| Year | Award | Winner | Title | Organization |
|---|
| 2021 | Newspaper | Margie Mason and Robin McDowell | Fruits of Labor | Associated Press |
| 2021 | Magazine | David Dayen | Unsanitized | The American Prospect |
| 2021 | Book | Zachary D. Carter | The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes [3] | Random House |
| 2021 | Book | Rick Perlstein | Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980 [4] | Simon & Schuster |
| 2021 | Broadcast | Tony Plohetski | Lights. Camera. Violence. | KVUE and Austin American-Statesman |
| 2021 | Web | Aura Bogado, Melissa Lewis | The Disappeared | Reveal |
| 2021 | Opinion & Analysis | Jamelle Bouie | | The New York Times [5] |
| 2020 | Newspaper | Samantha Melamed, Dylan Purcell, Jessica Griffin | The Probation Trap | Philadelphia Inquirer |
| 2020 | Magazine | Pamela Colloff | False Witness | ProPublica, New York Times Magazine |
| 2020 | Book | Rachel Louise Snyder | No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us [6] | Bloomsbury |
| 2020 | Broadcast | David Biscobing, Gerard Watson, Shawn Martin (and team) | Abuse of Force | ABC15 / KNXV |
| 2020 | Web | Jennifer Gollan, Melissa Lewis | Caregivers and Takers | Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting with the Associated Press, PBS Newshour and PRX |
| 2020 | Opinion & Analysis | Michelle Goldberg | | The New York Times [7] |
| 2019 | Newspaper | Julie K. Brown and Emily Michot | Perversion of Justice | Miami Herald |
| 2019 | Magazine | Hannah Dreier | Trapped in Gangland | ProPublica, New York magazine, Newsday, This American Life, New York Times Magazine |
| 2019 | Book | Anna Clark | The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy [8] | Metropolitan Books |
| 2019 | Broadcast | Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley (and team) | “Torn Apart” | NBC News and MSNBC |
| 2019 | Web | Joshua Schneyer, Michael Pell, Andrea Januta, Deborah Nelson | Ambushed at Home | Reuters |
| 2019 | Opinion & Analysis | Adam Serwer | | The Atlantic [9] |
| 2018 | Newspaper | Brett Murphy | Rigged | USA Today Network |
| 2018 | Magazine | Azmat Khan & Anand Gopal | The Uncounted | New York Times Magazine |
| 2018 | Book | Richard Rothstein | The Color of Law [10] | Liveright/WW Norton |
| 2018 | Broadcast | Bill Whitaker, Ira Rosen, Sam Hornblower, Robert Zimet, Scott Higham, and Lenny Bernstein | “The Whistleblower” & “Too Big to Prosecute” | CBS News 60 Minutes and The Washington Post |
| 2018 | Web | Almudena Toral, Maye Primera, Mauricio Rodriguez, Andrea Patiño, Juanje Gomez, Oscar Martinez, Carlos Martinez, Fred Ramos | From Migrants to Refugees: The New Plight of Central Americans | Univision & El Faro |
| 2018 | Opinion & Analysis | Dahlia Lithwick | | Slate [11] |
| 2017 | Newspaper | David Fahrenthold | reporting on the Trump Foundation and 2016 presidential election | The Washington Post |
| 2017 | Magazine | Nikole Hannah-Jones | Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City | New York Times Magazine |
| 2017 | Broadcast | Brendan Keefe | Dying for Help: Fixing the Nation's Emergency Response System | WXIA - TV, Atlanta |
| 2017 | Book | Matthew Desmond | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City [12] | Crown |
| 2017 | Web | Jamie Kalven | Code of Silence | The Intercept |
| 2017 | Opinion & Analysis | Adele M. Stan | | The American Prospect |
| 2016 | Book | Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 2016 | Broadcast | Melissa Harris-Perry | Melissa Harris-Perry | MSNBC (2012-2016) |
| 2016 | Newspaper | Melissa del Bosque | “Death on Sevenmile Road” | Texas Observer/The Investigative Fund |
| 2016 | Newspaper | Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz, Tom Robbins | “Cellblock Justice" | The New York Times and the Marshall Project |
| 2016 | Opinion and Analysis | Rebecca Traister | | New York Magazine, Elle [13] |
| 2016 | Web | Curt Guyette | The Flint Water Crisis | ACLU of Michigan Democracy Watch Blog |
| 2015 | Web | Joan Biskupic, Janet Roberts and John Shiffman | “The Echo Chamber” | Reuters |
| 2015 | Opinion & Analysis | Jelani Cobb | | The New Yorker [14] |
| 2015 | Newspaper | Bob Ortega, Daniel Gonzalez, Michael Kiefer, Daniel Nowicki, Michael Chow, David Wallace, Nick Oza, Erin Kelly, Mariana Dale, Stuart Warner, Cherrill Crosby | “Pipeline of Children”
“Revisiting the Pipeline” | The Arizona Republic |
