Awards & Winners

Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting

Pulitzer Prize

Check all the winners of Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting presented under Pulitzer Prize since 1948 .


Will Hobson, Michael LaForgia

(For their relentless investigation into the squalid conditions that marked housing for the city\u2019s substantial homeless population, leading to swift reforms.)

Nominations 2014 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Will Hobson
For their relentless investigation into the squalid conditions that marked housing for the city\u2019s substantial homeless population, leading to swift reforms.
Michael LaForgia
For their relentless investigation into the squalid conditions that marked housing for the city\u2019s substantial homeless population, leading to swift reforms.
Joan Garrett McClane
For using an array of journalistic tools to explore the \u201Cno-snitch\u201D culture that helps perpetuate a 4 cycle of violence in one of the most dangerous cities in the South.
Doug Strickland
For using an array of journalistic tools to explore the \u201Cno-snitch\u201D culture that helps perpetuate a 4 cycle of violence in one of the most dangerous cities in the South.
Mary Helen Miller
For using an array of journalistic tools to explore the \u201Cno-snitch\u201D culture that helps perpetuate a 4 cycle of violence in one of the most dangerous cities in the South.
Todd South
For using an array of journalistic tools to explore the \u201Cno-snitch\u201D culture that helps perpetuate a 4 cycle of violence in one of the most dangerous cities in the South.
Rebecca O’Brien
For their jarring exposure of how heroin has permeated the suburbs of northern New Jersey, profiling addicts and anguished families and mapping the drug pipeline from South America to their community.
Thomas Mashberg
For their jarring exposure of how heroin has permeated the suburbs of northern New Jersey, profiling addicts and anguished families and mapping the drug pipeline from South America to their community.

Brad Schrade, Jeremy Olson, Glenn Howatt

Honored for : Star Tribune
(For their powerful reports on the spike in infant deaths at poorly regulated day-care homes, resulting in legislative action to strengthen rules.)

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ames Alexander
For their tenacious joint project investigating how the state\u2019s major nonprofit hospitals generate large profits and contribute to the high cost of health care.
Karen Garloch
For their tenacious joint project investigating how the state\u2019s major nonprofit hospitals generate large profits and contribute to the high cost of health care.
Joseph Neff
For their tenacious joint project investigating how the state\u2019s major nonprofit hospitals generate large profits and contribute to the high cost of health care.
David Raynor
For their tenacious joint project investigating how the state\u2019s major nonprofit hospitals generate large profits and contribute to the high cost of health care.
David Breen
For their aggressive coverage of hazing rituals by the Florida A&M University marching band that killed a drum major and led to the resignation of the band leader and the university president.
Stephen Hudak
For their aggressive coverage of hazing rituals by the Florida A&M University marching band that killed a drum major and led to the resignation of the band leader and the university president.
Denise-Marie Ordway
For their aggressive coverage of hazing rituals by the Florida A&M University marching band that killed a drum major and led to the resignation of the band leader and the university president.
Jeff Kunerth
For their aggressive coverage of hazing rituals by the Florida A&M University marching band that killed a drum major and led to the resignation of the band leader and the university president.
Brad Schrade
For their powerful reports on the spike in infant deaths at poorly regulated day-care homes, resulting in legislative action to strengthen rules.
Jeremy Olson
For their powerful reports on the spike in infant deaths at poorly regulated day-care homes, resulting in legislative action to strengthen rules.
Glenn Howatt
For their powerful reports on the spike in infant deaths at poorly regulated day-care homes, resulting in legislative action to strengthen rules.

Sara Ganim

Honored for : The Patriot-News
(For courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky.)

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sara Ganim
For courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky.
The Patriot-News
For courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky.
California Watch
For its rigorous probe of deficient earthquake protection in the construction of public schools across the state, telling the story with words, graphics, videos and other tools.
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
For their tenacious exposure of disgraceful conditions in federally-supported housing in a small rural community that, within hours, triggered a state investigation.
A.M. Sheehan
For their tenacious exposure of disgraceful conditions in federally-supported housing in a small rural community that, within hours, triggered a state investigation.

Frank Main, Mark Konkol, John J. Kim

Honored for : Chicago Sun-Times
(For their immersive documentation of violence in Chicago neighborhoods, probing the lives of victims, criminals and detectives as a widespread code of silence impedes solutions.)

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Frank Main
For their immersive documentation of violence in Chicago neighborhoods, probing the lives of victims, criminals and detectives as a widespread code of silence impedes solutions.
Mark Konkol
For their immersive documentation of violence in Chicago neighborhoods, probing the lives of victims, criminals and detectives as a widespread code of silence impedes solutions.
John J. Kim
For their immersive documentation of violence in Chicago neighborhoods, probing the lives of victims, criminals and detectives as a widespread code of silence impedes solutions.
Marshall Allen
For their compelling reports on patients who suffered preventable injuries and other harm during hospital care, taking advantage of print and digital tools to drive home their findings.
Alex Richards
For their compelling reports on patients who suffered preventable injuries and other harm during hospital care, taking advantage of print and digital tools to drive home their findings.
Stanley Nelson
For his courageous and determined efforts to unravel a long forgotten Ku Klux Klan murder during the Civil Rights era.

Raquel Rutledge

Honored for : Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(For her penetrating reports on the fraud and abuse in a child-care program for low-wage working parents that fleeced taxpayers and imperiled children, resulting in a state and federal crackdown on providers.)

