Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs in the United States. In its first six years (1942–1947), it was called the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting – National.

List of winners for Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting – National

Year	Name(s)	Publication	Rationale
1942	Louis Stark	The New York Times	"for his distinguished reporting of important labor stories during the year."
1943	None
1944	Dewey L. Fleming	The Baltimore Sun	"for his distinguished reporting during the year 1943."
1945	James Reston	The New York Times	"for his news dispatches and interpretive articles on the Dumbarton Oaks security conference."
1946	Edward A. Harris	St. Louis Post-Dispatch	"for his articles on the Tidewater Oil situation which contributed to the nationwide opposition to the appointment and confirmation of Edwin W. Pauley as Undersecretary of the Navy."
1947	Edward T. Folliard	The Washington Post	"for his series of articles published during 1946 on the Columbians, Inc."

List of winners for Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Year	Name(s)	Publication	Rationale
1948	Bert Andrews	New York Herald Tribune	"for his articles on 'A State Department Security Case' published in 1947."
	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."
1949	C. P. Trussell	The New York Times	"for consistent excellence covering the national scene from Washington."
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."
1951	None
1952	Anthony Leviero	The New York Times	"for his exclusive article of April 21, 1951, disclosing the record of conversations between President Truman and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island in their conference of October 1950."
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 en route from Morningside Heights in New York to Korea."
1954	Richard Wilson	The Des Moines Register	"for his exclusive publication of the FBI Report to the White House in the Harry Dexter White case before it was laid before the Senate by J. Edgar Hoover."
1955	Anthony Lewis	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."
1956	Charles 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	The Des Moines Register	"for his persistent inquiry into labor racketeering, which included investigatory reporting of wide significance."
	Relman Morin	Associated Press	"for his dramatic and incisive eyewitness report of mob violence on September 23, 1957, during the integration crisis at the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas."
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	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."
	Nathan G. Caldwell
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."
1964	Merriman Smith	United Press International	"for his outstanding coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy."
1965	Louis M. Kohlmeier Jr.	The Wall Street Journal	"for his enterprise in reporting the growth of the fortune of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family."
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	Monroe Karmin	The Wall Street Journal	"for their investigative reporting of the connection between American crime and gambling in the Bahamas."
	Stanley Penn
1968	Nick Kotz	The Des Moines Register	"for his reporting of unsanitary conditions in many meat packing plants, which helped insure the passage of the Federal Wholesome Meat Act of 1967."
	Howard James	Christian Science Monitor	"for his series of articles, 'Crisis in the Courts.'"
1969	Robert Cahn	Christian Science Monitor	"for his inquiry into the future of our national parks and the methods that may help to preserve them."
1970	William J. Eaton	Chicago Daily News	"for disclosures about the background of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., in connection with his nomination for the United States Supreme Court."
1971	Lucinda Franks	United Press International	"for their documentary on the life and death of 28-year-old revolutionary Diana Oughton: 'The Making of a Terrorist.'"
	Thomas Powers
1972	Jack Anderson	Syndicated columnist	"for his reporting of American policy decision-making during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971."
1973	Robert Boyd	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."
	Clark Hoyt
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."
	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	The Philadelphia Inquirer	"for their series 'Auditing the Internal Revenue Service,' which exposed the unequal application of Federal tax laws."
	James B. Steele
1976	James V. Risser	The Des Moines Register	"for disclosing large-scale corruption in the American grain exporting trade."
1977	Walter Mears	Associated Press	"for his coverage of the 1976 Presidential campaign."
1978	Gaylord D. Shaw	Los Angeles Times	"for a series on unsafe structural conditions at the nation's major dams."
1979	James V. Risser	The Des Moines Register	"for a series on farming damage to the environment."
1980	Charles Stafford	St. Petersburg Times	"for their investigation of the Church of Scientology."
	Bette Swenson Orsini
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	Staff	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	The Des Moines Register	"for his series of articles that examined the dangers of farming as an occupation."
1986	Craig Flournoy	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."
	George Rodrigue
	Arthur Howe	The Philadelphia Inquirer	"for his enterprising and indefatigable reporting on massive deficiencies in Internal Revenue Service (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	The Miami Herald	"for its exclusive reporting and persistent coverage of the U.S.-Iran-Contra connection."
	Staff	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	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."
	James B. Steele
1990	Ross Anderson	The Seattle Times	"for coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and its aftermath."
	Bill Dietrich
	Mary Ann Gwinn
	Eric Nalder
1991	Marjie Lundstrom	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."
	Rochelle Sharpe
1992	Mike McGraw	The Kansas City Star	"for their critical examination of the U.S. Department of Agriculture."
	Jeff Taylor
1993	David Maraniss	The Washington Post	"for his revealing articles on the life and political record of candidate Bill Clinton."
