Past Winners
- 2024 – Joseph A. Beegle, Sample News Group
- 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, AND Willis W. Shenk, retired, Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.
- 2009 – Wayne Powell, retired, The Sentinel, Carlisle
- 2008 – Edward J. Lynett Jr., Times-Shamrock Communications, Scranton, AND 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 and 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