2018 –
President’s Award
Kristen Go, Managing Editor for National News, USA TODAY
Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award
Katherine Ann Rowlands, Owner, Bay City News
Breaking News Coverage Award
Catherine Barnett and Annika Toernqvist, The Press Democrat
- 2017 – Janice Min, Co-President and Chief Creative Officer of The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group
- 2016 – Monika Bauerlein, Chief Executive Officer, and Clara Jeffery, Editor-in-Chief, Mother Jones
- 2015 – Susan Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief, National Geographic
- 2014 – Kara Swisher, Co-Founder, Recode
- 2013 – Deanna Brown, CEO Federated Media Publishing
- 2012 – Michela O’Connor Abrams, President Dwell Media, LLC
- 2011 – Laurel Touby, Founder and Senior Vice-President of mediabistro.com
- 2010 – Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation magazine.
- 2009 – Dorothy Kalins, Founding Editor of Saveur
- 2008 – Alix Kennedy, former Vice-President and Editorial Director for Disney Publishing Worldwide.
- 2007 – Phyllis Hoffman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hoffman Media LLC
- 2006 – Lynn Povich, journalist and former Editor-in-Chief, Working Woman
- 2005 – Eleanor Clift, author and Contributing Editor, Newsweek
- 2004 – Ardie Rodale and Maria Rodale, Rodale Inc.
- 2003 – Susan L. Taylor, Founding Editor, Essence magazine
- 2002 – Marie Clapper, President and Publisher, Clapper Communications
- 2001 – Rita Henley Jensen, Founding Editor, Women’s ENews
- 2000 – Linda Gardiner, Founding Editor, Women’s Review of Books
- 1999 – Bonnie Krueger, Founding Publisher, Associated Press publications
- 1998 – Gloria Steinem, Co-Founder of Ms. magazine