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The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting has been awarded since 1948 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs. Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-13, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1948: Nat S. Finney, Minneapolis Tribune, for his stories on the plan of the Truman administration to impose secrecy about the ordinary affairs of federal civilian agencies in peacetime.
1950: Edwin O. Guthman, The Seattle Times, for his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.
1953: Don Whitehead, Associated Press, for his article called "The Great Deception," dealing with the intricate arrangements by which the safety of President-elect Eisenhower was guarded enroute from Morningside Heights in New York to Korea.
1955:Anthony Lewis of Washington Daily News, for publishing a series of articles which were adjudged directly responsible for clearing Abraham Chasanow, an employee of the U.S. Navy Department, and bringing about his restoration to duty with an acknowledgment by the Navy Department that it had committed a grave injustice in dismissing him as a security risk. Mr. Lewis received the full support of his newspaper in championing an American citizen, without adequate funds or resources for his defense, against an unjust act by a government department. This is in the best tradition of American journalism.
1956: Charles L. Bartlett, Chattanooga Times, for his original disclosures that led to the resignation of Harold E. Talbott as Secretary of the Air Force.
1957:James Reston, The New York Times, for his distinguished national correspondence, including both news dispatches and interpretive reporting, an outstanding example of which was his five-part analysis of the effect of President Eisenhower's illness on the functioning of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
1958:Clark Mollenhoff, Des Moines Register and Tribune, for his persistent inquiry into labor racketeering, which included investigatory reporting of wide significance.
1959: Howard Van Smith, Miami News, for a series of articles that focused public notice on deplorable conditions in a Florida migrant labor camp, resulted in the provision of generous assistance for the 4,000 stranded workers in the camp, and thereby called attention to the national problem presented by 1,500,000 migratory laborers.
1960: Vance Trimble, Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, for a series of articles exposing the extent of nepotism in the Congress of the United States.
1961: Edward R. Cony, The Wall Street Journal, for his analysis of a timber transaction which drew the attention of the public to the problems of business ethics.
1962: Nathan G. Caldwell and Gene S. Graham, Nashville Tennessean, for their exclusive disclosure and six years of detailed reporting, under great difficulties, of the undercover cooperation between management interests in the coal industry and the United Mine Workers.
1963:Anthony Lewis, The New York Times, for his distinguished reporting of the proceedings of the United States Supreme Court during the year, with particular emphasis on the coverage of the decision in the reapportionment case and its consequences in many of the States of the Union.
1966: Haynes Johnson, Washington Evening Star, for his distinguished coverage of the civil rights conflict centered about Selma, Ala., and particularly his reporting of its aftermath.
1967: Stanley Penn and Monroe Karmin, The Wall Street Journal, for their investigative reporting of the connection between American crime and gambling in the Bahamas. (The prize is shared between the two reporters)
1968: Nathan K. (Nick) Kotz, Des Moines Register and Minneapolis Tribune, for his reporting of unsanitary conditions in many meat packing plants, which helped insure the passage of the Federal Wholesome Meat Act of 1967.
1971: Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers, United Press International, for their documentary on the life and death of 28-year-old revolutionary Diana Oughton: "The Making of a Terrorist."
1972:Jack Anderson, syndicated columnist, for his reporting of American policy decision-making during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.
1973: Robert Boyd and Clark Hoyt, Knight Newspapers, for their disclosure of Senator Thomas Eagleton's history of psychiatric therapy, resulting in his withdrawal as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in 1972.
1974: Jack White, Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin, for his initiative in exclusively disclosing President Nixon's Federal income tax payments in 1970 and 1971.
1974: James R. Polk, Washington Star-News, for his disclosure of alleged irregularities in the financing of the campaign to re-elect President Nixon in 1972.
1975: Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, The Philadelphia Inquirer, for their series "Auditing the Internal Revenue Service," which exposed the unequal application of Federal tax laws.
1976: James Risser, Des Moines Register, for disclosing large-scale corruption in the American grain exporting trade.
1981: John M. Crewdson, The New York Times, for his coverage of illegal aliens and immigration.
1982:Rick Atkinson, The Kansas City Times, for the uniform excellence of his reporting and writing on stories of national import.
1983:Boston Globe, for its balanced and informative special report on the nuclear arms race.
1984: John Noble Wilford, The New York Times, for reporting on a wide variety of scientific topics of national import.
1985: Thomas J. Knudson, Des Moines Register, for his series of articles that examined the dangers of farming as an occupation.
1986: Craig Flournoy and George Rodrigue of The Dallas Morning News, for their investigation into subsidized housing in East Texas, which uncovered patterns of racial discrimination and segregation in public housing across the United States and led to significant reforms.
1986: Arthur Howe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, for his enterprising and indefatigable reporting on massive deficiencies in IRS processing of tax returns-reporting that eventually inspired major changes in IRS procedures and prompted the agency to make a public apology to U.S. taxpayers.
1987: Staff of The New York Times, for coverage of the aftermath of the Challenger explosion, which included stories that identified serious flaws in the shuttle's design and in the administration of America's space program.
1988: Tim Weiner, The Philadelphia Inquirer, for his series of reports on a secret Pentagon budget used by the government to sponsor defense research and an arms buildup.
1989: Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, The Philadelphia Inquirer, for their 15-month investigation of "rifle shot" provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public indignation that Congress subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically connected individuals and businesses.
1991: Marjie Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharpe, Gannett News Service, for reporting that disclosed hundreds of child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners.
1994: Eileen Welsome, Albuquerque Tribune, for stories that related the experiences of American civilians who had been used unknowingly in government plutonium experiments nearly 50 years ago.
1996: Alix M. Freedman of The Wall Street Journal, for her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency.
1997: Staff of The Wall Street Journal, for its coverage of the struggle against AIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease.
1998: Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith, Dayton Daily News, for their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms.
1999: Staff of The New York Times, and notably Jeff Gerth, for a series of articles that disclosed the corporate sale of American technology to China, with U.S. government approval despite national security risks, prompting investigations and significant changes in policy.
2000: Staff of The Wall Street Journal, for its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future.
2001:The New York Times staff, for its compelling and memorable series exploring racial experiences and attitudes across contemporary America.
2002:The Washington Post staff, for its comprehensive coverage of America's War on Terrorism, which regularly brought forth new information together with skilled analysis of unfolding developments.
2003: Alan Miller and Kevin Sack, Los Angeles Times, for their revelatory and moving examination of a military aircraft, nicknamed "The Widow Maker," that was linked to the deaths of 45 pilots. (Moved by the Board from the Investigative Reporting category to the National Reporting category, where it was also entered.)
2004: Staff of Los Angeles Times, including Nancy Cleeland, Evelyn Iritani, Abigail Goldman, Tyler Marshall, Rick Wartzman and John Corrigan, for its engrossing examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries.
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