Pulitzer Prizes: Meritorious Public Service

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

Here are the past winners of the Pulitzer Prize in public serivce.

1918

New York Times; also special award to Minna Lewinson and Henry Beetle Hough

1919

Milwaukee Journal

1921

Boston Post

1922

New York World

1923

Memphis Commercial Appeal

1924

New York World

1926

Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer Sun

1927

Canton (Ohio) Daily News

1928

Indianapolis Times

1929

New York Evening World

1931

Atlanta Constitution

1932

Indianapolis News

1933

New York World-Telegram

1934

Medford (Ore.) Mail Tribune

1935

Sacramento Bee

1936

Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette

1937

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

1938

Bismarck (N.D.) Tribune

1939

Miami Daily News

1940

Waterbury (Conn.) Republican and American

1941

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

1942

Los Angeles Times

1943

Omaha World-Herald

1944

New York Times

1945

Detroit Free Press

1946

Scranton (Pa.) Times

1947

Baltimore Sun

1948

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

1949

(Lincoln) Nebraska State Journal

1950

Chicago Daily News; and St. Louis Post-Dispatch

1951

Miami Herald; and Brooklyn Eagle

1952

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

1953

Whiteville (N.C.) News Reporter; and Tabor City (N.C.) Tribune

1954

Newsday (Garden City, N.Y.)

1955

Columbus (Ga.) Ledger and Sunday Ledger-Enquirer

1956

Watsonville (Calif.) Register-Pajaronian

1957

Chicago Daily News

1958

(Little Rock) Arkansas Gazette

1959

Utica (N.Y.) Observer Dispatch and Utica Daily Press

1960

Los Angeles Times

1961

Amarillo (Tex.) Globe-Times

1962

Panama City (Fla.) News-Herald

1963

Chicago Daily News

1964

St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times

1965

Hutchinson (Kan.) News

1966

Boston Globe

1967

Louisville Courier-Journal and Milwaukee Journal

1968

Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise

1969

Los Angeles Times

1970

Newsday (Garden City, N.Y.)

1971

Winston–Salem (N.C.) Journal and Sentinel

1972

New York Times

1973

Washington Post

1974

Newsday (Garden City, N.Y.)

1975

Boston Globe

1976

Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News

1977

Lufkin (Tex.) News

1978

Philadelphia Inquirer

1979

Point Reyes (Calif.) Light

1980

Gannett News Service

1981

Charlotte (N.C.) Observer

1982

Detroit News

1983

Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger

1984

Los Angeles Times

1985

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

1986

Denver Post

1987

Pittsburgh Press, reporting by Andrew Schneider and Matthew Brelis

1988

Charlotte (N.C.) Observer

1989

Anchorage Daily News

1990

Philadelphia Inquirer and Washington (N.C.) Daily News

1991

Des Moines Register, reporting by Jane Schorer

1992

Sacramento Bee for “The Sierra in Peril” series by Tom Knudson

1993

Miami Herald

1994

Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal

1995

Virgin Islands Daily News

1996

News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

1997

Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.)

1998

Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald

1999

Washington Post

2000

Washington Post

2001

Oregonian

2002

New York Times

2003

Boston Globe

2004

New York Times

2005

Los Angeles Times

2006

Sun Herald (Biloxi, Miss.) and Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.)

2007

The Wall Street Journal

2008

The Washington Post

2009

Las Vegas Sun

2010

Bristol Herald Courier

2011

Los Angeles Times

2012

The Philadelphia Inquirer

2013

Sun-Sentinel

2014

The Washington Post and The Guardian