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
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
	War Reporting	Mstyslav Chernov Evgeniy Maloletka Vasilisa Stepanenko Lori Hinnant	Associated Press	Narratives and images of the Siege of Mariupol
	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
	Local Reporting	John Archibald Ashley Remkus Ramsey Archibald	AL.com	Revealing abusive policing in Brookside, Alabama
	State Reporting	Joshua Schneyer Mica Rosenberg Kristina Cooke	Reuters	Abusive employment of underage migrants in Hyundai auto parts factories and poultry slaughterhouses in Alabama
	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
	Financial Reporting	Ian Allison Tracy Wang	CoinDesk	Revealing the financial situation of FTX and Alameda Research, ultimately leading to the Bankruptcy of FTX
	Environmental Reporting	Terrence McCoy	Washington Post	Examination of the exploitation of natural resources in the Amazon rainforest
	Education Reporting	Eliza Shapiro Brian M. Rosenthal	The New York Times	Inadequate quality of education at Hasidic yeshivas in New York City
	Justice Reporting	Brett Murphy	ProPublica	“Words of Conviction,” a report debunking 911 call analysis
	Political Reporting	Sarah Blaskey Nicholas Nehamas Ana Ceballos Mary Ellen Klas	Miami Herald	Reporting on the Martha's Vineyard migrant airlift
	Foreign Television	Sharif Abdel Kouddous Kavitha Chekuru Laila Al-Arian	Al Jazeera English	Report on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
	National Television Reporting	Shimon Prokupecz	CNN	Reporting on the failed law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary School shooting
	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
	Special Award	Theo Baker	The Stanford Daily	Reporting on significant flaws in research published by then-president of Stanford University, Marc Tessier-Lavigne
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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.
	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."
	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.
	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."
	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.
	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."
	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).
	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.
	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."
	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.
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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.
	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."
	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."
	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.
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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.""
	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."
	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."
		Luke Broadwater and staff	The Baltimore Sun
	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."
	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."
	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"
		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."
	Local Television Reporting Award	Joe Bruno	WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C.	"for stories on ballot tampering in a rural North Carolina Congressional race."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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"
	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."
	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.
	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.
	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.'"
	Local Reporting Award	Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi	Tampa Bay Times	for “Heartbroken,” a series on deadly missteps at a children's hospital.
	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"
	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"
	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.
	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 "
	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"
	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"
	Local Reporting Award	Melissa Segura	BuzzFeed	"drawing attention to innocent men framed for murder by a Chicago police detective"
	Immigration Reporting Award	Maria Perez	The Naples Daily News	"exposing the practice of Florida companies hiring undocumented workers in dangerous jobs"
		Antonia Farzan and Joseph Flaherty	Phoenix New Times	"revealing that Motel 6 motels in Phoenix, Arizona, provided nightly guest rosters to ICE"
	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."
	Medical Reporting Award	Nina Martin & Renee Montagne	ProPublica & NPR	"explaining the reasons and portraying the tragedies behind an alarming increase in maternal deaths"
	Political Reporting Award	Stephanie McCrummen and Beth Reinhard	The Washington Post	"digging into the past of U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama "
	Magazine Reporting Award	Ben Taub	The New Yorker	"for showing the humanitarian devastation caused by the shrinkage of Lake Chad in Africa"
	Photography Award	Adam Dean and Tomas Munita	The New York Times	"capturing the plight of the Rohingya people desperately fleeing burning villages"
	National Television Reporting Award	Elle Reeve	VICE News	"on-the-scene up-close coverage of the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia"
	Foreign Television Reporting Award	Nima Elbagir and Raja Razek	CNN	"uncovering a hidden modern-day slave auction of African refugees in Libya."
	Public Service Award	David Begnaud	CBS News	"capturing the destructive power Hurricane Maria unleashed on Puerto Rico"
	Commentary Award	Gail Collins	The New York Times
2016	George Polk Career Award	Anna Deavere Smith
	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."
	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."
	National Reporting	Alec MacGillis	ProPublica	"for prescient dispatches late in the Presidential campaign citing momentum for Donald Trump"
	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."
	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"
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	Photojournalism	Daniel Berehulak	The New York Times	"depicting the wanton carnage of President Rodrigo Duterte’s murderous drug crackdown in the Philippines."
	Documentary Film	Nanfu Wang		Hooligan Sparrow
2015	George Polk Career Award	Simeon Booker	Jet
	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"
	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."
	Foreign Reporting	Ian Urbina	New York Times	"for 'The Outlaw Ocean,' a series on lawlessness on the high seas."
		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"
	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."
	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."
	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."
	Financial Reporting	John Carreyrou	The Wall Street Journal	"for stories cast doubt on innovative claims by a Silicon Valley blood-testing company."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	Television Reporting	Jim Axelrod, Emily Rand	CBS News	"for 'Compounding Pharmacy Fraud,' revealing how some pharmacies billed insurers for worthless potions and supplements."
	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."
	Documentary Film	Orwa Nyrabia	Proaction Film
	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.
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	Environmental Reporting		Seattle Times	"for linking a mudslide that cost 43 lives to corners cut, safeguards disregarded and warnings ignored."
	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."
	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?'"
	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."
	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."
	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"
	Commentary	Ta-Nehisi Coates	The Atlantic	"The Case for Reparations"
	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."
		Barton D. Gellman	Washington Post
	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. "
	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."
	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."
	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.
	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."
	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."
	Medical Reporting	Meg Kissinger	Milwaukee Journal Sentinel	for a series on the Milwaukee County’s dysfunctional mental health system
		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."
	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
	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.'"
	Foreign Reporting	David Barboza	New York Times	"for 'The Princelings,' tracing a $2.7 billion fortune accumulated by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s family."
		Staff of Bloomberg News	Bloomberg News	"for 'China Betrayed,' on the wealth of a municipal official ousted after the murder of a British businessman
	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."
	War Reporting	David Enders Austin Tice McClatchy Newspaper "Inside Syria" Correspondent Team	McClatchy Newspapers	"for chronicling the complexities of the civil war in Syria."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	Magazine Reporting	Sarah Stillman	The New Yorker	"for 'The Throwaways,' an account of how authorities jeopardized and abandoned teen-aged drug informants."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	Education Reporting	Colin Woodard	Maine Sunday Telegram	"for detailing how online education companies steered development of Maine’s digital education policies."
