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Pulitzer Prize Winner for
Public Service
2005 - Los Angeles Times - For its courageous, exhaustively
researched series exposing deadly medical problems & racial
injustice at a major public hospital.
Orange County Register - For its tenacious investigation into
the widespread poisoning of children by lead-tainted Mexican
candy, spurring remedial action.
Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal - For its valiant & innovative
coverage, in the newspaper & online, of the coastal devastation
caused by Hurricane Ivan.
2004 - New York Times - For the work of David Barstow &
Lowell Bergman that relentlessly examined death & injury among
American workers & exposed employers who break basic safety
rules. (Moved by the Board from the Investigative Reporting
category, where it was also entered.)
(Nominated Finalists)
Providence Journal - For its comprehensive coverage of the
causes & consequences of a nightclub fire that killed 100 people
& spread anguish across America's smallest state.
Seattle Times - For the work of Christine Willmsen & Maureen
O'Hagan that revealed sexual misconduct by male coaches who
preyed on female students & escaped discipline or prosecution
Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky. - For its vivid portrayal of
how delays in the state's criminal justice system harmed victims
& defendants alike, a project that spurred remedial action
2003 - Boston Globe - For its courageous, comprehensive
coverage of sexual abuse by priests, an effort that pierced
secrecy, stirred local, national & international reaction &
produced changes in the Roman Catholic Church.
(Nominated Finalists)
Detroit News - For the work of Norman Sinclair, Ronald Hansen &
Melvin Claxton that revealed dangerous defects & spurred changes
in a criminal justice system that allowed lawbreakers to get
away with everything from petty theft to murder.
Pensacola (FL) News Journal - For its uncommon courage in
publishing stories that exposed a culture of corruption in
Escambia County, Fla., & resulted in the indictment of four of
five county commissioners
2002 - New York Times - For "A Nation Challenged," a special
section published regularly after the September 11th terrorist
attacks on America, which coherently & comprehensively covered
the tragic events, profiled the victims, & tracked the
developing story, locally & globally.
(Nominated Finalists)
Washington Post - For the work of Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham &
Sarah Cohen for a series that exposed the District of Columbia's
role in the neglect & death of 229 children placed in protective
care between 1993 & 2000, which prompted an overhaul of the
city's child welfare system.
The
Washington Post - For its sustained & often groundbreaking
coverage that informed & aided the nation as it grappled with
the complex & varied issues stemming from the September 11th
terrorist attacks on America & their aftermath.
2001 - Oregonian - For its detailed & unflinching examination of
systematic problems within the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization
Service, including harsh treatment of foreign nationals & other
widespread abuses, which prompted various reforms.
(Nominated Finalists)
Washington Post - For its comprehensive series on the AIDS
plague in Africa, which revealed how the devastating epidemic
was affected by political, commercial & bureaucratic forces far
removed from the lives of most of its victims.
Associated Press - For its accurate & comprehensive coverage of
the 2000 presidential election, particularly during those 36
uncertain days when much of the nation looked to the AP for
disciplined, 24-hour reporting on the close votes & recounts.
2000 - Washington Post
Notably for the work of Katherine Boo that disclosed wretched
neglect & abuse in the city’s group homes for the mentally
retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions &
begin reforms.
(Nominated Finalists)
Chicago Tribune - For its extensive investigation of the
failures of the legal justice system, documenting misconduct by
prosecutors & inequities in death penalty cases, which led the
governor of Illinois to suspend state executions.
Philadelphia Inquirer - For an investigative series, including
an innovative presentation on its Web site, by Mark Fazollah,
Craig McCoy, Michael Matza & Clea Benson that revealed how
Philadelphia police had routinely minimized & did not
investigate many sexual assault claims, leading to reform of the
system.
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1999 - Washington Post - For its series that identified &
analyzed patterns of reckless gunplay by city police officers
who had little training or supervision.
(Nominated Finalists)
Boston Globe - For the work of Dolores Kong & Robert Whitaker
that disclosed how, for decades, psychiatric researchers
callously performed drug experiments on mentally ill patients.