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Raquel Rutledge
For her penetrating reports on the fraud and abuse in a child-care program for low-wage working parents that fleeced taxpayers and imperiled children, resulting in a state and federal crackdown on providers.
Dave Philipps
For his painstaking stories on the spike in violence within a battered combat brigade returning to Fort Carson after bloody deployments to Iraq, leading to increased mental health care for soldiers.
Ben Montgomery
For their dogged reporting and searing storytelling that illuminated decades of abuse at a Florida reform school for boys and sparked remedial action.
Waveney Ann Moore
For their dogged reporting and searing storytelling that illuminated decades of abuse at a Florida reform school for boys and sparked remedial action.
Edmund D. Fountain
For their dogged reporting and searing storytelling that illuminated decades of abuse at a Florida reform school for boys and sparked remedial action.

Paul Giblin, Ryan Gabrielson

Honored for : East Valley Tribune
(For their adroit use of limited resources to reveal, in print and online, how a popular sheriff\u2019s focus on immigration enforcement endangered investigation of violent crime and other aspects of public safety.)

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ryan Gabrielson
For their adroit use of limited resources to reveal, in print and online, how a popular sheriff\u2019s focus on immigration enforcement endangered investigation of violent crime and other aspects of public safety.
Paul Giblin
For their adroit use of limited resources to reveal, in print and online, how a popular sheriff\u2019s focus on immigration enforcement endangered investigation of violent crime and other aspects of public safety.
Michael DeMocker
For their multifaceted examination of a murder case that showed deep understanding of the community, its social ills and the often frustrating path to justice.
Ryan Smith
For their multifaceted examination of a murder case that showed deep understanding of the community, its social ills and the often frustrating path to justice.
Brendan McCarthy
For their multifaceted examination of a murder case that showed deep understanding of the community, its social ills and the often frustrating path to justice.
Jim Schaefer Detroit Free Press
For their uncovering of a pattern of lies by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that included denial of a sexual relationship with his female chief of staff, prompting an investigation of perjury that eventually led to jail terms for the two officials.
M.L. Elrick Detroit Free Press
For their uncovering of a pattern of lies by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that included denial of a sexual relationship with his female chief of staff, prompting an investigation of perjury that eventually led to jail terms for the two officials.

Jim Schaefer, M.L. Elrick

Honored for : Detroit Free Press
(For their uncovering of a pattern of lies by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that included denial of a sexual relationship with his female chief of staff, prompting an investigation of perjury that eventually led to jail terms for the two officials)

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ryan Gabrielson
For their adroit use of limited resources to reveal, in print and online, how a popular sheriff\u2019s focus on immigration enforcement endangered investigation of violent crime and other aspects of public safety.
Paul Giblin
For their adroit use of limited resources to reveal, in print and online, how a popular sheriff\u2019s focus on immigration enforcement endangered investigation of violent crime and other aspects of public safety.
Michael DeMocker
For their multifaceted examination of a murder case that showed deep understanding of the community, its social ills and the often frustrating path to justice.
Ryan Smith
For their multifaceted examination of a murder case that showed deep understanding of the community, its social ills and the often frustrating path to justice.
Brendan McCarthy
For their multifaceted examination of a murder case that showed deep understanding of the community, its social ills and the often frustrating path to justice.
Jim Schaefer Detroit Free Press
For their uncovering of a pattern of lies by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that included denial of a sexual relationship with his female chief of staff, prompting an investigation of perjury that eventually led to jail terms for the two officials.
M.L. Elrick Detroit Free Press
For their uncovering of a pattern of lies by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that included denial of a sexual relationship with his female chief of staff, prompting an investigation of perjury that eventually led to jail terms for the two officials.

Dave Umhoefer

Honored for : Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(For his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures.)

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Dave Umhoefer
For his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures.
Jeff Pillets
For their probe of how plans to build a luxury community atop old landfills became entangled in questionable state loans and other allegations of favoritism.
John Brennan
For their probe of how plans to build a luxury community atop old landfills became entangled in questionable state loans and other allegations of favoritism.
Tim Nostrand
For their probe of how plans to build a luxury community atop old landfills became entangled in questionable state loans and other allegations of favoritism.
Chris Davis
For their dogged exposure, in print and online, of predatory teachers and the system that protects them, stirring state and national action.
Matthew Doig
For their dogged exposure, in print and online, of predatory teachers and the system that protects them, stirring state and national action.
Tiffany Lankes
For their dogged exposure, in print and online, of predatory teachers and the system that protects them, stirring state and national action.

Debbie Cenziper

Honored for : The Miami Herald
(For reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency that resulted in dismissals, investigations and prosecutions.)

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Debbie Cenziper
For reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency that resulted in dismissals, investigations and prosecutions.
Fred Schulte
For their reports, in print and online, about abuses under an archaic state law that threatened to turn hundreds out of their homes.
June Arney
For their reports, in print and online, about abuses under an archaic state law that threatened to turn hundreds out of their homes.
The Boston Globe
For its well documented exposure, in print and online, of unscrupulous debt collectors, causing two firms to close and prompting action by state officials.

The Providence Journal

(For their spontaneous and cooperative coverage of a bank robbery and police chase leading to the capture of the bandit)

George De Carvalho

(For his stories of a ransom racket extorting money from Chinese in the United States for relations held in Red China.)

Edward S. Montgomery

(For his series of articles on tax frauds which culminated in an expose within the Bureau of Internal Revenue.)

Meyer Berger

(For his 4,000 word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, N.J.)

Malcolm Johnson

(For his series of 24 articles entitled Crime on the Waterfront in New York City. (The film On the Waterfront was based on this series of articles.))

George E. Goodwin

(For his story of the Telfair County vote fraud, published in 1947.)