	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
	Radio Reporting	Ira Glass	This American Life	"for 'Very Tough Love,' a report on excessive punishments ordered by a Georgia drug court judge."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	National Reporting	staff	Wall Street Journal	"for a series on ways federal officials and well-connected investors exploited insider stock trading."
	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"
	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."
	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."
	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.
	Television Documentary	May Ying Welsh, Hassan Mahfood	Al Jazeera English	for 'Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark,'
	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
	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."
	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."
	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.
	Military Reporting	Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti	New York Times	"for a sobering behind-the-scenes look at U. S. conduct in Afghanistan"
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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.
	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,"
	Environmental Reporting		Associated Press	"for coverage of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico"
	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
	Foreign Reporting	David Rohde	New York Times	for 'Held by the Taliban,' a series detailing Rohde's own seven months in captivity."
	Videography	people recording the death of Neda Agha-Soltan
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	International Television Reporting	Dan Rivers, Kit Swartz, Kocha Olarn, Theerasak Nitipiched	CNN	"for tracking the nightmarish existence of Rohingya refugees in southeast Asia."
	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.
	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."
	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"
	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."
	Environmental Reporting	Abrahm Lustgarten	ProPublica	"for examining possible carcinogenic effects of natural gas drilling by hydraulic fracturing."
2008	Career Award	Gay Talese
	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."
	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."
	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
	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."
	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.
	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."
	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"
	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."
	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."
	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.
	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."
	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".
	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
	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."
	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."
	Foreign Reporting	Leila Fadel	McClatchy Company	"for chilling, first-hand accounts of ethnically inspired violence and murder in Iraq."
	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."
	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."
	Legal Reporting	Josh Marshall	Talking Points Memo	"for reports uncovering politically motivated dismissals of United States attorneys."
	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."
	Book Award	Jeremy Scahill for Blackwater	Nation Books
	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.'
	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.
	Economic Reporting		Charlotte Observer	"for a prescient series tying the area's high rate of housing foreclosures to subprime mortgage loans."
	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."
	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"
	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."
	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."
	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.
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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."
	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
	International Reporting	Cam Simpson, José Moré	Chicago Tribune
	Television Reporting	Brian Ross, Richard Esposito	ABC News
	National Reporting	Dana Priest	Washington Post
	Foreign Reporting	Joe Stephens, David B. Ottaway	Washington Post
	Commentary	Frank Rich, Barry Meier	New York Times
	Metropolitan Reporting	staff	New Orleans Times-Picayune
	Justice Reporting	Jerry Mitchell	Jackson Clarion-Ledger
	Health Reporting	David Evans, Michael Smith, Liz Willen	Bloomberg News
	Political Reporting	Marcus Stern, Jerry Kammer, Dean Calbreath	Copley News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune
	Local Reporting	A. C. Thompson	San Francisco Bay Guardian
	Book Award	Victor S. Navasky	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
	Radio Reporting	JoAnn Mar	Independent producer
2004	Career Award	Bill Moyers
	Foreign Reporting	Paisley Dodds	Associated Press
	War Reporting	Dexter Filkins	New York Times
	Sports Reporting	Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada	San Francisco Chronicle
	Television Reporting	Diane Sawyer, Robbie Gordon	ABC News, Primetime Live
	National Reporting	Walt Bogdanich	New York Times
	Military Reporting	Diana B. Henriques	New York Times
	Economic Reporting	Ellen E. Schultz, Theo Francis	Wall Street Journal
	Magazine Reporting	Seymour Hersh	The New Yorker
	Labor Reporting	Justin Pritchard	Associated Press
	Regional Reporting	four reporters and a photographer	The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California)
	State Reporting	John Hill, Dorothy Korber	Sacramento Bee
	Local Reporting	Tim Novak, Steve Warmbir	Chicago Sun-Times
2003	Foreign Reporting	Somini Sengupta	New York Times
