| year |
name |
function |
| 1995 |
Thomas Roth |
Foreign correspondent for ARD in Moscow |
| 1996 |
Petra Gerster |
Host of ZDF magazine ML mona lisa |
| Maria von Welser |
Host of ZDF magazine ML mona lisa |
| 1997 |
Christoph Maria Fröhder |
Crisis reporter for ARD |
| 1998 |
Hans-Josef Dreckmann |
Africa correspondent for ARD (studio Nairobi) |
| Carla Kniestedt |
| 1999 |
Wolf von Lojewski |
Host of ZDF news magazine heute journal |
| Tina Hassel (Förderpreis) |
ARD correspondent in France (ARD studio Paris) |
| 2000 |
Gabi Bauer |
Host of Tagesthemen on ARD |
| Maybrit Illner |
Host of ZDF talk show MAYBRIT ILLNER |
| Sandra Maischberger |
Host of talk show maischberger on n-tv |
| 2001 |
Gerd Ruge |
Lifetime achievement award |
| Alexander Kluge |
Lifetime achievement award |
| Günter Gaus |
Lifetime achievement award |
| 2002 |
Dirk Sager |
ZDF correspondent Russia (studio Moscow) |
| 2003 |
Antonia Rados |
Correspondent for RTL and n-tv, reporter from Bagdad |
| Ulrich Tilgner |
ZDF correspondent Bagdad |
| Eric Friedler |
Film Konvoi in den Tod |
| 2004 |
Annette Dittert |
ARD correspondent Poland (studio Warsawa) |
| 2005 |
Frank Plasberg for Hart aber fair |
Journalist and host, together with team for Hart aber fair (WDR) |
| Horst Königstein [de] |
NDR, author and director (Die Manns, Speer und Er) |
| Britta Hilpert |
ZDF studio in Moscow |
| 2006 |
ZDF program Frontal21 |
Claus Richter and host Theo Koll |
| 2007 |
Anne Will |
| 2008 |
Eric Friedler |
NDR television reporter and documentary producer (for example "The Silence of the Quandts") |
| Christina Pohl |
Spiegel TV reporter |
| 2009 |
Nikolaus Brender |
ZDF reporter |
| Astrid Randerath and Christian Esser |
Writers of ZDF television documentary Das Pharmakartell |
| 2010 |
Claus Kleber |
Host of ZDF news program heute journal |
| Team of WDR documentary Die Story (special award) |
Team with signification of Gert Monheim |
| 2011 |
Johannes Hano |
ZDF studio Peking |
| Ariane Reimers |
ARD correspondent in Peking |
| Nasser Hadar (special award) |
Libyan reporter |
| 2012 |
Oliver Welke together with heute-show team |
TV host for heute-show |
| Denis Scheck |
Literature journalist for Deutschlandfunk and host of ARD program Druckfrisch |
| 2013 |
Jörg Armbruster |
ARD correspondent in the Middle East |
| Marcel Mettelsiefen |
Photographer, camera, TV journalist, publisher and author |
| Eva Müller |
Reporter for WDR and author |
| 2014 |
Golineh Atai |
ARD correspondent in Arabia and Ukraine |
| Stephan Lamby |
TV author and producer |
| 2015 |
Marietta Slomka |
ZDF host |
| Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat |
Investigative team |
| 2016 |
Hajo Seppelt[2] |
ARD sports journalist |
| Armin Wolf |
ORF journalist |
| 2017 |
Hans-Ulrich Gack, Luc Walpot, Frederik Pleitgen |
Middle East correspondents |
| Isabel Schayani |
WDR journalist |
| 2018 |
Anja Reschke[3][4] |
ARD journalist |
| Kulturzeit |
3sat magazine |
| 2019 |
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim[5] |
Quarks, WDR, and YouTube Kanal maiLab |
| 2019 |
Harald Lesch[6] |
ZDF |
| 2020 |
Emily Maitlis |
BBC journalist |
| 2020 |
Ulf-Jensen Röller [de][7][8] |
ZDF correspondent |
| 2021 |
Katrin Eigendorf[9] |
ZDF |
| 2021 |
Carl Gierstorfer |
Documentary film director |
| 2022 |
Christoph Reuter |
Reporter Der Spiegel |
| 2022 |
OstWest [de] |
Private television station |
| 2023 |
Ina Ruck [de] |
Correspondent for Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln |
| Elmar Theveßen |
Head of ZDF's Washington, D.C. studio |
| Sevgil Musaieva (special award) |
Editor-in-Chief, Ukrainska Pravda |
| Nataliya Gumenyuk (special award) |
CEO, Public Interest Journalism Lab, and co-founder, Hromadske |
| Olga Rudenko (special award) |
Editor-in-Chief, The Kyiv Independent. |
