title: Yankee Quill Award
text: The Yankee Quill Award is a regional American journalism award that recognizes a lifetime contribution toward excellence in journalism in New England. The award is bestowed annually by the Academy of New England Journalists, and administered by the New England Society of Newspaper Editors. It is considered the highest individual honor awarded by fellow journalists in the region.
  
  Recent recipients
  2008
   Nelson Benton, editorial page editor, The Salem News
   Ann Smith Franklin (posthumous), American colonialist almanac printer, Newport, Rhode Island
   John Howe, editor and general manager, The Citizen, Laconia, New Hampshire
   Al Larkin, retired executive vice president, The Boston Globe
  
  2007
   Michael Donoghue, sportswriter at The Burlington Free Press in Burlington, Vermont, and executive director of the Vermont Press Association.
   Larry McDermott, publisher of The Republican in Springfield, Massachusetts, and president of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association
   Eileen McNamara, professor of journalism at Brandeis University
   James Taricani, investigative reporter for WJAR TV in Providence, Rhode Island
   Barbara Walsh (journalist), reporter at The Eagle-Tribune in North Andover, Massachusetts
  
  2006
   David B. Offer, Executive editor, Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, and the Morning Sentinel, Waterville, Maine
   Gary Lapierre, Managing editor, WBZ Radio, Boston
   Chris Powell, Managing editor and VP for news, the Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Connecticut
   Walter Robinson, Assistant managing editor/Spotlight Team, The Boston Globe
  
  1992
  John P. Reilly, Executive editor, The Hour, Norwalk, Connecticut
  
  Here is the list of winners from 1960 through 2009:
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  1963
  Paul S. Deland, Christian Science Monitor
  Louis M. Lyons, Nieman Foundation
  Henry W. Minott, United Press International
  
  1964
  John R. Herbert, Quincy Patriot Ledger
  Leslie Moore, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
  Laurence L. Winship, Boston Globe
  
  1965
  Gordon N. Converse, Christian Science Monitor
   Rudolph F. Elie, Boston Herald-Traveler
  Francis R. Murphy, Associated Press
  
  1966
  Thomas K. Brinkley, Fall River Herald-News
  William Dwight, Holyoke Transcript-Telegram
  Edward A. Weeks, Atlantic Monthly
  
  1967
  Charles E. Gallagher, Lynn Item
  Lawrence K. Miller, Berkshire Eagle
  John R. Reitemeyer, Hartford Courant
  
  1968
  Arch M. MacDonald, WBZ-TV
  Michael J. Ogden, Providence Journal-Bulletin
  Forest W. Seymour, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
  
  1969
  Harry Bryant Center, Boston University
  Alexander J. Haviland, Boston Globe
  Edgar M. Mills, Christian Science Monitor
  
  1970
  C. Edward Holland, Boston Record-American
   Charles J. Lewin, New Bedford Standard-Times
  David M. White, Boston University
  
  1971
  Barnard L. Colby, The Day
  J. Edward DeCourcy, Newport Argus-Champion
  Francis E. Whitmarsh, WBZ-TV
  
  1972
  Thomas J. Murphy, Waltham News-Tribune
  Thomas Winship, Boston Globe
  
  1973
  John N. Cole, Maine Times
  Thomas W. Gerber, Concord Monitor
  Abraham A. Michaelson, Berkshire Eagle
  
  1974
  Robert C. Achorn, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
  Bob Eddy, Hartford Courant
  Kingsley R. Fall, Berkshire Eagle
  
  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
  
  1976
  Joseph L. Doherty, Boston Globe
  Loren F. Ghiglione, Southbridge Evening News
  Elliot Norton, Boston Herald-American
  
  1977
  John Hughes, Christian Science Monitor
  Cornelius F. Hurley, Associated Press
  John B. Hynes, WCVB-TV
  Marjorie Mills, Boston Herald
  
  1978
  Dwight E. Sargent, Boston Herald-American
  George A. Speers, Northeastern University
  Charles L. Whipple, 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
  
  1980
  John C.A. Watkins, Providence Journal-Bulletin
  William J. Clew, Hartford Courant
  
  1981
   Alton H. Blackington, Boston Herald/WBZ
  Richard C. Garvey, Springfield Daily News
  Donald Murray, University of New Hampshire
  W. Davis Taylor, Boston Globe
  
  1982
  George B. Merry, Christian Science Monitor
  Richard C. Steele, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
  
  1983
  Stephen A. Collins, Danbury News-Times
  Robert H. Estabrook, Lakeville Journal
  Brooks W. Hamilton, University of Maine
  
