Awards & Winners

Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Pulitzer Prize

Date Established : 1917

Check all the winners of Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing presented under Pulitzer Prize since 1917 .


Erik Lukens, Mark Hester, Susan Nielsen, Len Reed, Nora Simon

(For its lucid editorials that explain the urgent but complex issue of rising pension costs, notably engaging readers and driving home the link between necessary solutions and their impact on everyday lives.)

Nominations 2014 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Erik Lukens
For its lucid editorials that explain the urgent but complex issue of rising pension costs, notably engaging readers and driving home the link between necessary solutions and their impact on everyday lives.
Mark Hester
For its lucid editorials that explain the urgent but complex issue of rising pension costs, notably engaging readers and driving home the link between necessary solutions and their impact on everyday lives.
Susan Nielsen
For its lucid editorials that explain the urgent but complex issue of rising pension costs, notably engaging readers and driving home the link between necessary solutions and their impact on everyday lives.
Len Reed
For its lucid editorials that explain the urgent but complex issue of rising pension costs, notably engaging readers and driving home the link between necessary solutions and their impact on everyday lives.
Nora Simon
For its lucid editorials that explain the urgent but complex issue of rising pension costs, notably engaging readers and driving home the link between necessary solutions and their impact on everyday lives.
Dante Ramos
For his evocative editorials urging Boston to become a more modern, around-the-clock city by shedding longtime restrictions and removing bureaucratic obstacles that can sap its vitality.
Andie Dominick
For her diligent editorials challenging Iowa\u2019s arcane licensing laws that regulate occupations ranging from cosmetologists to dentists and often protect practitioners more than the public.

Tim Nickens, Daniel Ruth

(For their diligent campaign that helped reverse a decision to end fluoridation of the water supply for the 700,000 residents of the newspaper\u2019s home county.)

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jackson Diehl
For his passionate editorials on the civil conflict in Syria, arguing for greater engagement by the United States to help stop bloodshed in a strategic Arab nation.
Daniel Ruth
For their diligent campaign that helped reverse a decision to end fluoridation of the water supply for the 700,000 residents of the newspaper\u2019s home county.
Tim Nickens
For their diligent campaign that helped reverse a decision to end fluoridation of the water supply for the 700,000 residents of the newspaper\u2019s home county.
Newsday
For its editorials in the chaotic wake of Hurricane Sandy, providing a voice of reason, hope and indignation as recovery began and the future challenge of limiting shoreline devastation emerged

Joseph Rago

(For his well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama.)

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jackson Diehl
For his insightful editorials on foreign affairs, marked by prescient pieces critical of America\u2019s policy toward Egypt well before a revolution erupted there.
John P. McCormick
For his relentless campaign to reform an unsustainable public pension system that threatens the economic future of Illinois.
Joseph Rago
For his well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama.

Tod Robberson, Colleen McCain Nelson, William McKenzie

(For their relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city\u2019s better-off northern half and distressed southern half.)

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
John G. Carlton
For his editorials on health care reform that cut through the clutter, debunk myths and often bring the national debate home to Missouri.
John P. McCormick
For their unyielding editorials urging reform of a culture of corruption in Illinois state government, repeatedly sounding the alarm when lawmakers faltered.
Marie Dillon
For their unyielding editorials urging reform of a culture of corruption in Illinois state government, repeatedly sounding the alarm when lawmakers faltered.
Tod Robberson
For their relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city\u2019s better-off northern half and distressed southern half.
Colleen McCain Nelson
For their relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city\u2019s better-off northern half and distressed southern half.
William McKenzie
For their relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city\u2019s better-off northern half and distressed southern half.

Mark Mahoney

(For his relentless, down-to-earth editorials on the perils of local government secrecy, effectively admonishing citizens to uphold their right to know.)

