2000 Kevin Freking, Arkansas Democrat

2001 Bill Walsh, New Orleans Times-Picayune

2002 Maureen Groppe, Gannett News Service

2003 Sean Reilly, The Mobile Register

2004 Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers

2005 Deirdre Shesgreen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

2006  David Lightman, The Hartford Courant and John E. Mulligan, The Providence Journal

2007  Lisa Mascaro, Las Vegas Sun

2008  Deirdre Shesgreen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

2009  Robert Hotakainen, McClatchy Newspapers

2010  Barbara Barrett, McClatchy Newspapers

2011 Karoun Demirijin, Las Vegas Sun

2102 Allison Sherry, The Denver Post