2012
Terry McDonell, editor, Time Inc. Sports Group
2010
Michael Kinsley, senior editor, The Atlantic; founding editor, Slate
Anna Wintour, editor in chief, Vogue
2009
Martha Stewart, founder, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.
2008
Tina Brown, renowned journalist and former editor, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair
2007
Lewis H. Lapham, former editor, Harper's Magazine
2006
William F. Buckley Jr., founder & editor-at-large, National Review
2005
Norman Pearlstine, editor-in-chief, Time Inc.
2004
Ellen Levine, editor-in-chief, Good Housekeeping
2003
Arthur Cooper, editor-in-chief, GQ
2002
Susan L. Taylor, senior vice president and editorial director, Essence
2001
Charles Peters, founder and editor-in-chief, The Washington Monthly
2000
John Mack Carter, former editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping and
director of magazine development for The Hearst Corporation
1999
Dennis Flanagan, former editor, Scientific American
Stephen B. Shepard, editor-in-chief, Business Week
1998
Byron Dobell, former editor, American Heritage
Hugh M. Hefner, founder and editor-in-chief, Playboy
Gloria Steinem, founding editor, Ms. Magazine
1997
Sey Chassler, former editor-in-chief, Redbook
Henry Anatole Grunwald, former managing editor, Time
Jann S. Wenner, editor/publisher, Rolling Stone
1996
Helen Gurley Brown, editor-in-chief, Cosmopolitan
Osborn Elliott, former editor-in-chief, Newsweek
Clay Felker, founding editor, New York
Dick Stolley, founding editor, People
Ruth Whitney, editor-in-chief, Glamour