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Mark Mahoney
For his relentless, down-to-earth editorials on the perils of local government secrecy, effectively admonishing citizens to uphold their right to know
Charles Lane
For his succinct and insightful editorials on the nation\u2019s economic collapse, zeroing in on problems and offering solutions with a steady voice of reason.
Marie Dillon
For their persistent campaign to reform statehouse ethics, drawing on corruption in the governor\u2019s office to drive home their successful call for legislative action.
R. Bruce Dold
For their persistent campaign to reform statehouse ethics, drawing on corruption in the governor\u2019s office to drive home their successful call for legislative action.
John P. McCormick
For their persistent campaign to reform statehouse ethics, drawing on corruption in the governor\u2019s office to drive home their successful call for legislative action.

Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub, Heidi Evans

(For its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation.)

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jane Healy
For her persuasive heavily reported editorials on development projects that imperiled Florida's wetlands and wildlife
Sebastian Mallaby
For his eloquent, rigorously researched editorials on rising inequality in America.
Arthur Browne
For its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation.
Beverly Weintraub
For its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation.
Heidi Evans
For its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation.

Doug Bates, Rick Attig

(For their persuasive, richly reported editorials on abuses inside a forgotten Oregon mental hospital.)

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Doug Bates
For their persuasive, richly reported editorials on abuses inside a forgotten Oregon mental hospital.
Rick Attig
For their persuasive, richly reported editorials on abuses inside a forgotten Oregon mental hospital.
B. Marie Harris
For their passionate editorials in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that empathized with victims while pleading for relief from the outside world.
Tony Biffle
For their passionate editorials in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that empathized with victims while pleading for relief from the outside world.
Stanley R. Tiner
For their passionate editorials in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that empathized with victims while pleading for relief from the outside world.
The Birmingham News
For its series of incisive editorials reversing the paper's long-held support of the death penalty.

Tom Philp

(For his deeply researched editorials on reclaiming California\u2019s flooded Hetch Hetchy Valley that stirred action.)

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Tom Philp
For his deeply researched editorials on reclaiming California's flooded Hetch Hetchy Valley that stirred action.
Sebastian Mallaby
For his persistent and passionate editorials on the tragedy in the Darfur region of the Sudan.
David Yarnold
For their forceful editorial campaign against unethical behavior in city hall that resulted in significant change.
Daniel Vasquez
For their forceful editorial campaign against unethical behavior in city hall that resulted in significant change.

Bill Stall

(For his incisive editorials that analyzed California's troubled state government, prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues.)

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Bill Stall
For his incisive editorials that analyzed California's troubled state government, prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues.
Andrew Malcolm
For his refreshing, richly textured editorials that illuminated a variety of life situations.
Andrés Martinez
For his exhaustively researched series of editorials that exposed the harmful global effects of American agricultural trade policy.

Cornelia Grumman

(For her powerful, freshly challenging editorials on reform of the death penalty.)

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Robert L. Pollock
For his clear, compelling editorials on the Food and Drug Administration's delay in approval of new cancer drugs.
Linda Valdez
For her passionate, persuasive editorials on illegal immigrants and on the state's flawed justice of the peace courts.
Cornelia Grumman

Alex Raksin, Bob Sipchen

(For their comprehensive and powerfully-written editorials exploring the issues and dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling on the streets.)

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
William H. Freivogel
For his editorials, passionate and powerful, opposing the nomination and policies of U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft.
Alex Raksin
For their comprehensive and powerfully written editorials exploring the issues and dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling on the streets.
Bob Sipchen
For their comprehensive and powerfully written editorials exploring the issues and dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling on the streets.
Philadelphia Daily News
For its crusade on behalf of the city's neglected parks.

David Moats

(For his even-handed and influential series of editorials commenting on the divisive issues arising from civil unions for same-sex couples.)

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Laurie Roberts The Arizona Republic
For her persuasive editorial series urging reform of the process by which the state draws its legislative and congressional districts.
Tina Rosenberg The New York Times
For her searching and knowledgeable editorials on international and human rights issues.
David Moats Rutland Herald
For his even-handed and influential series of editorials commenting on the divisive issues arising from civil unions for same-sex couples

John Bersia

(For his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations.)

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee Nominated Work
John Bersia
For his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations.
Fred Hiatt
For his authoritative editorials on the crisis in Kosovo.
Philip Kennicott
For his carefully reasoned editorial campaign against the passage of a proposition to legally allow Missouri residents to carry concealed weapons.

