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Pulitzer Prize Winners for
National Reporting
This page is devoted to the Pulitzer Prize winners and nominees
for their work with national reporting.
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.
(Nominated Finalists)
Staff of Washington Post - For its relentless, unflinching
chronicle of abuses by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in
Iraq
Steve Suo & Erin Hoover Barnett of Oregonian, Portland - For
their groundbreaking reports on the failure to curtail the
growing illicit use of methamphetamines.
2004 - Staff of Los Angeles Times - For its engrossing
examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest
company in the world with cascading effects across American
towns & developing countries.
(Nominated Finalists)
S.
Lynne Walker of Copley News Service (writing for The State
Journal-Register, Springfield, Ill.) - For her candid, in-depth
look at how Mexican immigration transformed an all-white
Midwestern town.
Staff of Wall Street Journal - For its masterly, richly detailed
stories on how hidden decision-makers make life-&-death choices
about who gets health care in America
2003 - Alan Miller & Kevin Sack of Los Angeles Times - For
their revelatory & moving examination of a military aircraft,
nicknamed "The Widow Maker," that was linked to the deaths of 45
pilots. (Moved by the Board from the Investigative Reporting
category to the National Reporting category, where it was also
entered.)
(Nominated Finalists)
Staff of New York Times - For its tenaciously reported & clearly
written stories that exposed & explained corruption in corporate
America.
Staff of Chicago Tribune - For its engrossing exploration of the
fall of Arthur Andersen, a once proud accounting firm.
Anne Hull of Washington Post - For "Rim of the New World," her
masterful accounts of young immigrants coming of age in the
American South.
2002 - Washington Post Staff - For its comprehensive
coverage of America's war on terrorism, which regularly brought
forth new information together with skilled analysis of
unfolding developments.
(Nominated Finalists)
Gregory L. Vistica of New York Times - For his enterprising &
nuanced reporting that disclosed Senator Bob Kerrey's role in a
massacre during the Vietnam War.
Douglas M. Birch & Gary Cohn of Baltimore Sun - For their series
that suggested that university research on new drug therapies is
being tainted by relationships with profit-seeking drug
companies.
2001 - New York Times Staff - For its compelling & memorable
series exploring racial experiences & attitudes across
contemporary America.
(Nominated Finalists)
Chicago Tribune Staff - For its comprehensive review of death
penalty cases in Texas & nine other states that pointed out
fundamental flaws in the system by which Americans are executed
for crimes.
Frank Fitzpatrick & Gilbert M. Gaul of Philadelphia Inquirer -
For their series on the extreme commercialization of college
sports.
2000 - Staff of Wall Street Journal - For its revealing
stories that question U.S. defense spending & military
deployment in the post-Cold War era & offer alternatives for the
future.
(Nominated Finalists)
Anne Hull of St. Petersburg Times - For her quietly powerful
stories of Mexican women who come to work in North Carolina crab
shacks, in pursuit of a better life.
David Jackson & Cornelia Grumman of Chicago Tribune - For their
series on the growing lucrative privatization of jails & foster
programs for troubled youths
2001 - New York Times Staff - For its compelling & memorable
series exploring racial experiences & attitudes across
contemporary America.
(Nominated Finalists)
Chicago Tribune Staff - For its comprehensive review of death
penalty cases in Texas & nine other states that pointed out
fundamental flaws in the system by which Americans are executed
for crimes.
Frank Fitzpatrick & Gilbert M. Gaul of Philadelphia Inquirer -
For their series on the extreme commercialization of college
sports.
2000 - Staff of Wall Street Journal - For its revealing
stories that question U.S. defense spending & military
deployment in the post-Cold War era & offer alternatives for the
future.
(Nominated Finalists)
Anne Hull of St. Petersburg Times - For her quietly powerful
stories of Mexican women who come to work in North Carolina crab
shacks, in pursuit of a better life.
