$5,000 AWARD
Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award
Award Established 1984

Monica Richardson, the Vice President of Local News at McClatchy and former Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald Executive Editor, has won the 2023 Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award from the National Press Foundation. Under her leadership, the Miami Herald won a Pulitzer Prize in 2022 for its coverage of the collapse of the Surfside condo building and for Editorial Writing in 2023 for a series on Florida officials’ failures to deliver on taxpayer-funded services.

Richardson has served on the board of the Atlanta Press Club, the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists, Associated Press Media Editors and the Georgia APME. She previously worked for the Charlottesville Observer, The Florida Times-Union, and Lexington Herald-Leader. For 15 years, she wrote for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where she served as the digital managing editor and then was promoted to senior managing editor in 2018.

Richardson accepted the award at NPF’s annual dinner on Feb. 15, 2024.

The National Press Foundation established the Editor of the Year Award in 1984 to recognize significant achievements that enhance the quality of journalism in the United States. The award is open to any U.S.-based editor at any level of a news organization. The award includes a cash prize of $5,000. The prestigious award is given for imagination, professional skill, ethics and an ability to motivate staff.


Manny García, who led the Austin American Statesman’s audacious and inclusive coverage of the Uvalde school shooting, won the 2022 Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award.


Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times, was the 2021 winner of NPF’s Bradlee Editor of the Year award. He accepted the award at the May 4, 2022, NPF awards dinner in Washington, D.C., calling on journalists to fight the “erosion of the primacy of reporting.”

Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award
Award value
$5,000
Award established
1984