A bequest from Donald Robinson, the third president of the Society, who died in 1991, has made possible the establishment of the Donald Robinson Memorial Fund, generating income which provides an annual money award to an ASJA member who has published an article, produced on a freelance basis, representing exceptional achievement in the field of investigative reporting or exposé. The award was first offered in 1993 (there was no recipient).
| ID # |
YR given |
Given by |
Category | Rank | Recipient | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 296 | 1994 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Robin Warshaw | The Shame of America's Board and Care Homes |
| 295 | 1995 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Dan Hurley | Imminent Danger |
| 294 | 1996 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | John F. Wasik | Fraud in the Funeral Industry |
| 293 | 1997 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Lisa Collier Cool | Welcome to Their Nightmare |
| 290 | 2003 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Edwin Black | Final Solutions: How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland |
| 288 | 2004 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Trish Riley | Toxic Schools |
| 289 | 2004 | ASJA | Does not apply | Honorable Mention | Claudia Dreifus | Women On Death Row |
| 287 | 2006 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Salley Shannon | Witness on Board |
| 382 | 2008 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Katherine Eban | The War on Terror: Rorschach and Awe |
| 415 | 2010 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Katherine Eban | Bad Bargain |
| 416 | 2010 | ASJA | Does not apply | Honorable Mention | Linda Marsa | A Wing and a Prayer |
| 286 | 2013 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Katherine Eban | The Truth About the Fast and Furious Scandal |
| 285 | 2014 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Alexandra Robbins | Children Are Dying |
| 284 | 2015 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Dan Patterson | Angels of Death |
| 361 | 2016 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Tom Robbins | (A Brutal Beating Wakes) Attica's Ghosts |
| 713 | 2017 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | John Rosengren | How Casinos Enable Gambling Addicts |
| 757 | 2018 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Laura Heaton | The Watson Files |
| 784 | 2019 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Kim Kavin | Dog Fight: Dog rescuers, flush with donations, buy animals from the breeders they scorn |
| 821 | 2020 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Rohini Mohan | Worse Than a Death Sentence |
| 861 | 2021 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Nick Roberts and Rosa Amanda Tuiran | It's a national tragedy: What a Devastating Covid-19 Outbreak at a California Slaughterhouse Reveals About the Federal Government's Failed Pandemic Response |
| 894 | 2022 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | James Dinneen and Alexander Kennedy | Below Aging U.S. Dams, A Potential Toxic Calamity |
| 895 | 2022 | ASJA | Does not apply | Honorable Mention | Tristan Baurick | Gathering Storm: The Industrial Infrastructure Catastrophe Looming Over America's Gulf Coast |
| 940 | 2023 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Sarah Souli | A Matter of Honor |
| 941 | 2023 | ASJA | Does not apply | Honorable Mention | Alice Driver | Tyson Says Its Nurses Help Workers. Critics Charge They Stymie OSHA. |
| 1019 | 2024 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Alice Driver | Diving -- and Dying -- for Red Gold: The Human Cost of Honduran Lobster |
| 1058 | 2025 | ASJA | Does not apply | Winner | Sammy Sussman | A Hidden Sexual Assault Scandal at the New York Philharmonic |
| 1059 | 2025 | ASJA | Does not apply | Honorable Mention | John Rosengren | Inside the Tragic Life and Controversial Execution of Marcellus Williams |