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."
1995	Tony Horwitz	The Wall Street Journal	"for stories about working conditions in low-wage America."
1996	Alix M. Freedman	The Wall Street Journal	"for her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency."
1997	Staff	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	Dayton Daily News	"for their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms."
	Jeff Nesmith
1999	Jeff Gerth	The New York Times	"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."
	Staff
2000	Staff	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	Staff	The New York Times	"for its compelling and memorable series exploring racial experiences and attitudes across contemporary America."
2002	Staff	The Washington Post	"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	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."
	Kevin Sack
2004	Nancy Cleeland	Los Angeles Times	"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."
	John Corrigan
	Abigail Goldman
	Evelyn Iritani
	Tyler Marshall
	Rick Wartzman
	Staff
2005	Walt Bogdanich	The New York Times	"for his heavily documented stories about the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings."
2006	Eric Lichtblau	The New York Times	"for their carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate on the boundary line between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberty."
	James Risen
	Jerry Kammer	Copley News Service	"for their disclosure of bribe-taking that sent former Rep. Randy Cunningham to prison in disgrace.""
	Marcus Stern
	Staff
	Staff	San Diego Union-Tribune
2007	Charlie Savage	The Boston Globe	"for his revelations that President George W. Bush often used "signing statements" to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws."
2008	Jo Becker	The Washington Post	"for their lucid exploration of Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful yet sometimes disguised influence on national policy."
	Barton Gellman
2009	Staff	St. Petersburg Times	"for "PolitiFact," its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters."
2010	Matt Richtel	The New York Times	"for incisive work, in print and online, on the hazardous use of cell phones, computers and other devices while operating cars and trucks, stimulating widespread efforts to curb distracted driving."
	Staff
2011	Jake Bernstein	ProPublica	"for their exposure of questionable practices on Wall Street that contributed to the nation's economic meltdown, using digital tools to help explain the complex subject to lay readers."
	Jesse Eisinger
2012	David Wood	The Huffington Post	"for his riveting exploration of the physical and emotional challenges facing American soldiers severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan during a decade of war."
2013	David Hasemyer	InsideClimate News	"for their rigorous reports on flawed regulation of the nation’s oil pipelines, focusing on potential ecological dangers posed by diluted bitumen (or "dilbit"), a controversial form of oil."
	Elizabeth McGowan
	Lisa Song
2014	David Philipps	The Gazette	"for expanding the examination of how wounded combat veterans are mistreated, focusing on loss of benefits for life after discharge by the Army for minor offenses, stories augmented with digital tools and stirring congressional action."
2015	Carol D. Leonnig	The Washington Post	"for her smart, persistent coverage of the Secret Service, its security lapses and the ways in which the agency neglected its vital task: the protection of the President of the United States."
2016	Staff	The Washington Post	"for its revelatory initiative in creating and using a national database to illustrate how often and why the police shoot to kill and who the victims are most likely to be."
2017	David Fahrenthold	The Washington Post	"for persistent reporting that created a model for transparent journalism in political campaign coverage while casting doubt on Donald Trump’s assertions of generosity toward charities."
2018	Staff	The New York Times	"for deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration."
	Staff	The Washington Post
2019	David Fahrenthold	The Wall Street Journal	"for uncovering President Trump’s secret payoffs to two women during his campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him, and the web of supporters who facilitated the transactions, triggering criminal inquiries and calls for impeachment."
2020	Mike Baker	The Seattle Times	"for groundbreaking stories that exposed design flaws in the Boeing 737 MAX that led to two deadly crashes and revealed failures in government oversight."
	Dominic Gates
	Lewis Kamb
	Steve Miletich
	Robert Faurtechi	ProPublica	"for their investigation into America's 7th Fleet after a series of deadly naval accidents in the Pacific."
	T. Christian Miller
	Megan Rose
2021	Staff	AL.com	"for a year-long investigation of K-9 units and the damage that police dogs inflict on Americans, including innocent citizens and police officers, prompting numerous statewide reforms."
	Staff	The Indianapolis Star
	Staff	Invisible Institute
	Staff	The Marshall Project
2022	Staff	The New York Times	"for an ambitious project that quantified a disturbing pattern of fatal traffic stops by police, illustrating how hundreds of deaths could have been avoided and how officers typically avoided punishment."
2023	Caroline Kitchener	The Washington Post	"for unflinching reporting that captured the complex consequences of life after Roe v. Wade, including the story of a Texas teenager who gave birth to twins after new restrictions denied her an abortion."
2024	Staff	Reuters	"for an eye-opening series of accountability stories focused on Elon Musk’s automobile and aerospace businesses, stories that displayed remarkable breadth and depth and provoked official probes of his companies’ practices in Europe and the United States"; staff of The Washington Post, "for its sobering examination of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, which forced readers to reckon with the horrors wrought by the weapon often used for mass shootings in America."

External links

• Winners and Finalists of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
• Winners and Finalists of the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - National