Edgar A. Poe Award

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]

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]

See also

References

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