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Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs in the
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. In its first six years (1942–1947), it was called the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting – National.


List of winners for Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting – National

* 1942: Louis Stark of ''
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'' for his distinguished reporting of important labor stories during the year. * 1943: No award given *
1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
: Dewey L. Fleming of ''
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'' For his distinguished reporting during the year 1943. *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...
:
James Reston James Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995), nicknamed "Scotty", was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with ''The New York Times.'' Early lif ...
of ''
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'' for his news dispatches and interpretive articles on the
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security conference. * 1946: Edward A. Harris of ''
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'' for his articles on the Tidewater Oil situation which contributed to the nationwide opposition to the appointment and confirmation of
Edwin W. Pauley Edwin Wendell Pauley Sr. (January 7, 1903 – July 28, 1981) was an American businessman and political leader. Early life Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Elbert L. Pauley and the former Ellen Van Petten, he attended Occidental College, in nor ...
as Undersecretary of the Navy. * 1947: Edward T. Folliard of ''
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'' for his series of articles published during 1946 on the Columbians, Inc.


List of winners for Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

* 1948: Bert Andrews, ''
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,'' "for his articles on 'A State Department Security Case' published in I947." * 1948: Nat S. Finney, ''
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'', "for his stories on the plan of the Truman administration to impose secrecy about the ordinary affairs of federal civilian agencies in peacetime." * 1949:
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, ''
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'', "for consistent excellence covering the national scene from
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." * 1950:
Edwin O. Guthman Edwin O. Guthman (August 11, 1919 – August 31, 2008) was an American journalist and university professor. While at the ''Seattle Times'', he won the paper's first Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1950. Guthman was third on Richard Nixon ...
, ''
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'', "for his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor
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, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school." * 1951: no award made * 1952: Anthony Leviero, ''
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'', "for his exclusive article of April 21, 1951, disclosing the record of conversations between President Truman and General of the Army
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at
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in their conference of October 1950." * 1953:
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,
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, "for his article called '
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', dealing with the intricate arrangements by which the safety of President-elect
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was guarded en route from Morningside Heights in New York to Korea." * 1954: Richard Wilson, the ''
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'', "for his exclusive publication of the FBI Report to the
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in the
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case before it was laid before the Senate by
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." *
1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...
: Anthony Lewis of ''
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'', "for publishing a series of articles which were adjudged directly responsible for clearing Abraham Chasanow, an employee of the
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, and bringing about his restoration to duty with an acknowledgment by the Navy Department that it had committed a grave injustice in dismissing him as a security risk. Mr. Lewis received the full support of his newspaper in championing an
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, without adequate funds or resources for his defense, against an unjust act by a government department." * 1956: Charles L. Bartlett, ''
Chattanooga Times The ''Chattanooga Times Free Press'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is distributed in the metropolitan Chattanooga region of southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. It is one of Tennessee's maj ...
'', for his original disclosures that led to the resignation of
Harold E. Talbott Harold Elstner Talbott, Jr. (March 31, 1888 – March 2, 1957) was the third United States Secretary of the Air Force. Biography He was born in Dayton, Ohio, in March 1888 and died in 1957. He attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, ...
as
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. * 1957:
James Reston James Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995), nicknamed "Scotty", was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with ''The New York Times.'' Early lif ...
, ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', "for his distinguished national correspondence, including both news dispatches and interpretive reporting, an outstanding example of which was his five-part analysis of the effect of President Eisenhower's illness on the functioning of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government." * 1958: Clark Mollenhoff, ''
Des Moines Register and Tribune ''The Des Moines Register'' is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa. History Early period The first newspaper in Des Moines was the ''Iowa Star''. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junctio ...
'', "for his persistent inquiry into labor
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, which included investigatory reporting of wide significance." * 1958: Relman Morin,
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, "for his dramatic and incisive eyewitness report of mob violence on September 23, 1957, during the integration crisis at the Central High School in
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." *
1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
: Howard Van Smith, ''
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'', "for a series of articles that focused public notice on deplorable conditions in a
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migrant labor camp, resulted in the provision of generous assistance for the 4,000 stranded workers in the camp, and thereby called attention to the national problem presented by 1,500,000 migratory laborers." * 1960: Vance Trimble, '' Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance'', "for a series of articles exposing the extent of nepotism in the
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." *
1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...
