• 2025 :Academic:
Adam Berinsky,
Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It :Trade:
Laura Beers,
Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century • 2024 :Academic:
Anita Gohdes,
Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence :Trade:
Sander van der Linden,
Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity • 2023 :Academic: Danny Hayes and
Jennifer L. Lawless,
News Hole: The Demise of Local Journalism and Political Engagement :Trade:
Deborah Cohen,
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World At War • 2022 :Academic:
Karen Mossberger,
Caroline Tolbert, and Scott J. LaCombe,
Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities :Trade:
Elizabeth Becker,
You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War • 2021 :Academic: John Maxwell Hamilton,
Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda :Trade: Stephen Bates,
An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press • 2020 :No award given • 2019 :Academic: Matthew Hindman,
The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines DemocracyMargaret E. Roberts,
Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall :Trade:
Steven Levitsky and
Daniel Ziblatt,
How Democracies Die • 2018 :No award given • 2017 :Academic: James T. Hamilton,
Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism :Trade:
David Greenberg,
Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency • 2016 :Academic: Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril and Claes H. de Vreese,
Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective :Trade:
Harold Holzer,
Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion • 2015 :Academic: Daniela Stockmann,
Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China :Trade:
Andrew Pettegree,
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself • 2014 :Academic: Kevin Arceneaux and Martin Johnson,
Changing Minds or Changing Channels? Partisan News in an Age of Choice :
Matthew Levendusky,
How Partisan Media Polarize America :Trade:
Jaron Lanier,
Who Owns the Future? • 2013 :Academic: Jonathan M. Ladd,
Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters :Trade:
Rebecca MacKinnon,
Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom • 2012 :Academic: Jeffrey E. Cohen,
Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age :Trade:
Evgeny Morozov,
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom • 2011 :Academic: Tim Groeling,
When Politicians Attack: Party Cohesion in the Media :Patrick J. Sellers,
Cycles of Spin: Strategic Communication in the U.S. Congress :Trade:
Jack Fuller,
What Is Happening to the News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism • 2010 :Academic:
Matthew Hindman,
The Myth of Digital Democracy :Trade:
John Maxwell Hamilton, ''Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting'' • 2009 :Academic:
Markus Prior,
Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections. :Trade:
Jane Mayer,
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals • 2008 :Academic:
John G. Geer,
In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns :Trade:
Ted Gup,
Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life • 2007 :Academic:
Diana C. Mutz,
Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy :Trade:
Gene Roberts and
Hank Klibanoff,
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation • 2006 :Academic:
James A. Stimson,
Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics :Trade:
Geoffrey R. Stone,
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism • 2005 :Academic:
Daniel C. Hallin and
Paolo Mancini,
Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics :Trade:
Paul Starr,
The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications • 2004 :Academic:
Scott L. Althaus,
Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People :
Paul M. Kellstedt,
The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes :Trade:
Bill Katovsky and
Timothy Carlson,
Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq [https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15859172W/Embedded • 2003 :Academic:
Doris Graber,
Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age :Trade:
Leonard Downie, Jr. and
Robert G. Kaiser,
The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril *2002 :Academic:
Robert M. Entman and
Andrew Rojecki,
The Black Image in the White Mind [https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16582767W/The_black_image_in_the_white_mind :Trade:
Bill Kovach and
Tom Rosenstiel,
The Elements of Journalism *2001 :
Lawrence R. Jacobs &
Robert Y. Shapiro, ''Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness'' • 2000 :
Robert McChesney,
Rich Media, Poor Democracy [https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2012047W/Rich_media_poor_democracy • 1999 :James Hamilton,
Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming • 1998 :
Richard Norton Smith,
The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955 • 1997 :No award given • 1996 :
Stephen Ansolabehere and
Shanto Iyengar,
Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate • 1995 :
William Hoynes,
Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market and the Public Sphere • 1994 :
Cass R. Sunstein,
Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech • 1993 :
Greg Mitchell, ''Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics'' ==See also==