	Radio Reporting	Anne Garrels	National Public Radio
	Photojournalism	Carolyn Cole	Los Angeles Times
	Economics Reporting	Nancy Cleeland, Abigail Goldman, Evelyn Iritani, Tyler Marshall	Los Angeles Times
	Business Reporting	Pete Engardio, Aaron Bernstein, Manjeet Kripalani	Business Week
	Labor Reporting	David Barstow, Lowell Bergman, Neil Docherty, Linden MacIntyre, David Rummel	New York Times; PBS, Frontline; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
	National Reporting	Cam Simpson, Flynn McRoberts, Liz Sly	Chicago Tribune
	Internet Reporting		Center for Public Integrity
	Magazine Reporting	Michael Hudson, Bill Barrow, Mary Kane, Taylor Loyal, Kenneth Harris, Keith Ernst, Robert Manning	Southern Exposure
	State Reporting	Dave Altimari, Jon Lender, Edmund H. Mahony	Hartford Courant
	Education Reporting	Daniel Golden	Wall Street Journal
	Local Reporting	Duff Wilson, Brian Joseph, Sheila Farr	Seattle Times
	Television Reporting	Andrew Smith, Liviu Tipuriță	CNN, CNN Presents
	Career Award	F. Gilman Spencer
2002	Career Award	Morley Safer	CBS News
	Foreign Reporting	Anthony Shadid	Boston Globe
	National Reporting	reporters and editors	Boston Globe
	Regional Reporting	Clifford J. Levy	New York Times
	Health Care Reporting	Walt Bogdanich, Barry Meier, Mary Williams Walsh	New York Times
	International Reporting	Sonia Nazario, Don Bartletti	Los Angeles Times
	Environmental Reporting	Debbie Salamone, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Sargent	Orlando Sentinel
	Criminal Justice Reporting	Michael Luo	Associated Press
	Financial Reporting	Ellen E. Schultz, Theo Francis	Wall Street Journal
	Medical Reporting	Stephen Kiernan, Cadence Mertz	Burlington Free Press (Vermont)
	Magazine Reporting	Arnold S. Relman, Marcia Angell	New Republic
	Local Reporting	Jason Riley, R. G. Dunlop	Louisville Courier-Journal
	Television Reporting	Phil Williams, Bryan Staples	WTVF (Nashville)
	Cultural Criticism	Susan Sontag	New Yorker
2001	Television and Radio Reporting	Stephen Evans	BBC World and BBC World Service
	Foreign Reporting	Barry Bearak	New York Times
	National Reporting		New York Times
	Magazine Reporting	Bernard Lewis	New Yorker
	Book Award	Joan Didion	New York Review of Books
	Medical Reporting	Duff Wilson, David Heath	Seattle Times
	Financial Reporting	Susan Pulliam, Randall Smith	Wall Street Journal
	Metropolitan Reporting	Bill Theobald, Bonnie Harris	Indianapolis Star
	International Reporting	Sudarsan Raghavan, Sumana Chatterjee	Knight Ridder
	Regional Reporting	Jesse A. Hamilton, Stephanie Earls, Tom Roeder, Mark Morey	Yakima Herald-Republic (Yakima, Washington)
	Local Reporting	Heidi Evans, Dave Saltonstall	Daily News (New York)
	Environmental Reporting	Lisa Davis	San Francisco Weekly
	Career Award	Edna Buchanan
2000	Magazine Reporting	Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele	Time
	Book Award	Laurie Garrett
	Career Award	John B. Oakes
	National Reporting	Michael Grunwald	Washington Post
	Transportation Reporting	Scott McCartney	Wall Street Journal
	Local Television Reporting	Anna Werner, David Raziq, Chris Henao	KHOU-TV (Houston)
	Network Television Reporting	John Larson, Allan Maraynes, Lynne Dale, Neal Shapiro, Andy Lehren	NBC News, Dateline
	Political Reporting	Virginia Ellis	Los Angeles Times
	Statewide Reporting	Kevin Corcoran, Joe Fahy	Indianapolis Star
	Healthcare Reporting	Sam Hodges, William Rabb	Mobile Register (Alabama)
	Foreign Reporting	Alma Guillermoprieto	New York Review of Books
	Special Award		New York Times
1999	Foreign Reporting	Paul Watson	Los Angeles Times
	Television Foreign Reporting	Giselle Portenier, Olenka Frenkiel, Fiona Murch	BBC News
	International Reporting	Sang-hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley, Martha Mendoza, Randy Herschaft	Associated Press
	National Reporting	Jason DeParle	New York Times
	Regional Reporting	Todd Richissin, Andre Chung	Baltimore Sun
	Criminal Justice Reporting	Ken Armstrong, Steve Mills	Chicago Tribune
	Local Reporting	Kevin Carmody	Daily Southtown (Illinois)
	Local Television Reporting	The "I" Team	WWOR (New Jersey)
	Editorial Writing		New York Daily News
	Financial Reporting	Ellen E. Schultz	Wall Street Journal
	Medical Reporting	Andrea Gerlin	Philadelphia Inquirer
	Special Award	National Security Archive
	Career Award	Studs Terkel
1998	Book Award	Philip Gourevitch	New Yorker
	Career Award	Russell Baker	New York Times
	Commentary	Juan Gonzalez	Daily News (New York)
	Economic Reporting	Mary Jordan, Keith Richburg, Kevin Sullivan	Washington Post
	Environmental Reporting	Gardiner Harris, R. G. Dunlop	Louisville Courier-Journal
	Foreign Reporting	Tracy Wilkinson	Los Angeles Times
	International Reporting	Alix M. Freedman	Wall Street Journal
	Legal Reporting	Joe Stephens	Kansas City Star
	Local Reporting	Clifford J. Levy	New York Times
	Medical Reporting	Robert Whitaker, Dolores Kong	Boston Globe
	National Reporting	Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele	Time
	Radio Reporting	Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill	Pacifica Radio, Democracy Now!
	Television Reporting	Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz	ABC News, 20/20
1997	Career Award		Pittsburgh Courier
	Foreign Reporting	Laurie Garrett	Newsday
	Network TV Reporting	Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz	ABC News, Primetime Live
	Military Affairs Reporting		Dayton Daily News
	Medical Reporting		Wall Street Journal
	Business Reporting	Kurt Eichenwald, Martin Gottlieb	New York Times
	National Reporting	Keith Bradsher	New York Times
	Local Reporting		Pensacola News Journal
	Environmental Reporting	Will Englund, Gary Cohn, Perry Thorsvik	Baltimore Sun
	Book Award	Horst Faas, Tim Page, Requiem	Random House
	Sports Reporting		Kansas City Star
	International Reporting	Michael Dobbs	Washington Post
	Magazine Reporting	Adam Gopnik	New Yorker
1996	Criticism Award	Blair Kamin	Chicago Tribune
	National TV Reporting	Matt Meagher, Tim Peek	Inside Edition
	Economics Reporting		New York Times
	National Reporting	Elizabeth Marchak	Cleveland Plain Dealer
