The following is a list of awards won by the

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newspaper '' The Washington Post''.

Pulitzer Prizes

''The Washington Post'' has won 65 Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, the second highest of any newspaper or magazine in the United States. It has won the gold medal for Public Service, the most distinguished award, six times. The newspaper won its first prize in 1936 for Editorial Writing and its most recent in 2022.

General awards

Aldo Beckman Award

The Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage, also known as The Aldo Beckman Award, is an annual award given by the White House Correspondents' Association for "overall excellence" in White House coverage.

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award

The

Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award honors excellence in broadcast and digital journalism in the public service and is considered one of the most prestigious awards in journalism. The awards were established in 1942 and administered ...

, presented by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, honors excellence in

broadcast Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began ...

and digital journalism.

Bastiat Prize

The Bastiat Prize was an annual journalism award, given by the Reason Foundation, that recognizes journalists whose writing "best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence."

Edward R. Murrow Award

The Edward R. Murrow Award is an annual award that honors the best achievements in digital journalism.

George Polk Awards

The George Polk Awards in Journalism, also known as the George Polk Awards, are an annual journalism award, given by

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, honoring the best reporting in a number of categories.

Gerald Loeb Award

The Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, also known as the Gerald Loeb Award, is a recognition of excellence in journalism, especially in the fields of

business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for pr ...

finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

and the economy.

Herblock Prize

The Herblock Prize is an annual journalism award, given by the Herb Block Foundation, for excellence in editorial cartooning. The award is named after ''Post'' cartoonist

Herbert Block Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October13, 1909October7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy. During the course of a career stretchi ...

Hillman Prize

The Hillman Prize is an annual journalism award, presented by

The Sidney Hillman Foundation The Sidney Hillman Foundation is an American charitable foundation that awards prizes to journalists who investigate issues related to social justice and progressive public policy. The foundation, founded in 1946, is named for Sidney Hillman, who w ...

, honoring journalists, writers, and public figures "who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good."

John Chancellor Award

The John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, also known as the John Chancellor Award, is an annua journalisml award given by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, honoring one reporting with "courage, character and integrity for cumulative professional accomplishments."

Livingston Awards

The

Livingston Awards The Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan are American journalism awards issued to media professionals under the age of 35 for local, national, and international reporting. They are the largest, all-media, general reporting prizes in Ame ...

is an annual journalism award, given by the University of Michigan, recognizing journalists under the age of 35 for local, national, and international coverage.

Peabody Award

The

George Foster Peabody Awards The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...

, also known as Peabody Awards or the Peabodys, is an annual award that recognizes distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by television and radio stations, networks, producing organizations, individuals, and the World Wide Web."

Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award

The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism is an annual journalism award, named after Robert F. Kennedy, and given by the

Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (formerly the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, or RFK Center) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit human rights advocacy organization. It was named after United States Senator Robert F. Kenned ...

. The awards honor journalism's best work in several categories.

Scripps Howard Awards

The Scripps Howard Awards is an annual journalism award, given by the Scripps Howard Foundation, that honors the best work in journalism across more than a dozen categories from multiple platforms, including television stations, networks, visual media, and newspapers.

Sigma Delta Chi Awards

The

Sigma Delta Chi Awards The Sigma Delta Chi Awards are presented annually by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) (formerly Sigma Delta Chi) for excellence in journalism. The SPJ states the purpose of the award is to promote "the free flow of information vital ...

are an annual award, given by the Society of Professional Journalism, for excellence in journalism across multiple categories.

Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism

The

Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism The Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism is an annual award presented by Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The recipient is deemed to represent a leading figure in the journalism ...

is an annual award presented by

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The recipient is deemed to represent a leading figure in the journalism industry, especially for ground-breaking achievements which have advanced the industry as a whole.

Investigative awards

Goldsmith Prize

The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, also known as the Goldsmith Prize, is an annual award for journalists administered by the

Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center that explores the intersection and impact of media, politics and public policy in theory and practice. Among other activities, the center or ...

at Harvard University.

IRE Awards

The Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, also known as the IRE Awards, is an annual journalism award given by the Investigative Reporters and Editors, a nonprofit organization located at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

James Aronson Awards

The James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism, also known as the James Aronson Awards, is an annual journalism award given by

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...

, that honors "original, written English-language reporting from the U.S. media that brings to light widespread injustices, their human consequences, underlying causes, and possible reforms."

Selden Ring Award

The

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, also known as the Selden Ring Award, is an annual journalism award given by the

Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism The USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism comprises a School of Communication and a School of Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC). Starting July 2017, the school’s Dean is Willow Bay, succeeding Ernest J ...

at the University of Southern California, that recognizes investigating reporting that has made an impact.

Sidney Awards

The Sidney Award is a monthly journalism award given out by

to "outstanding investigative journalism in service of the common good."

Toner Prizes

The Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting, also known as The Toner Prize, is an annual award, presented by the

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, commonly known as Newhouse School, is the communications and journalism school of Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. It has programs in print and broadcast journalism; music business; graphic d ...

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, that honors the "best U.S. national or local political reporting in any medium or on any platform—print, broadcast or online."

Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

The Worth Bingham Prize, also referred to as the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting, is an annual journalism award, presented by the

Nieman Foundation for Journalism The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is the primary journalism institution at Harvard. It was founded in February 1938 as the result of a $1.4 million bequest by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow of Lucius W. Nieman, founder of ' ...

at Harvard University, honoring "newspaper or magazine investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public interest is being ill-served."

References

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