Philadelphia Inquirer - For its series that explained how local
police routinely manipulated crime statistics to make the city
appear safer.
1998 - Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald - For its sustained &
informative coverage, vividly illustrated with photographs, that
helped hold its community together in the wake of flooding, a
blizzard & a fire that devastated much of the city, including
the newspaper plant itself.
(Nominated Finalists)
Seattle Times - For the work of Duff Wilson that disclosed how
toxic waste from heavy industries was being recycled as
fertilizer.
Los
Angeles Times - For the work of Sonia Nazario, reporter &
Clarence Williams, photographer, that chronicled the tragic
plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol &
drugs
1997 - Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La. - For its
comprehensive series analyzing the conditions that threaten the
world's supply of fish.
(Nominated Finalists)
Los
Angeles Times - For its probe of murder cases in Los Angeles
County, which revealed inefficiency & mismanagement in the
justice system.
Philadelphia Inquirer - For a series by Donald L. Barlett &
James B. Steele chronicling the widening gap between the
affluent & the poor at a time when Americans are being told that
the economy is more
prosperous than ever.
1996 - News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. -For the work of
Melanie Sill, Pat Stith & Joby Warrick on the environmental &
health risks of waste disposal systems used in North Carolina's
growing hog industry.
(Nominated Finalists)
Baltimore Sun - For the work of Ginger Thompson & Gary Cohn
that disclosed the activities of a Honduran army unit that
abducted, tortured & murdered political suspects in the 1980s
with the knowledge of the CIA.
Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul - For articles revealing
questionable favors extended by a local legal publishing company
to members of the federal judiciary, including several Supreme
court justices.
1995 - Virgin Islands Daily News, St. Thomas - For its
disclosure of the links between the region's rampant crime rate
& corruption in the local criminal justice system. The
reporting, largely the work of Melvin Claxton, initiated
political reforms
(Nominated Finalists)
Philadelphia Inquirer - For disclosing fraudulent practices in a
local election, bringing about the overturn of the election &
the reform of many of the city's electoral practices.
Charlottes (N.C.) Observer - For examining the city's declining
inner-city neighborhoods, proposing improvements & helping to
organize citizens to ward off further deterioration.
1994 - Akron Beacon Journal - For its broad examination of
local racial attitudes & its subsequent effort to promote
improved communication in the community.
(Nominated Finalists)
Chicago Tribune - For its year-long examination of child
homicide, which focused individual attention on 61 children &
the circumstances of their deaths
Albuquerque Tribune - For the work of Eileen Welsome, which
related the experiences of Americans who had been used knowingly
in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.
1993- Akron Beacon Journal - For its broad examination of
local racial attitudes & its subsequent effort to promote
improved communication in the community.
(Nominated Finalists)
Seattle Times - For disclosing numerous allegations of sexual
harassment of women by U.S. Sen. Brock Adams of Washington, who
then dropped his bid for re-election.
Orlando Sentinel - For the exposure by reporters Jeff Brazil &
Steve Berry of the unjust seizure of millions of dollars from
motorists -- most of them minorities -- by a sheriff's drug
squad.
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1992 - Sacramento (Calif.) Bee - For "The Sierra in Peril,"
reporting by Tom Knudson that examined environmental threats &
damage to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.
(Nominated Finalists)
Miami Herald - For coverage that not only helped readers cope
with Hurricane Andrew's devastation but also showed how lax
zoning, inspection & building codes had contributed to the
destruction
Washington Post - For articles exploring the causes & human
consequences of the epidemic of gun violence in the capital area
that claimed more than 3,000 lives in five years.
Dayton (Ohio) Daily News - For extensive reporting by Mike Casey
& Russell Carollo that revealed gross national neglect of worker
safety conditions & regulations & prompted workplace-reform
legislation
1991 - Des
Moines Register - For reporting by Jane Schorer that, with the
victim's consent, named a woman who had been raped --which
prompt widespread reconsideration of the traditional media
practice of concealing the identity of rape victims.
(Nominated Finalists)
Los
Angeles Times - For a series by David Freed on the impact of the
high crime rate on the city's criminal justice system, which
prompted immediate steps toward reform.
Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul - For a series examining race
relations & racial attitudes in the state, including those
prevailing at the newspaper itself.
1990 - Washington (N.C.) Daily News - For revealing that the city's
water supply was contaminated with carcinogens, a problem that
the local government had neither disclosed nor corrected over a
period of eight years.
Philadelphia Inquirer - For reporting by Gilbert M. Gaul that
disclosed how the American blood industry operates with little
government regulation or supervision.
(Nominated Finalists)
Tennessean, Nashville - For an extended investigation by Phil
Williams & Jim O'Hara of corruption in the state's charity bingo
industry, which prompted the indictment of dozens of individuals
& legislative restrictions on bingo operations
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - For stories by Jane O. Hansen
that exposed abuses & incompetence in Georgia's child welfare
system & inspired state reforms
1989 - Anchorage Daily News -
For reporting about the high incidence of alcoholism & suicide
among native Alaskans in a series that focused attention on
their despair & resulted in various reforms
(Nominated Finalists)
Shreveport (La.) Times - For its campaign urging reform of the
state's public education system, which helped prompt legislation
initiating change.
Philadelphia Inquirer For a 15-month investigation by Donald L.
Barlett & James B. Steele of "rifle shot" provisions in the Tax
Reform Act of 1986, a series which aroused such widespread
public indignation that Congress subsequently rejected proposals
giving special tax breaks to many politically connected
individuals & businesses.
Atlanta Journal & Constitution - For an investigation by Bill
Dedman of the racial discrimination practiced by lending
institutions in Atlanta, reporting which led to significant
reforms in those policies.
1988 - Charlotte Observer - For revealing misuse of funds by
the PTL television ministry through persistent coverage
conducted in the face of a massive campaign by PTL to discredit
the newspaper.
(Nominated Finalists)
Alabama Journal, Montgomery - For its compelling investigation
of the state's unusually high infant-mortality rate, which
prompted legislation to combat the problem. (Moved by the Board
to the General News Reporting category.)
Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky. - For reporting that described
vote-buying & influence peddling in Kentucky elections &
resulted in calls for new state & federal legislation.
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1987 - Pittsburgh Press - For reporting by Andrew Schneider
& Matthew Brelis which revealed the inadequacy of the FAA's
medical screening of airline pilots & led to significant
reforms.
(Nominated Finalists)
El
Paso Herald-Post - For its "Year of the Printed Word," an
intensive local effort to promote literacy through reporting &
organizing community events.
Fort Lauderdale News & Sun-Sentinel - For an investigation led
by Fred Schulte, which exposed serious medical mishaps,
including heart surgery deaths, at the nation's Veterans
Administration hospitals & prompted remedial government action
1986 - Denver Post - For its in-depth study of "missing
children," which revealed that most are involved in custody
disputes or are runaways, & which helped mitigate national fears
stirred by exaggerated statistics.
(Nominated Finalists)
Dallas Times Herald - For its coverage of the crash of Delta
flight 191 on August 2, 1985, & the resultant series, "How Safe
are the Skies?," which examined air traffic safety in the United
States & found it wanting.
Panama City (Fla.) News-Herald - For its investigation into
allegations of systematic & widespread torture of prison inmates
by jailers in the Jackson County Jail in Marianna, Florida,
which resulted in the indictment of seven prison guards.
1985 - Fort Worth (Tex.) Star-Telegram - For reporting by
Mark J. Thompson which revealed that nearly 250 U.S. servicemen
had lost their lives as a result of a design problem in
helicopters built by Bell Helicopter -a revelation which
ultimately led the Army to ground almost 600 Huey helicopters
pending their modification.
(Nominated Finalists)
Chicago Tribune - For its sustained effort to expose the control
of Chicago's minority neighborhoods by street gangs--reporting
which prompted Mayor Washington to launch a $4.5 million gang
control program.
Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune - For a series by Richard High & Anne
Mackinnon which, despite strong opposition from local utilities,
investigated the state's need for improved natural gas
regulation & led to significant reforms.
