Lifetime Achievement Award
Past Winners
2022 George “Scoop” Sample, Sample News Group
2021 Rod Doss, New Pittsburgh Courier
2020 Joe Sukle, Press And Journal, Middletown
2019 Harry J. Deitz, retired, The Reading Eagle
2018 David Martens, The York Dispatch
2017 Vernon L. Wise, Jr., retired, The Butler Eagle
2016 William R. Lynett, Times-Shamrock Communications, Scranton
2015 James G. Blaine, retired, The Kennett Paper, Kennett Square
2014 John A. Kirkpatrick, LNP Media Group, Lancaster
2013 Ralph J. Martin, Trib Total Media, Pittsburgh
2012 Sandra C. Hardy, Calkins Media, Levittown
2011 George V. Lynett, Times-Shamrock Communications, Scranton
2010 Harold F. Marion, Times-Shamrock Communications, Scranton
Willis W. Shenk, retired, Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.
2009 Wayne Powell, retired, The Sentinel, Carlisle
2008 Edward J. Lynett Jr., Times-Shamrock Communications, Scranton
David M. Beihoff, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
2007 James E. Dible, Times Publishing Co., Erie
2006 Edith Hughes, Gateway Newspapers, Monroeville
2005 John J. Curley, Gannett Co., Inc., Arlington, Va.
2004 Michael Mead; Edward Mead, Times Publishing Co., Erie
2003 William B. McLean, Independent Publications Inc., Bryn Mawr
2002 John L. S. Northrop; William B. Northrop, Observer Publishing Co., Washington
2001 Robert Fowler, Swank-Fowler Publications, New Bloomfield
2000 Raymond Gover, The Patriot-News Co., Harrisburg
1999 William Strasburg, Independent Publications Inc., Bryn Mawr
1998 William Block, Sr., Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
