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The following is a list of awards won by the American newspaper The Washington Post.

Pulitzer Prizes

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For a more comprehensive list, see List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The Washington Post.

The Washington Post has won 65 Pulitzer Prizes[1] in journalism, the second highest of any newspaper or magazine in the United States. It has won the gold medal for Public Service, the most distinguished award,[2] six times. The newspaper won its first prize in 1936 for Editorial Writing and its most recent in 2022.[3]

General awards

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Aldo Beckman Award

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The Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage, also known as The Aldo Beckman Award, is an annual award given by the White House Correspondents' Association for "overall excellence" in White House coverage.

Year Recipient
2003 Dana Milbank
2009 Michael Abramowitz
2012 Scott Wilson
2017 Greg Jaffe

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award

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The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, presented by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, honors excellence in broadcast and digital journalism.

Year Entry Notes
2019 "The Whistleblower" & "Too Big to Prosecute" Co-winner with 60 Minutes
2021 "Lafayette Reconstruction"

Bastiat Prize

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The Bastiat Prize was an annual journalism award, given by the Reason Foundation, that recognizes journalists whose writing "best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence."[4]

Year Recipient
2017 Radley Balko

Edward R. Murrow Award

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The Edward R. Murrow Award is an annual award that honors the best achievements in digital journalism.

Year Category Entry Notes Ref(s).
2004 Website Non-Broadcast (Over 200,000 circulation) washingtonpost.com [5]
2005 Website Non-Broadcast (Over 200,000 circulation) washingtonpost.com [6]
2006 Website Non-Broadcast (Over 200,000 circulation) washingtonpost.com [7]
2007 Website Non-Broadcast (Over 200,000 circulation) washingtonpost.com [8]
2012 Breaking News "Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot in Tucson" [9]
Use of Video "Under Suspicion: Voices about Muslims in America"
Website washingtonpost.com
2013 Overall Excellence Portfolio [10]
Investigative Reporting "Convicted defendants left uninformed of forensic flaws found

by Justice Dept."

2014 Overall Excellence Portfolio [11]
Feature Reporting "Shelley & Bill: A Love Story"
2015 Feature Reporting "Romanian Orphan" [12]
Investigative Reporting "Your Property Is Guilty"
Writing "Lee Powell writing"
2016 Overall Excellence Portfolio [13]
Continuing Coverage "Ten Years after Katrina"
Writing "There's a better way to stand in line but you won't like it"
2017 Continuing Coverage "America's Opioid Crisis" [14]
Excellence in Social Media Portfolio
Excellence in Writing "Lee Powell writing"
Reporting: Hard News "Tainted Water, Little Hope"
2018 Video: Investigative Reporting "Too Big To Prosecute" Co-winner with 60 Minutes [15]
Digital: Investigative Reporting "Hacking Democracy: The Russian Investigation"
2019 News Documentary "The Foreign Consultant" [16]
2020 Digital: Overall Excellence Portfolio [17]
2021 Breaking News Coverage "How a night of protest turned deadly in Kenosha" [18]
Excellence in Writing "Politics and Airlines in a pandemic"

George Polk Awards

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The George Polk Awards in Journalism, also known as the George Polk Awards, are an annual journalism award, given by Long Island University, honoring the best[19] reporting in a number of categories.

