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Pulitzer Prize Winners for
Editorial Writing
2005 - Tom Philp of Sacramento Bee - For his deeply
researched editorials on reclaiming California’s flooded Hetch
Hetchy Valley that stirred action
(Nominated Finalists)
Sebastian Mallaby of Washington Post - For his persistent &
passionate editorials on the tragedy in the Darfur region of the
Sudan.
David Yarnold & Daniel Vasquez of San Jose Mercury News - For
their forceful editorial campaign against unethical behavior in
city hall that resulted in significant change
2004 - William R. Stall of Los Angeles Times - For his
incisive editorials that analyzed California's troubled state
government, prescribed remedies & served as a model for
addressing complex state issues
(Nominated Finalists)
Andres Martinez of New York Times - For his exhaustively
researched series of editorials that exposed the harmful global
effects of American agricultural trade policy.
Andrew Malcolm of Los Angeles Times - For his refreshing, richly
textured editorials that illuminated a variety of life
situations.
2003 - Cornelia Grumman of Chicago Tribune - For her
powerful, freshly challenging editorials on reform of the death
penalty.
(Nominated Finalists)
Robert L. Pollock of Wall Street Journal - For his clear,
compelling editorials on the Food & Drug Administration's delay
in approval of new cancer drugs.
Linda Valdez of Arizona Republic, Phoenix - For her passionate,
persuasive editorials on illegal immigrants & on the state's
flawed justice of the peace courts.
2002 - Alex Raksin & Bob Sipchen of Los Angeles Times - For
their comprehensive & powerfully-written editorials exploring
the issues & dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling
on the streets.
(Nominated Finalists)
Philadelphia Daily News Editorial Board - For its crusade on
behalf of the city's neglected parks.
William H. Freivogel of St. Louis Post-Dispatch - For his
editorials, passionate & powerful, opposing the nomination &
policies of U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft.
2001 - David Moats of Rutland (Vt.) Herald - For his
even-handed & influential series of editorials commenting on the
divisive issues arising from civil unions for same-sex couples.
(Nominated Finalists)
Tina Rosenberg of New York Times - For her searching &
knowledgeable editorials on international & human rights issues.
Laurie Roberts of Arizona Republic - For her persuasive
editorial series urging reform of the process by which the state
draws its legislative & congressional districts.
2000 - John C. Bersia of Orlando Sentinel - For his
passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending
practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending
regulations.
(Nominated Finalists)
Fred Hiatt of Washington Post - For his authoritative editorials
on the crisis in Kosovo.
Philip Kennicott of St. Louis Post-Dispatch - For his carefully
reasoned editorial campaign against the passage of a proposition
to legally allow Missouri residents to carry concealed weapons.
1999 - Editorial Board of New York Daily News - For its
effective campaign to rescue Harlem's Apollo Theatre from the
financial mismanagement that threatened the landmark's survival.
(Nominated Finalists)
Fred Hiatt of Washington Post - For his elegantly-written
editorials urging America's continued commitment to
international human rights issues.
Lawrence C. Levy of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. - For his
campaign that was instrumental in bringing about reform of the
inequities in Long Island's system of property assessment.
1998 - Bernard L. Stein of Riverdale (N.Y.) Press, a weekly
- For his gracefully-written editorials on politics & other
issues affecting New York City residents.
(Nominated Finalists)
George B. Pyle of Salina (Kan.) Journal - For his insightful
editorials on a variety of local issues.
Clint Talbott of Colorado Daily, Boulder - For his powerful
series of editorials on the legal ordeal of a rape victim who
took her case to trial. (Moved by the jury from the Commentary
category.)
1997 - Michael Gartner of Daily Tribune, Ames, Iowa
For his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting
the lives of people in his community.
(Nominated Finalists)
Peter Milius of Washington Post - For his editorials dissecting
federal welfare reform legislation, directing attention to the
problems of the poor & powerless.
Margaretta Downey of Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal - For her
editorials pressing for a civic agenda of economic & educational
renewal.
Pulitzer Prize Winners for
Editorial Writing
1996 - Robert B. Semple, Jr. of New York Times - For his
editorials on environmental issues.
(Nominated Finalists)
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Don Wycliff of Chicago Tribune - For his editorials about
welfare reform & its effect on children.
Daniel P. Henninger of Wall Street Journal - For his editorials
on a wide range of topical subjects.
1995 - Jeffrey Good of St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times - For his
editorial campaign urging reform of Florida's probate system for
settling estates.
(Nominated Finalists)
Editorial Staff of Des Moines (Iowa) Register - For its
elegantly written series, "What's Right About Iowa?"