1984 -Los Angeles Times -
For an in-depth examination of southern California's growing
Latino community by a team of editors & reporters.
(Nominated Finalists)
Fayetteville (N.C.) Times - For the series "And Justice for
All?" which revealed failures & favoritism in the Cumberland
County (N.C.) District Court System.
Detroit Free Press - For a series by Stephen Franklin & Marcia
Stepanek that exposed the failure of the automobile industry &
the federal government to protect the motoring public from
defective cars.
1983 - Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger - For its successful
campaign supporting Governor Winter in his legislative battle
for reform of Mississippi's public education system
(Nominated Finalists)
Boston Globe - For its balanced & informative special report on
the nuclear arms race. (Moved by the Board to the National
Reporting category)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - For its ongoing investigation of
mismanagement of the Washington Public Power Supply System's
(WPPSS) nuclear construction program.
1982 - Detroit News - For a series by Sydney P. Freedberg & David
Ashenfelter which exposed the U.S. Navy's cover-up of
circumstances surrounding the deaths of seamen aboard ship &
which led to significant reforms in naval procedures.
(Nominated Finalists)
Los
Angeles Herald Examiner - For its series on exploitation of
illegal aliens in California's garment industry
New
York Daily News - For its series on the crisis in New York's
subway system.
Providence Journal-Bulletin - For its series on hazardous
working conditions in Rhode Island's jewelry industry.
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1981 - Charlotte (N. C.) Observer - For its series on "Brown
Lung: A Case of Deadly Neglect."
(Nominated Finalists)
Long Beach (Calif.) Independent Press-Telegram - For its series
on unnecessary deaths due to inadequate emergency room care in
Los Angeles County.
Nashville Tennessean - For its reporting on the national
resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan
1980 - Gannett News Service - For its series on financial contributions
to the Pauline Fathers.
(Nominated Finalists)
Miami Herald - For its series on police brutality.
Miami Herald - For disclosures of medical incompetence,
malfeasance & abuse.
St.
Petersburg Times - For its investigation of the Church of
Scientology. (Moved by the Board to the National Reporting
category)
Philadelphia Inquirer - For a series on toxic waste.
1979 - Point Reyes Light, a California weekly - For its
investigation of Synanon.
1978 - Philadelphia Inquirer - For a series of articles
showing abuses of power by the police in its home city.
1977 - Lufkin (Tex.) News - For an obituary of a local man
who died in Marine training camp, which grew into an
investigation of that death & a fundamental reform in the
recruiting & training practices of the United States Marine
Corps.
1976 - Anchorage Daily News - For its disclosures of the impact &
influence of the Teamsters Union on Alaska's economy & politics.
1975 - Boston Globe - For its massive & balanced coverage of
the Boston school desegregation crisis.
1974 - Newsday, Garden City, N.Y. - For its definitive
report on the illicit narcotic traffic in the United States &
abroad, entitled, "The Heroin Trail."
1973 - Washington Post - For its investigation of the
Watergate case.
1972 - New York Times - For the publication of the Pentagon
Papers.
1971 - Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal & Sentinel - For
coverage of environmental problems, as exemplified by a
successful campaign to block strip mining operation that would
have caused irreparable damage to the hill country of northwest
North Carolina.
1970 - Newsday, Garden City, N.Y. - For its three-year
investigation & exposure of secret land deals in eastern Long
Island, which led to a series of criminal convictions,
discharges & resignations among public & political officeholders
in the area.
1969 - Los Angeles Times - For its expose of wrongdoing
within the Los Angeles City Government Commissions, resulting in
resignations or criminal convictions of certain members, as well
as widespread reforms.
1968 - Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise - For its expose
of corruption in the courts in connection with the handling of
the property & estates of an Indian tribe in California, & its
successful efforts to punish the culprits.
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1967 - Louisville Courier-Journal - For its successful campaign to
control the Kentucky strip mining industry, a notable advance in
the national effort for the conservation of natural resources.
Milwaukee Journal - For its successful campaign to stiffen the
law against water pollution in Wisconsin, a notable advance in
the national effort for the conservation of natural resources.
