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Distinguished Service Award

2022 Ryan Seacrest
2021 Gordon Smith
2020 Jim Henson
2019 Alan Alda
2018 Robin Roberts
2017 David Hartman and Joan Lunden
2016 Bob Woodruff
2015 Jerry Lewis
2014 Jorge Ramos
2013 Bob Schieffer
2012 The E.W. Scripps Company
2011 Eddie Fritts
2010 Michael J. Fox
2009 Mary Tyler Moore
2008 Charles Osgood
2007 David L. Wolper
2006 Tom Brokaw
Peter Jennings
Dan Rather
2005 Lowry Mays
2004 Oprah Winfrey
2003 Cokie Roberts
2002 Richard E. Wiley
2001 Catherine L. Hughes
2000 Frank Bennack
1999 The Cox Family
1998 James Dowdle
1997 Barbara Walters
1996 Charles Kuralt
1995 Stanley Hubbard
1994 James Quello
1993 Dick Clark
1992 Ronald Reagan
1991 Thomas Murphy
1990 William Smullin
1989 James Duffy
1988 Mark Fowler
1987 Martin Umansky
1986 Grant Tinker
1985 Wilson Wearn
1984 Elton Rule
1983 Vincent Wasilewski
1982 Walter Cronkite
1981 Arch Madsen
1980 Donald Thurston
1979 Jack Harris
1978 J. Leonard Reinsch
1977 Harold Krelstein
1976 Julian Goodman
1975 George Storer
1974 Richard Chapin
1973 Ward Quaal
1972 Billy Graham
1971 Neville Miller
1970 Rosel Hyde
1969 John Fetzer
1968 Lowell Thomas
1967 Chet Huntley
David Brinkley
1966 Sol Taishoff
1965 Leonard Goldenson
1964 Donald McGannon
1963 Bob Hope
1962 Edward R. Murrow
1961 Justin Miller
1960 Clair McCollough
1959 Robert Sarnoff
1958 Frank Stanton
1957 Herbert Hoover
1956 Robert Kitner
1955 Mark Ethridge
1954 William Paley
1953 David Sarnoff








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