| 2015 | Magazine | John H. Richardson | “The Abortion Ministry of Dr. Willie Parker” | Esquire |
| 2015 | Broadcast | Phil Williams, Kevin Wisniewski, Bryan Staples | Policing for Profit | WTVF-TV, NewsChannel 5 |
| 2015 | Book | Edward E. Baptist | The Half Has Never Been Told | Basic Books |
| 2014 | Book | Ira Katznelson | Fear Itself | Liveright |
| 2014 | Broadcast | Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Bud Bultman, Roni Selig, Melissa Dunst Lipman, Carl Graf, Saundra Young | "Weed: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports" | CNN |
| 2014 | Magazine | Jonathan Cohn | "The Hell of American Daycare" | The New Republic |
| 2014 | Newspaper | Pat Beall | "Private Prisons: Profit, Politics, Pain" | The Palm Beach Post |
| 2014 | Opinion and Analysis | Heather "Digby" Parton | | Hullabaloo [15] |
| 2014 | Web | Craig Welch, Steve Ringman | "Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn" | The Seattle Times and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting |
| 2013 | Book | Tracie McMillan | The American Way of Eating | Scribner |
| 2013 | Newspaper | Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe, and Michael Hawthorne | "Playing with Fire" | Chicago Tribune |
| 2013 | Magazine | Shane Bauer | "No Way Out" | Mother Jones/The Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute |
| 2013 | Photojournalism | Rick Loomis | "Beyond Seven Billion" | Los Angeles Times |
| 2013 | Broadcast journalism | Brian Ross, Matthew Mosk, Rhonda Schwartz, and Cindy Galli | "Tragedy in Bangladesh" | ABC News |
| 2012 | Book | Frank Bardacke | Trampling Out the Vintage | Verso |
| 2012 | Newspaper | Heather Vogell, Alan Judd, John Perry | "The Atlanta Schools Cheating Scandal" | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
| 2012 | Magazine | Sarah Stillman | "The Invisible Army" | The New Yorker |
| 2012 | Photojournalism | Katie Falkenberg | "A Lasting Toll" | Los Angeles Times |
| 2012 | Broadcast journalism | Yoav Potash | "Crime After Crime" | The Oprah Winfrey Network |
| 2012 | Web journalism | Seth Freed Wessler | "Thousands of Kids Lost From Parents in U.S Deportation System" | Colorlines.com |
| 2012 | Opinion & Analysis | Ta-Nehisi Coates | | The Atlantic |
| 2011 | Book | Isabel Wilkerson | The Warmth of Other Suns | Random House |
| 2011 | Newspaper | Brad Heath and Kevin McCoy | "Justice in the Balance" | USA Today |
| 2011 | Magazine | Tim Noah | "The Great Divergence" | Slate.com |
| 2011 | Photojournalism | Mona Reeder | "A Surgery Gone Wrong" | Dallas Morning News |
| 2011 | Broadcast journalism | Najibullah Quraishi and Jamie Doran | "The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan" | Clover Films/ Frontline, WGBH |
| 2010 | Book | Nick Reding | Methland | Bloomsbury |
| 2010 | Newspaper | Mark Pittman, Bob Ivry, Alison Fitzgerald and Craig Torres | "The Fight for Transparency" | Bloomberg News |
| 2010 | Magazine | Rebecca Clarren | "The Dark Side of Dairies" | High Country News |
| 2010 | Photography | Craig F. Walker | "Ian Fisher: American Soldier" | The Denver Post |
| 2010 | Photography | Joe Amon, Hyoung Chang, Andy Cross, Judy DeHaas, Reza Marvashti, R J Sangosti, and Craig F. Walker | "Below the Line: Childhood Poverty in Colorado" | The Denver Post |
| 2010 | Photography Honorable Mention | Sarah L. Voisin | "In Mexico's war on drugs, battle lines are drawn in chalk" | The Washington Post |
| 2010 | Broadcast | Maria Hinojosa, Brenda Breslauer, Brian Epstein, Mona Iskander | "Justice Delayed" | NOW, PBS |
| 2010 | Blog | Jonathan Cohn | The Treatment | The New Republic |
| 2010 | Blog | Ezra Klein | The Washington Post [16] |
| 2009 | Book | Jane Mayer | The Dark Side | Doubleday |
| 2009 | Book | Steven Greenhouse | The Big Squeeze | Knopf |
| 2009 | Newspaper | Nina Bernstein | "Deaths in Immigrant Detention" | The New York Times |
| 2009 | Newspaper SPECIAL MENTION | Alexandra Berzon | "Construction Worker Deaths on the Las Vegas Strip" | Las Vegas Sun |
| 2009 | Magazine | | Special Issue: "The New Inequality" | The Nation |
| 2009 | Magazine SPECIAL MENTION | Jonathan Cohn | "Auto Destruct" | The New Republic |
| 2009 | Photo-journalism | Carol Guzy | "Birth and Death: Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone" | The Washington Post |
| 2009 | Photo-journalism SPECIAL MENTION | Sonya Hebert | "At the Edge of Life" | The Dallas Morning News |
| 2009 | Broadcast | Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar | "Made in L.A." | POV [17] |
