Past keynote speakers have included Dan Rather, Ellen Goodman, Paul Krugman, Seymour Hersh, John Quiñones, and Gail Collins.
The deadline for entries from the previous calendar year is typically in March and the submissions are screened by journalists from the Board of Advisors, which governs the conducting of the award.
The 2013 MOLLY National Journalism Prize was awarded to Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker for her article “The Throwaways,” which addresses the use and abuse of juvenile drug offenders as confidential informants by law enforcement officers.
[1] Hugh Aynesworth, Maurine H. Beasley, Tom Bettag, Mike Blackman, Frederick Blevens, Roy Blount, Jr., Mary Breasted, Robert Bryce, Ken Bunting, Wanda Cash, Carlton Carl, Mike Cochran, Gail Collins, Patrick Cox, Greg Curtis, Joe Cutbirth, Lou Dubose, Ronnie Dugger, Margaret Engel, James Fallows, Doug Foster, Ellen Goodman, Wade Goodwyn, Patti Kilday Hart, Jim Henderson, Steven Isenberg, Melissa Jones, Lewis Lapham, Myra MacPherson, David McHam, Dave McNeely, Kevin Merida, Judith Davidson Moyers, Victor Navasky, Kaye Northcott, Larry Norwood, Karen Olsson, John Pope, Dan Rather, Matt Rothschild, Ben Sargent, Connie Schultz, Robert Siegel, Erna Smith, Glenn Smith, Paul Stekler, Carlton Stowers, Diane Suchetka, Ellen Sweets, Mimi Swartz, Saralee Tiede, Rusty Todd, Calvin Trillin, Jim Willse and John Young.
[2] 2019: Hannah Dreier, ProPublica 2018: Michael Grabell & Howard Berkes, ProPublica/NPR 2017: Shane Bauer, Mother Jones 2016: Joseph Neff, The News & Observer 2015: Esther Kaplan, the Virginia Quarterly Review 2014: Dave Philipps, The Gazette 2013: Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker 2012: Trevor Aaronson, Mother Jones 2011: Jeff Sharlet, Harper's Magazine 2010: A.C. Thompson, ProPublica 2009: Rick Casey, The Houston Chronicle 2008: Diane Suchetka, The Plain Dealer