Bailey Thomson, Carol McPhail & David Thomasson of Mobile (Ala.)
Press Register - For their series of editorials advocating the
revision of Alabama's 1901 constitution.
1994 - R. Bruce Dold of Chicago Tribune - For his series of
editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his
abusive mother & decrying the Illinois child welfare system.
(Nominated Finalists)
Editorial Board of Birmingham (Ala.) News - For editorials
urging the reform of Alabama's failing public school system.
Jim
Montgomery of Shreveport (La.) Journal - For a series of
editorials examining the benefits & drawbacks of drug
legalization.
1993 - (Nominated Finalists)
Editorial Staff of Dallas Morning News - For a campaign that
focussed attention on a neglected area of the city & generated
an immediate civic response to the newspaper's suggestions for
change
Robert M. Landauer of Oregonian, Portland - For a bold campaign
to defuse myths & prejudice promoted by an anti-homosexual
constitutional amendment, which was subsequently defeated.
Larry Dale Keeling of Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader - For his
clear & persuasive editorials decrying corruption & advocating
reform in the Kentucky legislature.
1992 - Maria Henson of Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader - For
her editorials about battered women in Kentucky, which focused
statewide attention on the problem & prompted significant
reforms.
(Nominated Finalists)
Henry Bryan of Philadelphia Inquirer - For his editorial
campaign urging state support of the Southeastern Pennsylvania
Transit System, the fourth largest mass-transit system in the
nation.
Robert J. Gaydos of Times Herald-Record, Middletown, N.Y. - For
his editorials on a variety of local & national issues.
1991 - Ron Casey, Harold Jackson & Joey Kennedy of
Birmingham (Ala.) News - For their editorial campaign analyzing
inequities in Alabama's tax system & proposing needed reforms.
(Nominated Finalists)
Martin F. Nolan of Boston Globe - For his editorial series "Why
Politics Stinks," which called for reform of the nation's
troubled political system.
Seth Lipsky of Forward, a New York City weekly - For his
editorials on a variety of national issues, including some of
specific interest to the American Jewish community
1990 - Thomas J. Hylton of Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury - For his
editorials about a local bond issue for the preservation of
farmland & other open space in rural Pennsylvania.
(Nominated Finalists)
David C. Anderson of New York Times - For his editorials on
drugs & the homeless.
Leonard Morris of News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Ind. - For his
series of editorials on abortion.
1989 - Lois Wille of Chicago Tribune - For her editorials on
a variety of local issues.
(Nominated Finalists)
Editorial Board of New York Times - For a series of editorials
about the coming generation of children threatened by poverty &
about the urgent need for political intervention & reform
Bill Bishop of Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader - For an editorial
campaign against broad-form deeds in the state which helped
convince voters to approve limits on their use.
1988 - Jane Healy of Orlando Sentinel - For her series of
editorials protesting overdevelopment of Florida's Orange
County.
(Nominated Finalists)
Joe
Dolman of Atlanta Journal & Constitution - For his editorials on
the rights of Cuban refugees imprisoned in Atlanta Federal
Penitentiary.
Bernard L. Stein of Riverdale Press, Bronx, N.Y. - For his
editorials on a variety of local & national issues.
1987 - Jonathan Freedman of Tribune, San Diego, Calif. - For
his editorials urging passage of the first major immigration
reform act in 34 years.
(Nominated Finalists)
Bernard L. Stein of Riverdale Press - For his editorials on
various campaign issues affecting the Bronx, N.Y. community
Daniel P. Henninger of Wall Street Journal - For his editorials
on medical & ethical issues, which helped inspire changes in FDA
drug approval procedures.
1986. - Jack Fuller of Chicago Tribune - For his editorials
on constitutional issues.
(Nominated Finalists)
Paul Greenberg of Pine Bluff (Ark.) Commercial - For his
editorial portraits.
Larry Hayes, David Berry & Barbara O. Morrow of Fort Wayne
(Ind.) Journal-Gazette - For their editorial campaign in favor
of busing to achieve racially balanced schools.
1985 - Richard Aregood of Philadelphia Daily News - For his
editorials on a variety of subjects.
(Nominated Finalists)
Jane Healy of Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel - For her editorials on
Florida's environmental problems.
David E. Gillespie of News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. - For his
editorials on various state concerns.
1984 - Albert Scardino of Georgia Gazette, Savannah - For
his series of editorials: on various local & state matters.
(Nominated Finalists)
Lois Wille of Chicago Sun-Times - For her series of editorials
which stressed ways to make Chicago city government more
economical & efficient.
Ralph Bennett, Jonathan Freedman & Lynne Carrier of San Diego
Tribune - For their series of editorials on immigration problems
& policies.