:
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, ''
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'', "for his analysis of a timber transaction which drew the attention of the public to the problems of business ethics." * 1962: Nathan G. Caldwell and Gene S. Graham, ''
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'', "for their exclusive disclosure and six years of detailed reporting, under great difficulties, of the undercover cooperation between management interests in the coal industry and the
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." * 1963: Anthony Lewis, ''
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'', "for his distinguished reporting of the proceedings of the
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during the year, with particular emphasis on the coverage of the decision in the reapportionment case and its consequences in many of the States of the Union." * 1964:
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,
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, "for his outstanding coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy." *
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
: Louis M. Kohlmeier Jr., ''
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'', "for his enterprise in reporting the growth of the fortune of President
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and his family." * 1966:
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, ''
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'', "for his distinguished coverage of the civil rights conflict centered about Selma, Ala., and particularly his reporting of its aftermath." * 1967: Stanley Penn and
Monroe Karmin Monroe William ("Bud") Karmin (September 2, 1929 – January 15, 1999) was an American journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1967 when working as an investigative reporter for the ''Wall Street Journal''. He also worked at different times for ' ...
, ''
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'', "for their investigative reporting of the connection between American crime and gambling in the
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." * 1968: Nathan K. (Nick) Kotz, ''
Des Moines Register and Tribune ''The Des Moines Register'' is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa. History Early period The first newspaper in Des Moines was the ''Iowa Star''. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junctio ...
'', "for his reporting of unsanitary conditions in many meat packing plants, which helped insure the passage of the Federal Wholesome Meat Act of 1967." * 1968:
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, ''
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'', "for his series of articles, 'Crisis in the Courts.'" * 1969:
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, ''
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'', "for his inquiry into the future of our national parks and the methods that may help to preserve them." *
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
:
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, ''
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'', "for disclosures about the background of Judge Clement F. Haynesworth Jr., in connection with his nomination for the
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." *
1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...
:
Lucinda Franks Lucinda Laura Franks (July 16, 1946May 5, 2021) was an American journalist, novelist, and memoirist. Franks won a Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for her reporting on the life of Diana Oughton, a member of Weather Underground. With that award she became ...
and
Thomas Powers Thomas Powers (born December 12, 1940 in New York City) is an American author and intelligence expert. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 together with Lucinda Franks for his articles on Weatherman member Diana Ou ...
,
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, "for their documentary on the life and death of 28-year-old revolutionary
Diana Oughton Diana Oughton (January 26, 1942 – March 6, 1970) was an American member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Michigan Chapter and later, a member of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground. Oughton received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr ...
: 'The Making of a Terrorist.'" *
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
: Jack Anderson, syndicated columnist, "for his reporting of American policy decision-making during the
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." * 1973: Robert Boyd and Clark Hoyt, Knight Newspapers, "for their disclosure of Senator
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's history of psychiatric therapy, resulting in his withdrawal as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in 1972." * 1974:
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, ''
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'', "for his initiative in exclusively disclosing President
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's Federal income tax payments in 1970 and 1971." * 1974: James R. Polk, '' Washington Star-News''," for his disclosure of alleged irregularities in the financing of the campaign to re-elect President Nixon in 1972." * 1975:
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and James B. Steele, ''
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'', "for their series 'Auditing the Internal Revenue Service,' which exposed the unequal application of Federal tax laws." *
1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
: James V. Risser, ''
Des Moines Register ''The Des Moines Register'' is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa. History Early period The first newspaper in Des Moines was the ''Iowa Star''. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junctio ...
'', "for disclosing large-scale corruption in the American grain exporting trade." * 1977:
Walter Mears Walter Robert Mears (January 11, 1935 – March 3, 2022) was an American journalist, author, and educator. Mears worked for the Associated Press (AP) from 1956 until his retirement in 2001. In 1977, he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporti ...