Year Category Recipients Description of entry Notes
1961 Local Reporting Laurence Stern for a series on troubled savings & loan institutions in Maryland.
1962 Special Award Morton Mintz for stories on the fight to keep the drug thalidomide off the market.
1965 Foreign Reporting Dan Kurzman for coverage of a revolt in the Dominican Republic.
1966 National Reporting Richard Harwood for exposing the FBI's use of unauthorized wiretapping.
1968 National Reporting Bernard D. Nossiter for exploring how the aerospace industry might fare in a peacetime economy.
1970 Editorials James E. Clayton for raising questions about U.S. Supreme Court nominee G. Harrold Carswell.
1971 Criticism Richard Hardwood for “The News Business,” a column evaluating American journalism.
1972 National Reporting Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward for bringing to public attention the Watergate bugging story.
Community Service Ronald Kessler for two series, on hospital mismanagement and illegal fees charged to homebuyers.
1977 National Reporting Walter Pincus for revealing Defense Department plans to develop a neutron bomb.
1978 National Reporting Ronald Kessler for articles on corruption in the General Services Administration.
1980 National Reporting Jonathan Neuman and Ted Gup for a series on conflicts of interest in awarding of federal contracts.
1983 Medical Reporting Benjamin Weiser for "As They Lay Dying," a series on removing hopelessly ill patients from life support.
1987 Foreign Reporting Nora Boustany for stories on Palestinian refugees and “the breakdown of civilization in Lebanon.”
1989 National Reporting Rick Atkinson for a series on the secret history of the B-2 Stealth bomber.
1990 Foreign Reporting Caryle Murphy for chronicling the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait as she remained in hiding inside the country.
1993 Foreign Reporting Keith Richburg for chronicling the effects of war and famine in Somalia.
1995 National Reporting Michael Weisskopf and David Maraniss for “Inside the Revolution,” a series on the inner workings of the first Republican-controlled House of Representatives in 40 years.
1997 International Reporting Michael Dobbs or tracing Madeleine Albright's Jewish roots, unknown to her even though many in her family died in Nazi concentration camps
1998 Economic Reporting Mary Jordan, Keith Richburg, and Kevin Sullivan for a series on the human toll of Asia's economic crisis.
2000 National Reporting Michael Grunwald for analyzing risky billion-dollar projects undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers.
2005 Foreign Reporting Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway for documenting false claims and sweeping failures in an American program to reconstruct schools and clinics in Afghanistan.
National Reporting Dana Priest for exposing a secret network of detention centers in Eastern Europe where the C.I.A. held terrorism suspects.
2007 Political Reporting Barton D. Gellman and Jo Becker for a series on Vice President Dick Cheney's role as the architect of tortuous interrogation, military tribunals and other hard-line U.S. policies.
2010 National Reporting Dana Priest and William M. Arkin for “Top Secret America,” detailing the proliferation of a huge ecosystem of military, intelligence and corporate interests spawned after 9/11.
2012 Medical Reporting Peter Whoriskey for “Biased Research, Big Profits,” a series on pharmaceutical industry payoffs to doctors to promote misleading findings sometimes endangering patients.
2013 National Reporting Eli Saslow for profiling six of the families receiving federal nutrition assistance in a $78 billion program serving 47 million recipients in a program that tripled in scope in a decade.
National Security Reporting Barton Gellman for investigative stories on massive NSA surveillance based on top-secret documents disclosed by former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden. Co-winners with The Guardian
Political Reporting Rosalind Helderman, Laura Vozzella, and Carol Leonnig for revealing that the Virginia governor and his wife received $165,000 in loans and gifts from an entrepreneur.
2014 National Reporting Carol Leonnig for series of exclusive reports on serious security lapses and misconduct by the U.S. Secret Service, which filed false and incomplete accounts of the missteps.
2015 National Reporting Staff for a series tallying and categorizing Americans shot dead by police over the course of a year.
Regional Reporting Terrence McCoy for exposing companies in Maryland and Virginia that convinced unsophisticated victims to accept pennies on the dollar for court-ordered compensation.
2016 Political Reporting David A. Fahrenthold for a string of stories on matters Presidential candidate Donald Trump had long sought to keep secret, including his foundation's deceptive activities and the existence of a video in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women.
Political Reporting Lenny Bernstein, Scott Higham, and David Fallis for tracing the DEA's lax regulation of narcotic painkillers despite a deadly national addiction epidemic to drug industry pressure.
2017 Political Reporting Stephanie McCrummen and Beth Reinhard for disclosing accounts of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore's sexual assault upon a 14-year-old girl and pursuit of other teenagers.
Special Award Staff for revealing ties between the Trump campaign and Kremlin-connected Russians that gave rise to the investigation into possible collusion during the 2016 election. Co-winner with The New York Times
2018 Special Award David Ignatius and Karen Attiah for eloquence and resolve in demanding accountability in the wake of the gruesome murder of Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
2019 Military Reporting Craig Whitlock for “The Afghanistan Papers,” for exposing an official study detailing two decades of failed U.S. policy.
2020 Oral History Eli Saslow for 25 compelling personal narratives based on extensive interviews of individuals deeply affected by the COVID-19 virus.
Political Reporting Stephanie McCrummen for deftly capturing Georgia's shifting political winds in three perceptive profiles.
State Reporting Ian Shapira for stories exposing overt racism at the state-supported Virginia Military Institute.
Justice Reporting Staff a six-part series illustrating how uncanny a match Floyd's life and death were for the national movement his murder came to symbolize.

