Year	Name of recipient mediaperson	Organisation
2004	Ahmed Ali Fayyaz	Daily Excelsior
2005	Sanjeev Pargal	Daily Excelsior
2006	Bashir Ahmed Bashir (Cartoonist)	Srinagar Times
2007	None
2008	None
2009	Nazir Masoodi	NDTV
	Masood Hussain	Economic Times
	Sameer Kaul	PTI
	Ashok Sodhi (Photojournalist)	Daily Excelsior

2010	Khwaja Sonaullah Bhat	Aftab
	Sofi Ghulam Mohammad	Srinagar Times
	Arun Joshi	Hindustan Times
	Nidhi Razdan	NDTV
	Mahrukh Anayat	Times Now TV
	Iftikhar Gilani	Kashmir Times
	Maqsood Ahmed	Radio Kashmir
2011	Mohammad Saleem Pandit	Times of India
	M K Bangroo	PTI

16 mediapersons are recipients of State Award since it was instituted for the first time during Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s government in J&K in 2003