New York Daily News

(For its effective campaign to rescue Harlem's Apollo Theater from the financial mismanagement that threatened the landmark's survival.)

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee Nominated Work
New York Daily News
For its effective campaign to rescue Harlem's Apollo Theatre from the financial mismanagement that threatened the landmark's survival.
Fred Hiatt
For his elegantly-written editorials urging America's continued commitment to international human rights issues.
Lawrence C. Levy
For his campaign that was instrumental in bringing about reform of the inequities in Long Island's system of property assessment.

Bernard L. Stein

(For his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents.)

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Bernard L. Stein
For his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents.
George B. Pyle
For his insightful editorials on a variety of local issues.
Clint Talbott
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.)

Michael Gartner

(For his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting the lives of people in his community.)

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Michael Gartner
For his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting the lives of people in his community.
Margaretta Downey
For her editorials pressing for a civic agenda of economic and educational renewal.
Peter Milius
For his editorials dissecting federal welfare reform legislation, directing attention to the problems of the poor and powerless.

Robert B. Semple, Jr.

(For his editorials on environmental issues.)

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Robert B. Semple, Jr.
For his editorials on environmental issues.
Daniel Henninger
For his editorials on a wide range of topical subjects.
N. Don Wycliff
For his editorials about welfare reform and its effect on children.

Jeffrey Good

(For his editorial campaign urging reform of Florida's probate system for settling estates.)

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jeffrey Good
For his editorial campaign urging reform of Florida's probate system for settling estates.
Bailey Thomson
For their series of editorials advocating the revision of Alabama's 1901 constitution.
Carol McPhail
For their series of editorials advocating the revision of Alabama's 1901 constitution.
David Thomasson
For their series of editorials advocating the revision of Alabama's 1901 constitution.
The Des Moines Register
For its elegantly written series, \"What's Right About Iowa?\"

R. Bruce Dold

(For his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system.)

Nominations 1994 »

Nominee Nominated Work
R. Bruce Dold
For his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system.
Jim Montgomery
For a series of editorials examining the benefits and drawbacks of drug legalization.
The Birmingham News
For editorials urging the reform of Alabama's failing public school system.

Maria Henson

(For her editorials about battered women in Kentucky, which focused statewide attention on the problem and prompted significant reforms.)

Nominations 1992 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Maria Henson
For her editorials about battered women in Kentucky, which focused statewide attention on the problem and prompted significant reforms.
Robert J. Gaydos
For his editorials on a variety of local and national issues.
Henry Bryan
For his editorial campaign urging state support of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit System, the fourth largest mass-transit system in the nation.

Ron Casey, Harold Jackson, Joey Kennedy

(For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.)

Nominations 1991 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ron Casey
For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.
Harold Jackson
For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.
Joey Kennedy
For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.
Seth Lipsky
For his editorials on a variety of national issues, including some of specific interest to the American Jewish community.
Martin Nolan
For his editorial series "Why Politics Stinks," which called for reform of the nation's troubled political system.

Thomas J. Hylton

(For his editorials about a local bond issue for the preservation of farmland and other open space in rural Pennsylvania.)

Nominations 1990 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Leonard Morris
For his series of editorials on abortion.
David C. Anderson
For his editorials on drugs and the homeless.
Thomas J. Hylton
For his editorials about a local bond issue for the preservation of farmland and other open space in rural Pennsylvania.

Lois Wille

(For her editorials on a variety of local issues.)

Nominations 1989 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lois Wille
For her editorials on a variety of local issues.
Bill Bishop
For an editorial campaign against broad-form deeds in the state which helped convince voters to approve limits on their use.
The New York Times
For a series of editorials about the coming generation of children threatened by poverty and about the urgent need for political intervention and reform

Jane Healy

(For her series of editorials protesting overdevelopment of Florida's Orange County.)

Nominations 1988 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jane Healy
For her series of editorials protesting overdevelopment of Florida's Orange County.
Bernard L. Stein
For his editorials on a variety of local and national issues.
Joe Dolman
For his editorials on the rights of Cuban refugees imprisoned in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.

Jonathan Freedman

(For his editorials urging passage of the first major immigration reform act in 34 years.)

