Edgar A. Poe Award
Award for excellence in journalism
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The Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award was a prize for journalistic excellence that was awarded by the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA). The prize, which paid $2,500 in 2011, was funded by the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Newhouse Newspapers in honor of the distinguished correspondent Edgar Allen Poe (1906–1998),[1] a former WHCA president unrelated to the American fiction writer of the nearly identical name.[2][3]
DescriptionPrize honoring journalistic excellence in news coverage of subjects and events of significant national or regional importance to the American people
CountryUnited States
Presented byWhite House Correspondents' Association
| Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award | |
|---|---|
| Description | Prize honoring journalistic excellence in news coverage of subjects and events of significant national or regional importance to the American people |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | White House Correspondents' Association |
The award, which honored excellence in news coverage of subjects and events of significant national or regional importance to the American people,[4] was presented from 1990 to 2019 at the annual dinner of the WHCA[1] (when it was discontinued in place of two new awards).[5]
List of winners
| Year | Recipient | Employer | Article / Show | Notes / Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Keith Epstein | The Plain Dealer | [6] | |
| 1990 | Rochelle Sharpe and Marjie Lundstrom | Gannett News Service | "A series of reports ... on child abuse." | [7] |
| 1991 | Stewart M. Powell and Charles J. Lewis | Hearst Newspapers | "A three-part series detailing the magnitude and human impact of the war's friendly fire casualties and chronicling the anguish of the families involved." | [8] |
| 1992 | Chris Drew and Mick Tackett | Chicago Tribune | "A series of articles on lobbying... [and] how the system functions." | [9] |
| 1993 | Richard Whittle | The Dallas Morning News | [10] | |
| 1994 | Russell Carollo and Cheryl Reed | Dayton Daily News | [11] | |
| 1995 | Joby Warrick and Pat Stith | The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | "'The Power of Pork,' their well-researched series on the pork farming business..." | [12] |
| 1996 | Byron Acohido | The Seattle Times | "Safety at Issue: The 737", "ferreting out compelling evidence that undoubtedly contributed as much as anything else to safety improvements in the world's most popular aircraft." | [13] |
| 1997 | Earl Lane and Andrew Smith | Newsday | Their series "The Leftovers of the Nuclear Age." | [14][15] |
| 1998 | Michael Isikoff | Newsweek | "Clinton–Lewinsky scandal" | [16] |
| 1999 | Sam Roe | The Toledo Blade | "Exposing a major health risk to nuclear weapons plant workers that was concealed by the U.S. government for half a century." | [17][18][15] |
| 2000 | Elizabeth Marchak, Dave Davis, and Joan Mazzolini | The Plain Dealer | [19] | |
| John Barry and Evan Thomas | Newsweek | Honorable Mention[19] | ||
| David Pace | Associated Press | Honorable Mention[19] | ||
| 2001 | Evan Thomas, Mark Hosenball, Martha Brant, and Roy Gutman | Newsweek | [20] | |
| Staff | The Seattle Times | Honorable Mention[20] | ||
| Staff | The Dayton Daily News | Honorable Mention[20] | ||
| 2002 | Sean Naylor | Army Times | [21] | |
| Staff | South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Honorable Mention[21] | ||
| Michael Berens | Chicago Tribune | Honorable Mention[21] | ||
| 2003 | Russell Corollo and Mei-ling Hopgood | Dayton Daily News | [22] | |
| Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound | U.S. News & World Report | Honorable Mention[22] | ||
| Michael Hudson | Southern Exposure magazine | Honorable Mention[22] | ||
| Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landy | Knight Ridder | Honorable Mention[22] | ||
| Rod Nordland and Michael Hirsh | Newsweek | Honorable Mention[22] | ||
| Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau, and Michael Hirsh | Newsweek | Honorable Mention[22] | ||
| Fareed Zakaria | Newsweek | Honorable Mention[22] | ||
| 2004 | Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams | The San Francisco Chronicle | [23] | |
| Donald Barlett and James Steele | Time magazine | Honorable Mention[23] | ||
| 2005 | Marcus Stern and Jerry Kammer | Copley News Service | [24] | |
| Staff | Time magazine | Honorable Mention[24] | ||
| Russell Carollo and Larry Kaplow | Dayton Daily News | Honorable Mention[24] | ||
| 2006 | Joan Ryan | The San Francisco Chronicle | [25] | |
| 2007 | Paul Shukovsky, Tracy Johnson, and Daniel Lathrop | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | [26] | |
| 2008 | Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong | The Seattle Times | [27] | |
| 2009 | Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman | Contra Costa Times, California | [28] | |
| 2010 | Michael Berens | The Seattle Times | [29] | |
| 2011 | Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan, Chris Hawley | Associated Press | [30] | |
| 2012 | Jim Morris, Chris Hamby, Ronnie Greene | The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) | Hard Labor | [31] |
| 2013 | Megan Twohey | Reuters | "The Child Exchange: Inside America's Underground Market for Adopted Children," | [32][33] |
| Chris Hamby, Matthew Mosk, and Brian Ross | The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) and ABC News | "Breathless and Burdened: Dying from black lung, buried by law and medicine," | ||
| 2014 | Gary Fields, John R. Emshwiller, Rob Barry, and Coulter Jones | The Wall Street Journal | "America's Rap Sheet" | [34][35] |
| Carol D. Leonnig | The Washington Post | "Secret Service" | ||
| 2015 | Neela Banerjee, John Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song | Inside Climate News | [36][37] | |
| Terrence McCoy | The Washington Post | |||
| 2016 | David Fahrenthold | The Washington Post | [38] | |
| 2017 | Jason Szep, Peter Eisler, Tim Reid, Lisa Girion, Grant Smith and team | Reuters | "Shock Tactics" | [39][40] |
| Norah O'Donnell | CBS This Morning | Sexual Assault in the Air Force Academy | Honorable Mention[39][41] | |
| Dan Diamond and Rachana Pradhan | Politico | Tom Price's Private Jet Travel | Honorable Mention[39][42] | |
| 2018 | Joshua Schneyer, Michael Pell, Andrea Januta, and Deborah Nelson | Reuters | "Ambushed at Home" | [43] |