Yankee Quill Award Explained

The Yankee Quill Award is a regional American journalism award that recognizes a lifetime contribution toward excellence in journalism in New England. The award is bestowed annually by the Academy of New England Journalists, and administered by the New England Society of Newspaper Editors. It is considered the highest individual honor awarded by fellow journalists in the region.

Recent recipients

2008^[1]

Nelson Benton, editorial page editor, The Salem News
Ann Smith Franklin (posthumous), American colonialist almanac printer, Newport, Rhode Island
John Howe, editor and general manager, The Citizen, Laconia, New Hampshire
Al Larkin, retired executive vice president, The Boston Globe

2007^[2]

Michael Donoghue, sportswriter at The Burlington Free Press in Burlington, Vermont, and executive director of the Vermont Press Association.
Larry McDermott, publisher of The Republican in Springfield, Massachusetts, and president of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association
Eileen McNamara, professor of journalism at Brandeis University
James Taricani, investigative reporter for WJAR TV in Providence, Rhode Island
Barbara Walsh (journalist), reporter at The Eagle-Tribune in North Andover, Massachusetts

2006^[3]

David B. Offer, Executive editor, Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, and the Morning Sentinel, Waterville, Maine
Gary Lapierre, Managing editor, WBZ Radio, Boston
Chris Powell, Managing editor and VP for news, the Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Connecticut
Walter Robinson, Assistant managing editor/Spotlight Team, The Boston Globe

1992

John P. Reilly, Executive editor, The Hour, Norwalk, Connecticut^[4]

Here is the list of winners from 1960 through 2009:

1960

George F. Booth, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Sevellon Brown, Providence Journal-Bulletin
Minnie Ryan Dwight, Holyoke Transcript-Telegram
James B. Morgan, Boston Globe
Norris G. Osborn, New Haven Courier-Journal

1961

Herbert Brucker, Hartford Courant
Erwin D. Canham, Christian Science Monitor
Waldo L. Cook, Springfield Republican
Henry Beetle Hough, Vineyard Gazette
Arthur G. Staples, Lewiston Journal

1962

David Brickman, Medford Mercury/Malden News

Guy P. Gannett, Guy P. Gannett Newspapers

James M. Langley, Concord Monitor

William J. Pape, Waterbury Republican and American

David Patten, Providence Journal-Bulletin

1963

Paul S. Deland, Christian Science Monitor

Louis M. Lyons, Nieman Foundation

Henry W. Minott, United Press International

1964

John R. Herbert, Quincy Patriot Ledger

Leslie Moore, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Laurence L. Winship, Boston Globe

1965

Gordon N. Converse, Christian Science Monitor

Rudolph F. Elie, Boston Herald-Traveler

Francis R. Murphy, Associated Press

1966

Thomas K. Brinkley, Fall River Herald-News

William Dwight, Holyoke Transcript-Telegram

Edward A. Weeks, Atlantic Monthly

1967

Charles E. Gallagher, Lynn Item

Lawrence K. Miller, Berkshire Eagle

John R. Reitemeyer, Hartford Courant

1968

Arch M. MacDonald, WBZ-TV

Michael J. Ogden, Providence Journal-Bulletin

Forest W. Seymour, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

1969

Harry Bryant Center, Boston University

Alexander J. Haviland, Boston Globe

Edgar M. Mills, Christian Science Monitor

1970

C. Edward Holland, Boston Record-American

Charles J. Lewin, New Bedford Standard-Times

David M. White, Boston University

1971

Barnard L. Colby, The Day

J. Edward DeCourcy, Newport Argus-Champion

Francis E. Whitmarsh, WBZ-TV

1972

Thomas J. Murphy, Waltham News-Tribune

Thomas Winship, Boston Globe

1973

John N. Cole, Maine Times

Thomas W. Gerber, Concord Monitor

Abraham A. Michaelson, Berkshire Eagle

1974

Robert C. Achorn, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Bob Eddy, Hartford Courant

Kingsley R. Fall, Berkshire Eagle

1975

Robert J. Leeney, New Haven Register and Journal-Courier

G. Prescott Low, Quincy Patriot Ledger

William L. Plante, Essex County Newspapers

J. Russell Wiggins, Ellsworth American

1976

Joseph L. Doherty, Boston Globe

Loren F. Ghiglione, Southbridge Evening News

Elliot Norton, Boston Herald-American

1977

John Hughes, Christian Science Monitor

Cornelius F. Hurley, Associated Press

John B. Hynes, WCVB-TV

Marjorie Mills, Boston Herald

1978

Dwight E. Sargent, Boston Herald-American

George A. Speers, Northeastern University

Charles L. Whipple, Boston Globe

1979

Everett S. Allen, New Bedford Standard-Times

Judith Brown, New Britain Herald

Ernest W. Chard, Portland Press Herald

Philip Weld, Essex County Newspapers

1980

John C.A. Watkins, Providence Journal-Bulletin

William J. Clew, Hartford Courant

1981

Alton H. Blackington, Boston Herald/WBZ

Richard C. Garvey, Springfield Daily News

Donald Murray, University of New Hampshire

W. Davis Taylor, Boston Globe

1982

George B. Merry, Christian Science Monitor

Richard C. Steele, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

1983

Stephen A. Collins, Danbury News-Times

Robert H. Estabrook, Lakeville Journal

Brooks W. Hamilton, University of Maine

1984

John C. Quinn, USA Today

Kenneth J. Botty, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Deane C. Avery, The Day