Nominations 1987 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jonathan Freedman
For his editorials urging passage of the first major immigration reform act in 34 years.
Bernard L. Stein
For his editorials on various campaign issues affecting the Bronx, N.Y. community.
Daniel Henninger
For his editorials on medical and ethical issues, which helped inspire changes in FDA drug approval procedures.

Jack Fuller

(For his editorials on constitutional issues.)

Nominations 1986 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jack Fuller
For his editorials on constitutional issues.
Paul Greenberg
For his editorial portraits.
Larry Hayes
For their editorial campaign in favor of busing to achieve racially balanced schools.
Barbara O. Morrow
For their editorial campaign in favor of busing to achieve racially balanced schools.
David Berry
For their editorial campaign in favor of busing to achieve racially balanced schools.

Richard Aregood

(For his editorials on a variety of subjects.)

Nominations 1985 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Richard Aregood
For his editorials on a variety of subjects.
Jane Healy
For her editorials on Florida's environmental problems.
David E. Gillespie
For his editorials on various state concerns.

Albert Scardino

(For his series of editorials on various local and state matters.)

Nominations 1984 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Albert Scardino
For his series of editorials on various local and state matters.
Jonathan Freedman
For their series of editorials on immigration problems and policies.
Lynne Carrier
For their series of editorials on immigration problems and policies.
Ralph B. Bennett
For their series of editorials on immigration problems and policies.
Lois Wille
For her series of editorials which stressed ways to make Chicago city government more economical and efficient.

The Miami Herald

(For its campaign against the detention of illegal Haitian immigrants by federal officials.)

Nominations 1983 »

Nominee Nominated Work
The Miami Herald
For its campaign against the detention of illegal Haitian immigrants by federal officials.
Ralph B. Bennett
For their editorial campaign urging passage of an immigration reform bill.
Jonathan Freedman
For their editorial campaign urging passage of an immigration reform bill.
Marvin Seid
For his series of editorials on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

Nominations 1982 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jack Rosenthal
Richard C. McCord
Joe Stroud

Nominations 1980 »

Nominee Nominated Work
John Alexander
Alfred Ames
Joan Beck
Bruce C. Davidson
Anne C. Wyman
Thomas Oliphant
Tom Dearmore
Robert L. Bartley

Meg Greenfield

(For selected samples of her work.)

Warren L. Lerude, Foster Church, Norman F. Cardoza

(For editorials challenging the power of a local brothel keeper.)

Philip P. Kerby

(For his editorials against government secrecy and judicial censorship.)

John D. Maurice

(For his editorials about the Kanawha County schoolbook controversy.)

F. Gilman Spencer

(For his courageous campaign to focus public attention on scandals in New Jersey's state government.)

Roger B. Linscott

(For his editorials during 1972.)

John Strohmeyer

(For his editorial campaign to reduce racial tensions in Bethlehem.)

Horance G. Davis Jr.

(For his editorials in support of the peaceful desegregation of Florida's schools.)

Philip L. Geyelin

(For his editorials during 1969.)

Paul Greenberg

(For his editorials during 1968.)

Nominations 1969 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Paul Greenberg
For his editorials during 1968.

John S. Knight

(For his distinguished editorial writing.)

Nominations 1968 »

Nominee Nominated Work
John S. Knight
For his distinguished editorial writing.

Eugene Patterson

(For his editorials during the year.)

Nominations 1967 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Eugene Patterson
For his editorials during the year.

Robert Lasch

(For his distinguished editorial writing in 1965.)

Nominations 1966 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Lasch
For his distinguished editorial writing in 1965.

John R. Harrison

(For his successful editorial campaign for better housing in his city.)

Nominations 1965 »

Nominee Nominated Work
John R. Harrison
For his successful editorial campaign for better housing in his city.

Hazel Brannon Smith

(For steadfast adherence to her editorial duty in the face of great pressure and opposition.)

Ira B. Harkey Jr.

(For his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.)

Thomas M. Storke

(For his forceful editorials calling public attention to the activities of a semi-secret organization known as the John Birch Society.)

