2024 Mort Sheinman 2023 Joyce Purnick
2022 Chester Higgins, Jr.
2020 Marvin Kalb and Bernard Kalb
2019 Steve Kroft
2018 Ken Auletta
2017 Stephen B. Shepard
2016 Betsy Wade
2015 Gay Talese
2014 Sandy Socolow
2013 Seymour Topping
2012 Gloria Steinem
2011 Ruth Gruber
2010 Frank Rich
2009 Paul E. Steiger
2008 Maury Allen
2007 Judith Crist
2006 Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger
2005 Mike Wallace
2004 Bill Moyers
2003 Don Hewitt
2002 Les Payne
2001 Charles Osgood
2000 Jack Newfield
1999 Myron Kandel
1998 Barbara Crossette
1997 Max Frankel
1996 Murray Kempton
1995 Richard F. Shepard
1994 Joseph Wershba
1993 Herbert Mitgang
1992 Irene Cornell
1991 Bill Gallo
1990 Marlene Sanders
1989 Pete Hamill
1988 Sydney Schanberg
1987 David Laventhal
1985 Louis D. Boccardi
1984 Dwight E. Sargent
1983 Fred W. Friendly
1982 Henry Grunwald
1981 A.M. Rosenthal
1980 Michael J. O’Neill
1979 Edith Evans Asbury
1978 Vermont Royster
1976 Red Smith
1975 Brooks Atkinson
1973 Edwin Newman
1971 Peter Kihss
1970 A.H. Raskin
1969 Walter Cronkite
