| Year |
Author(s) |
Publication/Work |
The Work |
| 1948 |
Paul W. Ward |
Baltimore Sun |
For his series of articles
published in 1947 on "Life in the Soviet Union." |
| 1949 |
Price Day |
Baltimore Sun |
For his series of 12 articles
entitled, "Experiment in Freedom: India and Its First Year of Independence."
|
| 1950 |
Edmund Stevens |
The Christian Science Monitor |
For his series of 43 articles
written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia
Uncensored." |
| 1951 |
Keyes Beech (Chicago Daily News); Homer Bigart (New York Herald Tribune);
Marguerite Higgins (New York Herald Tribune); Relman Morin (AP); Fred Sparks (Chicago
Daily News); and Don Whitehead (AP) |
Multiple Publications |
For their reporting of the Korean
War. |
| 1952 |
John M. Hightower |
Associated Press |
For the sustained quality of his
coverage of news of international affairs during the year. |
| 1953 |
Austin Wehrwein |
Milwaukee Journal |
For a series of articles on Canada.
|
| 1954 |
Jim G. Lucas |
Scripps-Howard Newspapers |
For his notable front-line human
interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and the prisoner-of-war exchanges,
climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent. |
| 1955 |
Harrison E. Salisbury |
New York Times |
For his distinguished series of
articles, "Russia Re-Viewed," based on his six years as a Times correspondent in
Russia. The perceptive and well-written Salisbury articles made a valuable contribution to
American understanding of what is going on inside Russia. This was principally due to the
writer's wide range of subject matter and depth of backgroundplus a number of illuminating
photographs which he took. |
| 1956 |
William Randolph Hearst Jr., J. Kingsbury-Smith and Frank Conniff |
International News Service |
For a series of exclusive
interviews with the leaders of the Soviet Union. |
| 1957 |
Russell Jones |
United Press |
For his excellent and sustained
coverage of the Hungarian revolt against Communist domination, during which he worked at
great personal risk within Russian-held Budapest and gave front-line eyewitness reports of
the ruthless Soviet repression of the Hungarian people. |
| 1958 |
The New York Times |
The New York Times |
For its distinguished coverage of
foreign news, which was characterized by admirable initiative, continuity and high quality
during the year. |
| 1959 |
Joseph Martin and Philip Santora |
The New York Daily News |
For their exclusive series of
articles disclosing the brutality of the Batista government in Cuba long before its
downfall and forecasting the triumph of the revolutionary party led by Fidel Castro.
|
| 1960 |
A. M. Rosenthal |
The New York Times |
For his perceptive and
authoritative reporting from Poland. Mr. Rosenthal's subsequent expulsion from the country
was attributed by Polish government spokesmen to the depth his reporting into Polish
affairs, there being no accusation of false reporting. |
| 1961 |
Lynn Heinzerling |
Associated Press |
For his reporting under
extraordinary difficult conditions of the early stages of the Congo crisis and his keen
analysis of events in other parts of Africa. |
| 1962 |
Walter Lippmann |
New York Herald Tribune Syndicate |
For his 19 interview with Soviet
Premier Khrushchev, as illustrative of Lippmann's long and distinguished contribution to
American journalism. |
| 1963 |
Hal Hendrix |
Miami (FLA.) News |
For his persistent reporting which
revealed, at an early stage, that the Soviet Union was installing miss launching pads in
Cuba and sending in large numbers of MIG-21 aircraft. |
| 1964 |
Malcolm W. Browne and David Halberstam |
Associated Press and The New York Times (respectively) |
For their individual reporting of
the Viet Nam war a the overthrow of the Diem regime. |
| 1965 |
J. A. Livingston |
Philadelphia Bulletin |
For his reports on the growth of
economic independence among Russia's Eastern European satellites a his analysis of their
desire for a resumption of trade with the West. |
| 1966 |
Peter Arnett |
Associated Press |
For his coverage of the war in
Vietnam |
| 1967 |
R. John Hughes |
The Christian Science Monitor |
For his thorough reporting of the
attempted Communist coup in Indonesia in 1965 and the purge that followed in 1965-66.
