2022 – Andie Tucher, Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History
2021 – Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine Relly, Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century
2020 – Allissa V. Richardson, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones & the New Protest #Journalism
2019 – Vincent DiGirolamo, Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys
2018 –Matthew Hindman, The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy
2017 –Natalia Roudakova, Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia
2016 –James T. Hamilton, Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism
2015 – Victor Pickard, America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media
2014 – Seth K.Goldman and Diana Mutz, The Obama Effect: How the 2008 Campaign Changed White Racial Attitudes
2013 – Gwyneth Mellinger ,Chasing Newsroom Diversity: From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action
2012 – Maurine H. Beasley, Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence
2011 – Marshall Poe, A History of Communication: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet
2010 – Mark Feldstein, Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture
2009 – Clifford G. Christians, Theodore L. Glasser, Denis McQuail, Kaarle Nordenstreng and Robert A. White, Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies
2008 – Kathy Roberts Forde, Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment
2007 – Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture and Liberal Democracy
2006 – Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, The Race Beat: the Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation
2005 – Chad Raphael, Investigated Reporting: Muckrakers, Regulators, and the Struggle over Television Documentary
2004 – James T. Hamilton, All in the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information Into News
2003 – Robert Miraldi, The Pen is Mightier: The Muckraking Life of Charles Edward Russell
2002 – Vincent Fitzpatrick, Gerald W. Johnson: from Southern Liberal to National Conscience
2001 – Leonard Ray Teel, Ralph Emerson McGill: Voice of the Southern Conscience
2000 – Robert Entman and Andrew Rojecki, The Black Image in the WHite Mind: Media and Race in America
1999 – Robert McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
1998 – James Ettema and Theodore Glasser, Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue
1997 – Michael Robertson, Stephen Crane, Journalism and the Making of MOdern American Literature
1996 – Peter Canning, American Dreamers: The Wallaces and Reader’s Digest
1995 – Joyce Hoffman, Theodore H. White and JOurnalism as Illusion
1994 – Thomas Maier, Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power and Glory of America’s Richest MEdia EMpire and the Secretive Man Behind It
1993 – Bryan Gruley, Paper Losses: A Modern Epic of Greed & Betrayal at America’s Two Largest Newspaper Companies
1992 – Vance H. Trimble, The Astonishing Mr. Scripps: The Turbulent Life of America’s Penny Press Lord
1991 – Daniel W. Pfaff, Joseph Pulitzer II and The Post-Dispatch: A Newspaperman’s Life
1990 – Peter Kurth, American Cassandra
1989 – Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Journalistic Standards in Nineteenth-Century America
1988 – Marie Brenner, House of Dreams: The Bingham Family of Louisville
1987 – James L. Baughman, Luce and the Rise of American News Media
1986 – Ann M. Sperber, Ed Murrow, His Life and Times
1985 – Roy Hoopes, Ralph Ingersoll, A Biography
1984 – Robert W. Desmond, Tiedes of War, World News Reporting 1931-1945
1983 – E. Eugene Goodwin, Groping for Ethics in Journalism
1982 – John Naisbitt, Megatrends
1981 – Edwin Bayley, Joe McCarthy and the Press
1980 – Ronald Steel, Walter Lippman and the American Century
1979 – David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
1978 – Kevin M. McAuliffe, The Great American Newspaper, Rise and Fall of the Village Voice
1977 – Chalmers M. Roberts, The Washington Post: The First 100 Years
1976 – William Porter, Assault on the Media, the Nixon Years
1975 – Claude-Anne Lopez and Eugenia W. Herbert, The Private Franklin: The Man and His Family
1974 – Merlo S. Pusey, Eugene Meyer
1973 – Marion K. Sanders, Dorothy Thompson
1972 – William E. Ames, History of the National Intelligencer
1971 – Charles H. Brown, William Cullen Bryant
1970 – Special Award to Eric Barnouw for his three-volume history of Radio-Television
1969 – Calder Pickett, Ed Howe, Country Town Philosopher
1968 – Bryce W. Rucker, The First Freedom
1967 – James W. Markham, Voices of the Red Giants
1966 – Oliver Knight, I Protest
1965 – Elmer E. Cornwell, Jr., Presidential Leadership of Public Opinion
1964 – Wilbur Schramm, Mass Media and National Development: The Role of Information in Developing Countries
1963 – Peter Lyon, The Life and Times of S.S. McClure
1962 – Theodore E. Kruglak, The Two Faces of Tass
1961 – William S. Swanberg, Citizen Hearst
1960 – Leonard W. Levy, Legacy of Supression: Freedom of Speech and Press in American History
1959 – Warren C. Price, The Literature of Journalism
1958 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Prelude to Independence
1957 – Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines 1895-1905
1956 – Frederick S. Siebert, Theodore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm, Four Theories of the Press
1955 – J. Cutler Andrews, The North Reports the Civil War
1954 – James W. Markham, Bovard of the Post-Dispatch
1953 – Harold L. Cross, The people’s Right to Know
1952 – Frederick S. Siebert, Freedom of the Press in England, 1467-1775
1951 – Meyer Berger, The Story of the New York Times
1950 – Alex Inkles, Public Opinion in Soviet Russia
1949 – Herbert Brucker, Freedom of Information
1948 – Paul Lazerfeld and Patricia Kendall, Radio Listening in America
1947 – Clarence S. Brigham, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers
1946 – Bruce L. Smith, Harold D. Lasswell, and Ralph D. Casey, Propaganda Communications, and Public Opinion: A Comprehensive Reference Guide
1945 – Neil Borden, National Advertising in Newspapers
1944 – Thomas E. Dabney, One Hundred Great Years: A History of The New Orleans Times-Picayune