| 2009 | Broadcast SPECIAL MENTION | Peter Noyes and John Schwada | "House Thefts" | KTTV-FOX Los Angeles |
| 2009 | Broadcast SPECIAL MENTION | Larry Adelman, Llew Smith and Christine Herbes-Sommers | "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" | California Newsreel with Vital Pictures |
| 2009 | Blog | Marcy Wheeler | | EmptyWheel.FireDogLake.com [16] |
| 2008 | Book | Robert Kuttner | The Squandering of America | Knopf | |
| 2008 | Newspaper | Charles Duhigg | "Golden Opportunities" | The New York Times | |
| 2008 | Magazine | Ray Ring | Death in the Energy Fields | High Country News | |
| 2008 | Broadcast | Bill Moyers, Kathleen Hughes | "Buying the War" | Bill Moyers Journal | |
| 2008 | Photography | Luis Sinco | "The Marlboro Marine" | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2008 | Blog | Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel | "Think Progress" | Center for American Progress [18] | |
| 2007 | Book | Thomas E. Ricks | Fiasco | |
| 2007 | Newspaper | Rukmini Maria Callimachi | Coverage of Hurricane Katrina aftermath | The Associated Press | |
| 2007 | Magazine | Douglas McGray | "The Invisibles" | West Magazine, Los Angeles Times | |
| 2007 | Broadcast | Spike Lee, Sam Pollard | "When the Levees Broke" | 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks/HBO | |
| 2007 | Photography | Mike Stocker, Joe Amon | "Aids Orphans" | South Florida Sun-Sentinel | |
| 2007 | Blog | Sam Rosenfeld, Ann Friedman, Garance Franke-Ruta, Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias | "Tapped" | The American Prospect | |
| 2006 | Book | N/A | Award withheld [19] | |
| 2006 | Newspaper | Cam Simpson | "Pipeline to Peril" | Chicago Tribune | |
| 2006 | Magazine | Dave Evans, Mike Smith, Liz Willen, Jonathan Neumann | "Big Pharma's Shameful Secret" | Bloomberg Markets | | |
| 2006 | Broadcast | Craig Cheatham, Jim Thomas, Marty Van Housen | "La Oroya" | KMOV-TV, St Louis | | |
| 2006 | Photography | Hector Amezcua, Tom Knudson | "Los Piñeros" | Sacramento Bee | | |
| 2006 | Blog | Joshua Micah Marshall | Coverage of Social Security Issues | Talking Points Memo | |
| 2005 | Book | Jason DeParle | American Dream | | |
| 2005 | Newspaper | Peter G. Gosselin | "The New Deal" | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2005 | Magazine | Sarah Karp | "Our Next Generation" | The Chicago Reporter | |
| 2005 | Broadcast | Greg Barker | "Ghosts of Rwanda" | PBS Frontline | |
| 2005 | Photography | Los Angeles Times | Award for Overall Excellence | Los Angeles Times | | |
| 2004 | Book | David Von Drehle | Triangle: The Fire That Changed America | |
| 2004 | Newspaper | Nancy Cleeland, Abigail Goldman, Evelyn Iritani, Tyler Marshall | "The Wal-Mart Effect" | Los Angeles Times [20] |
| 2004 | Newspaper | David Barstow, Lowell Bergman | "Dangerous Business" | The New York Times | |
| 2004 | Magazine | John Bowe | "Nobodies" | The New Yorker | | |
| 2004 | Broadcast | Brett Shipp, Mark Smith, Kraig Kirchem | State of Denial | WFAA-TV | |
| 2004 | Photography | Stanley Greene | "Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003" | Trolley | |
| 2003 | Book | Steven R. Weisman | The Great Tax Wars | |
| 2003 | Newspaper | Ellen Schultz and Theo Francis | "Valued Employees: Worker Dies, Firm Profits" | The Wall Street Journal | |
| 2003 | Broadcast | Ofra Bikel | "An Ordinary Crime" | PBS Frontline | |
| 2003 | Photography | Don Bartletti, Sonia Nazario | "Enrique's Journey" | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2002 | Book | Diane McWhorter | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Movement | |
| 2002 | Newspaper | David Olinger | "Seller Beware" | The Denver Post | |
| 2002 | Magazine | Katherine Boo | "After Welfare" | The New Yorker | |
| 2002 | Broadcast | Tia Lessin | "Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan" | Oxygen Network/WITNESS.org | |
| 2002 | Photography | Mia Song | "Poisoned Children: The Legacy of Lead" | The Star-Ledger | |
| 2001 | Book | Jack Metzgar | Striking Steel | |
| 2001 | Newspaper | Ellen Schultz | selected articles on pension cuts | The Wall Street Journal | |
| 2001 | Magazine | Dexter Roberts, Aaron Bernstein, Gail Edmondson | "Workers in Bondage; A Life of Fines and Beating" | Business Week | |
| 2001 | Broadcast | Stacy Abramson, David Isay | "Witness to an Execution" | NPR's All Things Considered | |