	Political Reporting		Los Angeles Times
	Cultural Reporting	Chuck Philips	Los Angeles Times
	Magazine Reporting	Anne-Marie Cusac	The Progressive
	Local Reporting	Kevin Collison	Buffalo News
	Transportation Reporting	Byron Acohido	Seattle Times
	Foreign Reporting	John F. Burns	New York Times
	Foreign TV Reporting	Christiane Amanpour, Anita Pratap	CNN
1995	Career Award	John K. Cooley	ABC News
	Foreign Reporting	David Rohde	Christian Science Monitor
	National Reporting	Michael Weisskopf, David Maraniss	Washington Post
	Local Reporting	Elizabeth Llorente	The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey)
	Metropolitan Reporting	Frank Bruni, Nina Bernstein, Joyce Purnick, Lizette Alverez	New York Times
	Magazine Reporting	Richard Behar	Fortune
	Education Reporting	Steve Stecklow	Wall Street Journal
	Business Reporting	Kurt Eichenwald	New York Times
	Health Care Reporting	Chris Adams	New Orleans Times-Picayune
	Medical Reporting		Orange County Register (California)
	Local Television Reporting	Tom Grant	KREM-TV (Spokane, Washington)
	Consumer Reporting	Lea Thompson, Jack Cloherty, Sandra Surles	NBC News, Dateline
	Network TV Reporting	Jim Clancy	CNN
1994	Magazine Reporting	Allan Nairn	The Nation
	Medical Reporting	Dave Davis, Joan Mazzolini	Cleveland Plain Dealer
	Education Reporting	Olive Talley	Dallas Morning News
	Environmental Reporting	Jim Lynch, Karen Dorn Steele	Spokesman-Review (Spokane)
	Political Reporting	Joe Stephens	Kansas City Star
	Local Reporting	Sonia Nazario	Los Angeles Times
	Metropolitan Reporting	David Armstrong, Shelly Murphy, Stephan Kurkjian	Boston Globe
	National Reporting	Joel Brinkley, Deborah Sontag, Stephen Engelberg	New York Times
	Foreign Reporting	Barbara Demick	Philadelphia Inquirer
	Television Documentary	Steven Emerson, Martin Koughan	SAE Productions	“Jihad in America,” aired on PBS
	Network Television reporting	John Martin, Walt Bogdanich, Keith Summa	ABC News, Day One
	Career Award	Philip Hamburger	New Yorker
1993	Medical Reporting	Larry Keller, Fred Schulte	Sun-Sentinel
	Magazine Reporting	Oliver Sacks	New Yorker
	Business Reporting	Paul Nyden	Charleston Gazette
	Foreign Reporting	Keith Richburg	Washington Post
	Local Reporting	Ying Chan	New York Daily News
	National Reporting	Eileen Welsome	Albuquerque Tribune
	Political Reporting		State Journal-Register
	Financial Reporting	Scot J. Paltrow	Los Angeles Times
	Regional Reporting	Isabel Wilkerson	New York Times
	Radio Commentary	Daniel Schorr	National Public Radio
	Book	David Remnick for Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
	Career Award	Richard Dudman	St. Louis Post-Dispatch
	Television Reporting	Christiane Amanpour	CNN
1992	Local Reporting		Los Angeles Times
	National Reporting	Gregory Vistica	San Diego Union-Tribune
	Foreign Reporting	Roy Gutman	Newsday
	Legal Reporting	Marianne Lavelle, Marcia Coyle, Claudia MacLachian	National Law Journal
	Magazine Reporting	Lawrence Weschler	New Yorker
	Health Reporting	Seth Rosenfeld	San Francisco Examiner
	Environmental Reporting	John Thor Dahlburg	Los Angeles Times
	Photography	Carlos M. Guerrero	El Nuevo Herald
	Radio Reporting	Tom Gjelten	National Public Radio
	National TV Reporting	Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz	NBC News, Dateline
	Foreign TV Reporting	Chris Wallace, Neal Shapiro, Anthony Radziwill	ABC News, Primetime Live
	Social Commentary	Henry Louis Gates, Jr.	New York Times op-ed
	Career Award	Herbert Mitgang	New York Times
1991	Radio Reporting	Nina Totenberg	National Public Radio
	Local Television	Christopher Scholl	KWWL (Iowa)
	National Television	Glenn Silber, Robert Krulwich, David Fanning, Sharon Tiller	PBS, Frontline; Center for Investigative Reporting
	Cultural Reporting	Konstantin Akinsha, Grigorii Kozlov	ARTnews
	Special Award	Andrew Schneider, Mary Pat Flaherty	Pittsburgh Press
	Education Reporting	Jeff Gottlieb	San Jose Mercury News
	Economic Reporting	Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele	Philadelphia Inquirer
	War Reporting	Patrick J. Sloyan	Newsday
	Local Reporting	Holly A. Taylor	Berkshire Eagle
	Regional Reporting	Dan Barry, John Sullivan, Ira Chinoy	Providence Journal-Bulletin
	National Reporting	Jeff Taylor, Mike McGraw	Kansas City Star
	Foreign Reporting	Francis X. Clines	New York Times
	Foreign Reporting	Barbara Crossette	New York Times
	Career Award	Claude Fox Sitton
1990	Foreign Reporting	Caryle Murphy	Washington Post
	National Reporting	Susan Rasky, David E. Rosenbaum	New York Times
	Regional Reporting	Gayle Reaves, David Hanners, David McLemore	Dallas Morning News
	Local Reporting	Heidi Evans	New York Daily News
	Environmental Reporting	Adam Seessel	Independent Weekly
	Business Reporting	Dianne Marder	Philadelphia Inquirer
	Special Publications	Joseph M. Belth	Insurance Forum
	Special Award		Globalvision	for “South Africa Now,” defying censors to report on the country's turbulence and violence against its black majority.
	Documentary Television	Hedrick Smith, Martin Smith	WGBH-TV (Boston) and Martin Smith Productions	“Inside Gorbachev's U.S.S.R."
	Local Television Reporting	Kevin Kerrigan	Guam Cable Television
	Network Television Reporting	Peter Jennings, Leslie Cockburn, Tom Yellin	ABC News
	Career Award	Fred Friendly
	Metropolitan Reporting	Laurie Bennett, Alan Fisk, Robert Ourlian	Detroit News
1989	Foreign Reporting	Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn	New York Times
	National Reporting	Rick Atkinson	Washington Post
	Local Reporting		Hartford Courant
	Local Television Reporting		WCSC-TV/Charleston, SC
	TV Investigative Reporting	Jonathan Kwitny	WNYC-TV (New York)
	Network TV Reporting		CBS News
	Radio Reporting	Robert Knight	WBAI (New York)
	International Reporting	Stephen Engelberg, Michael R. Gordon	New York Times
	Medical Reporting	John Crewdson	Chicago Tribune
	Political Reporting	Andrew Melnykovych	Casper Star-Tribune
	Regional Reporting	Miranda Ewell, David Schrieberg	San Jose Mercury News
	Career Award	Fred Hechinger	New York Times
1988	Foreign Reporting	John Kifner	New York Times
