| Year |
Category |
Winner |
Work |
Organization |
| 2009 | | A.C. Thompson | "Katrina's Hidden Race War" | The Nation |
| 2009 | | JoAnn Wypijewski | "Carnal Knowledge" | The Nation |
| 2009 | | Mother Jones | "Climate Countdown," | Mother Jones |
| 2009 | | Nina Bernstein | coverage of immigration issues | The New York Times |
| 2009 | Cartooning | Jen Sorensen | "Slowpoke Comics" | [5][6][7] |
| 2008 | Lifetime Achievement | Les Payne | | Newsday[8] |
| 2008 | | E.J. Graff | "The Lie We Love" | Foreign Policy |
| 2008 | | Joseph Huff-Hannon | "Facing Foreclosure" | The Indypendent |
| 2008 | | Nick Turse | "A My Lai a Month" | The Nation[9] |
| 2008 | Blog Award | Danny Schechter | | NewsDissector.org. |
| 2008 | Cartooning | Ed Stein | | |
| 2007 | | Brian Grow, Robert Berner, Keith Epstein | "The Poverty Business" | BusinessWeek |
| 2007 | | Helen Benedict | "The Private War of Women Soldiers" | Salon.com[10] |
| 2007 | | Dahr Jamail | Iraq reporting | DahrJamailIraq.com |
| 2007 | | Jeremy Scahill | "Blackwater Worldwide" | The Nation |
| 2007 | | Matt O'Brien, Ray Chavez | "The Mayan Way" | Daily Review of Hayward, California |
| 2007 | Cartooning | Marc Simont | | Lakeville [CT] Journal |
| 2006 | Lifetime Achievement | Amy Goodman | [11] |
| 2006 | | Julia Whitty | "The Fate of the Ocean" | Mother Jones |
| 2006 | | Corine Hegland | "Guantanamo's Grip" | National Journal |
| 2006 | | Judy Pasternak | "Blighted Homeland" | Los Angeles Times |
| 2006 | | Tim Collie, Mike Stocker, Jim Amon | "Orphans of AIDS" | South Florida-Sentinel |
| 2006 | Cartooning | John Sherffius | | Boulder Daily Camera |
| 2005 | Lifetime Achievement | Molly Ivins | |
| 2005 | Lifetime Achievement | Anthony Lewis |
| 2005 | | Gary Fields | | Wall Street Journal |
| 2005 | | Kevin Fagan, Brant Ward | | San Francisco Chronicle[12] |
| 2005 | | Tracie McMillan | | City Limits magazine |
| 2005 | Blogs | Juan Cole | "Informed Comment" |
| 2005 | Cartooning | Kirk Anderson |
| 2004 | | Seymour M. Hersh | "Abu Graib" | The New Yorker |
| 2004 | | Naomi Klein | | Harper's |
| 2004 | | Frank Rich | | The New York Times |
| 2004 | | Peter G. Gosselin | "New Deal" | Los Angeles Times |
| 2004 | Cartooning | Bill Day | | Memphis Commercial-Appeal |
| 2003 | | Paul Krugman | political commentary | The New York Times & The Nation |
| 2003 | | Jake Bernstein & Dave Mann | "The Rise of the Machine" | The Texas Observer |
| 2003 | | John Donnelly, Colin Nickerson, David Filipov, Raja Mishra | "Lives Lost" | The Boston Globe |
| 2003 | | David Barstow & Lowell Bergman | "Dangerous Business" & "When Workers Die" | The New York Times |
| 2003 | | Mohamad Bazzi | Iraq War | Newsday |
| 2003 | Cartooning | Mark Fiore | Animated Political Cartooning | |
| 2002 | | William Finnegan | "Leasing the Rain" | The New Yorker[13] |
| 2002 | | Seth Rosenfeld | FBI & Clark Kerr | San Francisco Chronicle |
| 2002 | | Rebekah Denn | African-American and white students | Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| 2002 | | Katy Reckdahl | mistreatment of the homeless | Gambit Weekly |
| 2002 | Cartooning | Ted Rall | "Generalissimo El Busho" |
| 2001 | | William Greider | "regulatory takings" movement | The Nation[14] |
| 2001 | | Dolores Barclay, Todd Lewan, Allen G. Breed | "Torn From the Land" | Associated Press |
| 2001 | Lifetime Achievement | Robert Sherrill | |