| 2001 | Broadcast | Belle Adler, Brad White | "American Dream, American Nightmare" | A&E | |
| 2000 | Book | Katherine S. Newman | No Shame in my Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City | | |
| 2000 | Newspaper | Maya Bell | "Why Children Kill" | The Orlando Sentinel | | |
| 2000 | Magazine | Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickel-and-Dimed | Harper's Magazine | |
| 2000 | Broadcast | Brian Lamb | For television in the public interest | C-SPAN | | |
| 1998 | Book | Taylor Branch | Pillar of Fire | | |
| 1998 | Newspaper | Jerry Mitchell | "The Preacher and the Klansman" and other investigative reporting on the KKK | The Clarion-Ledger | |
| 1998 | Magazine | Donald Barlett and James Steele | "What Corporate Welfare Costs You" | Time Magazine [21] |
| 1997 | Book | Robert Kuttner | Everything for Sale | |
| 1997 | Newspaper | Jason DeParle | "Learning Poverty Firsthand" and other stories of welfare reform | The New York Times | |
| 1997 | Magazine | William Finnegan | "The Unwanted" | The New Yorker | |
| 1997 | Broadcast | Ed Bradley | "Town Under Siege" | Ed Bradley on Assignment, CBS News | |
| 1997 | Book | William Julius Wilson | When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor | |
| 1996 | Newspaper | Rita Giordano and Alfred Lubrano | "Passyunk Homes: Welfare's Ground Zero" | The Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1996 | Magazine | Charles Bowden | "While You Were Sleeping" | Harper's Magazine | |
| 1996 | Broadcast | Grace Kahng and Stone Phillips | "Toy Story" | Dateline, NBC | |
| 1996 | Broadcast | David Isay, LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newman | "Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse" | NPR's All Things Considered | |
| 1996 | Book | Fox Butterfield | All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence | |
| 1995 | Book | Nelson Lichtenstein | The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (Distinguished Honorable Mention) | |
| 1995 | Newspaper | Chris Kelley | "Whither the Cities?" | The Dallas Morning News | |
| 1995 | Magazine | Eric Schlosser | "In the Strawberry Fields" | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| 1995 | Broadcast | Hedrick Smith | "Across the River" | WETA-TV | |
| 1994 | Book | James Traub | City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College | |
| 1994 | Newspaper | Jim Morris | for the series "Worked to Death" | Houston Chronicle | |
| 1994 | Magazine | Aaron Bernstein | "Inequality" and "Why America Needs Unions" | Business Week | |
| 1994 | Broadcast | Andrew Tkach | "Of Human Bondage: Slavery Today" | ABC News, "Turning Point" | |
| 1993 | Book | William Chafe | Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism | |
| 1993 | Newspaper | Eileen Welsome | for the series "The Plutonium Experiment" | The Albuquerque Tribune | |
| 1993 | Magazine | Team: Eric Bates, Adam Feuerstein, Mike Hudson, Rita Henley Jensen, Barry Yeoman | "Poverty, Inc." | Southern Exposure | |
| 1993 | Broadcast | Ofra Bikel | "Innocence Lost: The Verdict" | Frontline, WGBH-TV | |
| 1992 | Book | Ray Marshall and Marc Tucker | Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations | |
| 1992 | Newspaper | Nancy Stancill | for the series "Slaves to the Sale" | Houston Chronicle | |
| 1992 | Magazine | Jonathan Schlefer | "What Price Economic Growth?" | The Atlantic Monthly [22] |
| 1992 | Broadcast | John McChesney | "Morning Edition" - U.S. Manufacturing Series | National Public Radio | |
| 1992 | Broadcast | Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz | Dateline: Wal-Mart's Buy American | NBC-TV | |
| 1991 | Book | Nicholas Lemann | The Promised Land | |
| 1991 | Newspaper | Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele | for the series "America: What Went Wrong?" | The Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| 1991 | Magazine | Laurie Udesky | "Punishing the Poor" | Southern Exposure | |
| 1991 | Broadcast | California Working Group | "This Far By Faith" | |
| 1991 | Broadcast | Gary Covino | "David Duke: An Investigative Report" | Soundprint | |
| 1990 | Book | Andrew Revkin | The Burning Season | |
| 1990 | Newspaper | The Detroit Free Press | for the series "Workers at Risk" | The Detroit Free Press | |
| 1990 | Magazine | Frank Clancy | "Healing the Delta and Burnout in L.A." | American Health Magazine | |
| 1990 | Broadcast | Joan Beuckman | "Medical Costs: A Dangerous Diagnosis" | KMOX, CBS Radio, St. Louis, MO | |