	National Reporting	Keith Schneider	New York Times
	Local Reporting	David Gomez, Patricia Guthrie	Albuquerque Tribune
	Financial Reporting		National Thrift News
	Environmental Reporting	Mary Bishop	Roanoke Times & World-News
	Local Television Reporting		KING-TV (Seattle)
	Network Television Reporting	Brian Ross, Ira Silverman	NBC News
	Economic Reporting	Donald L. Barlette, James B. Steele	Philadelphia Inquirer
	Radio Reporting	Patricia Neighmond	National Public Radio
	Cultural Reporting	Lawrence Weschler	North Point Press
	Photojournalism	Mary Ellen Mark
	Career Award	William Shawn	The New Yorker
1987	Foreign Reporting	Nora Boustany	Washington Post
	National Reporting	Mike Masterson, Chuck Cook, Mark N. Trahant	Arizona Republic
	Local Reporting	Ron Ridenhour	New Orleans CityBusiness
	Financial Reporting	Daniel Hertzberg, James B. Stewart	Wall Street Journal
	Metropolitan Reporting		Charlotte Observer
	Local Television Reporting	Margie Nichols	WSMV-TV (Nashville)
	Network Television Reporting		CNN
	Radio Reporting	Larry Bensky	Pacifica Radio
	Sports Reporting	Chris Mortensen	Atlanta Journal-Constitution
	Science Reporting		Science News
	Political Reporting	Washington Bureau	Knight Ridder
	Foreign Television Reporting	Gordon Manning	NBC News
	Magazine Reporting	Roger Rosenblatt	Time
	Career Award	Murray Kempton	Newsday and New York Newsday
1986	Foreign Reporting		Newsweek
	National Reporting	Andrew Wolfson, Daniel Rubin	Louisville Courier-Journal
	Local Reporting	Sally Jacobs	Raleigh News & Observer
	Regional Reporting	Alex Beasley, Rosemary Goudreau	Orlando Sentinel
	Financial Reporting	Peter G. Gosselin	Boston Globe
	Science Reporting		Science Times
	Environmental Reporting		High Country News
	International TV Reporting	David Fanning, Martin Smith	PBS, Frontline
	National Television Reporting	Bill Moyers	CBS News, CBS Reports
	Local Television Reporting	Lee Coppola	WKBW-TV (Buffalo)
	Book	Richard Kluger		Award for The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune
	Career Award	James Reston	New York Times
1985	Foreign Reporting	Alan Cowell	New York Times
	International Reporting	Pete Carey, Katherine Ellison, Lewis M. Simons	San Jose Mercury News
	National Reporting	Diana Griego, Louis Kilzer	Denver Post
	Local Reporting	Stan Jones	Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
	Metropolitan Reporting	Jimmy Breslin	New York Daily News
	Political Reporting	Frank Greve	Knight Ridder
	Business Reporting	Spotlight/Business Team	Boston Globe
	Medical Reporting	Lawerence K. Altman	New York Times
	Criticism	Arthur C. Danto	The Nation
	Radio Reporting	Peter Laufer	NBC Radio News
	Network Television Reporting	Ted Koppel, Richard N. Kaplan	ABC News, Nightline
	Local Television Reporting	Vic Lee, Craig Franklin, Brian McTigue	KRON-TV (San Francisco)
	Career Award	George Tames	New York Times
1984	Foreign Reporting	Mark Fineman	Philadelphia Inquirer
	National Reporting	Robert Parry	Associated Press
	Local Reporting	Ellen Whitford	Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Virginia)
	Medical Reporting	William R. Ritz, John Aloysius Farrell	Denver Post
	Environmental Reporting	Tom Harris, Jim Morris	Sacramento Bee
	Special Interest Reporting	Lois R. Ember	Chemical & Engineering News
	Magazine Reporting	John Vinocur	New York Times Magazine
	News Photography	Ozier Muhammad	Newsday
	Special Award	"Amnesty International Report"	Amnesty International
	Foreign Television Reporting	Michael Buerk, Mohamed Amin	BBC, Visnews, NBC News
	National Television Reporting	Alex Kotlowitz, Kwame Holman, Susan Ades	PBS, MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
	Local Television Reporting	Rick Nelson, Joe Collum	KPRC-TV (Houston)
	Career Award	Red Barber
1983	Foreign Reporting	Joseph Lelyveld	New York Times
	National Reporting	Robert M. Frump, Timothy Dwyer	Philadelphia Inquirer
	Regional Reporting	Paul Lieberman, Celia Dugger	Atlanta Journal-Constitution
	Local Reporting	Jim McGee	Miami Herald
	Foreign Affairs Reporting	Philip Taubman	New York Times
	Economics Reporting	Dennis Camire, Mark Rohner	Gannett News Service
	Consumer Reporting	Marcia Stepanek, Stephen Franklin	Detroit Free Press
	Medical Reporting	Benjamin Weiser	Washington Post
	Network Television Reporting	Don McNeill	CBS News
	Local Television Reporting	John Fosholt, Ward Lucas	KBTV (Denver)
	Documentary Television	"Vietnam: A Television History"	WGBH-TV (Boston), and aired on PBS
	Special Interest Reporting	The Amicus Journal	Natural Resources Defense Council
	Special Award	Youssef M. Ibrahim	Wall Street Journal
	Career Award	William Lawrence Shirer
1982	Foreign Reporting	Thomas L. Friedman, David K. Shipler	New York Times
	National Reporting	Richard Halloran	New York Times
	Regional Reporting	Jim Henderson	Dallas Times Herald
	Metropolitan Reporting	Doug Cumming	Providence Journal-Bulletin
	Local Reporting	David Johnston, Joel Sappell	Los Angeles Times
	Magazine Reporting	Roger Rosenblatt	Time
	Financial Reporting	Phillip L. Zweig	American Banker
	Criticism	Stanley Kauffmann	New Republic
	News Photography	Robby Castro	Associated Press
	Network Television Reporting	Martin Smith, Ed Rabel	CBS News
	Local Television Reporting	Dick Gelfman, Theresa Crawford, John Sur	WBAL-TV (Baltimore)
	Documentary Television	Andrew A. Stern	PBS	How Much Is Enough: Decision Making in the Nuclear Age
	Special Award	Rod Nordland
1981	Foreign Reporting	John Darnton	New York Times
	National Reporting	Seymour M. Hersh, Jeff Gerth, Phillip Taubman	New York Times
	Regional Reporting	Stephanie Saul, W. Stevens Ricks	Jackson Clarion-Ledger	"Mississippi Gulf Coast: Wide Open and Wicked"
	Local Reporting	"The Federal Impact"	Orlando Sentinel-Star
	Consumer Reporting	Phil Norman	Louisville Courier-Journal
	Magazine Reporting	William Greider	The Atlantic
	Book	Edwin R. Bayley for Joe McCarthy and the Press	University of Wisconsin Press
	Science Reporting	"News and Comments"	Science
	Television Documentary	Pierre Salinger	ABC News	for "America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations."