,
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, "for his coverage of the 1976 Presidential campaign." * 1978: Gaylord D. Shaw, ''
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'', "for a series on unsafe structural conditions at the nation's major dams." * 1979: James V. Risser, ''
Des Moines Register ''The Des Moines Register'' is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa. History Early period The first newspaper in Des Moines was the ''Iowa Star''. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junctio ...
'', "for a series on farming damage to the environment." * 1980: Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford, ''
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'', "for their investigation of the
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." * 1981:
John M. Crewdson John M. Crewdson (born December 15, 1945) is an American journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for ''The New York Times'', where he worked for 12 years. He subsequently spent 26 years in a variety of positions at the ''Chicago Tribune''. Early li ...
, ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', "for his coverage of illegal aliens and immigration." * 1982:
Rick Atkinson Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV (born November 15, 1952) is an American author, most recently of ''The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777'', the first volume in the Revolution Trilogy. He has won Pulit ...
, ''
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'', "for the uniform excellence of his reporting and writing on stories of national import." * 1983: ''
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'', "for its balanced and informative special report on the nuclear arms race." * 1984: John Noble Wilford, ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', "for reporting on a wide variety of scientific topics of national import." * 1985: Thomas J. Knudson, ''
Des Moines Register ''The Des Moines Register'' is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa. History Early period The first newspaper in Des Moines was the ''Iowa Star''. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junctio ...
'', "for his series of articles that examined the dangers of farming as an occupation." *
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:
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The Dallas Morning News ''The Dallas Morning News'' is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885 by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the ''Galvesto ...
'', "or their investigation into subsidized housing in East
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, which uncovered patterns of racial discrimination and segregation in public housing across the United States and led to significant reforms." *
1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...
: Arthur Howe, ''
The Philadelphia Inquirer ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper's circulation is the largest in both the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley metropolitan region of Southeastern Pennsy ...
'', "for his enterprising and indefatigable reporting on massive deficiencies in
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(IRS) processing of tax returns-reporting that eventually inspired major changes in IRS procedures and prompted the agency to make a public apology to U.S. taxpayers." * 1987: Staff of ''
The Miami Herald The ''Miami Herald'' is an American daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a city in western Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area, several miles west of Downtown Miami.U.S.-Iran-Contra connection." * 1987: Staff of ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', "for coverage of the aftermath of the
Challenger explosion On January 28, 1986, the broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39a.m. EST (16:39 UTC). It wa ...
, which included stories that identified serious flaws in the shuttle's design and in the administration of America's space program." * 1988:
Tim Weiner Tim Weiner (born June 20, 1956) is an American reporter and author. He is the author of five books and co-author of a sixth, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Biography Weiner graduated from Columbia University with a ...
, ''
The Philadelphia Inquirer ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper's circulation is the largest in both the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley metropolitan region of Southeastern Pennsy ...
'', "for his series of reports on a secret Pentagon budget used by the government to sponsor defense research and an arms buildup." * 1989:
Donald L. Barlett Donald L. Barlett (born July 17, 1936) is an American investigative journalist and author who often collaborates with James B. Steele. According to '' The Washington Journalism Review'', they were a better investigative reporting team than even ...
and James B. Steele, ''
The Philadelphia Inquirer ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper's circulation is the largest in both the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley metropolitan region of Southeastern Pennsy ...
'', "for their 15-month investigation of "rifle shot" provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public indignation that
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subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically connected individuals and businesses." *
1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
: Ross Anderson,
Bill Dietrich William John "Bullfrog" Dietrich (March 29, 1910 – June 20, 1978) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1933 to 1948 for the Philadelphia Athletics, Washington Senators, and Chicago White S ...
, Mary Ann Gwinn and Eric Nalder, ''
The Seattle Times ''The Seattle Times'' is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded in 1891 and has been owned by the Blethen family since 1896. ''The Seattle Times'' has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Washington (s ...