| 1990 | Broadcast | Charlayne Hunter-Gault | "Through the Safety Net" | MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour | |
| 1989 | Book | Thomas L. Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem | |
| 1989 | Newspaper | William H. Freivogel, Margaret Wolf Freivogel | series on "The Shift on Civil Rights" | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | |
| 1989 | Magazine | Lawrence Weschler | "A Grand Experiment" | The New Yorker | |
| 1989 | Broadcast | Joan Beuckman | "Home, Street, Home" | KMOX, CBS Radio, St. Louis, MO | |
| 1989 | Broadcast | Jonathan Kwitny | "The Kwitny Report" | WNYC/PBS | |
| 1988 | Book | Neil Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | |
| 1988 | Newspaper | Anchorage Daily News | "A People in Peril" | Anchorage Daily News | |
| 1988 | Magazine | Robert Scheer | "The Man Who Blew the Whistle on 'Star Wars' " | Los Angeles Times Magazine | |
| 1988 | Broadcast | Marilyn V. DeAngelis | "Child Care: Everybody's Baby" | WLV I-TV56, Boston, MA | |
| 1988 | Broadcast | National Public Radio, News and Information Division | In recognition of far-reaching and creative news coverage | "All Things Considered", "Morning Edition", "Weekend Edition" | |
| 1987 | Book | Raymond Bonner | Waltzing with a Dictator | |
| 1987 | Newspaper | | "The Unfinished Dream" | The Journal (Lorain Ohio) | |
| 1987 | Magazine | Jerry Adler | "Every Parent's Nightmare" | Newsweek [23] |
| 1987 | Broadcast | Joan Beuckman, Margie Manning | "The High Cost of Growing Old", "Truth or Consequences" | KMOX Radio, CBS affiliate, St. Louis, MO | |
| 1987 | Broadcast | Public Affairs Television, Inc. | "In Search of the Constitution" | |
| 1986 | Book | Robert S. McNamara | "Blundering Into Disaster" | | | |
| 1986 | Newspaper | Henry Weinstein, Thomas H. Maugh II, Dan Morain | for the series "Drug Testing on the Job" | Los Angeles Times | | |
| 1986 | Magazine | Conor Cruise O'Brien | "God and Man in Nicaragua" | Atlantic Monthly | | |
| 1986 | Broadcast | CBS Reports | "The Vanishing Family - Crisis in Black America" | CBS-TV | | |
| 1986 | Broadcast | William Drummond | "Vale of Tears: The Legacy of Silicon Valley" | National Public Radio | | |
| 1985 | Book | Joseph Lelyveld | Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White | | | |
| 1985 | Newspaper | Series Writers | "The American Millstone" | Chicago Tribune | | |
| 1985 | Magazine | Daniel Ford | "The Button" | The New Yorker | | |
| 1985 | Broadcast | William Peters | A Class Divided | Yale University Films; Frontline, WGBH, Boston, MA | | |
| 1985 | Broadcast | Jane Elliott | A Class Divided (Honorary Award) | Yale University Films, Frontline, WGBH, Boston, MA | | |
| 1984 | Book | Strobe Talbott | Deadly Gambits | |
| 1984 | Newspaper | The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News | "Freedom Summer: A Generation Later" | The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News | | |
| 1984 | Magazine | Harrison E. Salisbury, special SHF Officers' Award | "The Strange Correspondence of Morris Ernst and John Edgar Hoover" | The Nation | | |
| 1984 | Magazine | Jacqueline Sharkey | "The Tug of War" | Common Cause Magazine | | |
| 1984 | Broadcast | KMOL-TV, San Antonio, TX | "Valley of the Shadow of Life" | KMOL-TV | | |
| 1984 | Broadcast | KMOX Radio | "Series on Child Welfare" | KMOX Radio, CBS affiliates, St. Louis, MO | | |
| 1983 | Book | Seymour M. Hersh | The Price of Power | | | |
| 1983 | Newspaper | Patrick Owens and Bob Wyrick | "The Disability Nightmare" | Newsday | | |
| 1983 | Magazine | Carl Sagan | "Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe: Some Policy Implications" | Foreign Affairs | | |
| 1983 | Broadcast | Leslie Cockburn | "The Pentagon Underground" | Our Times with Bill Moyers, CBS News | | |
| 1982 | Book | Jonathan Schell | The Fate of the Earth | | | |
| 1982 | Newspaper | Rita Ciolli | for the series "The Island Trees Case" | Newsday | | |
| 1982 | Magazine | Elizabeth Drew | "Politics and Money" | The New Yorker [24] |
| 1982 | Broadcast | Marc Cooper and Tim Frasca | "El Salvador: The Elections" | Pacifica Radio News | | |
| 1982 | Broadcast | Judy Reemtsma | "People Like Us" | CBS News | | |
| 1981 | Book | Jacobo Timerman | Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number | | | |
| 1981 | Newspaper | The Atlanta Constitution | for the series "Black and Poor in Atlanta" | The Atlanta Constitution | |
