Nominations 2014 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kevin Cullen |
For his street-wise local columns that capture the spirit of a city, especially after its famed Marathon was devastated by terrorist bombings. |
| Lisa Falkenberg |
For her provocative metro columns written from the perspective of a sixth-generation Texan, often challenging the powerful and giving voice to the voiceless. |
| Stephen Henderson |
For his columns on the financial crisis facing his hometown, written with passion and a stirring sense of place, sparing no one in their critique. |
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Nominations 2013 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Bret Stephens |
For his incisive columns on American foreign policy and domestic politics, often enlivened by a contrarian twist. |
| Juliette N. Kayyem |
For her colorful, well reported columns on an array of issues, from women in combat to oil drilling in Alaska. |
| Mark Di Ionno |
For his hard hitting columns on Hurricane Sandy, the death of a gay college student and other local events and issues. |
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Nominations 2012 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mary Schmich |
For her wide range of down-to-earth columns that reflect the character and capture the culture of her famed city. |
| Nicholas D. Kristof |
For his valorous columns that transport readers into dangerous international scenes, from Egypt to Kenya to Cambodia, often focusing on the disenfranchised and always providing insight. |
| Steve Lopez |
For his engaging commentary on death and dying, marked by pieces on his own father\u2019s rapid physical and mental decline, that stir readers to address end-of-life questions. |
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Nominations 2011 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Leonhardt |
For his graceful penetration of America\u2019s complicated economic questions, from the federal budget deficit to health care reform. |
| Phillip Morris |
For his blend of local storytelling and unpredictable opinions, enlarging the discussion of controversial issues that stir a big city. |
| Mary Schmich |
For her versatile columns exploring life and the concerns of a metropolis with whimsy and poignancy. |
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Nominations 2010 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kathleen Parker |
For her perceptive, often witty columns on an array of political and moral issues, gracefully sharing the experiences and values that lead her to unpredictable conclusions. |
| David Leonhardt |
For his illumination of the nation\u2019s most pressing and complex economic concerns, from health care reform to the worst recession in decades. |
| Phillip Morris |
For his columns that close the distance between the reader and the rough streets of the city, confronting hard realities without leaving people to feel hopeless. |
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Nominations 2009 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Eugene Robinson |
2008 presidential campaign that focus on the election of the first African-American president, showcasing graceful writing and grasp of the larger historic picture. |
| Regina Brett |
For her range of compelling columns that move the heart, challenge authority and often trigger action while giving readers deeper insight into life\u2019s challenges. |
| Paul Krugman |
For his prophetic columns on economic peril during a year of financial calamity, blending the scholarly knowledge of a distinguished economist with the skill of a wordsmith. |
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Nominations 2008 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Steven Pearlstein |
For his insightful columns that explore the nation's complex economic ills with masterful clarity. |
| Regina Brett |
For her passionate columns on alienated teenagers in a dangerous city neighborhood. |
| John Kass |
For his hard-hitting columns on the abuse of local political power and a lively range of topics in a colorful city. |
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Nominations 2007 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Cynthia Tucker |
For her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community. |
| Ruth Marcus |
For her intelligent and incisive commentary on a range of subjects, using a voice that can be serious or playful. |
| Joe Nocera |
For his piercing, authoritative columns on business, often spotlighting misdeeds and flaws in corporate culture. |
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Nominations 2006 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Nicholas D. Kristof |
For his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world. |
| Chris Rose |
For his vibrant and compassionate columns that gave voice to the afflictions of his city after it was struck by Hurricane Katrina. |
| Cynthia Tucker |
For her pungent, clear-eyed columns that tackled controversial issues with frankness and fortitude. |
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Nominations 2005 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Connie Schultz |
For her pungent columns that provided a voice for the underdog and underprivileged. |
| Nicholas D. Kristof |
For his powerful columns that portrayed suffering among the developing world's often forgotten people and stirred action. |
| Tommy Tomlinson |
For his provocative columns with a wide-ranging human touch. |
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Nominations 2004 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Leonard Pitts |
For his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues. |
| Nicholas D. Kristof |
For his columns that, through rigorous reporting and powerful writing, often gave voice to forgotten people trapped in misery. |
| Cynthia Tucker |
For her forceful, persuasive columns that confronted sacred cows and hot topics with unswerving candor. |
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Nominations 2003 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Colbert I. King |
For his against-the-grain columns that speak to people in power with ferocity and wisdom. |
| Edward Achorn |
For his clear, tenacious call to action against government corruption in Rhode Island. |
| Mark Holmberg |
For his thought provoking, strongly reported columns on a broad range of topics. |
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Nominations 2002 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Thomas L. Friedman |
For his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. |
| Michael Daly |
For his compassionate and humane columns, particularly those written after the terrorist attack on New York City. |
| Nat Hentoff |
For his persuasive and authoritative columns on the threats to American civil liberties following the September 11th terrorist attacks. |
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Nominations 2001 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Dorothy Rabinowitz |
The Wall Street Journal
For her articles on American society and culture. |
| Karen Heller |
The Philadelphia Inquirer
For her humorous columns on modern life and popular culture. |
| Derrick Z. Jackson |
The Boston Globe
For his perceptive, versatile columns on such subjects as politics, education and race. |
| Trudy Rubin |
The Philadelphia Inquirer
For her keenly analytical columns on the Middle East. |
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Nominations 2000 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Paul Gigot |
For his informative and insightful columns on politics and government. |
| Michael Kelly |
For his enlightening and entertaining observations on cultural and political issues. |
| Colbert I. King |
For his caring, persuasive columns addressing social and urban problems. |
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Nominations 1999 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Maureen Dowd |
For her fresh and insightful columns on the impact of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. |
| Nat Hentoff |