1966 - Boston Globe - For its campaign to prevent
confirmation of Francis X Morrissey as a Federal District Judge
in Massachusetts.
1965 - Hutchinson (Kansas) News - For its courageous and
constructive campaign, culminating in 1964, to bring about more
equitable reapportionment of the Kansas Legislature, despite
powerful opposition in its own community.
1964 - St. Petersburg (Florida) Times - For its aggressive
investigation of the Florida Turnpike Authority which disclosed
widespread illegal acts & resulted in a major reorganization of
the State's road construction program.
1963 - Chicago Daily News - For calling public attention to
the issue of providing birth control services in the public
health programs in its area.
1962 - Panama City (Fla.) News-Herald - For its three-year
campaign against entrenched power & corruption, with resultant
reforms in Panama City & Bay County.
1961 - Amarillo (Texas) Globe-Times - For exposing a
breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive
action that swept lax officials from their posts & brought about
the election of a reform slate The newspaper thus exerted its
civic leadership in the finest tradition of journalism.
1960 - Los Angeles Times - For its thorough, sustained &
well-conceived attack on narcotics traffic & the enterprising
reporting of Gene Sherman, which led to the opening of
negotiations between the United States & Mexico to halt the flow
of illegal drugs into southern California & other border states.
1959 - Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch & Utica Daily Press -
For their successful campaign against corruption, gambling &
vice in their home city & the achievement of sweeping civic
reforms in the face of political pressure & threats of violence.
By their stalwart leadership of the forces of good government,
these newspapers upheld the best tradition of a free press.
1958 - Arkansas Gazette of Little Rock, Arkansas - For
demonstrating the highest qualities of civic leadership,
journalistic responsibility & moral courage in the face of great
public tension during the school integration crisis of 1957. The
newspaper's fearless & completely objective news coverage, plus
its reasoned & moderate policy, did much to restore calmness &
order to an overwrought community, reflecting great credit on
its editors & its management.
1957 - Chicago Daily News - For determined & courageous public service
in exposing a $2,500,000 fraud centering in the office of the
State Auditor of Illinois, resulting in the indictment &
conviction of the State Auditor & others. This led to the
reorganization of State procedures to prevent a recurrence of
the fraud.
1956 - Watsonville (Calif.) Register-Pajaronian - For
courageous exposure of corruption in public office, which led to
the resignation of a district attorney & the conviction of one
of his associates.
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1955 - Columbus (Ga.) Ledger & Sunday Ledger-Enquirer - For
its complete news coverage & fearless editorial attack on
widespread corruption in neighboring Phenix City, Ala., which
were effective in destroying a corrupt & racket-ridden city
government. The newspaper exhibited an early awareness of the
evils of lax law enforcement before the situation in Phenix City
erupted into murde r. It covered the whole unfolding story of
the final prosecution of the wrong-doers with skill, perception,
force & courage.
1954 - Newsday, Garden City, N.Y. - For its expose of New
York State's race track scandals & labor racketeering, which led
to the extortion indictment, guilty plea & imprisonment of
William C. DeKoning, Sr., New York labor racketeer.
1953 - Whiteville (N.C.) News Reporter & Tabor City (N.C.)
Tribune, two weekly newspapers -For their successful campaign
against the Ku Klux Klan, waged on their own doorstep at the
risk of economic loss & personal danger, culminating in the
conviction of over one hundred Klansmen & an end to terrorism in
their communities.
1952 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - For its investigation &
disclosures of wide spread corruption in the Internal Revenue
Bureau & other departments of the government.
1951 - Miami Herald & Brooklyn Eagle - For their crime
reporting during the year.
1950 - Chicago Daily News & St. Louis Post-Dispatch - For
the work of George Thiem & Roy J. Harris, respectively, in
exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois
State payroll.
1949 - Nebraska State Journal - For the campaign
establishing the "Nebraska All-Star Primary" presidential
preference primary which spotlighted, through a bi-partisan
committee, issues early in the presidential campaign.
1948 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - For the coverage of the
Centralia, Illinois, mine disaster & the follow-up which
resulted in impressive reforms in mine safety laws &
regulations.