| 1981 | Magazine | The Angolite | "Louisiana Death Watch" | | | |
| 1981 | Broadcast | Nina Totenberg | "All Things Considered: Voting Rights Act" | National Public Radio | |
| 1981 | Broadcast | CBS Reports | "The Defense of the United States" | CBS News | | |
| 1980 | Book | Penny Lernoux | Cry of the People | | | |
| 1980 | Newspaper | The Miami Herald | for a series on police brutality | The Miami Herald | | |
| 1980 | Broadcast | Bill Moyers' Journal | "Campaign Report #3" | WNET/13 | | |
| 1980 | Broadcast | MacNeil-Lehrer Report | Special award for continued excellence in television journalism | | | |
| 1979 | Book | William Shawcross | Sideshow - Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia | | | |
| 1979 | Newspaper | Deidre Murphy | for a series on poverty | Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, N.Y.) | | |
| 1979 | Magazine | Michael H. Brown | "Love Canal and the Poisoning of America" | The Atlantic Monthly | | |
| 1979 | Broadcast | Steve Singer, Tom Priestley | The Killing Ground | ABC-TV News Closeup | | |
| 1979 | Broadcast | Carol Colman | "Women at Work" | WRFM-New York | | |
| 1978 | Book | Charles E. Silberman | Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice | | | |
| 1978 | Newspaper | Michael Flannery & Bruce Ingersoll | for a series on the working wounded | Chicago Sun Times | |
| 1978 | Newspaper | I. F. Stone | Special Award | | | |
| 1978 | Magazine | Tracy Kidder | "Soldiers of Misfortune" | The Atlantic Monthly | | |
| 1978 | Broadcast | Abby Mann | "King" | Abby Mann/Filmway/NBC | | |
| 1977 | Book | Philip Caputo | A Rumor of War | | | |
| 1977 | Newspaper | Stan Swofford | for a series on the "Wilmington 10" | Greensboro (NC) Daily News | | |
| 1977 | Magazine | Eliot Marshall | "Anatomy of Health Care Costs" | The New Republic | | |
| 1977 | Broadcast | Bill Moyers | "The Fire Next Door" | [25] |
| 1977 | Broadcast | ABC Television Network | Roots (special award) | ABC-TV | | |
| 1976 | Book | Richard Kluger | Simple Justice | | | |
| 1976 | Newspaper | John Seigenthaler | for courage in publishing | The Tennessean | | |
| 1976 | Magazine | Guy Neal Williams | "The Mushroom Pickers" | Philadelphia Magazine | | |
| 1976 | Broadcast | Paul Leaf | "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys" | | | |
| 1975 | Book | E. J. Kahn, Jr. | The China Hands | | | |
| 1975 | Newspaper | William S. Randall & Stephen D. Solomon | investigative reporting | Philadelphia Inquirer | | |
| 1975 | Magazine | Susan Sheehan | "A Welfare Mother" | The New Yorker | | |
| 1975 | Broadcast | CBS Television Network | Fear on Trial | CBS-TV | | |
| 1974 | Book | Richard Jackson Barnet & Ronald E. Muller | Global Reach | | | |
| 1974 | Book | Noel Mostert | Supership | | | |
| 1974 | Newspaper | The Boston Globe | coverage of school integration crisis | The Boston Globe | | |
| 1974 | Newspaper | Seymour M. Hersh | articles on the C.I.A. | The New York Times | | |
| 1974 | Broadcast | CBS Television Network | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | CBS-TV | | |
| 1974 | Broadcast | WNET/13 | Special Award for outstanding programming | WNET | | |
| 1973 | Book | Jervis Anderson | A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait | | | |
| 1973 | Book | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | The Imperial Presidency | | | |
| 1973 | Book | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Special Award | | | |
| 1973 | Newspaper | Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele | investigative reporting | The Philadelphia Inquirer | | |
| 1973 | Magazine | Richard L. Strout | for his columns, signed TRB | The New Republic | | |
| 1973 | Magazine | Paul Brodeur | "Annals of Industry: Casualties of the Workplace" | The New Yorker | | |
| 1973 | Broadcast | Paul Altmeyer | "Freedom & Security: The Uncertain Balance" | Westinghouse Broadcasting Company | |
| 1972 | Book | Frances FitzGerald | Fire in the Lake | | | |
| 1972 | Newspaper | Carl Bernstein & Robert Woodward | the Watergate investigation | The Washington Post | | |
| 1972 | Magazine | Frank J. Donner & Eugene Cerruti | "The Grand Jury Network" | The Nation [26] |
| 1972 | Broadcast | Lucy Jarvis | "What Price Health?" | NBC-TV | |
| 1971 | Book | Morton Mintz & Jerry S. Cohen | America Inc. | |
| 1971 | Newspaper | Alfred Friendly | "Victims of the Great American Red Hunt" | The Washington Post | | |