William J. Dorvillier

(For his editorials on clerical interference in the 1960 gubernatorial election in Puerto Rico.)

Lenoir Chambers

(For his series of editorials on the school integration problem in Virginia, as exemplified by 'The Year the Schools Closed,' published January 1, 1959, and 'The Year the Schools Opened,' published December 31, 1959.)

Ralph McGill

(For his distinguished editorial writing during 1958 as exemplified in his editorial 'A Church, A School....' and for his long, courageous and effective editorial leadership.)

Harry Ashmore

(For the forcefulness, dispassionate analysis and clarity of his editorials on the school integration conflict in Little Rock.)

Buford Boone

(For his fearless and 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.)

Lauren K. Soth

(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.)

Royce Howes

(For an editorial on 'The Cause of a Strike,' impartially and clearly analyzing the responsibility of both labor and management for a local union's unauthorized strike in July, 1954, which rendered 45,000 Chrysler Corporation workers idle and unpaid. By pointing out how and why the parent United Automobile Workers' Union ordered the local strike called off and 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 and relationships of labor and management in this field.)

Don Murray

(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.)

Vermont C. Royster

(For distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

Nominations 1953 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Vermont C. Royster
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Louis LaCoss

(For his editorial entitled, 'The Low Estate of Public Morals.')

Nominations 1952 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Louis LaCoss
For his editorial entitled, \"The Low Estate of Public Morals.\"

William Harry Fitzpatrick

(For his series of editorials analyzing and clarifying a very important constitutional issue, which is described by the general heading of the series, 'Government by Treaty.')

Nominations 1951 »

Nominee Nominated Work
William Harry Fitzpatrick
For his series of editorials analyzing and clarifying a very important constitutional issue, which is described by the general heading of the series, 'Government by Treaty.'

Carl M. Saunders

(For distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

Nominations 1950 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Carl M. Saunders
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

John H. Crider

(For distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

Nominations 1949 »

Nominee Nominated Work
John H. Crider
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Herbert Berridge Elliston
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Herbert Berridge Elliston

(For distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

Nominations 1949 »

Nominee Nominated Work
John H. Crider
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Herbert Berridge Elliston
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Virginius Dabney

(For distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

William H. Grimes

(For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

Hodding Carter

(For a group of editorials published during the year 1945 on the subject of racial, religious and economic intolerance, as exemplified by the editorial 'Go for Broke.')

George W. Potter

(For his editorials published during the calendar year 1944, especially for his editorials on the subject of freedom of the press.)

Henry J. Haskell

(For editorials written during the calendar year 1943.)

Forrest W. Seymour

(For his editorials published during the calendar year 1942.)

Geoffrey Parsons

(For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

Reuben Maury

(For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

Bart Howard

(For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

Ronald G. Callvert

(For his distinguished editorial writing during the year as exemplified by the editorial entitled 'My Country 'Tis of Thee.')

William Wesley Waymack

(For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

John W. Owens

(For distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

Felix Morley

(For distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

George B. Parker

(For distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

E. P. Chase

(For an editorial entitled, 'Where is Our Money ?')

The Kansas City Star

(For its series of editorials on national and international topics.)

Charles S. Ryckman

(For the editorial entitled 'The Gentlemen from Nebraska.')

Louis Isaac Jaffe

(For his editorial entitled 'An Unspeakable Act of Savagery,' which is typical of a series of articles written on the lynching evil and in successful advocacy of legislation to prevent it.)

Grover Cleveland Hall

(For his editorials against gangsterism, floggings and racial and religious intolerance.)

F. Lauriston Bullard

(For the editorial entitled, 'We Submit.')

Edward M. Kingsbury

(For the editorial entitled 'House of a Hundred Sorrows.')

The Post and Courier

(For the editorial entitled 'Plight of the South.')

Boston Herald

(For an editorial entitled 'Who Made Coolidge?')

William Allen White

(For an editorial entitled 'To an Anxious Friend.')

Frank M. O'Brien

(For an article entitled, 'The Unknown Soldier.')

Harvey E. Newbranch

(For an editorial entitled 'Law and the Jungle.')

New-York Tribune

(For an editorial article on the first anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania.)