| 2001 | Cartooning | Dan Perkins | "Tom Tomorrow" |
| 2001 | Lifetime Achievement | Edward Sorel |
| 2000 | | Ellen E. Schultz | "pension-paring spree" | Wall Street Journal[15] |
| 2000 | | Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson | "This American Is Hungry" | George magazine |
| 2000 | | Robert Scheer | | Los Angeles Times & The Nation |
| 2000 | | Juan Gonzalez | | New York Daily News |
| 2000 | Cartooning | Steve Brodner | "art journalism" | |
| 1999 | | Sasha Abramsky | "When They Get Out" | Atlantic Monthly |
| 1999 | | Larry Johnson, Dan DeLong | "Life and Death in Iraq" | Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| 1999 | | Marcus Stern, Dana Wilkie, Dori Meinert, Toby Eckert | "America's Immigration Dilemma" | Copley News Service |
| 1999 | Lifetime Achievement | Jules Feiffer |
| 1999 | Cartooning | Art Spiegelman | | New Yorker magazine |
| 1998 | | Newsday | "The Health Divide" | Newsday |
| 1998 | | Christopher Cook | "Plucking Workers" | The Progressive |
| 1998 | | Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele | corporate welfare | Time |
| 1997 | Commentary | Bob Herbert | police brutality | The New York Times |
| 1997 | Environmental Reporting | Karl Grossman |
| 1997 | Socioeconomic Reporting | Marc Kaufman & Dan Stets | Philadelphia Board of City Trusts | Philadelphia Inquirer |
| 1997 | International Reporting | Eyal Press, Jennifer Washburn, Benn Terrall & Amy Goodman | U.S.-Indonesia Society & Suharto | The Progressive |
| 1996 | | Charles M. Sennott | "Armed for Profit: The Selling of U.S. Weapons" | Boston Globe[16] |
| 1996 | | Gary Webb | "Dark Alliance" | San Jose Mercury News |
| 1996 | Honorable Mention | Greg Davis | Maine's DeCoster Egg Farms. |
| 1995 | | Barry Bearak | "The Waning Power of Workers" | Los Angeles Times |
| 1995 | Honorable mention | Nancy Stancill | "Paid in Pain" | Charlotte Observer |
| 1995 | Lifetime Achievement | John Oakes | | The New York Times |
| 1994 | | Allen Nairn | Haiti | The Nation |
| 1994 | Honorable mention | Tony Horwitz | "9 to Nowhere: The Grim Side of '90s Growth Jobs" | Wall Street Journal |
| 1994 | Honorable mention | Mike Hudson | "Robbin' the Hood: How Wall Street Takes from the Poor and Gives to the Rich" | Mother Jones |
| 1993 | | Eileen Welsome | "The Plutonium Experiment" | Albuquerque Tribune |
| 1993 | Honorable mention | Paul Salopek | "“La Migra: The Border Patrol's Wall of Silence" | Texas Observer |
| 1993 | Honorable mention | New Orleans Times-Picayune | "The Myth of Race" |
| 1992 | | Mike Davis | "L.A.: Burning All Illusions" | The Nation |
| 1992 | Honorable mention | Celia Dugger | foster care, welfare and people in poverty | The New York Times |
| 1992 | Honorable mention | Robert Weissman | "The Corporate Rap Sheet" | Multinational Monitor |
| 1991 | | Gloria Emerson | "Gaza: A Year in the Intifada: A Personal Account from an Occupied Land." |
| 1991 | Honorable mention | Ellen Ray, William Schaap | press assumptions and practices | Lies of Our Times |
| 1991 | Honorable mention | Peter Sussman | Lompoc Federal Penitentiary | The San Francisco Chronicle |
| 1990 | | Kathy Kadane | CIA's role in Indonesia | State News Service, The Washington Post |
| 1990 | Honorable Mention | Lawrence Wechsler, Alan Nairn, Peter Kornbluh, William Finnegan | "Talk of the Town" pieces on Central America | New Yorker |