David Jackson & Cornelia Grumman of Chicago Tribune - For their
series on the growing lucrative privatization of jails & foster
programs for troubled youths
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1999 - Staff of New York Times, & notably Jeff Gerth - 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 & significant
changes in policy.
(Nominated Finalists)
Staff of New Orleans Times-Picayune - For a revealing series on
the destruction of housing & the threat to the environment posed
by the Formosan termite.
Chris Adams, Ellen Graham & Michael Moss of Wall Street Journal
- For their reporting on the pitfalls faced by elderly Americans
housed in commercial long-term facilities.
1998 - Russell Carollo & Jeff Nesmith of Dayton Daily News -
For their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws &
mismanagement in the military health care system & prompted
reforms.
(Nominated Finalists)
David Wood of Newhouse News Service, Washington, D.C. - For his
fresh & revealing coverage of the U.S. military & the challenges
facing it in the post-Cold War world.
Douglas Frantz of New York Times - For his dogged reporting on
the Church of Scientology, particularly its questionable
relationship with the Internal Revenue Service, which granted
the organization tax-exempt status.
1997 - Staff of Wall Street Journal - For its coverage of
the struggle against AIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the
scientific & the business, in light of promising treatments for
the disease.
(Nominated Finalists)
Ronald Brownstein of Los Angeles Times - For his comprehensive
political coverage during the presidential election year.
Bill Moushey of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - For his resourceful
reporting on the federal Witness Protection Program illustrating
how the program's secrecy & lack of oversight has led to abuses
& risks to the public.
1996 - Alix M. Freedman of Wall Street Journal - For her
coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that
exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency.
(Nominated Finalists)
David Maraniss & Michael Weiskopf of Washington Post - For their
accounts of the way the Republican takeover of the House of
Representatives played out during 1995.
Russell Carollo, Carol Hernandez & Jeff Nesmith of Dayton (Ohio)
Daily News - For their reporting on lenient handling of sexual
misconduct cases by the military justice system.
1995 - Tony Horwitz of Wall Street Journal - For stories
about working conditions in low-wage America.
(Nominated Finalists)
David Shribman of Boston Globe - For his analytical reporting on
Washington developments & the national scene.
David Zucchino, Stephen Seplow & John Woestendiek of
Philadelphia Inquirer - For their stories about the origins &
impact of violence in America.
1994 - Eileen Welsome of Albuquerque Tribune - For stories
that related the experiences of Americans who had been used
unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years
ago
(Nominated Finalists)
Isabel Wilkerson of New York Times - For her coverage of the
Midwestern flood of 1993 & other stories.
Gilbert M. Gaul & Neill A. Borowski of Philadelphia Inquirer -
For their investigation that identified rampant abuses of
America's nonprofit tax laws.
1993 - (Nominated Finalists) - Douglas Frantz & Murray Waas
of Los Angeles Times - For documenting the clandestine effort of
the U.S. government to supply money & weapons to Iraq in the
1980's & up to the weeks before the Gulf War
Donald C. Drake & Marian Uhlman of Philadelphia Inquirer - For
their investigation of the pharmaceutical industry & its role in
the soaring costs of prescription drugs in the United States
1992 - Jeff Taylor & Mike McGraw of Kansas City Star - For
their critical examination of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
(Nominated Finalists)
David Maraniss of Washington Post - For his revealing articles
on the life & political record of candidate Bill Clinton
Maureen Dowd of New York Times - For her coverage of national
politics & its personalities.
Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele of Philadelphia Inquirer -
For their series "America: What Went Wrong?" which examined the
public policy failures that have diminished the American middle
class.
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1991 - Marjie Lundstrom & Rochelle Sharpe of Gannett News
Service - For reporting that disclosed hundreds of child
abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of
errors by medical examiners
(Nominated Finalists)
Bruce D. Butterfield of Boston Globe - For his series describing
child labor abuses in nine states.
