Previous Winners
2006: Byron Calame, Public Editor, The New York Times
2005: "Press Clips" columns by Sydney H. Schanberg in The Village Voice
2004: State of the News Media by Project for Excellence in Journalism (Director of Project for Excellence in Journalism, Tom Rosenstiel)
2003: Lori Robertson for articles in American Journalism Review
2002: Allan Wolper for "Ethics Corner" in Editor & Publisher.
2001: Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel for The Elements of Journalism.
2000: The Media Unit of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
1999: Alicia C. Shepard for eight articles in American Journalism Review.
1998: James S. Ettema and Theodore L. Glasser for their book Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue.
1997: Edwin Diamond, a Lifetime Achievement Award, for his 45-year career as a media critic, author, and professor of journalism.
1996: James Fallows for his book Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy.
1995: Ellen Hume for her report "Tabloids, Talk radio, and the Future of News: Technology's Impact of Journalism."
1994: Phyliss Kaniss for her book The Media and the Mayor's Race: The Failure of Urban Political Reporting

Lowell Mellett Award for Media Criticism
1994: Nieman Reports for its treatment of health and religion coverage.
1993: William Puette for his book Through Jaundiced Eyes: How the Media View Organized Labor.
1992: Stephen Klaidman for his book Health in the Headlines.
1991: Tom Rosenstiel of the Los Angeles Times, for his articles on the role of media in the overthrow of Communist governments in Eastern Europe, technological and social change in the television industry, and media coverage of the Iraq-Kuwait crisis.
1990: Ben H. Bagdikian for his article "Missing From the News" in The Progressive, and for cumulative press evaluation.
1989: Sheila Kaplan for her article "The Powers that Be Lobbying" in the Washington Monthly.
1988: Martin Schram for his book The Great American Video Game.
1987: Jonathan Alter for his work as news media editor of Newsweek.
1986: Norman Isaacs for his book Untended Gates and Anthony Marro
for his article "When the Government Tells Lies" in the Columbia Journalism Review.
1985: KPIX-TV, San Francisco, California, for "Second Look" Don McGaffin, columnist; Joanne Sutro, producer Don Harrison of the Philadelphia Daily News for his column "The Press."
1984: The St. Louis Journalism Review
1983: ABC News for "Viewpoint" and David Shaw for media criticism in the Los Angeles Times.
1982: Steven Hess for his book The Washington Reporters.
1981: A. Kent MacDougall of the Los Angeles Times for analysis of media coverage of business.
1980: Walt Harrington of the Allentown Call-Chronicle for critical examination of his newspaper company's role in a community controversy.
1979: The St. Louis Journalism Review.

Bart Richards Former newspaper editor, namesake for the award.

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