NESNE: Yankee Quill Award Winners

the academy of new england journalists

The following journalists have received the Yankee Quill Award
which honors achievement and distinction in New England Journalism

2011
Jack Authelet, Foxboro Reporter
Irwin Gratz, Maine Public Broadcasting Network
Leah Lamson, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
General Charles H. Taylor,* Boston Globe
Kendall Wallace, The Lowell Sun

2009
Samuel Bowles I and II,* The Republican
James Campanini, The Lowell Sun
Samuel W. Fleming IV, WBUR
Jim Foudy, Daily Hampshire Gazette
George Krimsky, Republican-American

2007
Michael Donoghue, The Burlington Free Press
Larry McDermott, The Republican, Springfield
Eileen McNamara, Boston Globe
Jim Taricani, WJAR, Providence
Barbara Walsh, Portland Press Herald

2005
John Burke, Boston Globe
George Geers, New England Newspaper Association
Thomas Heslin, Providence Journal
Emily Rooney, WGBH-TV
Greg Stone, The Day
Isaiah Thomas,* Worcester Gazette

2003
Stephen A. Kurkjian, Boston Globe
Paul LaCamera, WCVB-TV
James H. Smith, Record-Journal
Harry T. Whitin, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

2001
Philip Balboni, New England Cable News
Thomas Kearney, Keene Sentinel
Alan Lupo, Boston Globe
Morgan McGinley, The Day

1999
John F. Henning, WBZ-TV
Linda Lotridge Levin, University of Rhode Island
William J. Pape II, Waterbury Republican-American
Morley L. Piper, New England Newspaper Association

1997
Natalie Jacobson, WCVB-TV
C. Michael Pride, Concord Monitor
Matthew Storin, Boston Globe

1995
Leonard I. Levin, Providence Journal-Bulletin
Reid MacCluggage, The Day
Kathie Neff Ragsdale, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune
Bernard S. Redmont, Boston University

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

1991
No recipients


1989
Irving Kravsow, Hartford Courant
Caryl Rivers, Boston University
James V. Wyman, Providence Journal-Bulletin

1987
John S. Driscoll, Boston Globe
James D. Ewing, Keene Sentinel
James Thistle, Boston University

1985
Leonard J. Cohen, Providence Journal-Bulletin
George Esper, Associated Press
Sidney B. McKeen, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
George W. Wilson, Concord Monitor

1983
Stephen A. Collins, Danbury News-Times
Robert H. Estabrook, Lakeville Journal
Brooks W. Hamilton, University of Maine

1981
Alton H. Blackington,* Boston Herald/WBZ
Richard C. Garvey, Springfield Daily News
Donald Murray, University of New Hampshire
W. Davis Taylor, 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

1977
John Hughes, Christian Science Monitor
Cornelius F. Hurley, Associated Press
John B. Hynes, WCVB-TV
Marjorie Mills, Boston Herald

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

1973
John N. Cole, Maine Times
Thomas W. Gerber, Concord Monitor
Abraham A. Michaelson, Berkshire Eagle

1971
Barnard L. Colby, The Day
J. Edward DeCourcy, Newport Argus-Champion
Francis E. Whitmarsh, WBZ-TV

1969
Harry Bryant Center, Boston University
Alexander J. Haviland, Boston Globe
Edgar M. Mills, Christian Science Monitor

1967
Charles E. Gallagher, Lynn Item
Lawrence K. Miller, Berkshire Eagle
John R. Reitemeyer, Hartford Courant

1965
Gordon N. Converse, Christian Science Monitor
Rudolph F. Elie, Boston Herald-Traveler
Francis R. Murphy, Associated Press

1963
Paul S. Deland, Christian Science Monitor
Louis M. Lyons, Nieman Foundation
Henry W. Minott, United Press International


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

2010
Oreste D’Arconte, The Sun Chronicle
Thomas Green,* The Courant
Melissa Ludtke, Nieman Foundation/Nieman Reports
Dan Rea, WBZ
Mary Pat Rowland, Foster’s Daily Democrat
Mark Smith, Caledonian-Record

2008
Nelson Benton, Salem News
Ann Smith Franklin,* Rhode Island Gazette
John Howe, The Citizen, Laconia, N.H.
Al Larkin, Boston Globe

2006
William Lloyd Garrison,* The Liberator, Boston
Gary Lapierre, WBZ
David Offer, Kennebec Journal
Chris Powell, Manchester Journal Inquirer
Walter Robinson, Boston Globe

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

2002
Clark Booth, WCVB-TV
Ken Hartnett, New Bedford Standard-Times
Joseph W. McQuaid, Union Leader and N.H. Sunday News
Patrick J. Purcell, Boston Herald/Community Newspaper Co.

2000
Elizabeth S. Ellis, Journal-Inquirer
Robert Foster, Foster’s Daily Democrat
David Nyhan, Boston Globe
Sarah-Ann Shaw, WBZ-TV

1998
William Breisky, Cape Cod Times
Rod Doherty, Foster’s Daily Democrat
Irving Rogers Jr.,* Lawrence Eagle Tribune
Michael Short, Associated Press

1996
Katherine Fanning, Christian Science Monitor
Stan Grossfield, Boston Globe
Kenneth E. Grube, The Day

1994
Steve Riley, Guy Gannett Publishing Co.
Norman Runnion, Brattleboro Reformer
David Starr, Springfield Newspapers
William O. Taylor, Boston Globe

1992
Edward S. Bell, Associated Press
Arnold S. Friedman, Springfield Newspapers
Warren F. Gardner, Meriden Record-Journal


1990
Carmen Fields, WGBH-TV
Charles McCorkle Hauser, Providence Journal-Bulletin
Carter H. White, Meriden Record-Journal

1988
William B. Ketter, Quincy Patriot Ledger
James Ragsdale, New Bedford Standard-Times
Daniel Warner, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune

1986
Roger Allen, WRKO
Stanton J. Berens,* United Press International
Raymond A. Brighton, Portsmouth Herald
K. Prescott Low, Quincy Patriot Ledger

1984
Deane C. Avery, The Day
Kenneth J. Botty, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
John C. Quinn, USA Today

1982
George B. Merry, Christian Science Monitor
Richard C. Steele, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

1980
John C.A. Watkins, Providence Journal-Bulletin
William J. Clew, Hartford Courant


1978
Dwight E. Sargent, Boston Herald-American
George A. Speers, Northeastern University
Charles L. Whipple, Boston Globe

1976
Joseph L. Doherty, Boston Globe
Loren F. Ghiglione, Southbridge Evening News
Elliot Norton, Boston Herald-American

1974
Robert C. Achorn, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Bob Eddy, Hartford Courant
Kingsley R. Fall, Berkshire Eagle

1972
Thomas J. Murphy, Waltham News-Tribune
Thomas Winship, Boston Globe

1970
C. Edward Holland, Boston Record-American
Charles J. Lewin,* New Bedford Standard-Times
David M. White, Boston University

1968
Arch M. MacDonald, WBZ-TV
Michael J. Ogden, Providence Journal-Bulletin
Forest W. Seymour, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

1966
Thomas K. Brinkley, Fall River Herald-News
William Dwight, Holyoke Transcript-Telegram
Edward A. Weeks, Atlantic Monthly

1964
John R. Herbert, Quincy Patriot Ledger
Leslie Moore, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Laurence L. Winship, Boston Globe

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

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

* Elected posthumously

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