|
| 1968 |
Alfred Friendly |
The Washington Post |
For his coverage of the Middle East
War of 1967. |
| 1969 |
William Tuohy |
Los Angeles Times |
For his Vietnam War correspondence
in 1968. |
| 1970 |
Seymour M. Hersh |
Dispatch News Service, Washington, D.C. |
For his exclusive disclosure of the
Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of My Lai. |
| 1971 |
Jimmie Lee Hoagland |
The Washington Post |
For his coverage of the struggle
against apartheid in the Republic of South Africa. |
| 1972 |
Peter R. Kann |
The Wall Street Journal |
For his coverage of the Indo
Pakistan War of 1971. |
| 1973 |
Max Frankel |
The New York Times |
For his coverage of President
Nixon's visit to China in 1972. |
| 1974 |
Hedrick Smith |
The New York Times |
For his coverage of the Soviet
Union and its allies in Eastern Europe in 1973. |
| 1975 |
William Mullen, reporter, and Ovie Carter, photographer |
Chicago Tribune |
For their coverage of famine in
Africa and India. |
| 1976 |
Sydney H. Schanberg |
The New York Times |
For his coverage of the Communist
takeover in Cambodia, carried out at great risk when he elected to stay at his post after
the fall of Pnom Penh. |
| 1977 |
No Award |
No Award |
|
| 1978 |
Henry Kamm |
The New York Times |
For his stories on the refugees,
"boat people," from Indochina. |
| 1979 |
Richard Ben Cramer |
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For reports from the Middle East.
|
| 1980 |
Joel Brinkley, reporter and Jay Mather, photographer |
The Louisville Courier-Journal |
For stories from Cambodia.
|
| 1981 |
Shirley Christian |
The Miami Herald |
For her dispatches from Central
America. |
| 1982 |
John Darnton |
The New York Times |
For his reporting from Poland.
|
| 1983 |
Thomas L. Friedman and Loren Jenkins |
The New York Times and The Washington Post (respectively) |
For their individual reporting of
the Israeli invasion of Beirut and its tragic aftermath. |
| 1984 |
Karen Elliott House |
The Wall Street Journal |
For her extraordinary series of
interviews with Jordan's King Hussein which correctly anticipated the problems that would
confront the Reagan administration's Middle East peace plan. |
| 1985 |
Josh Friedman and Dennis Bell, reporters, and Ozier Muhammad, photographer
|
Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. |
For their series on the plight of
the hungry in Africa. |
| 1986 |
Lewis M. Simons, Pete Carey and Katherine Ellison |
San Jose (CA) Mercury News |
For their June 1985 series that
documented mas transfers of wealth abroad by President Marcos and his associates and h;
direct impact on subsequent political developments in the Philippines the United States.
|
| 1987 |
Michael Parks |
Los Angeles Times |
For his balanced and comprehensive
coverage of South Africa. |
| 1988 |
Thomas L. Friedman |
The New York Times |
For balanced and informative
coverage of Israel. |
| 1989 |
Bill Keller |
The New York Times |
For resourceful and detailed
coverage events in the U.S.S.R. |
| 1989 |
Glenn Frankel |
The Washington Post |
For sensitive and balanced rep from
Israel and the Middle East. |
| 1990 |
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn |
The New York Time |
For knowledgeable reporting from
China on the mass movement for democracy and its subsequent suppression. |
| 1991 |
Caryle Murphy |
The Washington Post |
For her dispatches from occupied
Kuwait, some of which she filed while in hiding from Iraqi authorities. |
| 1991 |
Serge Schmemann |
The New York Times |
For his coverage of reunification
of Germany. |
| 1992 |
Patrick J. Sloyan |
Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. |
For his reporting on the Persian
Gulf War, conducted after the war was over, which revealed new details of American
battlefield tactics and "friendly fire" incidents. |
| 1993 |
John F. Burns |
The New York Times |
For his courageous and thorough
coverage of the destruction of Sarajevo and the barbarous killings in the war in
Bosnia-Herzegovina. |
| 1993 |
Roy Gutman |
Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. |
For his courageous and persistent
reporting that disclosed atrocities and other human rights violations in Croatia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina. |
| 1994 |
The Dallas Morning News team |
The Dallas Morning News |
For its series examining the
epidemic of violence against women in many nations. |
| 1995 |
Mark Fritz |
Associated Press |
For his reporting on the ethnic
violence and slaughter in Rwanda. |
| 1996 |
David Rohde |
The Christian Science Monitor |
For his persistent on-site
reporting of the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. |
| 1997 |
John F. Burns |
The New York Times |
For his courageous and insightful
coverage of the harrowing regime imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban. |
| 1998 |
The New York Times |
The New York Times |
For its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug
corruption in Mexico. |
| 1999 |
The Staff |
The Wall Street Journal |
analytical coverage of the Russian financial crisis. |