  1984
  John C. Quinn, USA Today
  Kenneth J. Botty, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
  Deane C. Avery, The Day
  
  1985
  Leonard J. Cohen, Providence Journal-Bulletin
  George Esper, Associated Press
  Sidney B. McKeen, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
  George W. Wilson, Concord Monitor
  
  1986
  Roger Allen, WRKO
   Stanton J. Berens, United Press International
  Raymond A. Brighton, Portsmouth Herald
  K. Prescott Low, Quincy Patriot Ledger
  
  1987
  John S. Driscoll, Boston Globe
  James D. Ewing, Keene Sentinel
  James Thistle, Boston University
  
  1988
  William B. Ketter, Quincy Patriot Ledger
  James Ragsdale, New Bedford Standard-Times
  Daniel Warner, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune
  
  1989
  Irving Kravsow, Hartford Courant
  Caryl Rivers, Boston University
  James V. Wyman, Providence Journal-Bulletin
  
  1990
  Carmen Fields, WGBH-TV
  Charles McCorkle Hauser, Providence Journal-Bulletin
  Carter H. White, Meriden Record-Journal
  
  1991
  No awards presented
  
  1992
  Edward S. Bell, Associated Press
  Arnold S. Friedman, Springfield Newspapers
  Warren F. Gardner, Meriden Record-Journal
  
  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
  
  1994
  Steve Riley, Guy Gannett Publishing Co.
  Norman Runnion, Brattleboro Reformer
  David Starr, Springfield Newspapers
  William O. Taylor, Boston Globe
  
  1995
  Leonard I. Levin, Providence Journal-Bulletin
  Reid MacCluggage, The Day
  Kathie Neff Ragsdale, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune
  Bernard S. Redmont, Boston University
  
  1996
  Katherine Fanning, Christian Science Monitor
  Stan Grossfeld, Boston Globe
  Kenneth E. Grube, The Day
  
  1997
  Natalie Jacobson, WCVB-TV
  C. Michael Pride, Concord Monitor
  Matthew Storin, Boston Globe
  
  1998
  William Breisky, Cape Cod Times
  Michael Short, Associated Press
  Rod Doherty, Foster’s Daily Democrat
   Irving Rogers Jr., Lawrence Eagle Tribune
  
  1999
  William J. Pape II, Waterbury Republican-American
  Morley L. Piper, New England Newspaper Association
  John F. Henning, WBZ-TV
  Linda Lotridge Levin, University of Rhode Island
  
  2000
  Elizabeth S. Ellis, Journal-Inquirer
  Sarah-Ann Shaw, WBZ-TV
  David Nyhan, Boston Globe
  Robert Foster, Foster’s Daily Democrat
  
  2001
  Philip Balboni, New England Cable News
  Thomas Kearney, The Keene Sentinel
  Morgan McGinley, The Day
  Alan Lupo, Boston Globe
  
  2002
  Patrick J. Purcell, Boston Herald/Community Newspaper Co.
  Joseph W. McQuaid, Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News
  Clark Booth, WCVB-TV
  Ken Hartnett, New Bedford Standard-Times
  
  2003
  Paul LaCamera, WCVB-TV
  Stephen A. Kurkjian, Boston Globe
  James H. Smith, Record-Journal
  Harry T. Whitin, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
  
  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
  
  2005
  John Burke, Boston Globe
  George Geers, New England Newspaper Association
  Thomas Heslin, Providence Journal
  Emily Rooney, WGBH-TV
  George Stone, The Day
   Isaiah Thomas, Worcester Gazette
  
  2006
  Gary Lapierre, WBZ
  David Offer, Kennebec Journal
  Chris Powell, Manchester Journal Inquirer
  Walter Robinson, Boston Globe
  William Lloyd Garrison
  
  2007
  Michael Donoghue, Burlington Free Press
  Larry McDermott, The Republican, Springfield
  Eileen McNamara, The Boston Globe
  Jim Taricani, WJAR, Providence
  Barbara Walsh, Portland Press Herald
  
  2008
  Nelson Benton, Salem, Mass., News
  John Howe, The Citizen, Laconia, N.H.
  Al Larkin, The Boston Globe.
  
  2009
  James Campanini, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.
  James Foudy, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Mass.
  Sam Fleming, WBUR radio, Boston
  George Krimsky, AP, Center for Foreign Journalists, and the Republican-American newspapers, Waterbury, Conn.
  
  2017 robin young 
  
    Elected posthumously
  
  References
  
  American journalism awards