Pulitzer Prizes: Editorial

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

Here are Pulitzer Prize winners in editorial.

1917

New York Tribune

1918

Louisville Courier-Journal

1920

Harvey E. Newbranch (Omaha Evening World-Herald)

1922

Frank M. O'Brien (New York Herald)

1923

William Allen White (Emporia [Kan.] Gazette)

1924

Boston Herald; special prize: Frank I. Cobb (New York World)

1925

Charleston (S.C.) News and Courier

1926

Edward M. Kingsbury (New York Times)

1927

F. Lauriston Bullard (Boston Herald)

1928

Grover Cleveland Hall (Montgomery [Ala.] Advertiser)

1929

Louis Isaac Jaffe (Norfolk Virginian-Pilot)

1931

Charles S. Ryckman (Fremont [Neb.] Tribune)

1933

Kansas City (Mo.) Star

1934

E. P. Chase (Atlantic [Iowa] News Telegraph)

1936

Felix Morley (Washington Post); George B. Parker (Scripps–Howard Newspapers)

1937

John W. Owens (Baltimore Sun)

1938

W. W. Waymack (Des Moines Register and Tribune)

1939

Ronald G. Callvert (Portland Oregonian)

1940

Bart Howard (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

1941

Reuben Maury (New York Daily News)

1942

Geoffrey Parsons (New York Herald Tribune)

1943

Forrest W. Seymour (Des Moines Register and Tribune)

1944

Henry J. Haskell (Kansas City [Mo.] Star)

1945

George W. Potter (Providence [R.I.] Journal-Bulletin)

1946

Hodding Carter ([Greenville, Miss.] Delta Democrat-Times)

1947

William H. Grimes (Wall Street Journal)

1948

Virginius Dabney (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

1949

John H. Crider (Boston Herald); Herbert Elliston (Washington Post)

1950

Carl M. Saunders (Jackson [Mich.] Citizen Patriot)

1951

William H. Fitzpatrick (New Orleans States)

1952

Louis LaCoss (St. Louis Globe-Democrat)

1953

Vermont C. Royster (Wall Street Journal)

1954

Don Murray (Boston Herald)

1955

Royce Howes (Detroit Free Press)

1956

Lauren K. Soth (Des Moines Register and Tribune)

1957

Buford Boone (Tuscaloosa [Ala.] News)

1958

Harry S. Ashmore (Arkansas Gazette)

1959

Ralph McGill (Atlanta Constitution)

1960

Lenoir Chambers (Virginian-Pilot)

1961

William J. Dorvillier (San Juan [P.R.] Star)

1962

Thomas M. Storke (Santa Barbara [Calif.] News-Press)

1963

Ira B. Harkey, Jr. (Pascagoula [Miss.] Chronicle)

1964

Hazel Brannon Smith (Lexington [Miss.] Advertiser)

1965

John R. Harrison (Gainesville [Fla.] Daily Sun)

1966

Robert Lasch (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

1967

Eugene Patterson (Atlanta Constitution)

1968

John S. Knight (Knight Newspapers)

1969

Paul Greenberg (Pine Bluff [Ark.] Commercial)

1970

Phillip L. Geyelin (Washington Post)

1971

Horance G. Davis, Jr. (Gainesville [Fla.] Sun)

1972

John Strohmeyer (Bethlehem [Pa.] Globe Times)

1973

Roger Bourne Linscott (Berkshire Eagle [Pittsfield, Mass.])

1974

F. Gilman Spencer (Trenton [N.J.] Trentonian)

1975

John Daniell Maurice (Charleston [W. Va.] Daily Mail)

1976

Philip P. Kerby (Los Angeles Times)

1977

Warren L. Lerude, Foster Church, and Norman F. Cardoza (Reno [Nev.] Gazette and Nevada State Journal)

1978

Meg Greenfield (Washington Post)

1979

Edwin M. Yoder, Jr. (Washington Star)

1980

Robert L. Bartley (Wall Street Journal)

1982

Jack Rosenthal (New York Times)

1983

Miami Herald

1984

Albert Scardino (Georgia Gazette)

1985

Richard Aregood (Philadelphia Daily News)

1986

Jack Fuller (Chicago Tribune)

1987

Jonathan Freedman (San Diego Tribune)

1988

Jane E. Healy (Orlando Sentinel)

1989

Lois Wille (Chicago Tribune)

1990

Thomas J. Hylton (Pottstown [Pa.] Mercury)

1991

Ron Casey, Harold Jackson, and Joey Kennedy (Birmingham [Ala.] News)

1992

Maria Henson (Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader)

1994

R. Bruce Dold (Chicago Tribune)

1995

Jeffrey Good (St. Petersburg [Fla.] Times)

1996

Robert B. Semple, Jr. (New York Times)

1997

Michael Gartner (Daily Tribune [Ames, Iowa])

1998

Bernard L. Stein (The Riverdale Press [Bronx, N.Y.])

1999

Editorial Board (Daily News [New York, N.Y.])

2000

John C. Bersia (Orlando Sentinal [Orlando, Fla.])

2001

David Moats (Rutland Herald [Rutland, Vt.])

2002

Alex Raksin and Bob Sipchen (Los Angeles Times)

2003

Cornelia Grumman (Chicago Tribune)

2004

William Stall (Los Angeles Times)

2005

Tom Philp (The Sacramento Bee)

2006

Rick Attig and Doug Bates (The Oregonian [Portland, Ore.])

2007

Editorial Board of the New York Daily News

2008

No Award Given

2009

Mark Mahoney (The Post-Star [Glens Falls, NY)

2010

Tod Robberson, Colleen McCain Nelson, and William McKenzie (The Dallas Morning News)

2011

Joseph Rago (The Wall Street Journal)

2012

No Award Given

2013

Tim Nickens and Daniel Ruth (Tampa Tay Times)