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2025  Norman Pearlstine

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2024  Kevin Merida

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2022  Fred Hiatt

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2021  Susan Chira

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2019  Rob Hiaasen

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2018  Walt Mossberg

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2017  Gwen Ifill

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2016  Charles R. Eisendrath

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2015  Tom Brokaw

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2014  Steven Brill

2013  Victor Navasky

2012  Stephen B. Shepard

2011  Sandra Mims Rowe

2010  Paul E. Steiger

2009  John S. Carroll

2008  Anna Quindlen

2007  Judy Woodruff

2006  Eugene L. Roberts, Jr.

2005  John Seigenthaler

2004  Bill Kovach

2003  Jim Bellows

2002  Eugene C. Patterson

2001  Clay Felker

2000  Arthur Gelb

1999  Mary McGrory

1999  Thomas Winship

1998  William F. Buckley, Jr.

1997  Gordon Manning

1996  Charles G. Peters