The award is given annually to reporters who "most nearly exemplify the style and craftsmanship for which Ernie Pyle was known".
Previous winners of the environmental reporting award include Ken Ward Jr., Sam Roe, Bruce Ingersoll, James V. Risser, Larry Tye, and Craig Flournoy.
In 2022,[6] the award was renamed as "Excellence in Environmental Reporting, honoring Edward W. 'Ted' Scripps II.
First, in 1972, was the Public Service Reporting Award, honoring long-time Scripps executive Roy W. Howard.
"Given to the editor of the winning newspaper for distribution to the individual or individuals on the staff who contributed most significantly to the cause of the First Amendment guarantee of a free press,"[9] the award is now known as "Distinguished Service to the First Amendment, honoring Edward Willis Scripps."
By the end of the 1970s, the Scripps Howard Foundation was presenting a total of five annual journalism awards.
[10] After being presented for 30 years, the award was discontinued in 2011 "due to the lack of entries to merit its continuance.
"[11] In 1985, the Jack R. Howard Broadcast Awards for Public Service Programming began being represented.
[12] That same year, the Literacy Charles E. Scripps Award, began being presented, given "to any daily broadcast and/or newspaper or local cable system in the U.S. or its territories for most outstanding effort ... to overcome illiteracy in its community.
In 1998–1999, Scripps Howard added five new categories to the National Journalism Awards (three of which have since been discontinued).
The year 2000 saw two new awards join the list: Editorial Cartooning and Web Reporting;[16] both of which have since been discontinued.
[b] In 2005, Scripps-Howard took over the administration of the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award, which had previously been given at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
Renaming it the Washington Reporting Raymond Clapper Award, the prize was presented through 2011, when it was discontinued.
In 2022, the award was renamed "Excellence in Audio Storytelling, honoring Jack R. Howard".
Awarded in partnership with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
Awarded in partnership with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
Reporter and Scripps Howard columnist Raymond Clapper died in 1944 during World War II while covering the U.S. invasion of the Marshall Islands.
[38] Under Scripps Howard, the Washington Reporting Raymond Clapper Award was presented from 2004 to 2011, at which point it was discontinued.