Investigative Reporters and Editors
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that focuses on the quality of investigative reporting. Formed in 1975, it presents the IRE Awards and holds conferences and training classes for journalists. Its headquarters is in Columbia, Missouri, at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. The IRE Awards have categories in all different media.
Awards won
- 1977 Conscience-in-Media Award, from the American Society of Journalists and Authors
Investigative Reporters and Editors Award winners
| Year | Category | Title | Organization | Winners |
| 2009 | IRE Medal Newspapers: Circulation over 500,000 and Wire Service | "Toxic Waters" | The New York Times | Charles Duhigg, Matthew Bloch, Matt Ericson, Tyson Evans, Brian Hamman, Griff Palmer, Karl Russell, Derek Willis, Brent McDonald, Zach Wise |
| 2009 | IRE Medal Television: Top 20 market | "Under Fire: Discrimination & Corruption in the Texas National Guard" | KHOU-TV Houston | Mark Greenblatt, David Raziq, Keith Tomshe, Chris Henao, Robyn Hughes, Keith Connors |
| 2009 | Renner Award | "Blood of their Brothers - The Border Trilogy" | San Diego Magazine | Shane Liddick |
| 2009 | FOI Award | "Your Right to Know" | Freelance | Heather Brooke |
| 2009 | Newspapers: Circulation 250,000-500,000 | "Human Trafficking In America" | The Kansas City Star | Mike McGraw, Laura Bauer, Mark Morris, Keith Myers |
| 2009 | Newspapers: Circulation 100,000-250,000 | "Flipping Fraud" | Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Michael Braga, Chris Davis, Matthew Doig |
| 2009 | Newspapers: Circulation under 100,000 | "Underground, Out of Reach" | Bristol Herald Courier | Daniel Gilbert |
| 2009 | Newspapers: Local Circulation/Weeklies | "Crossing the Line" | Lake Oswego Review | Lee van der Voo, Nick Budnick |
| 2009 | Television: Network/Syndicated | "The Swedish Crusade and The Cardinal" | SVT - The Swedish Public Television Service | Ali Fegan, Lars-Goran Svensson, Magnus Tingman, Johan Kallstrom, Mattias Jonsson |
| 2009 | Television: Below Top 20 markets | "State of Your Money" | WTHR-TV -Indianapolis | Bob Segall, Cyndee Hebert, Bill Ditton |
| 2009 | Magazine/Specialty | "Katrina's Hidden Race War and Body of Evidence" | The Nation | A.C. Thompson |
| 2009 | Book | The Sellout | Charles Gasparino | |
| 2009 | Radio | "In The Kennel: Uncovering a Navy Unit's Culture of Abuse" | Youth Radio and National Public Radio | Rachel Krantz, Charlie Foster, Lissa Soep, Ellin O'Leary, Nishat Kurwa, Graham Smith, Chris Turpin, Tom Bowman |
| 2009 | Online | "Disposable Army" | ProPublica, Los Angeles Times, ABC News | T. Christian Miller, Doug Smith, Francine Orr, Pratap Chatterjee, Anvi Patel |
| 2009 | Student | "Wrongful Conviction, Unequal Compensation" | New York City News Service | Clark Merrefield, Rosaleen Ortiz, Dan Macht, Joshua Cinelli, Matt Townsend, Stephen Bronner |
| 2009 | Breaking News Investigations | "Holes in the System" | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | John Diedrich, Gina Barton, Ben Poston, Ryan Haggerty, Daniel Bice |
| 2008 | IRE Medal | NOAH Housing Program | WWL-TV New Orleans | Lee Zurik |
| 2008 | Renner Award | "Tobacco Underground" | The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Center for Public Integrity | Stefan Candea, Duncan Campbell, Te-Ping Chen, Gong Jing, Alain Lallemand, Vlad Lavrov, William Marsden, Paul Cristian Radu, Roman Shleynov, Leo Sisti, Drew Sullivan, Marina Walker Guevara, Kate Willson, David E. Kaplan |