	Television Reporting	Ted Koppel	NBC News, Nightline
	Radio Reporting	John Merrow	Institute for Educational Leadership and National Public Radio
	Career Award	George Seldes
1980	Foreign Reporting	Shirley Christian	Miami Herald
	National Reporting	Jonathan Neuman, Ted Gup	Washington Post
	Local Reporting		Miami Herald
	Regional Reporting		Charlotte Observer
	Editorials	Editorial Board	New York Times
	Commentary	Roger Angell	New Yorker
	News Photography	Oscar Sabatta	United Press International
	Satiric Drawings	Edward Sorel
	Cultural Reporting		ARTnews
	National Radio Reporting		National Public Radio
	Local Radio Reporting	Station	KMOX (St. Louis)
	Political Reporting	Bill Moyers	WNET (New York)
	Local Television Reporting	Stephen Talbot, Jonathan Dann	KQED (San Francisco)
	National Television Reporting	Charles Kuralt	CBS News
	Special Award	Leonard Karlin	LIU alumnus/Polk Citation Writer
1979	Foreign Reporting	John Kifner	New York Times
	National Reporting	Brian Donovan, Bob Wyrick, Stuart Diamond	Newsday
	Regional Reporting	Jim Adams, Jim Detjen	Louisville Courier-Journal
	Metropolitan Reporting	Walt Bogdanich, Walter Johns Jr.	Cleveland Press
	Local Reporting	Ed Petykiewicz	Saginaw News
	Documentary	Jack Willis, Saul Landau	New Time Films, Inc.	Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang
	National Television Reporting		WRC-TV (Washington, D.C.)
	Foreign Television Reporting	Ed Bradley	CBS News, 60 Minutes
	Political Reporting	Jack Newfield	Village Voice
	Commentary	"Notes and Comments" Talk of the Town,	New Yorker
	Book	William Shawcross for Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia	Simon & Schuster
	News Photography	"Firing Squad" - Name Withheld	United Press International
	Special Interest Reporting	Wilbert Rideau, Billy Sinclair	The Angolite (Louisiana State Penitentiary)
	Career Award	Alden Whitman	New York Times
1978	Foreign Reporting	John F. Burns, John Darnton, Michael T. Kaufman	New York Times
	National Reporting	Ronald Kessler	Washington Post
	Local Reporting		Dallas Times Herald
	Public Service Reporting	Jane Shoemaker, Thomas Ferrick, Jr., William Ecenbarger	Philadelphia Inquirer
	Regional Reporting		Southern Exposure
	Educational Reporting		Chronicle of Higher Education
	Television Reporting	Don Harris, Bob Brown	NBC News
	Film Documentary	Scared Straight	Golden West Television Productions
	News Photography	Eddie Adams	Associated Press
	Commentary	Russell Baker	New York Times
	Career Award	Richard S. Salant	CBS News
1977	Foreign Reporting	Robert C. Toth	Los Angeles Times
	National Reporting	Walter Pincus	Washington Post
	Local Reporting	Len Ackland	Des Moines Register
	Magazine Reporting	Daniel Lang	The New Yorker, Local Radio, Television
	Radio, Television Reporting	Barry Lando	60 Minutes
	Local Radio, Television Reporting	John Stossel	WCBS-TV (New York)
	Science Reporting		New England Journal of Medicine
	Criticism	Peter S. Prescott	Newsweek
	Commentary	Red Smith	New York Times
	Editorial Cartoons	Jeff MacNelly	Richmond News Leader
	News Photography	Eddie Adams	Associated Press
	Career Award	Carey McWilliams	The Nation
1975	No awards presented
1974	No awards presented
	Foreign Reporting	Donald Kirk	Chicago Tribune
	National Reporting	Seymour M. Hersh	New York Times
	Metropolitan Reporting	Richard Severo	New York Times
	Community Service	William E. Anderson, Harley R. Bierce, Richard C. Cady	Indianapolis Star
	Magazine Reporting	Edward M. Brecher, Robert H. Harris	Consumer Reports
	Television Documentary		NBC News, NBC White Paper	for examining global malnutrition in "And Who Shall Feed This World?"
	News Photography	Werner Baum	Deutsche Presse-Agentur
	Book	Mary Adelaide Mendelson for Tender Loving Greed	Vintage Books
	Special Award	Sydney H. Schanberg	New York Times
1973	Foreign Reporting	Henry S. Bradsher	Washington Star-News
	National Reporting	Andrew H. Malcolm	New York Times
	Metropolitan Reporting	James Savage, Mike Baxter	Miami Herald
	Local Reporting	Carol Talley, Joan Hayde	Daily Advance (Dover, New Jersey)
	Community Service	William Sherman	New York Daily News
	Investigative Reporting	Seymour Hersh	New York Times
	Magazine Reporting	John F. Osborne	New Republic
	Television Reporting		Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Affairs Center for Television
	Television Documentary	Jeremy Isaacs for "The World at War"	Thames Television (London)
	News Photography	George Brich	Associated Press
	Book	David Wise for The Politics of Lying: Government Deception, Secrecy, and Power	Random House
	Special Award	Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele	Philadelphia Inquirer
1972	Foreign Reporting	Jean Thoraval, Jean Leclerc du Sablon	Agence France-Presse
	National Reporting	Carl Bernstein, Robert Woodward	Washington Post
	Metropolitan Reporting	Joseph Martin, Martin McLaughlin, James Ryan	New York Daily News
	Local Reporting	Doris Ellen Olsten	Santa Maria Times (Santa Maria, California
	Community Service	Ronald Kessler	Washington Post
	Investigative Reporting	Jean Heller	Associated Press
	Magazine Reporting	Frances FitzGerald	New Yorker
	Television Reporting	Jim McKay	American Broadcasting Company
	Television News-Documenta	60 Minutes, First Tuesday	CBS News, NBC News
	News Photography	Huynh Cong Ut	Associated Press
	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.
	Special Award	Lesley Oelsner	New York Times
1971	Foreign Reporting	Sydney H. Schanberg	New York Times
	National Reporting		New York Times
	Metropolitan Reporting	Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele	Philadelphia Inquirer
	Education Reporting	Joseph Lelyveld	New York Times
	Public Service	Frances Cerra	Newsday
	Magazine Reporting	Ross Terrill	The Atlantic Monthly
	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.