Charles Green of Knight-Ridder, Inc. - For a series examining
the problems & failures of the Medicaid health care system.
1990 - Ross Anderson, Bill Dietrich, Mary Ann Gwinn & Eric
Nalder of Seattle Times - For coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil
spill & its aftermath.
(Nominated Finalists)
Charles R. Babcock of Washington Post - For incisive reporting
of abuses of power committed by members of Congress.
Gilbert M. Gaul of Philadelphia Inquirer - For reporting that
disclosed how the American blood industry operates with little
governmental regulation or supervision.
1989 - Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele of Philadelphia
Inquirer - 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 Congress subsequently
rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically
connected individuals & businesses.
(Nominated Finalists)
Scot Lehigh of Boston Phoenix - For his insightful coverage of
the presidential campaign of Massachusetts Governor Michael
Dukakis.
Matthew Purdy of Philadelphia Inquirer - For his reporting on
abuses in America's kidney dialysis program.
1988 - Tim Weiner of Philadelphia Inquirer
For his series of reports on a secret Pentagon budget used by
the government to sponsor defense research & an arms buildup.
(Nominated Finalists)
George Anthan of Des Moines Register - For stories about
contaminated poultry, which revealed deficiencies in USDA
inspection procedures & prompted legislative action.
Staff of Atlanta Journal & Constitution - For its series
"Divided We Stand, " about the resurgence of segregation in
American schools.
Mike Masterson, Chuck Cook & Mark Trahant of Arizona Republic,
Phoenix - For their series of articles that profiled corruption
& mismanagement in Federal Indian programs nationwide & helped
generate a Senate investigation.
1987 - Staff of Miami Herald - For its exclusive reporting &
persistent coverage of the U.S.-Iran-Contra connection.
Staff of New York Times - For coverage of the aftermath of the
Challenger explosion, which included stories that identified
serious flaws in the shuttle's design & in the administration of
America's space program.
(Nominated Finalists)
Bob
Woodward of Washington Post - For articles that consistently
exposed covert government operations in the Reagan
Administration.
1986. - Craig Flournoy & George Rodrigue of Dallas Morning
News - For their investigation into subsidized housing in East
Texas, which uncovered patterns of racial discrimination &
segregation in public housing across the United States & led to
significant reforms
Arthur Howe of Philadelphia Inquirer - For his enterprising &
indefatigable reporting on massive deficiencies in IRS
processing of tax returns-reporting that eventually inspired
major changes in IRS procedures & prompted the agency to make a
public apology to U.S. taxpayers.
(Nominated Finalists)
Jim
Henderson & Hugh Aynesworth of Dallas Times Herald - For their
persistent & thorough investigation of self-proclaimed mass
murderer Henry Lee Lucas, which exposed him as the perpetrator
of a massive hoax
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1985 - Thomas J. Knudson of Des Moines Register - For his
series of articles that examined the dangers of farming as an
occupation.
(Nominated Finalists)
Robert Parry of Associated Press - For his exclusive stories
about he CIA's production of two manuals for Nicaraguan
rebels--stories that led to an internal investigation & a
congressional inquiry.
Washington Bureau Staff of Wall Street Journal - For its
thorough coverage & analysis of the 1984 Presidential campaign.
1984 - John Noble Wilford of New York Times - For reporting
on a wide variety of scientific topics of national import.
(Nominated Finalists)
Benjamin L. Weiser of Washington Post - For his series on the
difficulties doctors face in making life-&-death decisions
regarding their patients.
George Getschow of Wall Street Journal - For his series "Dirty
Work," which disclosed the existence of temporary slave labor
camps throughout the southwest United States
1983 - Boston Globe of Boston Globe - For its balanced &
informative special report on the nuclear arms race.
