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Each year, the Freedom Forum gives out the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media.

Past winners include Walter Cronkite ( 1989 ), Carl T. Rowan ( 1990 ), Helen Thomas ( 1991 ), Tom Brokaw ( 1992 ), Larry King ( 1993 ), Charles Kuralt of CBS ( 1994 ), Albert R. Hunt and Judy Woodruff ( 1995 ), Robert MacNeil ( 1996 ), Cokie Roberts ( 1997 ), Tim Russert and Louis D. Boccardi ( 1998 ), John Seigenthaler ( 1999 ), Jim Lehrer ( 2001 ), Tom Curley ( 2002 ), Don Hewitt of CBS ( 2004 ), Garrison Keillor ( 2005 ), Bob Schieffer of CBS ( 2006 ), John Quinn and Ken Paulson ( 2007 ), Charles Overby ( 2008 ), Katie Couric ( 2009 ), and Brian Lamb of C-SPAN ( 2011 ).