John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism is an annual award of $25,000, selected by a panel of journalists, for quality reporting.

Established in 1995, the award was formerly administered by the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

, and is administered by the Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 Graduate School of Journalism.
Ira Lipman provided a gift to Columbia University to support the award.
He became a lifelong friend of John Chancellor after they met in Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census...

 in 1957.

Winners

Year	Winner	Organization
2010	Robert Siegel Robert Siegel Robert Siegel is an American radio journalist best known as host of the National Public Radio evening news broadcast All Things Considered.-Career:...	National Public Radio
2009	Ken Armstrong Ken Armstrong (journalist) Ken Armstrong is a staff reporter at The Seattle Times.He worked at the Chicago Tribune.He was a 2001 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and in 2002, was the McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University....	The Seattle Times
2008	Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1995... , Andrew C. Revkin Andrew Revkin Andrew C. Revkin is a journalist and author who has spent a quarter of a century covering subjects ranging from the assault on the Amazon to the Asian tsunami, from the troubled relationship of science and politics to climate change at the North Pole. From 1995 through 2009, he covered the...	The New Yorker, The New York Times
2007	Ofra Bikel Ofra Bikel Ofra Bikel is a documentary filmmaker, and television producer.She was graduated from the University of Paris and the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.She was a researcher for Time, Newsweek, and ABC Television....	PBS series FRONTLINE
2006	Henry Weinstein	Los Angeles Times
2005	Jerry Mitchell Jerry Mitchell Jerry Mitchell is an American theatre director and choreographer.-Early life and education:Born in Paw Paw, Michigan, Mitchell later moved to St. Louis where he pursued his acting, dancing and directing career in theatre. He graduated from the Fine Arts college at Webster University in St. Louis. ...	The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi
2004	Linda Greenhouse Linda Greenhouse Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow at Yale Law School...	The New York Times (1968-2008)
2003	Mary McGrory Mary McGrory Mary McGrory was a liberal American journalist and columnist. She was a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War and was on Richard Nixon's enemies list for writing "daily hate Nixon articles."...	The Washington Post (1981-2004)
2002	Jim Wooten	ABC News (1979-present)
2000	John Herbers John Herbers John Herbers is an American journalist, author, editor, World War II veteran, and Pulitzer Prize finalist.- Early life :...	The New York Times (1963-1987)
2000	Claude Sitton Claude Sitton Claude Fox Sitton is a retired American newspaper reporter and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He covered the civil rights movement for The New York Times during the 1950s and 1960s, eventually becoming the paper's national editor...	The News & Observer Raleigh, North Carolina (1968-1990)
1999	Paul Duke Paul Duke Paul Duke was an American newspaper, radio and television journalist, best known for his 20-year stint as moderator of Washington Week in Review on PBS....	PBS (1974-1994)
1998	John Kifner John Kifner John Kifner was a reporte for the The New York Times. After serving as an editor on his Williams College student newspaper, The Williams Record, Kifner joined The New York Times as a copy boy in 1963 and soughtt reporting assignments...	The New York Times (1963-2008)
1997	Wilson F. “Bill” Minor	The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana (1947-1976)