| 1991
Pius Njawe, Le Messager, Cameroon Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming, Economics Weekly, China Bill Foley and Cary Vaughan, United States Tatyana Mitkova, TSN, former Soviet Union Byron Barrera, La Epoca, Guatemala |
1992
David Kaplan, ABC News, United States Muhammad Al-Saqr, Al-Qabas, Kuwait Sony Esteus, Radio Tropic FM, Haiti Gwendolyn Lister, The Namibian, Namibia Thepchai Yong, The Nation, Thailand |
| 1993
Omar Belhouchet, El Watan, Algeria Doan Viet Hoat, Freedom Forum, Vietnam Nosa Igiebor, Tell, Nigeria Veran Matic, Radio B92, Yugoslavia Ricardo Uceda, Si, Peru |
1994
Iqbal Athas, The Sunday Leader, Sri Lanka Aziz Nesin, Turkey Yndamiro Restano, Cuba Daisy Li Yuet-Wah, Hong Kong Journalists Association, Hong Kong In memory of staff journalists: Navidi Vakhsh, Tajikistan |
| 1995
Yevgeny Kiselyov, NTV, Russia José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, Siglo Veintiuno, Guatemala Fred M’membe, The Post, Zambia Ahmad Taufik, Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI), Indonesia Veronica Guerin, Sunday Independent, Ireland |
1996
Yusuf Jameel, Asian Age, India J. Jesús Blancornelas, Zeta, Mexico Daoud Kuttab, Internews Middle East, Palestinian National Authority Oscak Isik Yurtçu, Özgür Gündem, Turkey
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| 1997
Christine Anyanwu, The Sunday Magazine, Nigeria Ying Chan and Shieh Chung-liang, Yazhou Zhoukan, Hong Kong Freedom Neruda, La Voi, Ivory Coast Viktor Ivancic, Feral Tribune, Croatia Yalena Masyuk, NTV, Russia |
| Burton Benjamin Memorial Award |
| 1991
Walter Cronkite CBS News |
1992
Katharine Graham The Washington Post |
1993
R.E. Turner Turner Broadcasting |
| 1994
George Soros The Soros Foundations |
1995
Benjamin C. Bradlee The Washington Post |
1996
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger The New York Times |
| 1997
Ted Koppel ABC News |