Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting

The oldest of the Institute’s annual public affairs activities, the Weintal Fund awards scholarships to MSFS students and bestows prizes for diplomatic reporting. These programs were endowed by the late Edward Weintal, a Polish diplomat and diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek Magazine. The Edward Weintal Prize is presented to one or more journalists for distinguished reporting on foreign policy and diplomacy. The award is open to journalists in both print and broadcast media.

The Weintal Trust also provides two-year scholarships for graduate students in the Master of Science in Foreign Service program.

Past Recipients

  • 2016 – Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief, The Atlantic.
  • 2013 – Tom Brokaw, NBC News Special Correspondent
  • 2011
    • John Pomfret, Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Post
    • Dexter Filkins, Staff Writer for The New Yorker
    • ForeignPolicy.com & Susan Glasser, Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy
  • 2010
    • Steve Coll, President of The New America Foundation
    • Martha Raddatz, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent for ABC News
  • 2009
    • Deborah Amos, International Correspondent on the Middle East for NPR
    • Jane Mayer, Staff Writer at The New Yorker
    • Carol Giacomo, Foreign Affairs Member of the Editorial Board for The New York Times
    • H.D.S. Greenway, Columnist for Foreign Affairs
  • 2008
    • Trudy Rubin, Foreign Affairs Columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer
    • Margaret Warner, Senior Correspondent for The PBS NewsHour
      Special Citation:
    • Walter Pincus, Reporter for The Washington Post
  • 2007
    • Carlotta Gall, Reporter for The New York Times
    • Anthony Shadid, Islamic Affairs Correspondent for The Washington Post
      Special Citations:
    • Jonathan Landay & Warren Strobel, Senior National Security Correspondent and Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers
    • Martin Smith, Senior Producer at PBS’s FRONTLINE
  • 2006
    • Anne Garrels, Foreign Correspondent for NPR
    • George Packer, Staff Writer for The New Yorker
    • Special Citations:
      • Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent for CNN
      • Garry Trudeau, Cartoonist
  • 2005
    • John F. Burns, Chief of Baghdad Bureau for The New York Times
    • Seymour Hersh, Contributor to The New Yorker
    • Special Citations:
      • David Ignatius, Columnist for The Washington Post
      • Bernard Kalb, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
  • 2004
    • David Sanger, White House Correspondent for The New York Times
    • Steven Weisman, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for The New York Times
    • Special Citation:
      • Daniel Schorr, Senior News Analyst for NPR
  • 2003
    • Karen DeYoung, National Editor for The Washington Post
    • Carla Anne Robbins, News Editor for The Wall Street Journal
  • 2002
    • Daniel Pearl (Posthumously), South Asia Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal
    • Lois Raimondo, Staff Photographer for The Washington Post
  • 2001
    • Peter Jennings, Anchor of World News Tonight
    • Robin Wright, Diplomatic Correspondent for The Washington Post
  • 2000
    • Betsy Hiel, Foreign Correspondent for The Pittsburg Tribune-Review
    • Jim Wooten, Foreign Correspondent for ABC News
  • 1999
    • Tom Fenton, London Bureau Chief of CBS News
    • Jim Mann, Diplomatic Correspondent and Foreign Affairs Columnist for The Los Angeles Times
    • Special Citation:
      • Kenneth W. Thompson, Director of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center
  • 1998
    • Peter Arnett, Foreign Correspondent for CNN
    • Christopher Dickey, Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Post
    • Alessandra Stanley, Co-chief of Moscow Bureau for The New York Times
    • Special Citation:
      • Benjamin Welles, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
  • 1997
    • Thomas L. Friedman, Foreign Affairs Columnist for The New York Times
    • Bob Simon, Correspondent for 60 Minutes
  • 1996
    • Barry Schweid, Reporter for The Associated Press
    • Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent for CNN
    • Mike Hanna, Middle East Bureau Chief for CNN
    • Special Citation:
      • David D. Newsom, Former Ambassador and Columnist for The Christian Science Monitor
  • 1995
    • Barrie Dunsmore, Fellow at the Center for the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University
    • Daniel Southerland, Former Beijing Bureau Chief for The Washington Post
    • Special Citation:
      • Peter F. Krogh, Dean of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service
  • 1994
    • R. W. Apple, Jr., Washington Bureau Chief of The New York Times
    • Ralph Begleiter, World Affairs Correspondent for CNN