1947 - Baltimore Sun - For its series of articles by Howard
M. Norton dealing with the administration of unemployment
compensation in Maryland, resulting in convictions & pleas of
guilty in criminal court of 93 persons.
1946 - Scranton Times
For its fifteen-year investigation of judicial practices in the
United States District Court for the middle district of
Pennsylvania, resulting in removal of the District Judge &
indictment of many others.
1945 - Detroit Free Press - For its investigation of
legislative graft & corruption at Lansing, Michigan.
1944 - New York Times - For its survey of the teaching of
American History.
1943 - Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald - For its initiative &
originality in planning a state-wide campaign for the collection
of scrap metal for the war effort. The Nebraska plan was adopted
on a national scale by the daily newspapers, resulting in a
united effort which succeeded in supplying our war industries
with necessary scrap material.
1942 - Los Angeles Times - For its successful campaign which
resulted in the clarification & confirmation for all American
newspapers of the right of free press as guaranteed under the
Constitution
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1941 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - For its successful campaign
against the city smoke nuisance.
1940 - Waterbury (Conn.) Republican & American - For its
campaign exposing municipal graft.
1939 - Miami Daily News - For its campaign for the recall of
the Miami City Commission.
1938 - Bismarck (N.D.) Tribune - For its news reports &
editorials entitled, "Self Help in the Dust Bowl."
1937 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - For its exposure of
wholesale fraudulent registration in St. Louis. By a coordinated
news, editorial & cartoon campaign this newspaper succeeded in
invalidating upwards of 40,000 fraudulent ballots in November &
brought about the appointment of a new election board.
1936 - Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette - For its crusade against
corruption & misgovernment in the State of Iowa.
1935 - Sacramento (Calif.) Bee - For its campaign against
political machine influence in the appointment of two Federal
judges in Nevada.
1934 - Medford (Ore.) Mail Tribune - For its campaign
against unscrupulous politicians in Jackson County, Oregon.
1933 - New York World-Telegram - For its series of articles
on veterans relief, on the real estate bond evil, the campaign
urging voters in the late New York City municipal election to
"write in" the name of Joseph V. McKee, & the articles exposing
the lottery schemes of various fraternal organizations.
1932 - Indianapolis News - For its successful campaign to
eliminate waste in city management & to reduce the tax levy.
1931 - Atlanta Constitution
For a successful municipal graft exposure & consequent
convictions
1929 - New York Evening World - For its effective campaign
to correct evils in the administration of justice, including the
fight to curb "ambulance chasers," support of the "fence" bill,
& measures to simplify procedure, prevent perjury & eliminate
politics from municipal courts; a campaign which has been
instrumental in securing remedial action.
1928 - Indianapolis Times - For its work in exposing
political corruption to Indiana, prosecuting the guilty &
bringing about a more wholesome state of affairs in civil
government.
1927 - Canton (Ohio) Daily News - For its brave, patriotic &
effective fight for the ending of a vicious state of affairs
brought about by collusion between city authorities & the
criminal element, a fight which had a tragic result in the
assassination of the editor of the paper, Mr. Don R. Mellett.
1926 - Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer Sun - For the service which
it rendered in its brave & energetic fight against the Ku Klux
Klan; against the enactment of a law barring the teaching of
evolution; against dishonest & incompetent public officials &
for justice to the Negro & against lynching.
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1924 - New York World - For its work in connection with the
exposure of the Florida peonage evil
1923 - Memphis Commercial Appeal - For its courageous
attitude in the publication of cartoons & the handling of news
in reference to the operations of the Ku Klux Klan.
1922 - New York World - For articles exposing the operations
of the Ku Klux Klan, published during September & October, 1921.
1921 - Boston Post - For its exposure of the operations of
Charles Ponzi by a series of articles which finally led to his
arrest.
1919 - Milwaukee Journal - For its strong & courageous
campaign for Americanism in a constituency where foreign
elements made such a policy hazardous from a business point of
view.
1918 - New York Times - For its public service in publishing
in full so many official reports, documents & speeches by
European statesmen relating to the progress & conduct of the
war.
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