	Television Reporting	Phil Brady	NBC News
	News Photography	Horst Faas, Michel Laurent	Associated Press
	Criticism	Richard Harwood	Washington Post
	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
	National Reporting		Knight Newspapers
	Metropolitan Reporting	Richard Oliver	New York Daily News
	Community Service	Karl Grossman	Long Island Press
	Editorials	James E. Clayton	Washington Post
	Magazine Reporting		Washington Monthly
	Television Reporting	Alan M. Levin	National Educational Television
	Freedom of The Press Award	Walter Cronkite	CBS News, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
	News Photography	John Darnell, John Foli, Howard Ruffner	Life
	Criticism	Pauline Kael	New Yorker
	Book	Otto Friedrich for Decline and Fall	Harper & Row
	Special Award	I. F. Stone
1969	Foreign Reporting	Henry Kamm	New York Times
	National Reporting	Walter Rugaber	New York Times
	Metropolitan Reporting	William Federici	New York Daily News
	National TV Reporting	Tom Pettit	National Broadcasting Company
	Local TV Reporting	Lee Hanna	WCBS-TV (New York)
	Magazine Reporting	William Lambert	Life
	News Photography	Stephen Dawson Starr	Associated Press
	Book	Richard Ellmann for The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde	University of Chicago Press
	Special Award	Wes Gallagher	Associated Press
	Special Award	Seymour M. Hersh
1968	International Reporting	David Kraslow and Stuart H. Loory	Los Angeles Times
	National Reporting	Bernard D. Nossiter	Washington Post
	Regional Reporting	James K. Batten, Dwayne Walls	Charlotte Observer
	Community Service	David Burnam	New York Times
	Political Reporting	Martin Arnold	New York Times
	Television Reporting		NBC News, CBS News, ABC News
	Magazine Reporting	Norman Mailer	Harper's Magazine
	News Photography	Edward T. Adams	Associated Press
	Criticism	John Simon	The New Leader
	Book	Charles Rembar for The End of Obscenity
1967	Foreign Reporting	R. W. Apple, Jr.	New York Times
	National Reporting	Clayton Fritchey	Newsday Specials
	Local Reporting	J. Anthony Lukas	New York Times
	Community Service		Newsday
	Television Documentary		ABC News	for “Africa,” a four-hour overview of the continent
	Magazine Reporting		The Paris Review
	News Photography	Catherine Leroy
	Criticism	Saul Maloff	Newsweek
	Book	Alan F. Westin for Privacy and Freedom	Atheneum
1966	Foreign Reporting	Harrison E. Salisbury	New York Times
	National Reporting	Richard Harwood	Washington Post
	Local Reporting	Cal Olston	The Fargo Forum (North Dakota)
	Interpretive Reporting	Murray Kempton	New York Post
	Magazine Reporting		Ramparts
	Criticism	Alfred Kazin
	Book	Wilson Follett	Follett's Modern American Usage
	News Photography	Horst Faas	Associated Press
	Special Award	Arnold Gingrich	Esquire
	Special Award	Time Essay	Time
1965	Foreign Reporting	Dan Kurzman	Washington Post
	Editorial Comment	John B. Oakes	New York Times
	Metropolitan Reporting	Barry Gottehrer	New York Herald Tribune
	Interpretive Reporting	Bernard B. Fall
	Criticism	Susan Sontag
	Television Documentary	Beryl Fox	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam
	News Photography	James A. Bourdier	Associated Press
	Television News	Morley Safer	Columbia Broadcasting System
	Caricature	David Levine	New York Review of Books
1964	Foreign Reporting	Malcolm W. Browne	Associated Press
	National Reporting	Paul Hope, John Barron	Washington Star
	Metropolitan Reporting	A. M. Rosenthal	New York Times
	Community Service	Samuel F. Marshall	Cleveland Plain Dealer
	Criticism	Robert Brustein	New Republic
	Radio Reporting	Edward P. Morgan	American Broadcasting Company
	Television Reporting	Ted Yates	National Broadcasting Company
	Special Award	Oron J. Hale
1963	Foreign Reporting	David Halberstam	New York Times
	National Reporting		American Broadcasting Company, Columbia Broadcasting System, National Broadcasting Company
	Metropolitan Reporting	Norman C. Miller	Wall Street Journal
	Magazine Reporting	Gilbert A. Harrison	New Republic
	Criticism		New York Review of Books
	News Photography	Roger Asnong	Associated Press
	Special Award	A. H. Raskin	New York Times
	Special Award		WNEW (radio)
	Special Award	Peter Lyon
1962	Foreign Reporting	Dana Adams Schmidt	New York Times
	National Reporting	Mary McGrory	Washington Star
	Local Reporting	Kitty Hanson	New York Daily News
	Magazine Reporting	James Baldwin	New Yorker
	Television Reporting		WNDT (Newark)
	News Photography	Héctor Rondón Lovera	La Republica (Caracas)
	Special Award	Michael Harrington	The Other America
	Special Award	Morton Mintz	Washington Post
	Special Award	Theodore E. Kruglak
1961	Foreign Reporting	Morris H. Rubin	The Progressive
	National Reporting	Gerard Piel	Scientific American
	Local Reporting	Laurence Stern	Washington Post
	Radio & Television Reporting	Robert Young, Charles Dorkins	National Broadcasting Company
	News Photography	Anonymous Photographer	Associated Press
	Community Service	Arnold Brophy, Joseph S. Gelmis	Newsday
	Special Award	Jules Feiffer
1960	Foreign Reporting	James Morris	The Guardian (Manchester)
	National Reporting	John T. Cunniff	Associated Press
	Metropolitan Reporting	William R. Clark, Alexander Milch	Newark (N.J.)
