# Edgar A. Poe Award

The Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award was a prize for journalistic excellence that was awarded by the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA). The prize, which paid $2,500 in 2011, was funded by the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Newhouse Newspapers in honor of the distinguished correspondent Edgar Allen Poe (1906–1998), a former WHCA president unrelated to the American fiction writer of the nearly identical name.
The award, which honored excellence in news coverage of subjects and events of significant national or regional importance to the American people, was presented from 1990 to 2019 at the annual dinner of the WHCA (when it was discontinued in place of two new awards).

## List of winners

| Year | Recipient | Employer | Article / Show | Notes & Ref |
| 1989 | Keith Epstein | The Plain Dealer | | |
| 1990 | Rochelle Sharpe and Marjie Lundstrom | Gannett News Service | "A series of reports ... on child abuse." | |
| 1991 | Stewart M. Powell and Charles J. Lewis | Hearst Newspapers | "A three-part series detailing the magnitude and human impact of the war's friendly fire casualties and chronicling the anguish of the families involved." | |
| 1992 | Chris Drew and Mick Tackett | Chicago Tribune | "A series of articles on lobbying... [and] how the system functions." | |
| 1993 | Richard Whittle | The Dallas Morning News | | |
| 1994 | Russell Carollo and Cheryl Reed | Dayton Daily News | | |
| 1995 | Joby Warrick and Pat Stith | The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | "'The Power of Pork,' their well-researched series on the pork farming business..." | |
| 1996 | Byron Acohido | The Seattle Times | "Safety at Issue: The 737", "ferreting out compelling evidence that undoubtedly contributed as much as anything else to safety improvements in the world's most popular aircraft." | |
| 1997 | Earl Lane and Andrew Smith | Newsday | Their series "The Leftovers of the Nuclear Age." | |
| 1998 | Michael Isikoff | Newsweek | "Clinton–Lewinsky scandal" | |
| 1999 | Sam Roe | The Toledo Blade | "Exposing a major health risk to nuclear weapons plant workers that was concealed by the U.S. government for half a century." | |
| 2000 | Elizabeth Marchak, Dave Davis, and Joan Mazzolini | The Plain Dealer | | |
| 2000 | John Barry and Evan Thomas | Newsweek | | Honorable Mention |
| 2000 | David Pace | Associated Press | | Honorable Mention |
| 2001 | Evan Thomas, Mark Hosenball, Martha Brant, and Roy Gutman | Newsweek | | |
| 2001 | Staff | The Seattle Times | | Honorable Mention |
| 2001 | Staff | The Dayton Daily News | | Honorable Mention |
| 2002 | Sean Naylor | Army Times | | |
| 2002 | Staff | South Florida Sun-Sentinel | | Honorable Mention |
| 2002 | Michael Berens | Chicago Tribune | | Honorable Mention |
| 2003 | Russell Corollo and Mei-ling Hopgood | Dayton Daily News | | |
| 2003 | Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound | U.S. News & World Report | | Honorable Mention |
| 2003 | Michael Hudson | Southern Exposure magazine | | Honorable Mention |
| 2003 | Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landy | Knight Ridder | | Honorable Mention |
| 2003 | Rod Nordland and Michael Hirsh | Newsweek | | Honorable Mention |
| 2003 | Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau, and Michael Hirsh | Newsweek | | Honorable Mention |
| 2003 | Fareed Zakaria | Newsweek | | Honorable Mention |
| 2004 | Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams | The San Francisco Chronicle | | |
| 2004 | Donald Barlett and James Steele | Time magazine | | Honorable Mention |
| 2005 | Marcus Stern and Jerry Kammer | Copley News Service | | |
| 2005 | Staff | Time magazine | | Honorable Mention |
| 2005 | Russell Carollo and Larry Kaplow | Dayton Daily News | | Honorable Mention |
| 2006 | Joan Ryan | The San Francisco Chronicle | | |
| 2007 | Paul Shukovsky, Tracy Johnson, and Daniel Lathrop | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | | |
| 2008 | Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong | The Seattle Times | | |
| 2009 | Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman | Contra Costa Times, California | | |
| 2010 | Michael Berens | The Seattle Times | | |
| 2011 | Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan, Chris Hawley | Associated Press | | |
| 2012 | Jim Morris, Chris Hamby, Ronnie Greene | The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) | Hard Labor | |
| 2013 | Megan Twohey | Reuters | "The Child Exchange: Inside America's Underground Market for Adopted Children," | |
| 2013 | Chris Hamby, Matthew Mosk, and Brian Ross | The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) and ABC News | "Breathless and Burdened: Dying from black lung, buried by law and medicine," | |
| 2014 | Gary Fields, John R. Emshwiller, Rob Barry, and Coulter Jones | The Wall Street Journal | "America's Rap Sheet" | |
| 2014 | Carol D. Leonnig | The Washington Post | "Secret Service" | |
| 2015 | Neela Banerjee, John Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song | Inside Climate News | | |
| 2015 | Terrence McCoy | The Washington Post | | |
| 2016 | David Fahrenthold | The Washington Post | | |
| 2017 | Jason Szep, Peter Eisler, Tim Reid, Lisa Girion, Grant Smith and team | Reuters | "Shock Tactics" | |
| 2017 | Norah O'Donnell | CBS This Morning | Sexual Assault in the Air Force Academy | Honorable Mention |
| 2017 | Dan Diamond and Rachana Pradhan | Politico | Tom Price's Private Jet Travel | Honorable Mention |
| 2018 | Joshua Schneyer, Michael Pell, Andrea Januta, and Deborah Nelson | Reuters | "Ambushed at Home" | |