Gerald Loeb Award

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The Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, also known as the Gerald Loeb Award, is a recognition of excellence in journalism, especially in the fields of business, finance and the economy.[20]

Year Category Authors Entry Notes
1971 Editorial Philip Greer "Wall Street Changes"
1978 Columns/Editorials Hobart Rowen "IMF, World Bank Face Grave Issues"
1981 Large Newspapers Jonathan Neumann and Ted Gu "Government Out of Control: Contracts"
1984 Large Newspapers Dan Morgan "High Tech: Leaving Home Series"
Medium Newspapers Ted Gup "The King of Gems Series"
1990 Large Newspapers David A. Vise and Steve Coll "The Man from Wall Street: John Shad's Reign at the SEC"
1992 Lifetime Achievement Award Hobart Rowen
2000 Deadline and/or Beat Writing Ianthe Jeanne Dugan "The Rise of Day Trading"
Commentary David Ignatius "Business and Technology Columns"
2003 Large Newspapers Alec Klein "AOL's Adverising Deals"
2004 Large Newspapers David B. Ottaway and Joe Stephens "Big Green"
2006 Commentary Steven Pearlstein "Business and Economic Columns" Tied with The Wall Street Journal
2011 Lifetime Achievement Award Steven Pearlstein
2014 Large Newspapers Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras, Ellen Nakashima, Craig Timberg, Steven Rich, and Ashkan Soltani "Five of the NSA Stories"
2021 Beat Reporting Kimberly Kindy, Taylor Telford, Robert Klemko, Abha Bhattarai, Nicole Dungca, Jenn Abelson and Meryl Kornfield "Essential Workers on the Front Lines" Tied with The Wall Street Journal
Commentary Michelle Singletary "Sincerely, Michelle"
Feature Greg Jaffe "The Recession's Reach in Florida"

Herblock Prize

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The Herblock Prize is an annual journalism award, given by the Herb Block Foundation, for excellence in editorial cartooning. The award is named after Post cartoonist Herbert Block.

Year Recipient
2011[21] Tom Toles

Hillman Prize

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The Hillman Prize is an annual journalism award, presented by The Sidney Hillman Foundation, honoring journalists, writers, and public figures "who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good."[22]

Year Category Recipient Description of Entry Notes
1955 Newspaper Murray Marder for articles on the government security program
1971 Newspaper Alfred Friendly for "Victims of the Great American Red Hunt"
1973 Newspaper Carl Bernstein and Robert Woodward for the Watergate investigation
2009 Photojournalism Carol Guzy for "Birth and Death: Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone"
2010 Blog Ezra Klein for Wonkblog
2017 Newspaper David A. Fahrenthold for reporting on the Trump Foundation and 2016 presidential election
2018 Broadcast Scott Higham and Lenny Bernstein for "The Whistleblower" and "Too Big to Prosecute" Co-winner with 60 Minutes

John Chancellor Award

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The John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, also known as the John Chancellor Award, is an annua journalisml award given by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, honoring one reporting with "courage, character and integrity for cumulative professional accomplishments."[23]

Year Recipient
2003 Mary McGrory
2017 Dan Balz

Livingston Awards

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The Livingston Awards is an annual journalism award, given by the University of Michigan, recognizing journalists under the age of 35 for local, national, and international coverage.

