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), a former WHCA president unrelated to the American fiction writer of the nearly identical name.
The award, which honored excellence in news coverage of subjects and events of significant national or regional importance to the American people, was presented from 1990 to 2019 at the annual dinner of the WHCA (when it was discontinued in place of two new awards).
List of winners YearRecipientEmployerArticle / ShowNotes / 1989 Keith Epstein The Plain Dealer 1990 Rochelle Sharpe and Marjie Lundstrom Gannett News Service "A series of reports ... on child abuse." 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." 1992 Chris Drew and Mick Tackett Chicago Tribune "A series of articles on lobbying... [and] how the system functions." 1993 Richard Whittle The Dallas Morning News 1994 Russell Carollo and Cheryl Reed Dayton Daily News 1995 Joby Warrick and Pat Stith The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) "'The Power of Pork,' their well-researched series on the pork farming business..." 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." 1997 Earl Lane and Andrew Smith Newsday Their series "The Leftovers of the Nuclear Age." 1998 Michael Isikoff Newsweek "Clinton–Lewinsky scandal" 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." 2000Elizabeth Marchak, Dave Davis, and Joan MazzoliniThe Plain DealerJohn Barry and Evan ThomasNewsweekHonorable MentionDavid PaceAssociated PressHonorable Mention2001Evan Thomas, Mark Hosenball, Martha Brant, and Roy GutmanNewsweekStaffThe Seattle TimesHonorable MentionStaffThe Dayton Daily NewsHonorable Mention2002Sean NaylorArmy TimesStaffSouth Florida Sun-SentinelHonorable MentionMichael BerensChicago TribuneHonorable Mention2003Russell Corollo and Mei-ling HopgoodDayton Daily NewsChristopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. PoundU.S. News & World ReportHonorable MentionMichael HudsonSouthern Exposure magazineHonorable MentionWarren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. LandyKnight RidderHonorable MentionRod Nordland and Michael HirshNewsweekHonorable MentionSami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau, and Michael HirshNewsweekHonorable MentionFareed ZakariaNewsweekHonorable Mention2004Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance WilliamsThe San Francisco ChronicleDonald Barlett and James SteeleTime magazineHonorable Mention2005Marcus Stern and Jerry KammerCopley News ServiceStaffTime magazineHonorable MentionRussell Carollo and Larry KaplowDayton Daily NewsHonorable Mention2006Joan RyanThe San Francisco Chronicle2007Paul Shukovsky, Tracy Johnson, and Daniel LathropSeattle Post-Intelligencer2008Michael J. Berens and Ken ArmstrongThe Seattle Times2009Suzanne Bohan and Sandy KleffmanContra Costa Times, California2010Michael BerensThe Seattle Times2011Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan, Chris HawleyAssociated Press2012Jim Morris, Chris Hamby, Ronnie GreeneThe Center for Public Integrity (CPI)Hard Labor2013Megan TwoheyReuters"The Child Exchange: Inside America's Underground Market for Adopted Children," Chris Hamby, Matthew Mosk, and Brian RossThe Center for Public Integrity (CPI) and ABC News"Breathless and Burdened: Dying from black lung, buried by law and medicine,"2014Gary Fields, John R. Emshwiller, Rob Barry, and Coulter JonesThe Wall Street Journal"America's Rap Sheet"Carol D. LeonnigThe Washington Post"Secret Service"2015Neela Banerjee, John Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa SongInside Climate NewsTerrence McCoyThe Washington Post2016David FahrentholdThe Washington Post2017Jason Szep, Peter Eisler, Tim Reid, Lisa Girion, Grant Smith and team Reuters"Shock Tactics"Norah O'DonnellCBS This MorningSexual Assault in the Air Force AcademyHonorable MentionDan Diamond and Rachana PradhanPoliticoTom Price's Private Jet TravelHonorable Mention2018 Joshua Schneyer, Michael Pell, Andrea Januta, and Deborah NelsonReuters"Ambushed at Home"
See also Raymond Clapper Memorial Award
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