HONORS

The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, awarded since 1948.

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
1949	C. P. Trussel	New York Times, for consistent excellence covering the national scene from Washington
1950	Ed Guthman	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	(no award)
1952	Anthony Leviero	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 enroute from Morningside Heights in New York to Korea
1954	Richard Wilson	Des Moines Register and Tribune, 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. 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	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
1958	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	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	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	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	Stanley Penn and Monroe Karmin	Wall Street Journal, for their investigative reporting of the connection between American crime and gambling in the Bahamas (shared)
1968	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
1968	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. Haynesworth Jr., in connection with his nomination for the United States Supreme Court
1971	Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers	United Press International, for their documentary on the life and death of 28-year-old revolutionary Diana Oughton
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 Barlett and James Steele	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
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 Risser	Des Moines Register, for a series on farming damage to the environment
1980	Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford	St. Petersburg Times, for their investigation of the Church of Scientology
1981	John M. Crewdson	New York Times, for his coverage of illegal aliens and immigration
1982	Rick Atkinson	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	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	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	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 Miami Herald	for its exclusive reporting and persistent coverage of the U.S.-Iran-Contra connection
1987	Staff of 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	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 Barlett and James Steele	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
1990	Ross Anderson, Bill Dietrich, Mary Ann Gwinn and Eric Nalder	Seattle Times, for coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and its aftermath
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
1992	Jeff Taylor and Mike McGraw	Kansas City Star, for their critical examination of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
1993	David Maraniss	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 Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago
1995	Tony Horwitz	Wall Street Journal, for stories about working conditions in low-wage America
1996	Alix M. Freedman	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 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 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	New York Times staff	for its compelling and memorable series exploring racial experiences and attitudes across contemporary America
2002	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	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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