Carey McWilliams Award Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Ariel Edwards-Levy | The Huffington Post |
| 2018 | Craig Silverman | BuzzFeed News |
| 2017 | Jake Tapper | CNN |
| 2016 | Alan Rusbridger | The Guardian/ Oxford University |
| 2015 | No award given | |
| 2014 | Charlayne Hunter-Gault | Author and Journalist |
| 2013 | Ezra Klein | The Washington Post |
| 2012 | Dana Priest | The Washington Post |
| 2011 | Robert Fisk | The Independent |
| 2010 | Charles E. Cook Jr. | Cook Political Report |
| 2009 | Fareed Zakaria | Newsweek International |
| 2008 | National Public Radio | |
| 2007 | Ronald Brownstein | Los Angeles Times, Washington Bureau |
| 2006 | Mark Danner | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2005 | Seymour Hersh | The New Yorker |
| 2004 | Bill Moyers | Public Affairs Television |
| 2003 | Adam Clymer (Co-recipient) | The New York Times |
| 2003 | Thomas Friedman (Co-recipient) | The New York Times |
| 2002 | Linda Greenhouse (Co-recipient) | The New York Times |
| 2002 | Janet Hook (Co-recipient) | Los Angeles Times |
| 2001 | Victor Navasky (Co-recipient) | The Nation Magazine |
| 2001 | William Kristol (Co-recipient) | The Weekly Standard Magazine |
| 2000 | Allen Ehrenhalt | Governing Magazine |
| 1999 | Dan Balz | The Washington Post |
| 1998 | Richard Reeves | University of Southern California |
| 1997 | Anthony Lewis | The New York Times |
| 1996 | E.J. Dionne | The Washington Post |
| 1995 | Brian Lamb | C-SPAN |
| 1994 | Thomas Bryne Edsell | The Washington Post |
| 1993 | Nina Totenberg | National Public Radio |
| 1992 | Michael Barone | U.S. News and World Report |
| 1991 | Molly Ivins | Dallas Times-Herald |
| 1990 | National Journal | |
| 1989 | Lesley Stahl | CBS News |
| 1988 | Jeffrey H. Burnbaum and Alan S. Murray | The Wall Street Journal |
| 1987 | Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report | |
| 1986 | Neal R. Peirce | Washingotn Post Writers Group |
| 1985 | Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil | MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour |
| 1984 | Murray Kempton | Newsday |
| 1983 | David S. Broder | The Washington Post |
| 1982 | Richard Strout | Christian Science Monitor |