| 1971 | Newspaper | Neil Sheehan | "The Pentagon Papers" | The New York Times | | |
| 1971 | Magazine | Carolyn See, Kenneth Lasson, William Serrin, Robert Coles, Richard Todd | "Work in America" | The Atlantic Monthly | | |
| 1971 | Broadcast | Martin Carr | "This Child Is Rated X" | NBC-TV | | |
| 1970 | Book | Ramsey Clark | Crime in America | | | |
| 1970 | Newspaper | John Kifner | series on the "Kent State tragedy" | The New York Times | | |
| 1970 | Magazine | Christopher H. Pyle | articles on "Army surveillance of political activity" | The Washington Monthly | | |
| 1970 | Broadcast | Ronn Bonn & Walter Cronkite | "Can the World Be Saved" | CBS News | | |
| 1969 | Book | Congressman Richard McCarthy | The Ultimate Folly | | | |
| 1969 | Newspaper | William J. Eaton | "The Appearance of Impropriety" | Chicago Daily News | | |
| 1969 | Magazine | Daniel Lang | "Casualties of War" | The New Yorker | | |
| 1969 | Broadcast | Fred Freed | "Who Killed Lake Erie?" | NBC-TV | | |
| 1968 | Book | George R. Stewart | Not So Rich As You Think | | | |
| 1968 | Newspaper | James K. Batten & Dwayne Walls | "The People Left Behind" | Charlotte Observer | | |
| 1968 | Magazine | Charles Remsberg, Bonnie Remsberg | "America's Hungry Families" | Good Housekeeping | | |
| 1968 | Broadcast | Bill Osterhous & Dick Huber | "One Nation, Indivisible" | Westinghouse Broadcasting Company | | |
| 1967 | Book | Ronald Steel | Pax Americana | | | |
| 1967 | Book | Alan F. Westin | Privacy and Freedom | | | |
| 1967 | Newspaper | Howard James | series on the "Crisis in the Courts" | The Christian Science Monitor | | |
| 1967 | Broadcast | Jay L. McMullen | "The Tenement" | CBS-TV News | | |
| 1967 | Broadcast | Harold Mayer & Lynne Rhodes Mayer, producer and writer | "The Way It Is" | National Educational Television Network (Honorable Mention) | | |
| 1966 | Book | Joseph P. Lyford | The Airtight Cage | | | |
| 1966 | Newspaper | Harrison E. Salisbury | reporting from North Vietnam (special award) | The New York Times [27] |
| 1966 | Newspaper | Robert Keveney & Douglas Walker | a series on right-wing groups | Dayton Daily News | | |
| 1966 | Magazine | Richard Harris | "Medicare" | The New Yorker | | |
| 1966 | Broadcast | William C. Jersey | A Time for Burning | National Educational Television Network | | |
| 1965 | Book | Kenneth B. Clark | Dark Ghetto | | | |
| 1965 | Magazine | Theodore Draper | "The Dominican Crisis - A Case Study in American Policy" | Commentary | | |
| 1964 | Book | Dr. James W. Silver | Mississippi: The Closed Society | | | |
| 1964 | Book | Bernard D. Nossiter | The Mythmakers | | | |
| 1964 | Newspaper | J. O. Emmerich | editorials on the civil rights crisis there | Enterprise Journal (McComb, MS) | | |
| 1964 | Magazine | J. Robert Moskin | "Challenge to Our Doctors" | Look | | |
| 1964 | Broadcast | Joseph Wershba | "Gideon's Trumpet: The Poor Man & The Law" | CBS-TV | | |
| 1963 | Book | Richard Hofstadter | Anti-Intellectualism in American Life | | | |
| 1963 | Newspaper | Horance G. Davis | editorials on civil rights | Gainesville (FL) Daily Sun | | |
| 1963 | Magazine | Arnold Hano | "The Burned Out Americans" | Saga Magazine | | |
| 1963 | Broadcast | Millard Lampell | "No Hiding Place", on the East Side/West Side series | CBS-TV | | |
| 1962 | Book | Michael Harrington | The Other America | | | |
| 1962 | Newspaper | Ira Harkey | editorials on the crisis at the Mississippi University | Pascagoula (MS) Chronicle | | |
| 1962 | Magazine | Margaret Parton | "Sometimes Life Just Happens" | Ladies Home Journal |
| 1962 | Broadcast | Warren Wallace | "Superfluous People | WCBS-TV, New York | | |
| 1962 | Broadcast | John Keats, George Dessart, David E. Wilson | "Conformity" | WCAU-T V, Philadelphia | | |
| 1961 | Book | Jane Jacobs | Death and Life of Great American Cities | | | |
| 1961 | Newspaper | Patrick J. Owens | editorials on current issues | Pine Bluff (AR) Commercial | | |
| 1961 | Magazine | Lillian Smith | "The Ordeal of Southern Women" | Redbook | | |
| 1961 | Broadcast | Al Wasserman, Robert Young, Charles Dorkins | "White Paper #7: Angola: Journey to a War" | NBC-TV | | |
| 1960 | Book | David McEntire | Residence and Race | | | |
| 1960 | Book | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich [28] |
| 1960 | Newspaper | Sylvan Meyer | editorials on race relations | Gainesville (GA) Daily Times | |