| 2008 | FOI Award | "The Email Trail" | KTRK-TV Houston | Wayne Dolcefino, Steve Bivens, David Defranchi |
| 2008 | Newspapers: Circulation over 500,000 and Wire Service | "A Mayor in Crisis" | Detroit Free Press | Jim Schaefer, M.L. Elrick, David Zeman, Jennifer Dixon, Dawson Bell, Free Press Staff |
| 2008 | Newspapers: Circulation over 500,000 and Wire Service | "Guantanamo: Beyond the Law" | McClatchy | Tom Lasseter, Matthew Schofield |
| 2008 | Newspapers: Circulation 250,000 - 500,000 | "Culture of Resistance" | The Seattle Times | Michael J. Berens, Ken Armstrong |
| 2008 | Newspapers: Circulation 100,000-250,000 | Chauncey Bailey Project | Oakland Tribune / Chauncey Bailey Project | Thomas Peele, Mary Fricker, Bob Butler, A.C. Thompson, Josh Richman |
| 2008 | Newspapers: Circulation under 100,000 | "Hospital Corruption" | Virgin Island Daily News | Tim Fields, Joy Blackburn |
| 2008 | Newspapers: Local Circulation Weeklies | "Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil" | Fort Worth Weekly and the Center for Public Integrity | Joaquin Sapien, Ben Welsh |
| 2008 | Television: Network/Syndicated | "The Wasteland" | CBS News-60 Minutes | Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Scott Pelley, Solly Granatstein, Tom Honeysett, Claudia Weinstein, David Lom, Brad Simpson, Somyot Pisapark, Nicole Young, Lamy Li, Kevin Livelli |
| 2008 | Television: Top 20 markets | "Contaminated Water" | KNBC-TV Los Angeles | Joel Grover, Matt Goldberg |
| 2008 | Television: Below Top 20 markets | "NOAH Housing Program" | WWL-TV | Lee Zurik |
| 2008 | Magazine/Specialty | "Cyber-War" | BusinessWeek | Keith Epstein, Brian Grow, Ben Elgin, Cliff Edwards, Chi-Chu Tschang |
| 2008 | Radio | "36 Years of Solitary: Murder, Death and Injustice at Angola" | NPR | Laura Sullivan, Amy Walters, Steven Drummond |
| 2008 | Online | "The Redevelopment Investigation" | voiceofsandiego.org | Will Carless, Rob Davis, Andrew Donohue |
| 2008 | Book | The Shadow Factory | James Bamford | |
| 2008 | Student | "Sexual Harassment at UGA" | The Red and Black | Kristen Coulter, Brian Hughes, Carolyn Crist, Melissa Weinman, Matthew Grayson |
| 2007 | IRE medals | "The Other Walter Reed" | The Washington Post | Dana Priest, Anne Hull |
| 2007 | IRE medal | "Toxic Pipeline" | The New York Times | Walt Bogdanich, Jake Hooker, Brent McDonald, Robert Harris, Andy Lehren |
| 2007 | IRE medal | "American Imports, Chinese Deaths" | The Salt Lake Tribune | Loretta Tofani |
| 2007 | IRE medal | Mississippi Cold Case | MSNBC | David Ridgen, Michael Hannan, Brad Clarke, Judith Greenberg, Scott Hooker |
| 2007 | Renner Award | The Chauncey Bailey Project | A.C. Thompson, Thomas Peele, Josh Richman, Angela Hill, Mary Fricker, G.W. Schulz, Cecily Burt, Bob Butler, Paul T. Rosynsky, Harry Harris | |
| 2007 | FOIA Award | "Pennsylvania Open Records" | WTAE-TV Pittsburgh | Jim Parsons, Bob Longo, Kendall Cross, Mike Lazorko |
| 2007 | Newspapers: Circulation | "They Failed to Act" | Newsday | Jennifer Barrios, Sophia Chang, Michael Ebert, Reid J. Epstein, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Eden Laikin, Herbet Lowe, Joseph Mallia, Jennifer Maloney, Luis Perez, Karla Schuster |
