Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award
Awarded forA member of the newspaper profession who has contributed to the country's journalistic achievement.
CountryUSA
Presented byColby College
First awarded1952
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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.[1][2]

Award criteria

The award was established to:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.[3]

The recipient is chosen, based on a selection committee's judgement of a journalist's integrity, craftsmanship, character, intelligence, and courage.[3][4]

Recipients

Year Recipient References
2023 Evan Gershkovich [5]
2018 Chuck Plunkett [6]
2017 Alec MacGillis [7]
2016 Alissa Rubin [8]
2015 Katherine Boo [9]
2014 James Risen [10]
2013 A. C. Thompson [11]
2012 Bob Woodward [12]
2011 Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson [13]
2010 Alfredo Corchado Jimenez [14]
2009 Paul Salopek [15]
2008 Anne Hull [16]
2007 John F. Burns [17]
2006 Jerry Mitchell [18]
2005 Cynthia Tucker [19]
2004 Louis "Studs" Terkel [20]
2003 Steve Mills and Maurice Possley
2002 Daniel Pearl [21]
2001 Pat and Tom Gish [22]
2000 Bill Kovach [23]
1999 William Raspberry [24]
1998 Ellen Goodman [25]
1997 David Halberstam [26]
1996 John Seigenthaler [27]
1995 Murray Kempton [28]
1994 Eugene Patterson [29]
1993 Eileen Shanahan [30]
1992 Sydney Schanberg [31]
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 [32]
1980 Roger Tatarian
1979 Katherine "Kay" Fanning [33]
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 [34]
1953 Irving Dilliard
1952 James S. Pope [35]

See also

References

  1. ^ "SIUE Archives - Elijah Parish Lovejoy". www.siue.edu.
  2. ^ "Elijah Parish Lovejoy Journalism Award".
  3. ^ a b "Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award Mission and Criteria - Elijah Parish Lovejoy Journalism Award".
  4. ^ "Elijah Parish Lovejoy Journalism Award".
  5. ^ "Evan Gershkovich to Receive Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism". Kennebec Journal. 6 September 2023.
  6. ^ "Colby selects former Denver Post editor for 2018 Lovejoy Award". Kennebec Journal. 19 October 2018.
  7. ^ "ProPublica's Alec MacGillis to Receive Lovejoy Award". ProPublica. 19 October 2018.
  8. ^ "New York Times reporter Alissa Rubin to receive Colby's Lovejoy award". Kennebec Journal. 19 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo to receive Colby College's Lovejoy Award". Portland Press Herald. 19 October 2018.
  10. ^ "New York Times reporter James Risen at Colby: 'Obama hates the press'". Portland Press Herald. 19 October 2018.
  11. ^ "ProPublica reporter gets Colby College award". Portland Press Herald. 19 October 2018.
  12. ^ "Watergate reporter Bob Woodward receives Colby's Lovejoy journalism award at convocation". Kennebec Journal. 19 October 2018.
  13. ^ Offer, David. "Lovejoy Winners Share Courage to Report News, Whatever the Risk". The Morning Sentinel.
  14. ^ "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 "COLBY COLLEGE: Journalist speaks of silence, anger, finding one's voice | the Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME". Archived from the original on 2012-03-18. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
  15. ^ "Lovejoy Award Goes to Pulitzer-Prize Winning Foreign Correspondent". MPBN. October 19, 2009. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
  16. ^ "Anne Hull - Poynter". about.poynter.org.
  17. ^ "Foreign correspondent to receive Lovejoy Award - Sun Journal". www.sunjournal.com. 21 October 2020.
  18. ^ "Journalist who took on the Klan speaks at Colby | the Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME". Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
  19. ^ "Columnist Tucker to receive Lovejoy Award".
  20. ^ IPR (October 5, 2004). "Lovejoy Convocation will Honor Studs Terkel Sunday". Magic City Morning Star.
  21. ^ "Colby chooses online, TV journalist for Lovejoy journalism award". 17 September 2013.
  22. ^ "Tom Gish, Tenacious Kentucky Newsman, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Associated Press. 23 November 2008.
  23. ^ "Bill Kovach, Author at International Consortium of Investigative Journalists". International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
  24. ^ "Overby Center Tribute Honors Okolona Native, Washington Post Columnist William Raspberry - Ole Miss News". 24 August 2012.
  25. ^ "Ellen Goodman - Ellen Goodman Biography - Poem Hunter". www.poemhunter.com.
  26. ^ "David Halberstam, Obituary". The Connecticut Forum. Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
  27. ^ "Article - John Siegenthaler Speech and Response". Archived from the original on 2013-01-02. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
  28. ^ "Bangor Daily News - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  29. ^ "Sun Journal - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  30. ^ "Pioneering New York Times journalist dies - Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press". www.rcfp.org. 31 October 2011.
  31. ^ "Sun Journal - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  32. ^ "Top Times Editor to Receive Lovejoy Award in Journalism". The New York Times. 28 September 1981.
  33. ^ "The Lewiston Journal - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  34. ^ "Editor Named Recipient Of Lovejoy Fellowship". The New York Times. 12 October 1954.
  35. ^ "J. S. Pope Gets Lovejoy Award". The New York Times. 5 October 1952.

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