The Pulitzer Prize for Reporting was awarded from 1917 to 1947. The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ...
1924: Magner White, San Diego Sun, for his story of the eclipse of the sun.
1925: James W. Mulroy and Alvin H. Goldstein of the Chicago Daily News, for their service toward the solution of the murder of Robert Franks, Jr., in Chicago on May 22, 1924, and the bringing to justice of Nathan F. Leopold and Richard Loeb.
1927: John T. Rogers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for the inquiry leading to the impeachment of Judge George W. English of the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Illinois.
1929: Paul Y. Anderson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch For his highly effective work in bringing to light a situation which resulted in revealing the disposition of Liberty Bonds purchased and distributed by the Continental Trading Company in connection with naval oil leases.
1932: W. C. Richards, D. D. Martin, J. S. Pooler, F. D. Webb and J. N. W. Sloan of Detroit Free Press for their account of the parade of the American Legion during the 1931 convention in Detroit.
1933: Francis A. Jamieson of Associated Press for his prompt, full, skillful and prolonged coverage of news of the kidnapping of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh on March 1, 1932, from the first announcement of the kidnapping until after the discovery of the baby's body nearby the Lindbergh home on May 12.
1935: William Taylor of the New York Herald Tribune for the series of articles on the international yacht races.
1936: Lauren D. Lyman of The New York Times for the exclusive story revealing that the Charles Lindbergh family was leaving the United States to live in England.
1938: Raymond Sprigle of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for his series of articles, supported by photostats of the essential documents, exposing the one-time membership of Mr. Justice Hugo Black in the Ku Klux Klan.
1939: Thomas Lunsford Stokes of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance for his series of articles on alleged intimidation of workers for the Works Progress Administration in Pennsylvania and Kentucky during an election. The articles were published in The New York World-Telegram.
1940: S. Burton Heath of the New York World-Telegram for his expose of the frauds perpetrated by Federal judge Martin T. Manton, who resigned and was tried and imprisoned.
1941:Westbrook Pegler of the New York World-Telegram for his articles on scandals in the ranks of organized labor, which led to the exposure and conviction of George Scalise, a labor racketeer.
1942: Stanton Delaplane of the San Francisco Chronicle for his articles on the movement of several California and Oregon counties to secede to form a forty ninth state.
1943:George Weller of Chicago Daily News For his graphic story of how a U.S. Navy Pharmacist's Mate under enemy waters in a submarine performed an operation for appendicitis saving a sailor's life.
1944: Paul Schoenstein and Associates of New York Journal American For a news story published on August 12, 1943, which saved the life of a two-year-old girl in the Lutheran Hospital of New York City by obtaining penicillin.
1945: Jack S. McDowell of the San Francisco Call For his campaign to encourage blood donations.
In 1954, at the age of 29, Don won the PulitzerPrize for editorial writing.
The challenge for the PulitzerPrize board is to create an opportunity for small and medium-size newspapers to compete regularly for at least some prizes with newspapers that have far vaster resources.
We just gave a PulitzerPrize to a novel about the post-apocalyptic world, and the Pulitzer board realized in considering this work that it was really a book about the optimism of a father and son who have lost almost everything.
To display winners' names and citations for any year The PulitzerPrizes have been awarded (1917- present), select a year on the timeline or use one of the forms below.
A PulitzerPrize Winner may be an individual, a group of individuals, or a newspaper's staff.
The Public Service prize is always awarded to a newspaper, not an individual, although an individual may be named in the citation.
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