| 1960 | Magazine | Harry W. Ernst & Charles H. Drake | "Poor, Proud and Primitive: The Lost Appalachians" | The Nation | | |
| 1960 | Broadcast | Walter Peters, Marshal Diskin | "Cast the First Stone" | ABC-TV | | |
| 1959 | Book | Harold M. Hyman | To Try Men's Souls | | | |
| 1959 | Broadcast | Edward P. Morgan | News broadcasts over the ABC Network | ABC-TV | | |
| 1959 | Broadcast | WNTA-TV, N.Y. | The Play of the Week programs | WNTA-TV | | |
| 1958 | Book | John Kenneth Galbraith | The Affluent Society | | | |
| 1958 | Newspaper | Harry L. Billings & Gretchen Billings | editorials on civil liberties and public welfare system | The People | | |
| 1958 | Newspaper | Ralph McGill | editorials defending the public school system | Atlanta Constitution | | |
| 1958 | Magazine | Giorgio de Santillana | "Galileo and J.Robert Oppenheimer" | The Reporter | | |
| 1958 | Magazine | Harvey Swados | "Myth of the Powerful Worker" | The Nation | | |
| 1958 | Broadcast | Irving Gitlin | Supervision of CBS Unit One, particularly the programs "Who Killed Michael Farmer" and " P.O.W.- A Study in Survival" | CBS-TV | | |
| 1957 | Book | Wilma Dykeman & James Stokely | Neither Black Nor White | | | |
| 1957 | Newspaper | A. M. Secrest | editorials on civil rights | Cheraw (SC) Chronicle | | |
| 1957 | Newspaper | Harry Ashmore | editorials on school integration | Arkansas Gazette | | |
| 1957 | Broadcast | Theodore Ayres | Face the Nation interview with Krushchev | CBS-TV | | |
| 1957 | Broadcast | George A. Vicas | "Radio Beat" debates between American and Soviet scientists and educators | CBS Radio | | |
| 1956 | Book | Walter Gellhorn | Individual Freedom and Government Restraints | | | |
| 1956 | Newspaper | The New York Times | editorials on the Middle East Crisis (special award) | The New York Times | | |
| 1956 | Newspaper | Robert H. Spiegel | series on segregation in Des Moines | Des Moines Tribune | | |
| 1956 | Magazine | Robert Penn Warren | "Divided South Searches Its Soul" | Life | | |
| 1956 | Magazine | John Fischer | "The Harm Good People Do" | Harper's Magazine | | |
| 1955 | Book | John Lord | National Security and Individual Freedom | | | |
| 1955 | Newspaper | Murray Marder | articles on the government security program | The Washington Post | |
| 1955 | Newspaper | Ben H. Bagdikian | series on civil liberties | Providence Journal Bulletin [29] |
| 1955 | Magazine | Robert Engler | "Oil and Politics" | The New Republic | |
| 1954 | Book | Henry Steele Commager | Freedom, Loyalty and Dissent | |
| 1954 | Newspaper | Daniel R. Fitzpatrick | editorial cartoons (special award) | St. Louis Dispatch | |
| 1954 | Newspaper | Vic Reinemer | editorials on civil liberties and civil rights | Charlotte (NC) News | |
| 1954 | Magazine | Charlotte Knight | "What Price Security" | Collier's | | |
| 1954 | Magazine | The Progressive | special issue on Senator McCarthy (special award) | The Progressive | | |
| 1954 | Broadcast | Eric Sevareid | "American Week", programs on civil rights issues | CBS-TV | | |
| 1954 | Broadcast | WNYC, New York City | public service program (special award) | WNYC | | |
| 1953 | Book | Theodore H. White [30] | Fire in the Ashes | | | |
| 1953 | Newspaper | Ralph S. O'Leary [30] | a series on civil liberties | Houston Post | | |
| 1953 | Magazine | Joseph Wechsberg [30] | "The Seventeenth of June" | The New Yorker | | |
| 1953 | Broadcast | Edward R. Murrow [30] | "See It Now" programs on civil liberties | CBS-TV | | |
| 1953 | Broadcast | Gerald W. Johnson [30] | broadcast on civil liberties and other issues | WAAM, Baltimore | | |
| 1952 | Book | Herbert Block | The Herblock Book | | | |
| 1952 | Newspaper | W. Horace Carter, Willard G. Cole, Jay Jenkins, | articles and editorials exposing the Ku Klux Klan | North Carolina Tribune, North Carolina News and Reporter, North Carolina News and Observer | | |
| 1951 | Book | Alan Barth | The Loyalty of Free Men | |
| 1951 | Newspaper | Carl T. Rowan | articles on race relations in the South | Minneapolis Tribune | | |
| 1951 | Magazine | Arthur D. Morse | "Who's Trying to Ruin Our Schools?" | McCall's | | |
| 1950 | Book | John Hersey | The Wall | |
| 1950 | Newspaper | A. H. Raskin | articles on labor | The New York Times | | |
| 1950 | Newspaper | Murray Kempton | articles on labor in the South | New York Post | | |
| 1950 | Magazine | James H. Means, M.D. | "Doctors Lobby and England's Public Medicine: The Facts" | The Atlantic Monthly | [31] |
