| Previous Winners of the Martha Gellhorn Prize |
| 2006: Hala Jaber (The Sunday Times) and Michael Tierney (The Glasgow Herald) |
| 2005: Ghaith Abdul Ahad (The Guardian) |
| 2004: Patrick Cockburn (The Independent) |
| 2003: Chris McGreal (The Guardian) |
| 2002: Robert Fisk (The Independent) |
| 2001: Geoffrey Lean (The Independent) |
| 2000: Jeremy Harding (London Review of Books) |
| 1999: Nick Davies (The Guardian) |
| Jonathan Steele (The Guardian) received a special award in 2005 for his distinguished career as a reporter. |