The Benjamin Franklin Magazine Awards were administered by the University of Illinois. These are included because these awards were conceived and initiated by the Society of Magazine Writers, which changed its name to the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
| ID # |
YR given |
Given by |
Category | Rank | Recipient | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 969 | 1954 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Ladies Home Journal | 10 Articles on Public Affairs |
| 974 | 1954 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | John Bartlow Martin | Why Did It Happen: The Riot at Jackson Prison |
| 979 | 1954 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | William H. Whyte | The Transients |
| 984 | 1954 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Adlai Stevenson | The World I Saw, eight-article series |
| 989 | 1954 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Robert Coughlan | The Private World of William Faulkner |
| 997 | 1954 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Ray Bradbury | Sun and Shadow |
| 998 | 1954 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | John Cheever | The Five-Forty-Eight |
| 1002 | 1954 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Lincoln Barnett | The World We Live In |
| 970 | 1955 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Redbook Magazine | Group of articles on Civil Liberties |
| 975 | 1955 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Joseph and Stewart Alsop | We Accuse |
| 980 | 1955 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Alan Paton | Negro In America Today and Negro In The North |
| 985 | 1955 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Robert Sherrod | Grim Facts Of The H-Bomb Accident |
| 990 | 1955 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Thomas Whiteside | The Communicator |
| 1003 | 1955 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Dwight MacDonald | The Lie-Detector Era |
| 954 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Woman's Home Companion | |
| 955 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Sports Illustrated | Series of Articles on "Boxing's Dirty Business" |
| 956 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Theodore H. White | Germany -- Friend or Foe? |
| 957 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Robert Bendiner | The Engineering of Consent -- A Case Study |
| 958 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | John Bartlow Martin | Murder on His Conscience |
| 959 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Roland H. Berg | The Truth About the Salk Polio Vaccine |
| 960 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | John D. MacDonald | The Bear Trap |
| 961 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Life magazine editors and staff | The World's Greatest Religions |
| 962 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Saturday Review | Series on plastic surgery, Japanese girl bomb victims |
| 963 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Joseph Alsop | A Man in the Mirror |
| 964 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | N.J. Berrill | The Menace of Radiation |
| 965 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Milton Mayer | The Case of Roger Touhy |
| 966 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Elizabeth Bacon (Bisgood) | The Story of a Winter Night |
| 967 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Robie Macauley | The Chevigny Man |
| 968 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Woodrow Wirsig | investigate |
| 971 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Woman's Home Companion | Articles on problems of children and delinquency |
| 976 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Editors and Staff of Sports Illustrated | Boxing's Dirty Business |
| 981 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Robert Bendiner | The Engineering of Consent -- A Case Study |
| 986 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Theodore H. White | Germany -- Friend or Foe? |
| 991 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | John Bartlow Martin | Murder on His Conscience |
| 994 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Roland H. Berg | The Truth About The Salk Polio Vaccine |
| 999 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | John D. MacDonald | The Bear Trap |
| 1004 | 1956 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Editors and Staff of Life | The World's Great Religions |
| 972 | 1957 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Look Magazine | The South Versus the Supreme Court |
| 977 | 1957 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Cornelius Ryan | Five Desperate Hours in Cabin 56 |
| 978 | 1957 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | John Bartlow Martin | The Deep South says 'Never' |
| 982 | 1957 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | John Bartlow Martin | Inside the Asylum (6 parts) |
| 987 | 1957 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | George F. Kennan | Qverdue Changes in Our Foreign Policy |
| 992 | 1957 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Jim Bishop | The Life Story of Jackie Gleason (three parts) |
| 995 | 1957 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Gladys Denny Shultz | The Uninsulted Child |
| 1000 | 1957 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Wyatt Blassingame | Man's Courage |
| 1005 | 1957 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Lincoln Barnett and Staff of Life | The Epic of Man, Part III-VII |
| 973 | 1958 | UI | Does not apply | Gold Medal for Public Service | Popular Science Monthly | Straight Talk to Parents (articles to help parents in selection of college and career for children) |
| 983 | 1958 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Eugene Kinkead | The Study of Something New in History |
| 988 | 1958 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Keith Wheeler | The Arab World |
| 993 | 1958 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Bill Davidson | The Life Story of Frank Sinatra |
| 996 | 1958 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Dr. David D. Rutstein | The Influenza Epidemic |
| 1001 | 1958 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Walter Clemons | The Poison Tree |
| 1006 | 1958 | UI | Does not apply | Winner | Max Kramer | The Teacher Who Taught Me to Hate |