Past Winners
- 2023 Cate Barron, PennLive/The Patriot-News, Harrisburg
- 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
2010 Willis W. Shenk, retired, Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.
- 2009 Wayne Powell, retired, The Sentinel, Carlisle
- 2008 Edward J. Lynett Jr., Times-Shamrock Communications, Scranton
2008 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