1985

Leonard J. Cohen, Providence Journal-Bulletin

George Esper, Associated Press

Sidney B. McKeen, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

George W. Wilson, Concord Monitor

1986

Roger Allen, WRKO

Stanton J. Berens, United Press International

Raymond A. Brighton, Portsmouth Herald

K. Prescott Low, Quincy Patriot Ledger

1987

John S. Driscoll, Boston Globe

James D. Ewing, Keene Sentinel

James Thistle, Boston University

1988

William B. Ketter, Quincy Patriot Ledger

James Ragsdale, New Bedford Standard-Times

Daniel Warner, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune

1989

Irving Kravsow, Hartford Courant

Caryl Rivers, Boston University

James V. Wyman, Providence Journal-Bulletin

1990

Carmen Fields, WGBH-TV

Charles McCorkle Hauser, Providence Journal-Bulletin

Carter H. White, Meriden Record-Journal

1991

No awards presented

1992

Edward S. Bell, Associated Press

Arnold S. Friedman, Springfield Newspapers

Warren F. Gardner, Meriden Record-Journal

1993

Betty J. Brighton, Portsmouth Herald

Bernard Caughey, Quincy Patriot Ledger

Robert W. Mitchell, Rutland Herald

Hugh Mulligan, Associated Press

John P. Reilly, The Norwalk Hour

1994

Steve Riley, Guy Gannett Publishing Co.

Norman Runnion, Brattleboro Reformer

David Starr, Springfield Newspapers

William O. Taylor, Boston Globe

1995

Leonard I. Levin, Providence Journal-Bulletin

Reid MacCluggage, The Day

Kathie Neff Ragsdale, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune

Bernard S. Redmont, Boston University

1996

Katherine Fanning, Christian Science Monitor

Stan Grossfeld, Boston Globe

Kenneth E. Grube, The Day

1997

Natalie Jacobson, WCVB-TV

C. Michael Pride, Concord Monitor

Matthew Storin, Boston Globe

1998

William Breisky, Cape Cod Times

Michael Short, Associated Press

Rod Doherty, Foster’s Daily Democrat

Irving Rogers Jr., Lawrence Eagle Tribune

1999

William J. Pape II, Waterbury Republican-American
Morley L. Piper, New England Newspaper Association
John F. Henning, WBZ-TV
Linda Lotridge Levin, University of Rhode Island

2000

Elizabeth S. Ellis, Journal-Inquirer

Sarah-Ann Shaw, WBZ-TV

David Nyhan, Boston Globe

Robert Foster, Foster’s Daily Democrat

2001

Philip Balboni, New England Cable News

Thomas Kearney, The Keene Sentinel

Morgan McGinley, The Day

Alan Lupo, Boston Globe

2002

Patrick J. Purcell, Boston Herald/Community Newspaper Co.

Joseph W. McQuaid, Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News

Clark Booth, WCVB-TV

Ken Hartnett, New Bedford Standard-Times

2003

Paul LaCamera, WCVB-TV

Stephen A. Kurkjian, Boston Globe

James H. Smith, Record-Journal

Harry T. Whitin, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

2004

Benjamin Edes, Boston Gazette

Elaine N. Hooker, Associated Press

Jonathan F. Kellogg, Republican-American

Joel P. Rawson, Providence Journal

R.D. Sahl, New England Cable News

2005

John Burke, Boston Globe

George Geers, New England Newspaper Association

Thomas Heslin, Providence Journal

Emily Rooney, WGBH-TV

George Stone, The Day

Isaiah Thomas, Worcester Gazette

2006

Gary Lapierre, WBZ

David Offer, Kennebec Journal

Chris Powell, Manchester Journal Inquirer

Walter Robinson, Boston Globe

William Lloyd Garrison

2007

Michael Donoghue, Burlington Free Press

Larry McDermott, The Republican, Springfield

Eileen McNamara, The Boston Globe

Jim Taricani, WJAR, Providence

Barbara Walsh, Portland Press Herald

2008

Nelson Benton, Salem, Mass., News

John Howe, The Citizen, Laconia, N.H.

Al Larkin, The Boston Globe.

2009

James Campanini, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.

James Foudy, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Mass.

Sam Fleming, WBUR radio, Boston

George Krimsky, AP, Center for Foreign Journalists, and the Republican-American newspapers, Waterbury, Conn.

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Elected posthumously

Notes and References

Web site: Four New England journalists, including a pioneer from the Colonial-era, will receive the Yankee Quill Award this fall for their contributions to the betterment of journalism in the region.. 2008. .iconocast.com. 2008-11-13.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2007/08/10/five_journalists_honored_with_yankee_quill_award/ "Five journalists honored with Yankee Quill Award"
News: Academy of New England Journalists Announces 2006 Yankee Quill Award. August 30, 2006 . allbusiness.com. 2008-11-16.
http://www.thehour.com/story/494488 Hour's Reilly attends 50th anniversary of Yankee Quill awards