| 2007 | Newspapers: Circulation | "The Wait of Conviction" | The Augusta Chronicle | Sandy Hodson |
| 2007 | Newspapers: Local Circulation Weeklies | "The People Under the Bridge" | Village Voice Media/Miami New Times | Isaiah Thompson |
| 2007 | Television: Top 20 markets | "The Buried and the Dead" | WFAA-TV Dallas | Brett Shipp, Mark Smith, Kraig Kirchem, Michael Valentine, Mark Ginther |
| 2007 | Television: Below top 20 markets | "Radioactive Dumping" | WSMV-TV Nashville | Demetria Kalodimos, David Sussman |
| 2007 | Magazine/Specialty | "Thanks for Nothing" | The Nation | Joshua Kors |
| 2007 | Radio | "Toxic Traces Revisited" | Minnesota Public Radio News | Lorna Benson, Michael Edgerly |
| 2007 | Online | "Collateral Damage: Human Rights and U.S. Military Aid after 9/11" | The Center for Public Integrity and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | Nathaniel Heller, Ben Welsh, Marina Walker Guevara, Tom Stites, Sarah Fort, Patrick Kiger, Michael Bilton, Prangtip Daorueng, Ignacio Gomez, Andreas Harsono, Alain Lallemand, Yossi Melman, Mutegi Njau, Paul Radu, Gerardo Reyes, Leo Sisti |
| 2007 | Book | Curveball: Spies, Lies and the Con Man Who Caused a War | Bob Drogin | |
| 2007 | Student | "Public Payroll, Family Affairs: Aldermen Keep It Relative" | creatingcommunityconnections.org | Allison Riggio, Hunter Clauss |
| 2006 | IRE Medal; Tom Renner Award winner | "Nuestra Familia, Our Family" | Center for Investigative Reporting | Oriana Zill de Granados, Julia Reynolds, George Sanchez |
| 2006 | IRE Medal | "Beyond Sago: Coal Mine Safety in America" | Charleston Gazette | Ken Ward, Jr. |
| 2006 | Book Award | The Looming Tower | Lawrence Wright | |
| 2006 | FOI Award winner | "Secret Political Piggy Bank" | Times Union of Albany, N.Y. | James Odato, Michele Morgan Bolton, Fred LeBrun, Brendan Lyons, Elizabeth Benjamin, Carol DeMare, J. Robert Port, Rex Smith, Jim McGrath, Howard Healy, John de Rosier |
| 2006 | FOI Award Winner | Farmsubsidy.org | Nils Mulvad, Brigitte Alfter, Jack Thurston | |
| 2006 | Newspapers: Circulation or wire service | "A Tank of Gas, A World of Trouble" | Chicago Tribune | Paul Salopek, Kuni Takahashi, Brenda Kilianski |
| 2006 | Newspapers: Circulation | "On Shaky Ground" | The Sun | Fred Schulte, June Arney |
| 2006 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Lessons in Waste" | The Record of Hackensack, N.J. | Jean Rimbach, Kathleen Carroll |
| 2006 | Newspapers: Local Circulation Weeklies | "Run Over by Metro" | Houston Press | Todd Spivak |
| 2006 | Television: Network/syndicated | "Bitter Pills" | Dateline NBC | Chris Hansen, Steve Eckert, Joshua Kuvin, Allan Maraynes, Katherine Chan, Elizabeth Cole, David Corvo |
| 2006 | Television: Top 20 markets | "Citizenship for Sale" | WTVJ-TV Miami | Jeff Burnside, Scott Zamost, Felix Castro, Ed Garcia, Pedro Cancio, Maria Carpio |
| 2006 | Television: Below op 20 markets | "Cause for Alarm" | WTHR-TV Indianapolis | Bob Segall, Bill Ditton, Gerry Lanosga, Holly Stephen |
| 2006 | Magazine/Specialty Publications | "Broken Promises" | Bloomberg Markets | William Selway, Martin Z. Braun, David Dietz |
| 2006 | Radio | "Mental Anguish and the Military" | National Public Radio | Daniel Zwerdling, Anne Hawke, Ellen Weiss |
| 2006 | Online | "The Mark Foley Investigation" | ABCNews.com | Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Maddy Sauer, Simon Surowicz, Krista Kjellman, Steve Alperin, Michael Clemente, Christopher Isham |
