slide Show | Michael Cavna and Tom Racine | |
| 2018 | Sports Column Writing | Sally Jenkins | |
| 2019 | Deadline Reporting | Staff of The Washington Post | |
| 2019 | Immersion Journalism | John Woodrow Cox and Wesley Allsbrook | |
| 2020 | Feature Reporting | Jessica Contrera | |
| 2021 | Column Writing | Fernanda Santos | |
| 2021 | Columns (Spanish-language Print) | Abraham Jiménez Enoa, | |

### Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism

The Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism is an annual award presented by Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The recipient is deemed to represent a leading figure in the journalism industry, especially for ground-breaking achievements which have advanced the industry as a whole.
| Year | Recipient |
| 1987 | Katharine Graham |
| 1998 | Ben Bradlee |
| 2001 | Bob Woodward |

## Investigative awards
### Goldsmith Prize

The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, also known as the Goldsmith Prize, is an annual award for journalists administered by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.
| Year | Author(s) | Entry |
| 2008 | Barton Gellman and Jo Becker | "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency" |
| 2009 | Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen | "Forced Out" |
| 2022 | Hannah Dreier and Andrew Ba Tran | "FEMA's Disasters" |

### IRE Awards

The Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, also known as the IRE Awards, is an annual journalism award given by the Investigative Reporters and Editors, a nonprofit organization located at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
| Year | Category | Author | Entry |
| 2019 | FOI Award | Craig Whitlock | “The Afghanistan Papers: The Secret History of the War" |
| 2021 | IRE Award for Sports Investigations | Molly Hensley-Clancy | “National Women's Soccer League” |

### James Aronson Awards

The James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism, also known as the James Aronson Awards, is an annual journalism award given by Hunter College, that honors "original, written English-language reporting from the U.S. media that brings to light widespread injustices, their human consequences, underlying causes, and possible reforms."
| Year | Author(s) | Entry |
| 1990 | Kathy Kadane | "CIA's role in Indonesia" |
| 2015 | Sari Horwitz | "Justice in Indian Country" |

### Selden Ring Award

The Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, also known as the Selden Ring Award, is an annual journalism award given by the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, that recognizes investigating reporting that has made an impact.
| Year | Author(s) | Entry | Notes |
| 1999 | The Washington Post | “Deadly Force: An Investigation of D.C. Police Shootings” | |
| 2000 | Kathrine Boo | “The Rape Squad Files” | Co-winners with The Philadelphia Inquirer |
| 2005 | The Washington Post | "Drinking Water" | |
| 2006 | The Washington Post | “Investigating Abramoff – Special Report” | |
| 2008 | Anne Hull and Dana Priest | “Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility” | |

### Sidney Awards

The Sidney Award is a monthly journalism award given out by The Sidney Hillman Foundation to "outstanding investigative journalism in service of the common good."
| Year | Month | Author(s) | Entry |
| 2009 | December | Dave Jamieson | “Health Care's Frequent Fliers: The Treatment of Kenny Farnsworth” |
| 2011 | March | Greg Sargent | "Reporting about the Republican assault on public sector employees in Wisconsin" |
| 2016 | October | David A. Fahrenthold | Series of stories about Donald Trump's "misuse and mismanagement of his personal foundation and his degrading and abusive comments about women." |
| 2019 | July | Eli Saslow | "‘Urgent needs from head to toe’: This clinic had two days to fix a lifetime of needs" |
| 2020 | January | Craig Whitlock | "The Afghanistan Papers" |
| 2021 | July | Jay Green and Chris Alcantara | "Technology Amazon warehouse workers suffer serious injuries at higher rates than other firms" |
| 2022 | January | Greg Jaffe | "The worker revolt comes to a Dollar General in Connecticut" |
| 2022 | March | Hannah Knowles and Emmanuel Felton | "‘Stand your ground’ laws spread — and grow 'more extreme'— 10 years after Trayvon Martin's death" |

### Toner Prizes

The Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting, also known as The Toner Prize, is an annual award, presented by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications of Syracuse University, that honors the "best U.S. national or local political reporting in any medium or on any platform—print, broadcast or online."
| Year | Recipient | Description of entry |
| 2014 | Karen Tumulty | for her reporting on politicians, such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as well as her in-depth look at the political landscape in West Virginia. |
| 2015 | Dan Balz | for a series of political profiles that illuminated the partisan divide in Washington. |
| 2017 | David A. Fahrenthold | for “A Portrait of Donald Trump,” a series of articles highlighting his yearlong reporting on Trump. |
| 2018 | Team from The Washington | for its coverage of candidate Roy Moore and the 2017 Alabama Senate race, which uncovered a pattern of sexual misconduct by Moore. |
| 2022 | Team from The Washington Post | for "The Attack", an investigation into what happened before, during and after the 2021 United States Capitol attack. |

### Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

The Worth Bingham Prize, also referred to as the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting, is an annual journalism award, presented by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, honoring "newspaper or magazine investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public interest is being ill-served."
| Year | Author(s) | Entry |
| 1970 | James Clayton | Series of editorials criticizing President Nixon's nominee to the Supreme Court, G. Harrold Carswell |
| 1972 | Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward | Bugging of Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate |
| 1974 | Maxine Cheshire | Four-part series on whereabouts of state gifts to U.S. officials and their families from foreign leaders and dignitaries |
| 1976 | Morton Mintz | “The Medicine Business”: Why pharmaceutical disasters continue to occur |
| 1980 | Ted Gup and Jonathan Neumann | Five-part series exposing how companies bribed federal government officials for lucrative government consulting contracts |
| 1987 | Bob Woodward | Secrecy in Government (Reagan administration) |
| 2000 | Michael Grunwald | Series on Army Corps of Engineers |
| 2005 | Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi, and R. Jeffrey Smith | Lobbying practices and influence of Jack Abramoff |
| 2007 | Anne Hull and Dana Priest | "Walter Reed and Beyond" |