	Radio & Television Reporting	Albert Wasserman, Robert Young	National Broadcasting Company
	News Photography	Yasushi Nagao	Mainichi Newspapers (Japan)
	Community Service		Village Voice
	Special Award	Douglass Carter	Reporter
1959	Foreign reporting	A. M. Rosenthal	New York Times
	National Reporting	Nathaniel Gerstenzang	New York Times
	Metropolitan Reporting	William Haddad, Joseph Kahn	New York Post
	Radio & Television Reporting	Av Westin, Howard K. Smith	Columbia Broadcasting System
	Magazine Reporting		The Times Literary Supplement (London)
	News Photography	Rangaswamy Satakopan	Associated Press
	Special Award	Wilbur Schramm	Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University
1958	Foreign Reporting	Chet Huntley, Reuven Frank	National Broadcasting Company
	National Reporting	Richard L. Strout	Christian Science Monitor
	Metropolitan Reporting	William Haddad	New York Post
	Television Reporting	Gabe Pressman	WRCA-TV (New York)
	Radio Reporting	Jay McMullen	Columbia Broadcasting System
	Magazine Reporting	Marya Mannes	Reporter
	News Photography	Paul Schutzer	Life
	Community Service		Brooklyn Heights Press
	Special Award	Justice William O. Douglas
	Special Award	Samuel Blackman	Associated Press
	Special Award	Walter Sullivan	New York Times
1957	Foreign Reporting	Harrison E. Salisbury	New York Times
	National Reporting	Relman Morin	Associated Press
	Metropolitan Reporting	Mitchel Levitas	New York Post
	Radio & Television Reporting		Columbia Broadcasting System
	Magazine Reporting	Edmund Stevens, Phillip Harrington	Look
	News Photography	Jack Jenkins	United Press Newspictures
	Community Service	Edward Wakin	New York World-Telegram & Sun
	Special Award	Richard D. Heffner	WRCA-TV (New York)
1956	Foreign Reporting	Hal Lehrman
	National Reporting	Jack Lotto	International News Service
	Metropolitan Reporting	Phil Santora	New York Daily News
	Suburban Reporting	Mel Elfin	Long Island Press
	Radio & Television Reporting		Columbia Broadcasting System
	News Photography	Jack Young	United Press Newspictures
	Special Award	Emanuel R. Freedman	New York Times
	Special Award	Endre Marton	Associated Press
	Special Award	Ilona Nyilas	United Press
1955	International Reporting	Thomas J. Hamilton	New York Times
	Foreign Reporting	Barrett McGurn	New York Herald Tribune
	National Reporting	Milton Mayer	The Reporter
	Metropolitan Reporting	Fern Marja, Peter J. McElroy, William Dufty	New York Post
	Suburban Reporting	Bob Greene	Newsday
	Education Reporting	Gertrude Samuels	New York Times
	Radio & Television Reporting		National Broadcasting Company
	Magazine Reporting	William Attwood	Look
	News Photography	William Sauro	United Press Newspictures
	Community Service		Redbook
1954	International Reporting	Thomas J. Hamilton	New York Times
	Foreign Reporting	George Weller	Chicago Daily News Syndicate
	National Reporting	Luther Huston	New York Times
	Metropolitan Reporting	James McGlincy, Sydney Mirkin	New York Daily News
	Suburban Reporting	Thomas Finnegan	Long Island Star-Journal
	Wire Service Reporting	Alan J. Gould, Don Whitehead, Saul Pett, Ben Price, Relman Morir, Jack Bell	Associated Press
	Radio & Television Reporting	Eric Sevareid	Columbia Broadcasting System
	Television Documentary	Henry Salomon, Jr.	National Broadcasting Company	for “Three, Two, One, Zero,” a documentary on atomic power,
	News Photography	Maurice Johnson	International News Photos
	Special Page	School Page	New York World-Telegram & Sun
	Community Service		WNYC (New York)
	Special Award	Dan Parker	New York Mirror
	Special Award	Leo Rosten	Look
1953	Foreign Reporting	Jim Lucas	Scripps-Howard Newspapers
	National Reporting	James Reston	New York Times
	Metropolitan Reporting	William Longgood	New York World-Telegram & Sun
	News Photography	Peter Stackpole	Life
	Community Service		Newsday
	Special Award	John Crosby	New York Herald Tribune
	Special Award		Business Week
	Special Award	Leonard Engel
1952	Foreign Reporting	Marguerite Higgins	New York Herald Tribune
	National Reporting	A. H. Raskin	New York Times
	Metropolitan Reporting	Edward J. Mowery	New York World-Telegram & Sun
	News Photography	Bob Wendlinger	New York Mirror
	Community Service		Brooklyn Eagle
	Special Award	Jack Gould	New York Times
	Special Award		The Reporter
	Special Award	Edward R. Murrow	Columbia Broadcasting System
	Special Award		New York Daily News
1951	Foreign Reporting	Milton Bracker, Virginia Lee Warren	New York Times
	National Reporting	Jay Nelson Tuck	New York Post
	Metropolitan Reporting	Richard Carter	New York Compass
	Suburban Reporting		Yonkers Herald-Statesman
	Education Reporting	Kalman Siegel	New York Times
	Science Reporting	Alton Blakeslee	Associated Press
	Religious Reporting	Ann Elizabeth Price	New York Herald Tribune
	Sports Reporting	Ben Gould	Brooklyn Eagle
	Community Service		New York World-Telegram & Sun
	Special Award	Edward R. Murrow	Columbia Broadcasting System
	Special Award		Sponsor
1950	Foreign Reporting	Homer Bigart	New York Herald Tribune
	National Reporting	Ira H. Freeman	New York Times
	Metropolitan Reporting	Fern Marja	New York Post
	Suburban Reporting		Long Island Daily Press
	Wire Service Reporting	Don Whitehead	Associated Press
	Education Reporting	Fred Hechinger, Judith Crist	New York Herald Tribune
	Sports Reporting	Red Smith	New York Herald Tribune
	Science Reporting	George Keaney	New York World-Telegram & Sun
	Weekly Newspaper Reporting		New Canaan Advertiser (New Canaan, Connecticut)
	Community Service		Newsday
	Special Award	Straw Poll	New York Daily News
1949	Foreign Reporting	Team of Six	New York Herald Tribune
	National Reporting	Ted Poston	New York Post
	Suburban Reporting	Fred Hechinger	Bridgeport Herald (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
	Wire Service Reporting	Kingsbury Smith	International News Service
	Education Reporting	Lester Grant	New York Herald Tribune
	Science Reporting	William Laurence	New York Times
	Radio Reporting	Don Hollenbeck	Columbia Broadcasting System
	Community Service		Brooklyn Eagle
1948	Foreign Reporting	Homer Bigart	New York Herald Tribune
	Metropolitan Reporting	Malcolm Jonson	New York Sun
	Suburban Reporting	Larry Andrews	Nassau Review-Star
	Education Reporting	Benjamin Fine	New York Times
	Science Reporting	Albert Deutsch	PM Magazine
	Community Service		Brooklyn Eagle