'', "for coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and its aftermath." * 1991: Marjie Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharpe,
Gannett News Service Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners." *
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
: Jeff Taylor and Mike McGraw, ''
The Kansas City Star ''The Kansas City Star'' is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Star'' is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S. Truman and a ...
'', "for their critical examination of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, rural economic development, and food. It aims to meet the needs of comme ...
." * 1993:
David Maraniss David Maraniss ( ; born 1949) is an American journalist and author, currently serving as an associate editor for ''The Washington Post''. Career ''The Washington Post'' assigned Maraniss the job of biographer for their coverage of 2008 president ...
, ''
The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
'', "for his revealing articles on the life and political record of candidate
Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
." *
1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...
:
Eileen Welsome Eileen Welsome (born March 12, 1951) is an American journalist and author. She received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1994 while a reporter for ''The Albuquerque Tribune'' for a 3-part story titled "The Plutonium Experiment" published ...
, ''
Albuquerque Tribune ''The Albuquerque Tribune'' was an afternoon newspaper in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1922 by Carlton Cole Magee as ''Magee's Independent''. It was published in the afternoon and evening Monday through Saturday. Scott Ware served as ed ...
'', "for stories that related the experiences of American civilians who had been used unknowingly in government plutonium experiments nearly 50 years ago." *
1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...
:
Tony Horwitz Anthony Lander Horwitz (June 9, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was an American journalist and author who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. His books include ''One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback'', ''Baghdad Without a Map'', '' ...
, ''
The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'', "for stories about working conditions in low-wage America." * 1996: Alix M. Freedman of ''
The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'', "for her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed how
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additives heighten nicotine potency." * 1997: Staff of ''
The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'', "for its coverage of the struggle against
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in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease." * 1998: Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith, ''
Dayton Daily News The ''Dayton Daily News'' (''DDN'') is a daily newspaper published in Dayton, Ohio, United States. It is owned by Cox Enterprises, Inc., a privately held global conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with approximately ...
'', "for their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms." * 1999: Staff of ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', and notably
Jeff Gerth Jeff Gerth is a former investigative reporter for ''The New York Times'' who has written lengthy, probing stories that drew both praise and criticism. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for covering the transfer of American satellite-launch technolog ...
, "for a series of articles that disclosed the corporate sale of American technology to China, with U.S. government approval despite national security risks, prompting investigations and significant changes in policy." *
2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...
: Staff of ''
The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'', "for its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post–Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future." * 2001: ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' staff, "for its compelling and memorable series exploring racial experiences and attitudes across contemporary America." * 2002: ''
The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
'' staff, "for its comprehensive coverage of America's
War on Terrorism The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is an ongoing international counterterrorism military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks. The main targets of the campaign are militant ...
, which regularly brought forth new information together with skilled analysis of unfolding developments." * 2003: Alan Miller and
Kevin Sack Kevin Sack, an American journalist, is a senior reporter for ''The New York Times''. Sack shared a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2001 for a ''New York Times'' series on race. While at The Los Angeles Times, he received the 2003 Pulitzer ...
, ''
Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...
'', "for their revelatory and moving examination of a military aircraft, nicknamed 'The Widow Maker,' that was linked to the deaths of 45 pilots." (This was also nominated in the
Investigative Reporting Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years res ...
category.) * 2004: Staff of ''
Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...
'', Nancy Cleeland, Evelyn Iritani, Abigail Goldman, Tyler Marshall, Rick Wartzman and John Corrigan, "for its engrossing examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries." *2005 Pulitzer Prize, 2005: Walt Bogdanich of ''New York Times'', "for his heavily documented stories about the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings." *2006 Pulitzer Prize, 2006: James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of the ''New York Times'', "for their carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate on the boundary line between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberty." *2006 Pulitzer Prize, 2006: Staffs of The ''San Diego Union-Tribune'' and Copley News Service, "with notable work by Marcus Stern (journalist), Marcus Stern and Jerry Kammer, for their disclosure of Bribery, bribe-taking that sent former United States House of Representatives, Rep. Duke Cunningham, Randy Cunningham to prison in disgrace." *2007 Pulitzer Prize, 2007: Charlie Savage (author), Charlie Savage of ''The Boston Globe'', "for his revelations that President George W. Bush often used "signing statements" to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws." *2008 Pulitzer Prize, 2008: Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of ''
The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
'', "for their lucid exploration of Vice President of the United States, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful yet sometimes disguised influence on national policy." *2009 Pulitzer Prize, 2009: ''
St. Petersburg Times The ''Tampa Bay Times'', previously named the ''St. Petersburg Times'' until 2011, is an American newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. It has won fourteen Pulitzer Prizes since 1964, and in 2009, won two in a single ...
