2018

PBS NewsHour and Bloomberg
2017

Chicago Tribune
2016

2015

NPR
2014

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
2013

NPR
2012

NPR, HBO, Sports Illustrated
2011

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
2010

National Geographic Society
2009

Committee of Concerned Journalists
2008

Johnson Publishing Company
2007

The New York Times
2006

New York Herald Tribune
2005

Baltimore Sun
2004

The New Yorker
2003

The Washington Post
1997
Chicago Sun-Times and King Features
1996
Chicago Tribune/Creators Syndicate Abigail Van Buren, Universal Press Syndicate
1993
Cox Newspapers Philip Meyer, University of North Carolina
1988
Philadelphia Inquirer
1986
Johnson Publishing Company
1985
Griffin-Larrabee News Bureau