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

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

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

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

2002 Tanith Carey, Daily Mirror
2003 Sean Poulter, Daily Mail
2004 Chris Choi, ITN
2005 Jonathan Prynn, Evening Standard

2003 Independent (Editor: Simon Kelner)
2004 Daily Mail (Editor: Paul Dacre)
2005 Guardian (Editor: Alan Rusbridger)

2003 News of the World
2004  News of the World
2005  News of the World