For his passionate columns championing free expression and individual rights. |
| Donald Kaul |
For his witty columns from Washington on politics and other national issues. |
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Nominations 1998 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mike McAlary |
For his coverage of the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn station house. |
| Bob Greene |
For his columns devoted to local children whose lives were mishandled by the welfare and judicial systems. |
| Robert J. Samuelson |
For his knowledgeable and analytical columns on a wide variety of national subjects. |
| Patricia Smith |
For her lyrical and evocative columns on an assortment of urban topics. |
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Nominations 1997 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Eileen McNamara |
For her many-sided columns on Massachusetts people and issues. |
| Tony Kornheiser |
For his evocative columns ranging from sports and politics to tales of heroes and fools. |
| Deborah Work |
For speaking out in highly personal yet broadly relevant columns in roles as diverse as parent, citizen, critic and philosopher. |
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Nominations 1996 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Herb Caen |
For his columns about life in San Francisco and beyond. |
| Dorothy Rabinowitz |
For her columns effectively challenging key cases of alleged child abuse. |
| E.R. Shipp |
For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues. |
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Nominations 1995 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Paul Gigot |
For his insightful columns on Washington politics. |
| Carl Rowan |
For his columns disclosing corruption and mismanagement at the NAACP, which prompted reforms at the civil rights organization. |
| Jim Dwyer |
For his compelling and compassionate columns about New York City. |
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Nominations 1994 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Raspberry |
For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics. |
| Jane Daugherty |
For her \"Children First\" columns, about issues affecting the youngest Americans. |
| Peter H. King |
For his columns about California, filed from around the state. |
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Nominations 1993 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Liz Balmaseda |
For her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami. |
| Betty DeRamus |
For her columns about the problems and promise of urban America. |
| Bill Johnson |
For his impressionistic accounts of his South Central Los Angeles neighborhood before and after the riots. |
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Nominations 1992 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Anna Quindlen |
For her compelling columns on a wide range of personal and political topics. |
| Liz Balmaseda |
For her columns about local Cuban-Americans and the issues affecting the immigrant community. |
| Robert Lipsyte |
For his insightful commentary on the world of sports. |
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Nominations 1991 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jim Hoagland |
For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| Rheta Grimsley Johnson |
For her insightful columns on a variety of topics. |
| Philip Terzian |
For his gracefully written columns about national and international events. |
| William Woo |
For his thoughtful columns on local and national subjects. |
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Nominations 1990 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jim Murray |
For his sports columns. |
| Richard Cohen |
For his columns on national issues. |
| Walter Goodman |
For his columns about television. |
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Nominations 1989 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Clarence Page |
For his provocative columns on local and national affairs. |
| Richard Cohen |
For his clear and controlled commentary on social and political topics. |
| Michael Kinsley |
For informed commentary on a variety of national issues. |
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Nominations 1988 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Dave Barry |
For his consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting fresh insights into serious concerns. |
| Ira Berkow |
For thoughtful commentary on the sports scene. |
| Michael Kinsley |
For his incisive commentary on a wide range of political topics. |
| Molly Ivins |
For her witty columns on a variety of social and political issues. |
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Nominations 1987 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Charles Krauthammer |
For his witty and insightful columns on national issues. |
| Richard Cohen |
For his eloquent columns on social and political issues. |
| Donald Kaul |
For his compelling commentary on national events. |
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Nominations 1986 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jimmy Breslin |
For columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens |
| Joseph Kraft |
For incisive and thoughtful commentary on a wide range of public issues throughout a long and distinguished career. |
| Charles Krauthammer |
For his gracefully written and clear commentary on a variety of issues. |
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Nominations 1985 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Murray Kempton |
For witty and insightful reflection on public issues in 1984 and throughout a distinguished career. |
| Martin Nolan |
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| Molly Ivins |
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Nominations 1984 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Arnold Rosenfeld |
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| Dorothy Storck |
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| Vermont C. Royster |
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Nominations 1983 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Claude Sitton |
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| Ross Mackenzie |
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| David G. Rossie |
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Nominations 1982 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Art Buchwald |
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| William Greider |
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| William Raspberry |
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Nominations 1981 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Dave Anderson |
For his commentary on sports. |
| Richard Cohen |
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| Howard Rosenberg |
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Nominations 1980 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ellen Goodman |
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| Richard Reeves |
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| Carl Rowan |
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Nominations 1979 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Russell Baker |
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Nominations 1978 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Safire |
For commentary on the Bert Lance affair. |
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Nominations 1977 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| George Will |
For distinguished commentary on a variety of topics. |
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Nominations 1976 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Red Smith |
For his commentary on sports in 1975 and for many other years. |
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Nominations 1975 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mary McGrory |
For her commentary on public affairs during 1974. |
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