In honor of a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.
| Year |
Recipient |
Affiliation |
| 1982 |
Richard Strout |
Christian Science Monitor |
| 1983 |
David S. Broder |
The Washington Post |
| 1984 |
Murray Kempton |
Newsday |
| 1985 |
Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil |
MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour |
| 1986 |
Neal R. Peirce |
Washington Post Writers Group |
| 1987 |
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report |
| 1988 |
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and
Alan S. Murray |
The Wall Street Journal |
| 1989 |
Lesley Stahl |
CBS News |
| 1990 |
National Journal |
| 1991 |
Molly Ivins |
Dallas Times-Herald |
| 1992 |
Michael Barone |
U.S. News and World Report |
| 1993 |
Nina Totenberg |
National Public Radio |
| 1994 |
Thomas Bryne Edsell |
The Washington Post |
| 1995 |
Brian Lamb |
C-SPAN |
| 1996 |
E.J. Dionne |
The Washington Post |
| 1997 |
Anthony Lewis |
The New York Times |
| 1998 |
Richard Reeves |
University of Southern California |
| 1999 |
Dan Balz |
The Washington Post |
| 2000 |
Alan Ehrenhalt |
Governing Magazine |
| 2001 |
Victor Navasky |
The Nation Magazine |
| |
William Kristol |
The Weekly Standard Magazine |
| 2002 |
Linda Greenhouse |
The New York Times |
| |
Janet Hook |
Los Angeles Times |
| 2003 |
Adam Clymer |
The New York Times |
| |
Thomas Friedman |
The New York Times |
| 2004 |
Bill Moyers |
Public Affairs Television |
2005
|
Seymour Hersh
|
The New Yorker
|
| 2006 |
Mark Danner |
University of California, Berkeley |
