Scoop of the Year – for the best of the exclusives
1990: Terry Pattinson, Frank Thorpe and Ted Oliver, Daily Mirror (for the story of ‘Scargill and the Libyan Money’)
1991: Jonathan Steel, The Guardian (for his exclusive interview with President Gorbachev in the Crimea during the attempted coup in the Soviet Union)
1992: Andrew Morton for his book Diana, Her True Story (which caused massive coverage in newspapers and broadcast media)
1993: Clare Henderson, Grimsby Evening Telegraph (for scooping Fleet Street on Norman Lamont’s resignation)
1994: Insight team, The Sunday Times (for the story of MPs accepting £1,000 to ask a Parliamentary question)
1995: Stuart Higgins, The Sun (for his exclusive on Prince Charles’ divorce)
1996: Kevin Maguire, Daily Mirror (for his exclusive on Mad Cow Disease)
1997: Charles Miller, Press Association (for his world-beating story on the death of Princess Diana)
1998: Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian (for the story of the loan to Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson by Geoffrey Robinson)
1999: Neville Thurlbek and Rob Kellaway, News of the World (for the Jeffrey Archer Diary story)
2000: Geoffrey Lean, Independent on Sunday (for his investigation into the secret trials of genetically modified crops)
2001: Andrew Grice and Barrie Clement, The Independent (for the story of government spin-doctor Jo Moore who tried to bury bad news in the wake of the September 11th atrocities)
2002: The Times (for the revelation that John Major, ‘who had battled so fruitlessly against sleaze in favour of moral rectitude’, had had a prolonged affair with Edwina Currie)
2003: Ryan Parry of the Daily Mirror who infiltrated Buckingham Palace as a footman, demonstrating his powers of endurance and single-minded reporting skills.
2004: Daniel Foggo, Patrick Hennessy and Robert Peston of the Sunday Telegraph, for their story of the alleged fast-tracking of a visa for a nanny employed by Kimberly Quinn – the married woman with whom Home Secretary David Blunkett had had an affair (it was this story that finally led to his resignation).
2005: Robert Jobson of the Evening Standard, for the story that Camilla Parker Bowles and Prince Charles were to marry.
2006: Stephen Moyes of the Daily Mirror for his pictorial story of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott’s affair with his secretary.
2007: David Leigh, the feelance journalist who broke the story of ‘back-from-the-dead-canoeist’ John Darwin, who walked into a police station five years after he went missing. The story was published in the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror.
2008: Miles Goslett, of The Mail on Sunday for his story about an obscene telephone call made by comedian Russell Brand and his co-presenter Jonathan Ross to the actor Andrew Sachs during a BBC Radio 2 broadcast.
Edgar Wallace Award – for writing/reporting of the highest quality
1990: Matthew Parris, The Times
1991: Craig Brown, The Times and The Sunday Times
1992: Martin Bell, BBC TV
1993: Joe Rogaly, Financial Times
1994: Peter Preston, The Guardian
1995: No award
1996: Keith Waterhouse, Daily Mail
1997: Simon Jenkins, The Times
1998: Robert Fisk, The Independent
1999: Simon Kelner, The Independent
2000: Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
2001: Ann Leslie, Daily Mail
2002: Quentin Letts, Daily Mail
2003: Ross Benson, Daily Mail
2004: Alan Watkins, Independent on Sunday
2005: Ian Wooldridge, Daily Mail
2006: Hugh McIlvanney, The Sunday Times
2007: AA Gill, The Sunday Times
2008: Sir Max Hastings, columnist, historian and author
Business Journalist
2000: Jeff Randall, Sunday Business
2001: Jason Nissé, Independent on Sunday
2002: Patience Wheatcroft, The Times
2003: William Lewis, Sunday Times
2004: Anthony Hilton, Evening Standard
2005: Bill Emmott, Economist
2006: Ian King, The Sun
2007: Evan Davis, BBC TV
2008: Robert Peston, BBC TV
Broadcasting Journalist
2000: Sue MacGregor, BBC Radio Today programme
2001: Orla Guerin, BBC TV
2002: Andrew Marr, BBC TV
2003: Rageh Omaar, BBC TV
2004: Rachel Amatt, Sky News
2005: Caroline Hawley, BBC TV
2006: Alan Johnston, BBC TV
2007: Martin Brunt, Sky News
2008: Stuart Ramsey, Sky News
Consumer Affairs Journalist
2002: Tanith Carey, Daily Mirror
2003: Sean Poulter, Daily Mail
2004: Chris Choi, ITN
2005: Jonathan Prynn, Evening Standard
2006: Graham Hiscott, Daily Express
2007: Harry Wallop, The Daily Telegraph
2008: Martin Lewis, moneysavingexpert.com
Daily Newspaper of the Year
2003: Independent (Editor: Simon Kelner)
2004: Daily Mail (Editor: Paul Dacre)
2005: Guardian (Editor: Alan Rusbridger)
2006: Daily Mirror (Editor: Richard Wallace)
2007: Daily Mail (Editor: Paul Dacre)
2008: The Sun (Editor: Rebekah Wade)
Sunday Newspaper of the Year
2003: News of the World (Editor: Andy Coulson)
2004: News of the World (Editor: Andy Coulson)
2005: News of the World (Editor: Andy Coulson)
2006: The Mail on Sunday (Editor: Peter Wright)
2007: The Sunday Times (Editor: John Witherow)
2008: The Mail on Sunday (Editor: Peter Wright)