Year Category Recipient Entry Ref.
1986 Excellence in International Reporting Blaine Harden "Notes of a Famine Watcher" [24]
1987 Excellence in Local Reporting Benjamin L. Weiser "No Exit: Juvenile Justice in Washington" [25]
1990 Excellence in Local Reporting Michele Norris "Six-Year-Old's Maryland Home was a Modern Day Opium Den" [26]
1991 Excellence in International Reporting David Remnick "Millions of Soviet Lives Pervaded by Poverty" [27]
1992 Excellence in International Reporting Steve Coll "Crisis and Change in South Asia" [28]
1999 Excellence in National Reporting Laura Meckler "Organ Transplantation" [29]
2003 Excellence in International Reporting Philip P. Pan "High Tide of Labor Unrest in China" [30]
2013 Excellence in National Reporting Rachel Manteuffel "The Things They Leave Behind" [31]
2021 Excellence in National Reporting Hannah Dreier "Trust and Consequences" [32]
2022 Excellence in National Reporting Jose A. Del Real "Truth, Trust, and Conspiracy Theories in America" [33]

Peabody Award

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The George Foster Peabody Awards, also known as Peabody Awards or the Peabodys,[34] is an annual award that recognizes distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by television and radio stations, networks, producing organizations, individuals, and the World Wide Web."

Year Entry Notes
2010 "The Cost of War: Traumatic Brain Injury; Coming Home a Different Person"
2017 "The Whistleblower" Awarded jointly with CBS' 60 Minutes
2021 "The Life of George Floyd"
2022 "Fatal Force"

Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award

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The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism is an annual journalism award, named after Robert F. Kennedy, and given by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The awards honor journalism's best work in several categories.

Year Category Recipient Entry title
1994 International Print Molly Moore, John Anderson, Julia Preston, Lena Sun, and Caryle Murphy "Third World, Second Class"
1995 Print Leon Dash "Rosa Lee's Story"
2000 Grand Prize Peter Finn "Kosovo"
International Print
2001 International Photojournalism Dudley Brooks "Thou Shalt Not Kill"
International Print Steve Coll "Peace Without Justice"
Lifetime Achievement Herbert Block
2002 Grand Prize Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham, and Sarah Cohen "The District's Lost Children"
Domestic Print
International Print David Finkel "Invisible Journeys"
2004 International Honorable Mention Anthony Shadid "The Soul of Iraq"
2008 Grand Prize Anne Hull and Dana Priest "The Other Walter Reed"
2009 Grand Prize (International Photo) Carol Guzy "Birth and Death"
2010 Domestic Photography Carol Guzy "No Greater Love"
International Photography Sarah Voisin “In Mexico's war on drugs, battle lines are drawn in chalk”
2014 Domestic Print Debbie Cenziper, Michael Sallah, and Steven Rich “Homes for the Taking: Liens, Loss and Profiteers”
2015 Cartoon Darrin Bell "Darrin Bell 2014 Editorial Cartoons"
International Photography Michel du Cille "Ebola: A Desperate Struggle"
2018 International Photography Michael Robinson Chavez, Joshua Partlow, Nick Kirpatrick, and MaryAnne Golon “Mexico's Misery”
2019 Domestic Photography Carolyn Van Houten “The Road to Asylum: Inside the Migrant Caravans”
2020 International Print Craig Whitlock "The Afghanistan Papers"
2021 Radio Amy Brittain, Reena Flores and Bishop Sand "Canary: The Washington Post Investigates"
2022 Domestic Photography Joshua Lott "Social Injustice"

Scripps Howard Awards

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The Scripps Howard Awards is an annual journalism award, given by the Scripps Howard Foundation, that honors the best work in journalism across more than a dozen categories from multiple platforms, including television stations, networks, visual media, and newspapers.[35]

Year Category Recipient Description of Entry Notes Ref.
2013 Investigative Reporting Spenser S. Hsu for "Forensic Science," a series that exposed the Justice Department's use of flawed data in more than 20,000 criminal convictions. Congress, the courts and the FBI have responded to the series, and now hundreds, if not thousands, of defendants will get another chance at justice. [36]
2017 Human Interest Storytelling John Woodrow Cox for “Children and Gun Violence,” an examination of how deadly gunfire impacts young people. [37]
2019 Breaking News Staff of The Washington Post for “The El Paso - Dayton Shooting:” coverage of mass

shootings less than 24 hours apart in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in which 29 people died.