| 2006 | Student Work | "A Stunning Toll" | University of North Texas students | |
| 2005 | IRE Medal | "Toxic Legacy" | The Record | Jan Barry, Thomas Franklin, Mary Jo Layton, Alex Nussbaum, Clint Riley, Tom Troncone, Barbara Williams, Lindy Washburn |
| 2005 | IRE Medal | "School Bus Bloat 2005" | WJW-TV Cleveland | Tom Merriman, Mark DeMarino, Greg Easterly, Dave Hollis, Matt Rafferty, Chuck Rigdon |
| 2005 | Newspapers: Circulation or wire service | "High Price of Homeland Security" | The Washington Post | Scott Higham, Robert O'Harrow Jr. |
| 2005 | Newspapers: Circulation | "FEMA: A Legacy of Waste" | South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Sally Kestin, Megan O'Matz, John Maines, Jon Burstein |
| 2005 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Brother's Keeper: West Virginia's Mental Health Crisis" | Charleston Gazette | Scott M. Finn |
| 2005 | Newspapers: Local Circulation Weeklies | "PGE Investigation" | Willamette Week | Nigel Jaquiss |
| 2005 | Television: Network/syndicated | "Special Report: 17 years of Ocean Dumping" | Korean Broadcasting System | Kim Myung Seop, Han Seung Bok, Lee Seung Ik, Yoon Hee Jin |
| 2005 | Television: Below top 20 markets | "La Oroya " | KMOV-TV St. Louis | Craig Cheatham, Marty Van Housen, Jim Thomas |
| 2005 | Magazine/Specialty Publications | "Big Pharma's Shameful Secret " | Bloomberg Markets | David Evans, Michael Smith, Liz Willen |
| 2005 | Radio | "Seniors and Drugs: Prescribed to Death " | CBC Radio | Sandra Bartlett, Bob Carty, Pauline Dakin, David McKie, Paddy Moore, Susanne Reber |
| 2005 | Books | On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II | Jack Hamann, Leslie Hamann | |
| 2005 | Books | Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic — A Medical Controversy | David Kirby | |
| 2005 | Tom Renner Award | "Unpunished Killings " | The Clarion-Ledger | Jerry Mitchell |
| 2005 | FOI Award - IRE Medal | "The Hidden Costs of Tenure " | Small Newspaper Group | Scott Reeder |
| 2005 | Student Work | "An Army of Anyone " | Westwind & Westword | J. David McSwane |
| 2004 | Newspapers: Circulation or wire service | "Death on the Tracks: How Railroads Sidestep Blame" | The New York Times | Walt Bogdanich, Jenny Nordberg, Tom Torok, Eric Koli, Jo Craven McGinty, Claire Hoffman |
| 2004 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Justice Withheld" | The Miami Herald | Manny Garcia, Jason Grotto, Judy Miller |
| 2004 | Medium newspapers | "DWI: Sobering Acquittals; DWI Dismissals" | The Charlotte Observer | Ames Alexander, Ted Mellnik, Gary Wright, Liz Chandler, Lisa Hammersly Munn, Binyamin Appelbaum and Henry Eichel |
| 2004 | IRE Medal Small newspapers | "Web of Deceit" | Charleston Gazette | Eric Eyre |
| 2004 | Small newspapers | "Insider Trading in City Hall" | Erie, Pa., Times-News | Kevin Flowers, Peter Panepento |
| 2004 | Local Circulation Weeklies | "The 30-Year Secret; Who Knew" | Willamette Week | Nigel Jaquiss |
| 2004 | Television: Network/syndicated | "A Pattern of Suspicion" | Dateline, NBC News | John Larson, Jason Samuels, Andrew Lehren, Melanie Jackson, Shayla Harris, Ben Vient, Grace Jean, Gary Simmons, Neal Shapiro, David Corvo, Marc Rosenwasser and Aretha Marshall |