1983 - Miami Herald Editorial Board of Miami Herald - For
its campaign against the detention of illegal Haitian immigrants
by federal officials
(Nominated Finalists)
Marvin Seid of Los Angeles Times - For his series of editorials
on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
Ralph B. Bennett & Jonathan Freedman of San Diego Tribune - For
their editorial campaign urging passage of an immigration reform
bill.
1982 - Jack Rosenthal of New York Times
(Nominated Finalists)
Joe
H. Stroud of Detroit Free Press
Richard C. McCord of Santa Fe Reporter
1981 - (Nominated Finalists)
Jack Burby of Los Angeles Times
Kirk Scharfenberg of Boston Globe
Morris S. Thompson of Miami Herald
1980. - Robert L. Bartley of Wall Street Journal
(Nominated Finalists)
Tom
Dearmore of San Francisco Examiner
Alfred Ames & Joan Beck of Chicago Tribune
John Alexander of Greensboro (N.C.) Daily News
Bruce C. Davidson, Thomas N. Oliphant & Anne C. Wyman of Boston
Globe
1979 - Edwin M. Yoder Jr. of Washington Star
1977 - Warren L. Lerude, Foster Church & Norman F. Cardoza
of Reno (Nev.) Evening Gazette & Nevada State Journal - For
editorials challenging the power of a local brothel keeper.
1976 - Philip P. Kerby of Los Angeles Times For his
editorials against government secrecy & judicial censorship.
1975 - John Daniell Maurice of Charleston (W. Va.) Daily
Mail - For his editorials about the Kanawha County schoolbook
controversy.
1974 - F. Gilman Spencer, editor of Trentonian of Trenton,
N.J. - For his courageous campaign to focus public attention on
scandals in New Jersey's state government
1973 - Roger B. Linscott of Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield,
Mass. - For his editorials during 1972.
1972 - John Strohmeyer of Bethlehem (Pa.) Globe-Times - For
his editorial campaign to reduce racial tensions in Bethlehem.
1971 - Horance G. Davis Jr. of Gainesville (Fla.) Sun - For
his editorials in support of the peaceful desegregation of
Florida's schools.
1970 - Philip L. Geyelin of Washington Post - For his
editorials during 1969.
1969 - Paul Greenberg of Pine Bluff (Ark.) Commercial - For
his editorials during 1968.
1968 - John S. Knight of Knight Newspapers - For his
distinguished editorial writing
1967 - Eugene Patterson of Atlanta Constitution - For his
editorials during the year
1966 - Robert Lasch of St. Louis Post-Dispatch - For his
distinguished editorial writing in 1965.
1965 - John R. Harrison of Gainesville (Fla.) Sun - For his
successful editorial campaign for better housing in his city.
1964 - Hazel Brannon Smith of Lexington (Miss.) Advertiser -
For steadfast adherence to her editorial duty in the face of
great pressure & opposition.
1963 - Ira B. Harkey, Jr. editor & publisher of Pascagoula
(Miss.) Chronicle - For his courageous editorials devoted to the
processes of law & reason during the integration crisis in
Mississippi in 1962.
1962 - Thomas M. Storke of Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press
- For his forceful editorials calling public attention to the
activities of a semi-secret organization known as the John Birch
Society.
1961 - William J. Dorvillier of San Juan (Puerto Rico) Star
- For his editorials on clerical interference in the 1960
gubernatorial election in Puerto Rico.
1960 - Lenoir Chambers, editor of Norfolk Virginian-Pilot -
For his series of editorials on the school integration problem
in Virginia, as exemplified by "The Year the Schools Closed,"
published January 1, 1959, & "The Year the Schools Opened,"
published December 31, 1959.
1959 - Ralph McGill, editor of Atlanta (Georgia)
Constitution - For his distinguished editorial writing during
1958 as exemplified in his editorial "A Church, A School...." &
for his long, courageous & effective editorial leadership.
1958 - Harry S. Ashmore, executive editor of Arkansas
Gazette - For the forcefulness, dispassionate analysis & clarity
of his editorials on the school integration conflict in Little
Rock.
1957 - Buford Boone of Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News - For his
fearless & reasoned editorials in a community inflamed by a
segregation issue, an outstanding example of his work being the
editorial entitled, "What a Price for Peace," published on
February 7,1956.
1956 - Lauren K. Soth of Register & Tribune, Des Moines,
Iowa - For the editorial inviting a farm delegation from the
Soviet Union to visit Iowa, which led directly to the Russian
farm visit to the U.S.
