2012: "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark," May Ying Welsh, Al Jazeera
2011: “Wartorn,” James Gandolfini, Home Box Office
2010: “Which Way Home,” Rebecca Cammisa, Home Box Office
2009: Carol Guzy, "Birth and Death" Washington Post
2008: Dana Priest and Anne Hall, "The Other Walter Reed" Washington Post
2007: Donald McNeil, Jr. and Celia W. Dugger, "Disease on the Brink" New York Times
2006: Karen O’Connor and Miri Navasky of FRONTLINE/WGBH for the program “The New Asylums”
2005: Weber, Ornstein, Landsberg, Hymon and Gauthier of the LA Times, "The Troubles at King/Drew."
2004: Rachel Dretzin, Barak Goodman, and Muriel Soenens of Frontline for their series, "Failure to Protect"
2003: Sonia Nazario (reporter) and Don Bartletti (photographer) of the Los Angeles Times for their series "A Boy Left Behind"
2002: Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham, and Sarah Cohen of The Washington Post for "The District's Lost Children"
2001: Edward Pinder, ABC News, Nightline, for "Master Teacher"
2000: Peter Finn, The Washington Post, for "Kosovo"