| 2004 | Television: Top 20 markets | "Expressway Investigation" | WFTS-TV Tampa, Fla. | Mike Mason, Aaron Wische, Matt McGlashen, Randy Wright |
| 2004 | Television: Below top 20 markets | "Racial Profiling Problems" | WOAI-TV San Antonio | Brian Collister, Holly Whisenhunt Stephen, Steve Kline |
| 2004 | Radio | "Abuse of Immigrant Detainees" | National Public Radio | Daniel Zwerdling, Anne Hawke, Ellen Weiss, Bill Marimow |
| 2004 | Online | "Outsourcing the Pentagon" | The Center for Public Integrity | Elizabeth Brown, M. Asif Ismail, Alex Knott, Dan Guttman, Larry Makinson |
| 2004 | Books | The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill | Simon & Schuster | Ron Suskind |
| 2004 | Tom Renner Award | "Clout on Wheels: The scandal of Chicago's Hired Truck Program" | Chicago Sun-Times | Tim Novak, Steve Warmbir |
| 2004 | FOI Award | "Cries for Help" | WTHR-TV Indianapolis | Angie Moreschi, Bill Ditton and Gerry Lanosga |
| 2004 | Student Work | "A Death in the Desert" | Frontline/World | Claudine LoMonaco and Mary Spicuzza |
| 2004 | Special Citation for an International Entry | "Children Trapped in Poverty" | Joongang Ilbo, South Korea | Kyu-youn Lee, Kichan Kim, Jungha Kim and Min-ho Son |
| 2004 | Special Citation | "Power Trips" | American Radio Works, Marketplace, Medill School of Journalism | Steve Henn, Ochen Kaylan, Chris Farrell, Nate Dimeo, Stephen Smith |
| 2003 | Newspapers: Circulation or wire service | "Big Green" | The Washington Post | Joe Stephens, David B. Ottaway |
| 2003 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Crumbling Schools" | The Miami Herald | Debbie Cenziper, Jason Grotto |
| 2003 | IRE Medal Newspapers: Circulation | "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths" | The Blade | Michael D. Sallah, Mitch Weiss, Joe Mahr |
| 2003 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Casualties of Peace" | Dayton Daily News | Russell Carollo, Mei-Ling Hopgood |
| 2003 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Murder, Race, Justice: The State vs. Darryl Hunt" | Winston-Salem Journal | Phoebe Zerwick, Les Gura |
| 2003 | Newspapers: Local Circulation Weeklies | "The War Within" | Westword | Julie Jargon |
| 2003 | Television: Network/syndicated | "A Dangerous Business" | Frontline/New York Times Television/Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | David Barstow, David Rummel, Neil Docherty, Lowell Bergman, Linden MacIntyre, Robin Stein, James Sandler, Nelli Kheyfets, Remy Weber, Jason Maloney, Lynda Baril, Louis Wiley Jr., David Fanning, Ann Derry and Lawrie Mifflin |
| 2003 | Television: Top 20 markets | "Honor and Betrayal: Scandal at the Academy" | KMGH-TV Denver | Jeff Harris, John Ferrugia, Kurt Silver, Jason Foster, Byron Grandy |
| 2003 | Television: Below top 20 markets | "Perks of Power" | WTVF-TV Nashville | Phil Williams, Bryan Staples |
| 2003 | Magazine/specialty publication | "U.S. Energy Policy" | Time | James B. Steele, Donald L. Barlett |
| 2003 | Radio | "Handshake Hotels" | WNYC New York Public Radio | Andrea Bernstein, Amy Eddings |
| 2003 | Online | "The Water Barons" | Center for Public Integrity | William Marsden, Maud Beelman, Bill Allison, Erika Hobbs, Daniel Politi, Aron Pilhofer, Andre Verloy, Laura Peterson and Samiya Edwards |
| 2003 | Books Medal | "Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich -- and Cheat Everybody Else" | Penguin Group USA | David Cay Johnston |
