Heywood Broun Award Winners, Judges: 2000-present

01 Dec 2009

[Contest year is year work was published and aired; judging and award ceremony occurs the spring of the following year.]

2007:

Dana Priest and Anne Hull, Washington Post—for “The Other Walter Reed” and “Walter Reed and Beyond,”a searing examination of abusive conditions at the nation's top medical center for injured war veterans, evoking national outrage and multiple resignations of top military personnel.

[Honorable mentions to Michael Riley, Denver Post; Charles Duhigg, New York Times; and Ray Ring, High Country News

    Judges

    Donald l. Barlett, Vanity Fair

    Karen Heller, Philadelphia Inquirer

    Sacha Pfeiffer, Boston Globe

    Robert E. Pierre, Washington Post

    Martin Tolchin, Politico.com

2006:

Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman, Hartford Courant—for “Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight,” a four-part series that detailed the extent to which the U.S. military has been sending mentally troubled troops into combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Honorable mentions to Debbie Cenziper, the Miami Herald; and Lorrie Taylor, WJW-TV, Cleveland.]

    Judges

    Deborah Howell, Washington Post

    Tom Kunkel, University of Maryland

    Chris Lehmann, CQ Weekly

    Jack Nelson, Los Angeles Times (ret.)

2005:

Matt Lait and Scott Glover, The Los Angeles Times—for “A Case of Doubt,” an examination of a a 20-year-old murder conviction that was so painstaking it forced the prosecutor to question the evidence and led to a reopening of the case.

[Honorable mentions to Chis Adams and Alison Young, Knight Ridder; and Sasha Aslanian and Mike Edgerly, American Radio Works and Minnesota Public Radio.]

    Judges

    Neil MacDonald, CBC Television News

    William Raspberry, Washington Post (ret.)

    Rem Rieder, American Journalism Review

    ConnieSchultz, Cleveland Plain Dealer

    Anee Raulerson (broadcast)

    Julie Wright (broadcast)

2004:

David S. Fallis, The Washington Post—for his four-part series on Virginia’s “assisted living industry,” a dysfunctional patchwork of more than 600 privately-run homes for disabled adults, and on the state regulatory agencies that turned a blind eye to their deficient care.

[Honorable mentions to Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle; and Diane Sawyer, ABC News PrimeTime.]

    Judges

    Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News

    Peter Perl, The Washington Post

    Richard Prince, Maynard Institute

    Lori Robertson, American Journalism Review

    Nan Robertson, New York Times (ret.)

    S. Tyrone Barksdale (broadcast)

    Debra Pettit (broadcast)

2003:

Christine Willmsen and Maureen O’Hagan, Seattle Times—for a four-part series, “Coaches Who Prey,” that reported on a veil of silence that enabled sexually predatory male coaches to continue their abuses despite reprimands and dismissals.

[Honorable mentions to Jill Leovy, Los Angeles Times; and Andrea Bernstein and Amy Eddings, N.Y. Public Radio]

    Judges

    Peter Gelzinis, Boston Herald

    Chris Hanson, University of Maryland

    Stephen Labaton, New York Times

    Andrew Maykuth, Philadelphia Inquirer

    Tracey Neale (broadcast)

    Julie Wright (broadcast)

2002:

Andy Furillo, Sacramento Bee—for a two-part series that chronicled the rise and fall of an inner city neighborhood, thanks to absentee landlords and systemic exploitation, prompting a municipal takeover and reconstruction.

    Judges

    Phil Dine, St. Louis Post Dispatch

    Trudy Lieberman, Consumer Reports

    Bill Marimow, Baltimore Sun

    Acel Moore, Philadelphia Inquirer

2001:

David Heath and Duff Wilson, Seattle Times—for series investigating a cancer research center at which patients were treated with experimental drugs without full disclosure—including doctors’ financial stake in the drugs being tested.

    Judges

    Tom Ferrick, Philadelphia Inquirer

    Frank Swoboda, The Washington Post

    Carl Sessions Stepp, American Journalism Review

    Jean Thompson, The Baltimore Sun

2000:

Mary Hargrove, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette—for series reporting on the failures of the Arkansas juvenile justice system, prompting reform state legislation.

    Judges

    Marvin Kalb, Shorenstein Center

    Alan L. Otten, Wall Street Journal (ret.)

    Sanford Watzman, State magazine (ret.)

    Lena Williams, New York Times