(Nominated Finalists)
Haynes Johnson of Washington Post - For his reporting on the
impact of the recession on communities across the nation
Jim
Henderson of Dallas Times Herald - For his series on the
persistence of racism in the "New South" &, in a second
nomination, for his reporting on the consequences of atomic
testing in America
1982 - Rick Atkinson of Kansas City Times - For the uniform
excellence of his reporting & writing on stories of national
import.
(Nominated Finalists)
Washington Bureau Staff of United Press International - For its
coverage of the attempted assassination of President Reagan.
Liz
Jeffries, freelance & Rick Edmonds of Philadelphia Inquirer -
For their series on live-birth abortions.
1981 - John M. Crewdson of New York Times - For his coverage
of illegal aliens & immigration.
(Nominated Finalists)
Jonathan Neumann & Ted Gup of Washington Post - For their series
on government contracts.
Donald Barlett & James B. Steele of Philadelphia Inquirer - For
their series "Energy Anarchy."
Joseph Volz, Richard Edmonds, Bob Herbert & Alton Slagle of New
York Daily News - For their series on the state of U.S. military
preparedness.
1980. - Bette Swenson Orsini & Charles Stafford of St.
Petersburg (Fla.) Times - For their investigation of the Church
of Scientology.
(Nominated Finalists)
Staff of Los Angeles Times - For a series on chemicals in the
environment, "Poisoning of America."
Joseph P. Albright, national correspondent of Cox Newspapers -
For a series on energy.
George Anthan, reporter, Washington bureau of Des Moines
Register - For a series on disappearing farmland.
1979 - James Risser of Des Moines Register - For a series on
farming damage to the environment
1978 - Gaylord D. Shaw of Los Angeles Times - For a series
on unsafe structural conditions at the nation's major dams
1977 - Walter Mears of Associated Press - For his coverage
of the 1976 Presidential campaign
1976 - James Risser of Des Moines Register - For disclosing
large-scale corruption in the American grain exporting trade.
1975 - Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele of Philadelphia
Inquirer - For their series "Auditing the Internal Revenue
Service," which exposed the unequal application of Federal tax
laws.
1974 - Jack White of Providence Journal & Evening Bulletin -
For his initiative in exclusively disclosing President Nixon's
Federal income tax payments in 1970 & 1971.
James R. Polk of Washington Star-News - For his disclosure of
alleged irregularities in the financing of the campaign to
re-elect President Nixon in 1972.
1973 - Robert Boyd & Clark Hoyt of Knight Newspapers - For
their disclosure of Senator Thomas Eagleton's history of
psychiatric therapy, resulting in his withdrawal as the
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in 1972
1972 - Jack Anderson of syndicated columnist - For his
reporting of American policy decision-making during the
Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.
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1971 - Lucinda Franks & Thomas Powers of United Press
International - For their documentary on the life & death of a
28-year-old revolutionary Diana Oughton: "The Making of a
Terrorist."
1970 - William J. Eaton of Chicago Daily News - For
disclosures about the background of Judge Clement F. Haynesworth
Jr., in connection with his nomination for the United States
Supreme Court.
1969 - Robert Cahn of Christian Science Monitor
For his inquiry into the future of our national parks & the
methods that may help to preserve them.
1968 - Nathan K. (Nick) Kotz of Des Moines Register &
Minneapolis Tribune - For his reporting of unsanitary conditions
in many meat packing plants, which helped insure the passage of
the Federal Wholesome Meat Act of 1967.
Howard James of Christian Science Monitor - For his series of
articles, "Crisis in the Courts."
1967 - Stanley Penn & Monroe Karmin of Wall Street Journal -
For their investigative reporting of the connection between
American crime & gambling in the Bahamas. (The prize is shared
between the two reporters
1966 - Haynes Johnson of Washington Evening Star - For his
distinguished coverage of the civil rights conflict centered
about Selma, Ala., & particularly his reporting of its
aftermath.
1965 - Louis M. Kohlmeier of Wall Street Journal - For his
enterprise in reporting the growth of the fortune of President
Lyndon B. Johnson & his family.
