Leo C. Lee Award
2024 Nominations are now closed. Stay tuned for the winner!
Each year, PMJA honors an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public radio journalism. The award is named in honor of its first recipient: Leo C. Lee, the founder of Western Public Radio, a San Francisco-based public radio training program.
Past winners include:
2023 – Traci Tong
2022 – George Bodarky
2021 – Michel Martin
2020 – Maria Hinojosa
2019 – Martha Foley Smith
2018 – Keith Woods
2017 – Andrea de Leon
2016 – John Barth
2015 – Tanya Ott
2014 – Tripp Sommer
2013 – John Dinges
2012 – Ellen Weiss
2011 – Jonathan Kern
2010 – Maryanne Zeleznik
2009 – Doug Mitchell
2008 – David Candow
2007 – Danny Zwerdling
2006 – David Isay
2005 – Rich Bradley
2004 – Linda Wertheimer
2003 – Jim Russell
2002 – Jay Allison
2001 – Susan Stamberg
2000 – Poynter Institute
1999 – Ira Glass
1998 – Tony Griffin
1997 – Bill Buzenberg
1996 – Carl Kasell
1995 – Jo Ann Wallace
1994 – William Siemering
1993 – Leo C. Lee