'' Staff, "for “PolitiFact.com, PolitiFact,” its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 United States presidential election, 2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters." *2010 Pulitzer Prize, 2010: Matt Richtel and members of ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' staff, "for incisive work, in print and online, on the hazardous use of cell phones, computers and other devices while operating cars and trucks, stimulating widespread efforts to curb distracted driving." *2011 Pulitzer Prize, 2011: Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein (journalist), Jake Bernstein of ''ProPublica'', "for their exposure of questionable practices on Wall Street that contributed to the nation's economic meltdown, using digital tools to help explain the complex subject to lay readers." *2012 Pulitzer Prize, 2012: David Wood (journalist), David Wood of ''The Huffington Post'', "for his riveting exploration of the physical and emotional challenges facing American soldiers severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan during a decade of war". *2013 Pulitzer Prize, 2013: Lisa Song, Elizabeth McGowan and David Hasemyer of ''InsideClimate News'', "for their rigorous reports on flawed regulation of the nation’s oil pipelines, focusing on potential ecological dangers posed by diluted bitumen (or "dilbit"), a controversial form of oil." *2014 Pulitzer Prize, 2014: David Philipps of ''The Gazette (Colorado Springs), The Gazette'', Colorado Springs, "for expanding the examination of how wounded combat veterans are mistreated, focusing on loss of benefits for life after discharge by the Army for minor offenses, stories augmented with digital tools and stirring congressional action." *2015 Pulitzer Prize, 2015: Carol D. Leonnig of ''
The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
'', "for her smart, persistent coverage of the United States Secret Service, Secret Service, its security lapses and the ways in which the agency neglected its vital task: the protection of the President of the United States." *2016 Pulitzer Prize, 2016: ''
The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
'' staff, "for its revelatory initiative in creating and using a national database to illustrate how often and why the police shoot to kill and who the victims are most likely to be." Kimbriell Kelly and Wesley Lowery were lead authors on the "Fatal Force" project. *2017 Pulitzer Prize, 2017: David Fahrenthold of ''
The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
'', "for persistent reporting that created a model for transparent journalism in political campaign coverage while casting doubt on Donald Trump’s assertions of generosity toward charities." *2018 Pulitzer Prize, 2018: Staffs of ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' and ''
The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
'', "for deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration." *2019 Pulitzer Prize, 2019: Staff of ''
The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'', "for uncovering President Trump’s secret payoffs to two women during his campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him, and the web of supporters who facilitated the transactions, triggering criminal inquiries and calls for impeachment." *2020 Pulitzer Prize, 2020: **Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker and Lewis Kamb of ''
The Seattle Times ''The Seattle Times'' is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded in 1891 and has been owned by the Blethen family since 1896. ''The Seattle Times'' has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Washington (s ...
'' "for groundbreaking stories that exposed design flaws in the Boeing 737 MAX that led to two deadly crashes and revealed failures in government oversight." ** T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faurtechi of ProPublica "for their investigation into United States Seventh Fleet, America's 7th Fleet after a series of deadly naval accidents in the Pacific." *2022 Pulitzer Prize, 2022: Staff of ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', "For an ambitious project that quantified a disturbing pattern of fatal traffic stops by police, illustrating how hundreds of deaths could have been avoided and how officers typically avoided punishment."


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Winners and Finalists of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting Winners and Finalists of the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - National
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