1964 - Merriman Smith of United Press International - For
his outstanding coverage of the assassination of President John
F. Kennedy.
1963 - Anthony Lewis of New York Times - For his
distinguished reporting of the proceedings of the United States
Supreme Court during the year, with particular emphasis on the
coverage of the decision in the reapportionment case & its
consequences in many of the States of the Union.
1962 - Nathan G. Caldwell & Gene S. Graham of Nashville
Tennessean - For their exclusive disclosure & six years of
detailed reporting, under great difficulties, of the undercover
cooperation between management interests in the coal industry &
the United Mine Workers.
1961 - Edward R. Cony of Wall Street Journal - For his
analysis of a timber transaction which drew the attention of the
public to the problems of business ethics.
1960 - Vance Trimble of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
For a series of articles exposing the extent of nepotism in the
Congress of the United States.
1959 - Howard Van Smith of Miami (Fla.) News - For a series
of articles that focused public notice on deplorable conditions
in a Florida migrant labor camp, resulted in the provision of
generous assistance for the 4,000 stranded workers in the camp,
& thereby called attention to the national problem presented by
1,500,000 migratory laborers.
1958 - Clark Mollenhoff of Des Moines Register & Tribune -
For his persistent inquiry into labor racketeering, which
included investigatory reporting of wide significance.
Relman Morin of Associated Press - For his dramatic & incisive
eyewitness report of mob violence on September 23, 1957, during
the integration crisis at the Central High School in Little
Rock, Arkansas
1957 - James Reston of New York Times - For his
distinguished national correspondence, including both news
dispatches & 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.
1956 - Charles L. Bartlett of Chattanooga Times - For his
original disclosures that led to the resignation of Harold E.
Talbott as Secretary of the Air Force.
1955 - Anthony Lewis of Washington Daily News - For
publishing a series of articles which were adjudged directly
responsible for clearing Abraham Chasanow, an employee of the
U.S. Navy Department, & 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 American citizen, without adequate funds or
resources for his defense, against an unjust act by a government
department. This is in the best tradition of American
journalism.
1954 - Richard Wilson of Des Moines Register & Tribune - For
his exclusive publication of the FBI Report to the White House
in the Harry Dexter White case before it was laid before the
Senate by J. Edgar Hoover.
1953 - Don Whitehead of Associated Press - For his article
called "The Great Deception," dealing with the intricate
arrangements by which the safety of President-elect Eisenhower
was guarded enroute from Morningside Heights in New York to
Korea.
1952 - Anthony Leviero of New York Times - For his exclusive
article of April 21, 1951, disclosing the record of
conversations between President Truman & General of the Army
Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island in their conference of October,
1950.
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1950 - Edwin O. Guthman of Seattle Times - For his series on
the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who
had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.
1949 - C. P. Trussel of New York Times - For consistent
excellence covering the national scene from Washington.
1948 - Nat S. Finney of Minneapolis Tribune - For his
stories on the plan of the Truman administration to impose
secrecy about the ordinary affairs of federal civilian agencies
in peacetime
Bert Andrews of New York Herald Tribune - For his articles on "A
State Department Security Case" published in I947.
1947 - Edward T. Folliard of Washington Post - For his
series of articles published during 1946 on the Columbians, Inc.
1946 - Arnaldo Cortesi of New York Times - For distinguished
correspondence during the year 1945, as exemplified by his
reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Edward A. Harris of St. Louis Post-Dispatch - For his articles
on the Tidewater Oil situation which contributed to the
nation-wide opposition to the appointment & confirmation of
Edwin W. Pauley as Undersecretary of the Navy.
1945 - James B. Reston of New York Times - For his news
dispatches & interpretive articles on the Dumbarton Oaks
security conference.
1944 - Dewey L. Fleming of Baltimore Sun - For his
distinguished reporting during the year 1943.
1942 - Louis Stark of New York Times - For his distinguished
reporting of important labor stories during the year.
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