Pulitzer Prizes: National Reporting

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

Winners for national reporting from 1948 to present

1948

Bert Andrews (New York Herald Tribune); Nat S. Finney (Minneapolis Tribune)

1949

C. P. Trussell (New York Times)

1950

Edwin O. Guthman (Seattle Times)

1952

Anthony Leviero (New York Times)

1953

Don Whitehead (Associated Press)

1954

Richard Wilson (Cowles Newspapers)

1955

Anthony Lewis (Washington Daily News)

1956

Charles L. Bartlett (Chattanooga Times)

1957

James Reston (New York Times)

1958

Relman Morin (Associated Press) and Clark Mollenhoff (Des Moines Register & Tribune)

1959

Howard Van Smith (Miami News)

1960

Vance Trimble (Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance)

1961

Edward R. Cony (Wall Street Journal)

1962

Nathan G. Caldwell and Gene S. Graham (Nashville Tennessean)

1963

Anthony Lewis (New York Times)

1964

Merriman Smith (United Press International)

1965

Louis M. Kohlmeier (Wall Street Journal)

1966

Haynes Johnson (Washington Evening Star)

1967

Stanley Penn and Monroe Karmin (Wall Street Journal)

1968

Howard James (Christian Science Monitor); Nathan K. (Nick) Kotz (Des Moines Register and Minneapolis Tribune)

1969

Robert Cahn (Christian Science Monitor)

1970

William J. Eaton (Chicago Daily News)

1971

Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers (United Press International)

1972

Jack Anderson (United Feature Syndicate)

1973

Robert Boyd and Clark Hoyt (Knight Newspapers)

1974

Jack White (Providence [R.I.] Journal-Bulletin); James R. Polk (Washington Star-News)

1975

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele (Philadelphia Inquirer)

1976

James Risser (Des Moines Register)

1977

Walter Mears (Associated Press)

1978

Gaylord D. Shaw (Los Angeles Times)

1979

James Risser (Des Moines Register)

1980

Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford (St. Petersburg Times)

1981

John M. Crewdson (New York Times)

1982

Rick Atkinson (Kansas City [Mo.] Times)

1983

Boston Globe

1984

John N. Wilford (New York Times)

1985

Thomas J. Knudson (Des Moines Register)

1986

Craig Flournoy and George Rodrigue (Dallas Morning News) and Arthur Howe (Philadelphia Inquirer)

1987

Miami Herald, staff; New York Times, staff

1988

Tim Weiner (Philadelphia Inquirer)

1989

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele (Philadelphia Inquirer)

1990

Ross Anderson, Bill Dietrich, Mary Ann Gwinn, and Eric Nalder (Seattle Times)

1991

Marjie Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharpe (Gannett News Service)

1992

Jeff Taylor and Mike McGraw (Kansas City Star)

1993

David Marannis (Washington Post)

1994

Eileen Welsome (Albuquerque [N.M.] Tribune)

1995

Tony Horwitz (Wall Street Journal)

1996

Alix M. Freedman (Wall Street Journal)

1997

Wall Street Journal staff

1998

Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith (Dayton [Ohio] Daily News)

1999

New York Times staff

2000

Wall Street Journal staff

2001

New York Times staff

2002

Washington Post staff

2003

Alan Miller and Kevin Sack (Los Angeles Times)

2004

Los Angeles Times staff

2005

Walt Bogdanich (New York Times)

2006

James Risen and Eric Lichtblau (New York Times) and the staffs of The San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service

2007

Charlie Savage (Boston Globe)

2008

Jo Becker and Barton Gellman (The Washington Post)

2009

Staff (St. Petersburg Times)

2010

Matt Richtel and staff members (The New York Times)

2011

Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein (ProPublica)

2012

David Wood (The Huffington Post)

2013

Lisa Song, Elizabeth McGowan, and David Hasemyer (InsideClimate News)

2014

David Philipps (The Gazette)