Past Winners
- 2024 – Paula Knudsen Burke, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- 2023 – Richard Monti, Trib Total Media, Pittsburgh
- 2022 – Bridget Wingert, Bucks County Herald
- 2021 – Jennifer Bertetto, Trib Total Media, Pittsburgh
- 2020 – Ed Kruger, Altoona Mirror
- 2019 – Teri Henning, former president, Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association
- 2018 – Brad Bumsted, The Caucus, Harrisburg
- 2017 – Gene Foreman, retired, The Philadelphia Inquirer, AND Mark Segal, Philadelphia Gay News
- 2016 – David M. Erdman, former publisher and editor-in-chief, The Morning Call, Allentown
- 2015 – John Baer, Philadelphia Daily News
- 2014 – John P. Kameen, The Forest City News, AND Joseph T. Wingert, Bucks County Herald, Lahaska
- 2013 – James E. McClure, York Daily Record/Sunday News
- 2012 – William C. Anderson, Mainline Newspapers, AND Sara Ganim and Staff of The Patriot-News, Harrisburg
- 2011 – Ernest J. Schreiber, retired, Lancaster Newspapers, Inc., AND Timothy M. Williams, Pennsylvania Newspaper Association
- 2010 – Robert W. Bogle, The Philadelphia Tribune, AND 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, AND 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