Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

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.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

Doug Bates, Rick Attig

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

Tom Philp

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

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.)

Cornelia Grumman

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

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.)

David Moats

(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.)

New York Daily News

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

Bernard L. Stein

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

Michael Gartner

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

Robert B. Semple, Jr.

(For his editorials on environmental issues.)

Jeffrey Good

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

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.)

Maria Henson

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

Ron Casey, Harold Jackson, Joey Kennedy

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

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.)

Jane Healy

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

Jonathan Freedman

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

Jack Fuller

(For his editorials on constitutional issues.)

Richard Aregood

(For his editorials on a variety of subjects.)

Albert Scardino

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

The Miami Herald

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

Jack Rosenthal

Robert L. Bartley

Edwin Yoder

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.)

John S. Knight

(For his distinguished editorial writing.)

Eugene Patterson

(For his editorials during the year.)

Robert Lasch

(For his distinguished editorial writing in 1965.)

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.)

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.')

Carl M. Saunders

(For distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

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.)