Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence
Past Winners
2022 Bridget Wingert, Bucks County Herald
2021 Jennifer Bertetto, Trib Total Media, Pittsburgh
2020 Ed Kruger, Altoona Mirror
2019 Teri Henning, Executive Director at Pennsylvania Council of Children, Youth and Family Services
2018 Brad Bumsted, The Caucus, Harrisburg
2017 Gene Foreman, retired, The Philadelphia Inquirer
2017 Mark Segal, Philadelphia Gay News
2016 David M. Erdman, The Morning Call, Allentown
2015 John Baer, Philadelphia Daily News
2014 John P. Kameen, The Forest City News
2014 Joseph T. Wingert, Bucks County Herald, Lahaska
2013 James E. McClure, York Daily Record/Sunday News
2012 William Anderson, Mainline Newspapers
2012 Sara Ganim and Staff of The Patriot-News, Harrisburg
2011 Ernest J. Schreiber, Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.
2011 Timothy M. Williams, Pennsylvania Newspaper Association
2010 Robert W. Bogle, The Philadelphia Tribune
2010 Richard M. Scaife, Trib Total Media, Inc., Pittsburgh
2009 Caroline Steinman Nunan and Beverly Randolph Steinman Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.
2008 James G. Blaine, retired, The Kennett Paper, Kennett Square
2007 Jan Murphy and Staff, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg
2007 Craig J. Staudenmaier, Esq., Nauman, Smith, Shissler & Hall, LLP, Harrisburg
2006 Coulston “Skip” Henry, retired. News Gleaner Publications, Philadelphia
2005 Mark Scolforo, The Associated Press, Harrisburg
2004 Katherine Hatton, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J.
2003 Uzal H. Martz, Republican & Herald, Pottsville
2002 Dennis R. Hetzel, York Daily Record/Sunday News
2001 Stan Hough, The York Dispatch
1999 William B. Northrop, Observer Publishing Co., Washington
1998 Arthur W. Howe IV, Montgomery Newspapers, Fort Washington