| 2003 | FOI Award Medal | "Gov. Bill Janklow's pardons & commutations" | Argus Leader | David Kranz, Stu Whitney, Terry Woster, Jon Walker, Patrick Lalley |
| 2003 | Student Work | "Raising the Cap" | The Daily Tar Heel | John Frank, Jamie Dougher, Matt Hanson, Joe Rauch, Suzanne Presto and Lynne Shallcross |
| 2003 | Special Citation for an International Entry | "Public Land, Private Profit" | The Sydney Morning Herald | Gerard Ryle, Brian Robins |
| 2002 | IRE Medal Newspapers: Circulation | "Crisis in the Catholic Church" | The Boston Globe | Walter V. Robinson, Matt Carroll, Sacha Pfeiffer, Michael Rezendes, Stephen Kurkjian, Michael Paulson, Kevin Cullen and Thomas Farragher |
| 2002 | Newspapers: Circulation | "The Vertical Vision" | Los Angeles Times | Alan C. Miller, Kevin Sack |
| 2002 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Last Gasp" | The Fresno Bee | Mark Grossi; Barbara Anderson; Russell Clemings |
| 2002 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Against Their Will" | Winston-Salem Journal | Kevin Begos; Danielle Deaver; John Railey, Scott Sexton |
| 2002 | Newspapers: Local Circulation Weeklies | "The Lush Life of a Rudy Appointee" | The Village Voice | Tom Robbins |
| 2002 | Television: Network/syndicated | "Unsolved Rapes" | ABC News 20/20 | David Sloan, Carla DeLandri, Brian Ross, Brenda Breslauer, Yoruba Richen, Tom Marcyes |
| 2002 | Television: Top 20 markets | "Evidence of Errors" | KHOU-TV Houston, | David Raziq, Anna Werner, Chris Henao |
| 2002 | Television: Below top 20 markets | "Friends in High Places" | WTVF-TV Nashville, | Phil Williams; Bryan Staples |
| 2002 | Magazine/specialty publication | "Series on 9-11 intelligence failures" | Newsweek | Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Evan Thomas, Mark Hosenball |
| 2002 | Online | "Gunrunners" | Center for Investigative Reporting | Julie Reynolds, Matthew Brunwasser, William Kistner, Dave Gilson, Rick Young, Lowell Bergman, Omar Lavieri, Allyce Bess, Marlena Telvick, Monica Sagullo, James Sandler, Will Evans, Mabel Tampinco, Robin Stein, Kelly Davis and Jared Saylor |
| 2002 | Book | "Capitol Offenders: How Private Interests Govern Our States" | The Center for Public Integrity, | Diane Renzulli, John Dunbar, Alex Knott, Robert Moore, Leah Rush |
| 2002 | Tom Renner Award | "Crime, Inc." | Chicago Sun-Times | Frank Main, Carlos Sadovi, Steve Warmbir |
| 2002 | FOI Award | "The Campus Files: Reagan, Hoover and the UC Red Scare" | San Francisco Chronicle | Seth Rosenfeld |
| 2002 | Student Work | "The Secret Court of 1920" | The Harvard Crimson | Amit R. Paley |
| 2002 | Special Citation | Rabbi Fred Neulander investigation, | The Philadelphia Inquirer | Nancy Phillips |
| 2002 | Special Citation for an International Entry | "How Elected Officials Divided Up 45 Million Euros Since 1992" | Le Figaro | Mark Hunter, Nour Richard-Guerroudj, Salim Jaouani, Fabien Laborde, Lucie Monier-Reyes and Aurore Gorius |
| 2001 | IRE Medal Newspapers: Circulation | "The District's Lost Children" | The Washington Post | Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham, Sarah Cohen |
| 2001 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Cops and Confessions and The Roscetti Case" | Chicago Tribune | Ken Armstrong, Steve Mills, Maurice Possley |
