The Mark Twain Award for Journalism Excellence Recipients:

2021
John Carroll

The former executive editor at the Los Angeles Times.

2020
David Perlman

The longtime science editor, San Francisco Chronicle.

2019
Jonathan Gold

Food and music critic, Los Angeles Times/L.A. Weekly.

2018
David Lamb

The longtime Los Angeles Times foreign and national correspondent.

2017
Ben H. Bagdikian

The journalist, journalism-school dean, media critic and author.

2016
Morris “Morrie” Turner

The first African-American to have a syndicated comic strip: the ethnically diverse “Wee Pals.”

2015
Rex Babin

The Sacramento Bee cartoonist who excelled in caricaturing the powerful.

2014
Bill Stall

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times editorial writer.

2013
Edward Kennedy

The Associated Press correspondent whose scoop on the German surrender in World War II was squashed. He was later an editor in Monterey and received a posthumous apology from the AP.

2012
Paul Conrad

The iconic Los Angeles Times editorial cartoonist.

2011
Herb Caen

The popular San Francisco Chronicle “three-dot” columnist.

2010
Samuel Clemens

Who had an adventurous newspaper career before becoming the famed Mark Twain.

2010
Ron Fimrite

The Sporting Tiger,” who took sports writing beyond plays and scores at the San Francisco Chronicle.