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2020 Excellence in Human Interest Storytelling Stephanie McCrummen for telling poignant human stories about Georgia's changing demographics and evolving politics. [39]
Excellence in Innovation Harry Stevens for "Flatten the Curve," a visual explainer that explored how viruses such as COVID-19 spread exponentially and how that spread can be mitigated, and even stopped, if social distancing protocols are diligently observed.
2021 Excellence in National/International Investigative Reporting Staff of The Washington Post for "Pandora Papers," a global investigation involved more than 600 journalists at more than 140 news outlets in 117 countries, leading to 20 investigations, toppled multiple governments around the world, and led to anti-money laundering reform in the U.S. Co-winner with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and other media partners [40]
Impact Award

Sigma Delta Chi Awards

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The Sigma Delta Chi Awards are an annual award, given by the Society of Professional Journalism, for excellence in journalism across multiple categories.

Year Category Recipient Notes Ref.
1999 Investigative Reporting Katherine Boo [41]
Feature Writing David Finkel
2000 Investigative Reporting Joe A. Stephens, Mary Pat Flaherty, Deborah Nelson, Karen Deyoung, John Pomfret, Sharon LaFraniere, and Doug [42]
Sports Column Writing Michael Wilbon
Magazine Peter Perl, of The Washington Post Magazine
2001 Sports Column Writing Sally Jenkins [43]
2002 Foreign Correspondence Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan [44]
2005 Magazine Writing Michael Leahy, of The Washington Post Magazine [45]
2007 Public Service Staff of The Washington Post [46]
Magazine Writing Gene Weingarten
2008 Sports Column Writing Sally Jenkins [47]
2009 Washington Correspondence Rajiv Chandrasekaran [48]
2010 Public Service Dana Priest and William M. Arkin [49]
Informational Graphics Todd Lindeman, Brenna Maloney and David S. Fallis
Public Service in Online Journalism Staff of The Washington Post
2011 Non-Deadline Reporting Staff of The Washington Post [50]
Sports Column Writing Sally Jenkins
2012 Non-Deadline Reporting Robert O'Harrow, Jr. [51]
Washington Correspondence David S. Fallis, Scott Higham, Kimberly Kindy, and Dan Keating
Public Service Spencer S. Hsu
2013 Washington Correspondence David A. Fahrenthold [52]
Informational Graphics Todd Lindeman, Wilson Andrews, and Julie Tate
2014 Washington Correspondence David A. Fahrenthold [53]
Informational Graphics Staff of The Washington Post
2015 Feature Reporting Eli Saslow [54]
Editorial Writing Lee Hockstader
Public Service Staff of The Washington Post
2016 Investigative Reporting Lenny Bernstein, David S. Fallis, and Scott Higham [55]
Washington Correspondence David A. Fahrenthold
2017 Washington Correspondence Staff of The Washington Post [56]
General Column Writing Petula Dvorak
Public Service in Television Journalism Lenny Bernstein and Scott Higham Co-winner with 60 Minutes
Audio Slide Show Michael Cavna and Tom Racine
2018 Sports Column Writing Sally Jenkins [57]
2019 Deadline Reporting Staff of The Washington Post [58]
Immersion Journalism John Woodrow Cox and Wesley Allsbrook
2020 Feature Reporting Jessica Contrera [59]
2021 Column Writing Fernanda Santos [60]
Columns (Spanish-language Print) Abraham Jiménez Enoa,

Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism

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The Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism is an annual award presented by Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The recipient is deemed to represent a leading figure in the journalism industry, especially for ground-breaking achievements which have advanced the industry as a whole.

Year Recipient
1987 Katharine Graham
1998 Ben Bradlee
2001 Bob Woodward

Investigative awards

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Goldsmith Prize

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The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, also known as the Goldsmith Prize, is an annual award for journalists administered by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.

Year Author(s) Entry
2008 Barton Gellman and Jo Becker "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency"[61]
2009 Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen "Forced Out"[62]
2022 Hannah Dreier and Andrew Ba Tran "FEMA's Disasters"[63]

IRE Awards

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The Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, also known as the IRE Awards, is an annual journalism award given by the Investigative Reporters and Editors, a nonprofit organization located at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Year Category Author Entry
2019 FOI Award Craig Whitlock “The Afghanistan Papers: The Secret History of the War"[64]
2021 IRE Award for Sports Investigations Molly Hensley-Clancy “National Women's Soccer League”[65]

James Aronson Awards

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The James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism, also known as the James Aronson Awards, is an annual journalism award given by Hunter College, that honors "original, written English-language reporting from the U.S. media that brings to light widespread injustices, their human consequences, underlying causes, and possible reforms."

