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.
Award criteria The award was established to: 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. 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.
The recipient is chosen, based on a selection committee's judgement of a journalist's integrity, craftsmanship, character, intelligence, and courage.
Recipients Year Recipient References2024Jacqueline Charles 2023 Evan Gershkovich 2018 Chuck Plunkett 2017 Alec MacGillis 2016 Alissa Rubin 2015 Katherine Boo 2014 James Risen 2013 A. C. Thompson 2012 Bob Woodward 2011 Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson 2010 Alfredo Corchado Jimenez "COLBY COLLEGE: Journalist speaks of silence, anger, finding one's voice Alfredo Corchado accepts Elijah Parish Lovejoy award", The Morning Sentinel, Scott Monroe, September 27, 2010. Accessed at 2009 Paul Salopek 2008 Anne Hull 2007 John F. Burns 2006 Jerry Mitchell 2005 Cynthia Tucker 2004 Louis "Studs" Terkel 2003 Steve Mills and Maurice Possley 2002 Daniel Pearl 2001 Pat and Tom Gish 2000 Bill Kovach 1999 William Raspberry 1998 Ellen Goodman 1997 David Halberstam 1996 John Seigenthaler 1995 Murray Kempton 1994 Eugene Patterson 1993 Eileen Shanahan 1992 Sydney Schanberg 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 1982 W. E. Chilton III 1981 A. M. Rosenthal 1980 Roger Tatarian 1979 Katherine "Kay" Fanning 1978 Jack C. Landau, Clayton Kirkpatrick 1977 Donald Bolles 1976 Vermont C. Royster 1975 William Davis Taylor 1974 James Reston 1973 Katharine Graham 1972 Dolph C Simons, Jr 1971 Erwin D. Canham 1969 John S. Knight 1968 Carl Rowan 1967 Edwin A. Lahey 1966 Otis Chandler 1965 Colbert 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 1957 Buford Boone 1956 Arthur Hays Sulzberger 1955 Charles A. Sprague 1954 James Russell Wiggins 1953 Irving Dilliard 1952 James S. Pope
See also Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award (to editors)
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