NABJ SPECIAL
HONORS
Past Winners (Abridged)
Journalist of the Year
2003 George
Curry, NNPA
2002 Byron Pitts,
CBS
2001 Gerald
Boyd, The New York Times
2000 Kevin
Merida, The Washington Post
1999 Ron Allen,
NBC
1998 Clarence
Williams III, Los Angeles Times
1997 Gary Fields,
USA Today
1996 Ed Gordon,
BET News, NBC
1995 Andrea
Ford, Los Angeles Times [deceased]
1994 Isabel
Wilkerson, New York Times
1993 Bryant
Gumbel, NBC Today
1992 Carole
Simpson, ABC
1991
1990 Maureen
Bunyan, WUSA-TV, Washington, DC
1989 Bernard
Shaw, CNN
1988 Michel
duCille, Washington Post
1987 Andrew
W. Cooper, City Sun, Brooklyn, NY
1986 Charlayne
Hunter-Gault, PBS
1985 Kenneth
Walker, ABC, Dennis Bell, Newsday
1984 Morris
Thompson, Newsday
1983 Joe Ogelsby,
Miami Herald
1982 Gil Noble,
WABC-TV, New York
1981 Robert
C. Maynard, Oakland Tribune, Max Robinson, ABC
1980 NO WINNER
1979 Acel Moore,
Philadelphia Inquirer, Les Payne, Newsday
Lifetime Achievement
2003 Greg Freeman,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch [posthumous]
2002 Robert
McGruder, Detroit Free Press [posthumous]
2001 Charles
Jackson, Oakland Tribune [posthumous]
2000 Joseph
A. Palmer Sr., Proud magazine (posthumously)
and Dr. Ernest C. Withers Sr., The Withers Studio
1999 Belva Davis,
KPIX-TV, San Francisco
1998 Sarah Ann
Shaw, WBZ-TV, Boston, Nancy Hicks Maynard, MIJE
1997 Samuel
L. Adams, University of Kansas
1996 William
Brower, Toledo Blade
1995 Thomas
Morgan III, New York Times
1994 William
Raspberry, Washington Post
1993 Luix Overbea,
Christian Science Monitor
1992 Chuck Stone,
UNC
1991 Sam
Lacy, Afro-American
1990 Vernon
Jarrett, Chicago Sun-Times
1989 Peggy Peterman,
St. Petersburg Times
1988 Armistead
Pride, Lincoln University
1987 John H.
Johnson, Johnson Publishing Co.
1986 Jimmy Hicks,
Amsterdam News [posthumous]
1985 Lu Palmer, Chicago
Sun-Times
1984 Albert
Fitzpatrick, Knight-Ridder Inc.
1983 Gordon
Parks, Carlton Goodlett, San Francisco Reporter
1982 Ethel Payne,
Sengstacke Newspapers
1981 Lerone
Bennett Jr., Ebony
1980 Carl Rowan,
syndicated columnist
1979 Carl Murphy,
Afro-American Newspapers
1978 Mal Goode,
ABC News
Percy Qoboza
2002 Milkias
Mihreteab Yohannes, Eritrea
2000 Rafael
Marques, Angola
1999 Fred M’membe,
The Post, Zambia
1998
1997 Marie-Roger
Biloa, Africa International magazine, Paris
1996 Babacar
Fall, Pan-African News Agency, Senegal
1995 Kenneth
Best, The Daily Observer, Liberia
1994 Zubeida
Jaffer, Cape Town, South Africa
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989 Zwelake
Sisulu, New Nation, South Africa [1st winner]
Community Service Award
2003 Yvonne
Lewis-Harris, KTUL-TV, Channel 8
2002 DeWayne
Wickham, USA Today, GNS
2001 Angela
Curry, Kansas City Star
2000 Andrew
Humphrey, WRC-TV, Washington, D.C.
1999 C.
Ron Allen, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
1998 Gwen
Tolbart, KTVT, Dallas, TX
1997 Joe
Madison, WRC-Radio
Student Chapter of the Year
2003 University
of North Texas
2002 Carolina
Association of Black Journalists
2001 Carolina
Association of Black Journalists
2000 Atlanta
Association of Black Journalists Student Consortium
1999 Penn
State Association of Journalists for Diversity
1998 Boston
Association of Black Journalists Student Consortium
1997 University
of Georgia
Chapter of the Year
2003 San
Diego Association of Black Journalists
2002 Houston
Association of Black Journalists
2001 Detroit
Chapter of NABJ
2000 Wisconsin
Black Media Association
1999 Atlanta
Association of Black Journalists
1998 Richmond
Association of Black Journalists
1997 Cleveland
Chapter of NABJ
1996 Garden
State (New Jersey) Association of Black Journalists
