CNN Digital, one of the world’s leading digital news brands
Barbara Ehrenreich, author and activist
Rea Hederman, publisher, The New York Review of Books
Gerd Ludwig, photojournalist, documentary photographer
Merrill Perlman, copy editor
Bill Plante, Senior White House Correspondent, CBS News
Yoani Sanchez, Cuban blogger, journalist, entrepreneur
Lincoln Stephens, co-founder, The Marcus Graham Project
Sports Journalism Institute, training-internship program
Byron E. Calame, respected editor/ombudsman
Audie Cornish, co-host of "All Things Considered"
The Guardian, 193-year-old newspaper
Steve Kopcha, advertising leader, educator
The staff of the Kyiv Post, Ukraine’s leading English-language newspaper
Eugene Richards, photographer, filmmaker and writer
WIRED, technology media outlet
FleishmanHillard, global communications firm
Hearst Television, national multimedia company
Michael Golden, New York Times executive
Carol Guzy, staff photographer, The Washington Post
Greg Lee, Executive Sports Editor, South Florida Sun Sentinel
Charles Lewis, author and investigative journalist
Aye Aye Win, correspondent, The Associated Press-Myanmar
Umar Cheema, investigative reporter, Pakistan
Jodi Cobb, photographer and author
Mona Eltahawy, columnist and cyber-activist
John Ferrugia, investigative journalist, KMGH-TV
Jeff Leen, Washington Post Investigative Unit
Adam Moss, Editor-in-Chief, New York Magazine
NYT Graphics Dept., The New York Times
Fred Papert, advertising executive
Ken Paulson, President/CEO, First Amendment Center
Margaret Wolf Freivogel, founding editor, St. Louis Beacon
FRONTLINE, investigative documentary series
Mario R. Garcia, CEO and founder, Garcia Media
David Granger, Editor-in-Chief, Esquire Magazine
Robert S. Leaf, Chairman, Robert S. Leaf Consultants
Danny Lyon, photographer, filmmaker and writer
Mark Russell, editor, The Orlando Sentinel
Süddeutsche Zeitung, largest daily newspaper in Germany
James Balog, founder, Extreme Ice Survey
Cathleen Black, media executive
The Foundation for the Freedom of the Press (FLiP), Bogotá, Colombia
Dorothy J. Gaiter, wine columnist, author
Myron Kandel, financial journalist
Larry Postaer, Co-Chairman, Rubin Postaer & Associates
Sandy Rowe, editor
ZETA, weekly newspaper, Tijuana, Mexico
Mazhar Abbas, defender of press freedom, Pakistan
Rance Crain, President, Crain Communications Inc.
Doug Crews, Executive Director, MPA
Bill Eppridge, photojournalist
Rod Gelatt, professor emeritus, Missouri School of Journalism
Deborah Howell, editor and ombudsman
Slate, daily online magazine
No Honor Medals were awarded in 2008 due to the Missouri School of Journalism's centennial celebrations.
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Wayne Brasler, University of Chicago High School
Dirck Halstead, publisher, digital journalist
Frances L. Lewine, Associated Press, CNN
Paula Madison, V.P. Diversity, NBC Universal
Russ Mitchell, anchor, CBS News
Oh Yeon Ho, founder, OhmyNews.com
Mary Beth Price, founder, Empower MediaMarketing
William C. Price, CEO, Empower MediaMarketing
Ruth Reichl, Editor-in-Chief, Gourmet
Clifford Christians, professor, editor and ethicist
Bill Kovach, Committee of Concerned Journalists
Tom Rosensteil, Committee of Concerned Journalists
Chuck Curtis, BJ ’67, MA ’70, Chairman, Valentine Radford
Reza Deghati, photojournalist, founder of AINA
Karen Brown Dunlap, President, Poynter Institute
Zubeida Jaffer, journalist, editor, activist
John Seigenthaler, journalist, editor, publisher
KHOU Defenders, Houston, Texas
Alejandro Junco de la Vega, publisher
Angus “Mac” McDougall, photographer
Lisa Myers, BJ ’73, correspondent, NBC
Paul Steiger, Wall Street Journal
Carol H. Williams, President/CEO, Carol H. Williams Advertising
Dr. Leo Bogart, mass media sociologist
Anne Garrels, NPR Foreign Correspondent
James Nachtwey, photojournalist
Gloria Steinem, writer, editor, activist
Dr. William H. Taft, BJ ’38, MA ’39, Missouri School of Journalism
Ernest C. Withers, photojournalist
TEMPO, Indonesian news magazine