Year Author(s) Entry
1990 Kathy Kadane "CIA's role in Indonesia"[66]
2015 Sari Horwitz "Justice in Indian Country"[67]

Selden Ring Award

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The Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, also known as the Selden Ring Award, is an annual journalism award given by the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, that recognizes investigating reporting that has made an impact.

Year Author(s) Entry Notes
1999 The Washington Post “Deadly Force: An Investigation of D.C. Police Shootings”
2000 Kathrine Boo “The Rape Squad Files” Co-winners with The Philadelphia Inquirer
2005 The Washington Post "Drinking Water"
2006 The Washington Post “Investigating Abramoff – Special Report”
2008 Anne Hull and Dana Priest “Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility”

Sidney Awards

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The Sidney Award is a monthly journalism award given out by The Sidney Hillman Foundation to "outstanding investigative journalism in service of the common good."[68]

Year Month Author(s) Entry Ref.
2009 December Dave Jamieson “Health Care's Frequent Fliers: The Treatment of Kenny Farnsworth” [69]
2011 March Greg Sargent "Reporting about the Republican assault on public sector employees in Wisconsin" [70]
2016 October David A. Fahrenthold Series of stories about Donald Trump's "misuse and mismanagement of his personal foundation and his degrading and abusive comments about women." [71]
2019 July Eli Saslow "‘Urgent needs from head to toe’: This clinic had two days to fix a lifetime of needs" [72]
2020 January Craig Whitlock "The Afghanistan Papers" [73]
2021 July Jay Green and Chris Alcantara "Technology Amazon warehouse workers suffer serious injuries at higher rates than other firms" [74]
2022 January Greg Jaffe "The worker revolt comes to a Dollar General in Connecticut" [75]
2022 March Hannah Knowles and Emmanuel Felton "‘Stand your ground’ laws spread — and grow 'more extreme'— 10 years after Trayvon Martin's death" [76]

Toner Prizes

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The Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting, also known as The Toner Prize, is an annual award, presented by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications of Syracuse University, that honors the "best U.S. national or local political reporting in any medium or on any platform—print, broadcast or online."[77]

Year Recipient Description of entry Ref.
2014 Karen Tumulty for her reporting on politicians, such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as well as her in-depth look at the political landscape in West Virginia. [78]
2015 Dan Balz for a series of political profiles that illuminated the partisan divide in Washington. [79]
2017 David A. Fahrenthold for “A Portrait of Donald Trump,” a series of articles highlighting his yearlong reporting on Trump. [80]
2018 Team from The Washington for its coverage of candidate Roy Moore and the 2017 Alabama Senate race, which uncovered a pattern of sexual misconduct by Moore. [81]
2022 Team from The Washington Post for "The Attack", an investigation into what happened before, during and after the 2021 United States Capitol attack. [82]

Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

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The Worth Bingham Prize, also referred to as the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting, is an annual journalism award, presented by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, honoring "newspaper or magazine investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public interest is being ill-served."

Year Author(s) Entry
1970 James Clayton Series of editorials criticizing President Nixon's nominee to the Supreme Court, G. Harrold Carswell
1972 Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward Bugging of Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate
1974 Maxine Cheshire Four-part series on whereabouts of state gifts to U.S. officials and their families from foreign leaders and dignitaries
1976 Morton Mintz “The Medicine Business”: Why pharmaceutical disasters continue to occur
1980 Ted Gup and Jonathan Neumann Five-part series exposing how companies bribed federal government officials for lucrative government consulting contracts
1987 Bob Woodward Secrecy in Government (Reagan administration)
2000 Michael Grunwald Series on Army Corps of Engineers
2005 Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi, and R. Jeffrey Smith Lobbying practices and influence of Jack Abramoff
2007 Anne Hull and Dana Priest "Walter Reed and Beyond"

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