The Berkshire Eagle

Newspaper of the Year, Sunday (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)^{[47][48][49][4]}

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Newspaper of the Year, weekday (2018, 2020, 2023)^[49][5]

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Distinguished Newspaper, weekday (runner-up to Newspaper of the Year) (2019, 2021, 2022)^[4]

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Magazine of the Year for UpCountry (2017, 2019)^[46]

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Allan B. Rogers award for best New England editorial (2023)

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Publick Occurrences Awards (two in 2017, two in 2018, one in 2020, one in 2021, two in 2023)^{[52][53][4][5][54]}

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General Excellence Awards — first place, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2023^[56]

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Best web site — 2022.

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Mark Aldam, executive vice president and chief operating officer of ^[63]

Hearst Communications

columnist and author, Eagle columnist 1958-1978

Hal Borland

journalist and editor at The New York Times, and Bloomberg; Eagle reporter 1977-1978

James Brooke

journalist and author; Eagle reporter 1973–1975

Rinker Buck

military historian and author, worked as a freelance journalist for The Eagle covering Central America in the 1980s.

Caleb Carr

director of religion research at the Pew Research Center; previously a journalist for the Associated Press and the Washington Post, and a business reporter at The Eagle 1982-1988.

Alan Cooperman

writer, syndicated columnist, and television producer, writes a syndicated column, the Unspin Room, for The Eagle.

Dalton Delan

lawyer who played a central role in the 2000 Florida recount; Eagle reporter for five years in the late 1970s

Benjamin Ginsberg

journalist and author of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, worked as assistant arts and entertainment editor at The Eagle in the late 1970s.

Amy Hill Hearth

journalist, author, and biographer, wrote a column for The Eagle 1957-1977 under the pseudonym Peter Potomac.

Roy Hoopes

chairman of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1993 to 2001, worked as a drama critic for The Eagle in the early 1950s.

Arthur Levitt

Roger Linscott, winner of the in 1973, for his editorials during 1972.

Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

journalist, editor of The Forward, founder of The New York Sun, worked as a reporter at The Eagle early in his career.^[64]

Seth Lipsky

owner and publisher 1892–1941.

Kelton B. Miller

Gustav Niebuhr, Associate Professor of Religion at , worked as a reporter for The Eagle in the early 1980, and subsequently as a journalist for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.^[65]

Syracuse University

Priscilla Painton, Time magazine deputy editor, executive editor at ; was an Eagle reporter in the early 1980s.

Simon & Schuster

American journalist for The Wall Street Journal who was kidnapped and later beheaded by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002; he began his career at the North Adams Transcript and The Eagle from 1986 to 1990.

Daniel Pearl

Washington Post editor and columnist for 40 years, Eagle reporter 1955–1957

Stephen Rosenfeld

journalist, author of Lost Girls; Eagle reporter in the late 1980s

Caitlin Rother

Andrew Pincus, classical music critic 1975-2022

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Eagle columnist for 12 years beginning in 1956 before becoming a novelist and essayist

Cynthia Propper Seton

Holly A. Taylor, winner of the George Polk award for local reporting for 1991

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American photojournalist who won Pulitzer Prizes for Feature Photography in 2010 and 2012, both while working for the Denver Post, was an Eagle staff photographer 1989-1998.

Craig Walker

Richard K. Weil, Jr., executive editor of the , founder and chairman of the St. Louis Beacon^[67] was an Eagle reporter in the 1960s.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

author and journalist, is an occasional columnist for The Eagle.

Simon Winchester

In the 1981 film starring Paul Newman and Sally Field, Field's character mentions that she once lived in the Northeast. "I had my first job there the summer when I was 16 on The Berkshire Eagle. I wonder if they'd have me back."^[22]

Absence of Malice

's book First Job: A Memoir of Growing Up at Work (2002) is a memoir of his employment at The Berkshire Eagle in the early 1970s, including recollections of many Eagle co-workers.^[68]

Rinker Buck

included a copy of The Berkshire Eagle in his painting The Armchair General. Originally, when published as a cover of The Saturday Evening Post, the newspaper in the painting was the Troy Record, but Rockwell painted over the Record and inserted The Berkshire Eagle before presenting the original painting to the Miller family. It hung at the Eagle's offices for many years. The painting was exhibited in 2018–2020 as part of touring exhibit focused on Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings.^[69]

Norman Rockwell

The original newspaper report describing the arrest of for littering was published in The Berkshire Eagle on 29 November 1965. The incident led Guthrie to write the song and monologue "Alice's Restaurant", which launched his recording career, and included the line: "and everybody wanted to get in a newspaper story about it."^[70]

Arlo Guthrie

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