  • 1993
    • Don Oberdorfer, President of the Overseas Writers Association
    • Sylvia Poggioli, European Correspondent for NPR
  • 1992
    • Peter Gumbel, Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal
    • Gerald Seib, Political Editor for The Wall Street Journal
    • Robert MacNeil, Anchor of The PBS NewsHour
    • James Lehrer, Anchor of The PBS NewsHour
    • Special Citation:
      • James Reston, Former Columnist and Editor for The New York Times
  • 1991
    • Peter Jennings, Anchor of World News Tonight
    • Caryle Murphy, Cairo Bureau Chief of The Washington Post
  • 1990
    • Vitaly Korotich, Editor-in-Chief of Ogonyok Magazine
    • Ted Turner, Founder of CNN
    • Special Citation:
      • Paul H. Nitze, Special Advisor to President Reagan on Arms Control
  • 1989
    • Linda Cavanaugh, Anchor of KFOR-TV
    • Dana Fowler, Executive Producer of KFOR-TV
    • Tony Stizza, Photographer for KFOR-TV
    • James H. McCartney, Reporter and Columnist for Knight Rider
    • Special Citation:
      • Allen Neuharth, Founder of USA TODAY
  • 1988
    • Elizabeth Drew, Washington Correspondent for The New Yorker
    • Cokie Roberts, Contributor to The PBS NewsHour
    • John Walcott, National Security Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal
    • Judy Woodruff, Chief Washington Correspondent for The PBS NewsHhour
    • Special Citation:
      • John P. Wallach, Foreign Editor of Hearst Newspapers
  • 1987
    • Alan Berlow, Freelance Journalist
    • Bill Buzenberg, Vice President of News for NPR
    • Jon M. Sawyer, Staff Reporter for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    • Special Citation:
      • Bernard M. Gwertzman, Author of Fulbright: The Dissenter
  • 1986
    • Ted Koppel, Anchor on Nightline
    • Doyle McManus, Washington Columnist for The Los Angeles Times
    • Robert C. Toth, Moscow Correspondent for The Los Angeles Times
    • Special Citation (Posthumously):
      • Joseph Kraft, Foreign Affairs and National Security Correspondent for The Los Angeles Times
    • Special Citation:
      • Cord Meyer, Columnist for The Washington Times
  • 1985
    • Tom Brokaw, Anchor of NBC Nightly News
    • Bryant Gumbel, Anchor of The Today Show
    • John Hart, Correspondent for NBC Nightly News
    • Marvin Kalb, Moderator of Meet the Press
    • Garrick Utley, News Anchor of Sunday Today
    • David Ignatius, Reporter for The Wall Street Journal
    • Special Weintal Certificate:
      • Strobe Talbott, Correspondent on Soviet-American Relations for Time Magazine
  • 1984
    • Dusko Doder, Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Post
    • Bernard M. Gwertzman, Foreign Correspondent for The New York Times
      Special Weintal Certificate of Respect:
    • Georgie Anne Geyer, Foreign Affairs Reporter for The Chicago Daily News
    • Distinguished Diplomat Award:
      • Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Former U.S. Secretary of State
  • 1983
    • William Beecher, Columnist for The Boston Globe
    • Andrew Stern, UC Berkeley; producer of PBS documentary
  • 1982
    • Don Oberdorfer, Diplomatic Correspondent for The Washington Post
    • Henry Trewhitt
    • Special Citation:
      • John Chancellor, Anchor of NBC Nightly News
  • 1981
    • John Carson-Parker
    • G. Thomas Gibson
    • Geoffrey Godsell, Overseas News Editor for The Christian Science Monitor
    • David K. Willis, Author of Klass: How Russians Really Live
    • Special Citation
      • Gerard C. Smith, Former North American Chairman of the Trilateral Commission
  • 1980
    • Karen Elliott House, Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal
    • Jonathan Randal, Foreign Correspondent for The United Press, The Press Herald, The New York Times, and The Washington Post
    • Strobe Talbott, Correspondent on Soviet-American Relations for Time Magazine
    • John P. Wallach, Foreign Editor for Hearst Newspapers
    • Special Citation:
      • Henry A. Kissinger, Former U.S. Secretary of State
  • 1979
    • Richard Dudman, Chief Washington Correspondent for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    • Joseph Harsch, Reporter for The Christian Science Monitor
  • 1978
    • Flora Lewis, Foreign and Diplomatic Correspondent for The New York Times
    • Keyes Beech, Foreign Correspondent for The Los Angeles Times
    • Special Citations:
      • Eric Sevareid, Reporter for CBS News
      • C. L. Sulzberger, Foreign Correspondent for The New York Times
  • 1977
    • John Midgley, Washington Correspondent for The Economist
    • Adelbert de Segonzac, Washington Correspondent for France-Soir
    • Werner Imhoof, Chief Washington Correspondent for Neue Zurcher Zeitung
  • 1976 – Peter Lisagor, Washington Bureau Chief of The Chicago Daily News
  • 1975 – Chalmers Roberts, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for The Washington Post