1955 - Royce Howes of Detroit Free Press - For an editorial
on "The Cause of a Strike," impartially & clearly analyzing the
responsibility of both labor & management for a local union's
unauthorized strike in July, 1954, which rendered 45,000
Chrysler Corporation workers idle & unpaid. By pointing out how
& why the parent United Automobile Workers' Union ordered the
local strike called off & stating that management let
dissatisfaction get out of hand, the editorial made a notable
contribution to public understanding of the whole program of the
respective responsibilities & relationships of labor &
management in this field
1954 - Don Murray of Boston Herald - For a series of
editorials on the "New Look" in National Defense which won wide
attention for their analysis of changes in American military
policy.
1953 - Vermont Connecticut Royster of Wall Street Journal -
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
1952 - Louis LaCoss of St. Louis Globe Democrat - For his
editorial entitled, "The Low Estate of Public Morals."
1951 - William Harry Fitzpatrick of New Orleans States - For
his series of editorials analyzing & clarifying a very important
constitutional issue, which is described by the general heading
of the series, "Government by Treaty."
1950 - Carl M. Saunders of Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot.
- For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
1949 - Herbert Elliston of Washington Post - For
distinguished editorial writing during the year.
John H. Crider of Boston Herald - For distinguished editorial
writing during the year.
1948 - Virginius Dabney of Richmond Times-Dispatch - For
distinguished editorial writing during the year.
1947 - William H. Grimes of Wall Street Journal - For his
distinguished editorial writing during the year.
1946 - Hodding Carter of Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville,
Miss. - For a group of editorials published during the year 1945
on the subject of racial, religious & economic intolerance, as
exemplified by the editorial "Go for Broke."
1945 - George W. Potter of Providence Journal-Bulletin - For
his editorials published during the calendar year 1944,
especially for his editorials on the subject of freedom of the
press.
1944 - Henry J. Haskell. of Kansas City (Mo.) Star - For
editorials written during the calendar year 1943
1943 - Forrest W. Seymour of Register & Tribune, Des Moines,
Iowa - For his editorials published during the calendar year
1942.
1942 - Geoffrey Parsons of New York Herald Tribune - For his
distinguished editorial writing during the year.
1941 - Reuben Maury of New York Daily News - For his
distinguished editorial writing during the year.
1940 - Bart Howard of St. Louis Post-Dispatch - For his
distinguished editorial writing during the year
1939 - Ronald G. Callvert of Oregonian, Portland, Ore. - For
his distinguished editorial writing during the year as
exemplified by the editorial entitled "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
1938 - William Wesley Waymack of Register & Tribune, Des
Moines, Iowa - For his distinguished editorial writing during
the year.
1937 - John W. Owens of Baltimore Sun - For distinguished
editorial writing during the year.
1936 - Felix Morley & George B. Parker of Washington Post &
Scripps-Howard Newspapers (respectively) - For distinguished
editorial writing during the year.
1934 - E. P. Chase of Atlantic (Iowa) News-Telegraph - For
an editorial entitled, "Where is Our Money ?"
1933 - No author named of Kansas City (Mo.) Star - For its
series of editorials on national & international topics.
1931 - Charles S. Ryckman of Fremont (Neb.) Tribune - For
the editorial entitled "The Gentlemen from Nebraska."
1930 - Louis Isaac Jaffe of Norfolk Virginian-Pilot - For
his editorial entitled "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery," which
is typical of a series of articles written on the lynching evil
& in successful advocacy of legislation to prevent it
1928 - Grover Cleveland Hall of Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
- For his editorials against gangsterism, floggings & racial &
religious intolerance.
1927 - F. Lauriston Bullard of Boston Herald - For the
editorial entitled, "We Submit."
1926 - Edward M. Kingsbury of New York Times - For the
editorial entitled "'House of a Hundred Sorrows."
1925 - No author named of Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier -
For the editorial entitled "Plight of the South."
1924 - No author named of Boston Herald - For an editorial
entitled "Who Made Coolidge?" Special prize of $1000 was awarded
to the widow of the late Frank I. Cobb, New York World, in
recognition of the distinction of her husband's editorial
writing & service.
1923 - William Allen White of Emporia (Kan.) Gazette - For
an editorial entitled "To an Anxious Friend."
1922 - Frank M. O'Brien of New York Herald - For an article
entitled, "The Unknown Soldier."
1921 - Harvey E. Newbranch of Evening World Herald, Omaha,
Neb. - For an editorial entitled "Law & the Jungle."
1918 - No author named of Louisville Courier Journal - For
the editorial article, "Vae Victis!" & the editorial, "War Has
Its Compensation."
1917 - No author named of New York Tribune - For an
editorial article on the first anniversary of the sinking of the
Lusitania.
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