| 2001 | Newspapers: Circulation | "The Foreign Game" | Dayton Daily News | Christine Vasconez, Doug Harris, Mike Wagner, Russell Carollo |
| 2001 | Newspapers: Circulation | "A Price Too High" | Pocono Record | Matt Birkbeck |
| 2001 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Trapped at Thirtymile" | Yakima Herald-Republic | Tom Roeder, Jesse A. Hamilton, Stephanie Earls |
| 2001 | Newspapers: Local Circulation Weeklies | "Fallout" | SF Weekly | Lisa Davis & John Mecklin |
| 2001 | Television: Network/syndicated | "The Osprey" | CBS News 60 Minutes, | Mike Wallace, Paul Gallagher, Charles Fitzgerald, Robert Zimet |
| 2001 | Television: Top 20 markets | "Lives at Risk: An Emergency Room Investigation" | WFAA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth | Valeri Williams, Meridith Schucker, Jesus Hernandez, WFAA Photography Staff, WFAA Graphics |
| 2001 | Radio | "Burning the Evidence" | American RadioWorks/Minnesota, | Stephen Smith, Michael Montgomery, Bill Buzenberg, Deborah George, Adriatik Kelmendi |
| 2001 | Book | "Fateful Harvest" | HarperCollins, | Duff Wilson |
| 2001 | FOI Award Medal | "Body of Secrets" | Doubleday | James Bamford |
| 2001 | Student Work | "A Flood of Problems" | University of Missouri, for The Missourian | MaryJo Sylwester |
| 2000 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Stadium Naples" | Naples Daily News | Gina Edwards |
| 2000 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Detroit Fire Department: Out of Service" | The Detroit News | Melvin Claxton, Charles Hurt |
| 2000 | Newspapers: Circulation | "The Body Brokers" | The Orange County Register | Mark Katches, William Heisel, Ronald Campbell, Sharon Henry, Michael Goulding. |
| 2000 | Television: Network/syndicated | "First Casualty" | CBS; 60 Minutes II | Bob Simon, Draggan Mihailovich, Christine Spolar |
| 2000 | Television: Network/syndicated | "The Paper Chase" | Dateline NBC | John Larson, Lynne Dale, Allan Maraynes, Neal Shapiro, Andy Lehren, Mable Chan |
| 2000 | Television: Top 20 markets | "Treading on Danger? | KHOU-TV | David Raziq, Anna Werner, Chris Henao |
| 2000 | Television: Below top 20 markets | "Who's Policing the Police" | WTVF-TV Nashville | Phil Williams, Bryan Staples |
| 2000 | Magazine/specialty publication | "The Secret History of Lead" | The Nation | Jamie Lincoln Kitman |
| 2000 | Radio | "Beneath Native Land: Occidental Petroleum in South America" | Living on Earth from NPR | Ingrid Lobet |
| 2000 | Tom Renner Award | "California's Billion Dollar Rip-Off" | KCBS-TV | Joel Grover, Jennifer Cobb |
| 2000 | Online | "Our Private Legislatures - Public Service, Personal Gain" | Center for Public Integrity | Diane Renzulli, Meleah Rush, John Dunbar, Alex Knott, Robert Moore, Kenneth P. Vogel |
| 2000 | FOI Award | "Inside the '96 Olympics" | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Melissa Turner |
| 2000 | Book | "The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA" | Doubleday | Ted Gup |
| 2000 | Student Work | "Cycle of Influence: How Campaign Contributions, Lobbyist Spending and Personal Financial Interests Affect the West Virginia Legislature" | Charleston Gazette/University of Missouri | Scott M. Finn |
| 1999 | Newspapers: Local Circulation Weeklies IRE Medal | "Above the Law" | The Nashville Scene | Willy Stern |
| 1999 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Timecard Troubles" | The Times Herald-Record, Middletown, N.Y. | Christopher Mele, Oliver Mackson |
