The following is a list of

award An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An awar ...

s won by the

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newspaper ''

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''.

Pulitzer Prizes

''The Washington Post'' has won 65

Pulitzer Prizes The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had ma ...

in journalism, the second highest of any newspaper or magazine in the United States. It has won the gold medal for Public Service, the most distinguished award, six times. The newspaper won its first prize in 1936 for Editorial Writing and its most recent in 2022.

General awards

Aldo Beckman Award

The Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage, also known as The Aldo Beckman Award, is an annual award given by the

White House Correspondents' Association The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) is an organization of journalists who cover the White House and the president of the United States. The WHCA was founded on February 25, 1914, by journalists in response to an unfounded rumor t ...

for "overall excellence" in White House coverage.

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award

The

Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award honors excellence in broadcast and digital journalism in the public service and is considered one of the most prestigious awards in journalism. The awards were established in 1942 and administered ...

, presented by the

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism ...

, honors excellence in

broadcast Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began wi ...

and digital

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the " news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (p ...

Bastiat Prize

The Bastiat Prize was an annual

award, given by the

Reason Foundation The Reason Foundation is an American libertarian think tank that was founded in 1978. The foundation publishes the magazine ''Reason''. Based in Los Angeles, California, it is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. According to its web site, the f ...

, that recognizes journalists whose writing "best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence."

Edward R. Murrow Award

The Edward R. Murrow Award is an annual award that honors the best achievements in digital journalism.

George Polk Awards

The

George Polk Awards in Journalism The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the awar ...

, also known as the George Polk Awards, are an annual journalism award, given by

Long Island University Long Island University (LIU) is a private university with two main campuses, LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York. It offers more than 500 academic programs at its main campuses, online, and at multiple non-residential. LIU ...

, honoring the best reporting in a number of categories.

Gerald Loeb Award

The Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, also known as the Gerald Loeb Award, is a recognition of excellence in

, especially in the fields of

business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit." Having a business name does not separ ...

finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of f ...

and the

economy An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with th ...

Herblock Prize

The Herblock Prize is an annual journalism award, given by the Herb Block Foundation, for excellence in editorial cartooning. The award is named after ''Post'' cartoonist

Herbert Block Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October13, 1909October7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy. During the course of a career stretchi ...

Hillman Prize

The Hillman Prize is an annual journalism award, presented by

The Sidney Hillman Foundation The Sidney Hillman Foundation is an American charitable foundation that awards prizes to journalists who investigate issues related to social justice and progressive public policy. The foundation, founded in 1946, is named for Sidney Hillman, who ...

, honoring journalists, writers, and public figures "who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good."

John Chancellor Award

The John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, also known as the John Chancellor Award, is an annua journalisml award given by the

, honoring one reporting with "courage, character and integrity for cumulative professional accomplishments."

Livingston Awards

The

Livingston Awards The Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan are American journalism awards issued to media professionals under the age of 35 for local, national, and international reporting. They are the largest, all-media, general reporting prizes in A ...

is an annual journalism award, given by the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, recognizing journalists under the age of 35 for local, national, and international coverage.

Peabody Award

The

George Foster Peabody Awards The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...

, also known as Peabody Awards or the Peabodys, is an annual award that recognizes distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

and

radio stations Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio sta ...

, networks, producing organizations, individuals, and the

World Wide Web The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet. Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web ...

Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award

The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism is an annual journalism award, named after Robert F. Kennedy, and given by the

Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (formerly the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, or RFK Center) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit human rights advocacy organization. It was named after United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy ...

. The awards honor journalism's best work in several categories.

Scripps Howard Awards

The Scripps Howard Awards is an annual journalism award, given by the

Scripps Howard Foundation The Scripps Howard Fund is a public charity that supports philanthropic causes important to the E. W. Scripps Company, an American media conglomerate which owns television stations, cable television networks, and other media outlets. The goal of ...

, that honors the best work in journalism across more than a dozen categories from multiple platforms, including television stations, networks, visual media, and newspapers.

Sigma Delta Chi Awards

The

Sigma Delta Chi Awards The Sigma Delta Chi Awards are presented annually by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) (formerly Sigma Delta Chi) for excellence in journalism. The SPJ states the purpose of the award is to promote "the free flow of information vit ...

are an annual award, given by the Society of Professional Journalism, for excellence in journalism across multiple categories.

Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism

The

Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism The Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism is an annual award presented by Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The recipient is deemed to represent a leading figure in the journalism ...

is an annual award presented by

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication (often abbreviated to The Cronkite School by its students and faculty), is one of the 24 independent schools at Arizona State University and is named in honor of veteran broadcast jo ...

. The recipient is deemed to represent a leading figure in the

industry, especially for ground-breaking achievements which have advanced the industry as a whole.

Investigative awards

Goldsmith Prize

The

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting is an award for journalists administered by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. The program was launched in 1991, with the goal of exposing examples of ...

, also known as the Goldsmith Prize, is an annual award for journalists administered by the

Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center that explores the intersection and impact of media, politics and public policy in theory and practice. Among other activities, the center ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

IRE Awards

The Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, also known as the IRE Awards, is an annual journalism award given by the Investigative Reporters and Editors, a nonprofit organization located at the

University of Missouri School of Journalism The Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia is one of the oldest formal journalism schools in the world. The school provides academic education and practical training in all areas of journalism and strategic commu ...

James Aronson Awards

The James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism, also known as the James Aronson Awards, is an annual journalism award given by

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admin ...

, that honors "original, written English-language reporting from the U.S. media that brings to light widespread injustices, their human consequences, underlying causes, and possible reforms."

Selden Ring Award

The Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, also known as the Selden Ring Award, is an annual journalism award given by the

Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism The USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism comprises a School of Communication and a School of Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC). Starting July 2017, the school’s Dean is Willow Bay, succeeding Ernest ...

at the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...

, that recognizes investigating reporting that has made an impact.

Sidney Awards

The Sidney Award is a monthly

award given out by

to "outstanding investigative journalism in service of the common good."

Toner Prizes

The Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting, also known as The Toner Prize, is an annual award, presented by the

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, commonly known as Newhouse School, is the communications and journalism school of Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. It has programs in print and broadcast journalism; music business; graphic ...

Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...

, that honors the "best U.S. national or local political reporting in any medium or on any platform—print, broadcast or online."

Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

The

Worth Bingham Prize The Worth Bingham Prize, also referred to as the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting, is an annual journalism award which honors: "newspaper or magazine investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public inter ...

, also referred to as the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting, is an annual

award, presented by the

Nieman Foundation for Journalism The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is the primary journalism institution at Harvard. It was founded in February 1938 as the result of a $1.4 million bequest by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow of Lucius W. Nieman, founder of ...

, honoring "newspaper or magazine investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public interest is being ill-served."

References

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