Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award

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Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award
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Awarded forA member of the newspaper profession who has contributed to the country's journalistic achievement.
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Presented by Colby College
First awarded1952
Website Official website

The Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award is presented annually by Colby College to a member of the newspaper profession who has contributed to the country's journalistic achievement. The award is named for Elijah Parish Lovejoy, and established in 1952. [1] [2]

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Award criteria

The award was established to:

  1. Stimulate and honor the kind of achievement in the field of reporting, editing, and interpretive writing that continues the Lovejoy heritage of fearlessness and freedom.
  2. Promote a sense of mutual responsibility and cooperative effort between a newspaper world devoted to journalistic freedom and a liberal arts college dedicated to academic freedom. [3]

The recipient is chosen, based on a selection committee's judgement of a journalist's integrity, craftsmanship, character, intelligence, and courage. [3] [4]

Recipients

YearRecipientReferences
2023 Evan Gershkovich [5]
2018Chuck Plunkett [6]
2017Alec MacGillis [7]
2016 Alissa Rubin [8]
2015 Katherine Boo [9]
2014 James Risen [10]
2013 A. C. Thompson [11]
2012 Bob Woodward [12]
2011 Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson [13]
2010 Alfredo Corchado Jimenez [14]
2009 Paul Salopek [15]
2008 Anne Hull [16]
2007 John F. Burns [17]
2006 Jerry Mitchell [18]
2005 Cynthia Tucker [19]
2004 Louis "Studs" Terkel [20]
2003Steve Mills and Maurice Possley
2002 Daniel Pearl [21]
2001Pat and Tom Gish [22]
2000 Bill Kovach [23]
1999 William Raspberry [24]
1998 Ellen Goodman [25]
1997 David Halberstam [26]
1996 John Seigenthaler [27]
1995 Murray Kempton [28]
1994 Eugene Patterson [29]
1993 Eileen Shanahan [30]
1992 Sydney Schanberg [31]
1991 Robert C. Maynard
1990 David S. Broder
1989 Eugene L. Roberts, Jr.
1988 John Kifner
1987 Paul Simon
1985 Mary McGrory
1984 Thomas Winship
1983 Anthony Lewis
1982W. E. Chilton III
1981 A. M. Rosenthal [32]
1980 Roger Tatarian
1979 Katherine "Kay" Fanning [33]
1978 Jack C. Landau, Clayton Kirkpatrick
1977 Donald Bolles
1976 Vermont C. Royster
1975 William Davis Taylor
1974 James Reston
1973 Katharine Graham
1972Dolph C Simons, Jr
1971 Erwin D. Canham
1969 John S. Knight
1968 Carl Rowan
1967 Edwin A. Lahey
1966 Otis Chandler
1965Colbert Augustus McKnight
1964 John Hay Whitney
1963 Louis M. Lyons
1962 Thomas M. Storke
1961 Bernard Kilgore
1960 Ralph McGill
1959 Clark R. Mollenhoff
1958 John N. Heiskell
1957Buford Boone
1956 Arthur Hays Sulzberger
1955 Charles A. Sprague
1954 James Russell Wiggins [34]
1953Irving Dilliard
1952James S. Pope [35]

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