| 1999 | Newspapers: Circulation IRE Medal | "Deadly Alliance" | The Toledo Blade | Sam Roe |
| 1999 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Falling from the Sky" | The Dayton Daily News | Russell Carollo |
| 1999 | Newspapers: Circulation IRE Medal | "Invisible Lives, Invisible Deaths" | The Washington Post | Katherine Boo |
| 1999 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Prosecutorial Misconduct" | Chicago Tribune | Ken Armstrong, Maurice Possley. |
| 1999 | Television: Network/syndicated | "Tobacco Slaves" | 60 Minutes II | Bill Owens, Margaret Ebrahim, Scott Pelley |
| 1999 | Television: Top 20 markets | "The Investigation of First USA" | WFAA-TV Dallas | Valeri Williams, Lisa Hampshire, Meridith Schucker, Jesus Hernandez, Don Smith |
| 1999 | Television: Top 20 markets | "Armed Forces Recruiting Fraud" | WFAA-TV Dallas | Byron Harris, P.J. Ward, Chris Johnson |
| 1999 | Television: Below top 20 markets | "Case Dismissed" | WTHR-TV Indianapolis | Bill Ditton, Jeremy Rogalski, Kathleen Johnston, Gerry Lanosga |
| 1999 | Special citation | "Disclosure Denied" and other work | APBnews.com | Amy Worden, James Gordon Meek, Bob Port, Ben Lesser, Sydney H. Schanberg |
| 1999 | FOI Award | "Spotlight on Secrecy" | San Francisco Bay Guardian | Bruce B. Bruggmann and Bay Guardian Editorial Staff |
| 1999 | Book | "Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species" | The Center for Public Integrity | Alan Green |
| 1999 | Student | "Troubled Bridges" | KOMU-TV, Channel 8, Columbia, MO. | Mark Greenblatt |
| 1998 | Tom Renner Award | "Dirty Money" | The Record | Thomas Zambito, Jim Haner |
| 1998 | Freedom of Information Award | open records law | The Tribune-Star; The Evansville Courier; The Times of Northwest Indiana; The Journal Gazette; The Star-Press; The South Bend Tribune; The Indianapolis Star and News | Journalists at seven Indiana newspapers. |
| 1998 | Television: Network/Syndicated | "Tomb of The Unknowns" | CBS Evening News | Vince Gonzales, Eric Engberg |
| 1998 | Newspapers: Circulation IRE Medal | "Rezulin: A Billion-Dollar Killer" | The Los Angeles Times | David Willman |
| 1998 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Population Bomb" | The Wall Street Journal | Alix M. Freedman |
| 1998 | Television: Top 20 | "Fake Doctors, Real Dangers" | CBS-2 News, Los Angeles, | Eleanore M. Vega, Drew C. Griffin, Jeffrey Wilkins, Dolores Lopez, Rob Macey, Les Rose |
| 1998 | Newspapers: Circulation | "City Courts" | The Advocate, of Baton Rouge | DeAnn Smith |
| 1998 | Television: Below Top 20 | "Olympic Bribery Scandal" | KTVX-TV, Salt Lake City | Chris Vanocur, the KTVX Newsroom |
| 1998 | Newspapers: Circulation | "Force In Disarray" | The Courier-Post, Camden, N.J., | Clint Riley |
| 1998 | Magazine/Specialty Publications | "What Corporate Welfare Costs You" | Time Magazine | Don Barlett, James B. Steele |
| 1998 | Books IRE Medal | A Promise of Justice: The Eighteen-Year Fight to Save Four Innocent Men | Hyperion | David Protess, Rob Warden |
| 1998 | Books | Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage | Public Affairs Press | Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew with Annette Lawrence Drew |
| 1998 | Local Circulation Weeklies | "Sweet Deals Gone Sour" | Nashville Scene | Willy Stern |