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American journalism award
The
Pulitzer Prize
for Investigative Reporting
has been awarded since 1953, under one name or another, for a distinguished example of
investigative reporting
by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series in a U.S. news publication.
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It is administered by the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
in New York City.
From 1953 through 1963, the category was known as the
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time
. From 1964 to 1984, it was known as the
Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting
.
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The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation explaining the reasons for the award.
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time
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- 1953
:
Edward J. Mowery
of
New York World-Telegram & Sun
, "for his reporting of the facts which brought vindication and freedom to
Louis Hoffner
."
- 1954
:
Alvin McCoy
of
The Kansas City Star
, "for a series of exclusive stories which led to the resignation under fire of
C. Wesley Roberts
as Republican National Chairman."
- 1955
:
Roland Kenneth Towery
of
Cuero Record
(Texas), "for his series of articles exclusively exposing a
scandal in the administration of the Veterans' Land Program
in Texas. This 32-year-old World War II veteran, a former prisoner of the Japanese, made these irregularities a state-wide and subsequently a national issue, and stimulated state action to rectify conditions in the land program."
- 1956
:
Arthur Daley
of
The New York Times
, "for his outstanding coverage and commentary on the world of sports in his daily column,
Sports of the Times.
"
- 1957
:
Wallace Turner
and
William Lambert
of
Portland Oregonian
, "for their expose of vice and corruption in Portland involving some municipal officials and officers of the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America
, Western Conference. They fulfilled their assignments despite great handicaps and the risk of reprisal from lawless elements."
- 1958
:
George Beveridge
of
Evening Star
(Washington, D.C.), "for his excellent and thought-provoking series, "Metro, City of Tomorrow," describing in depth the urban problems of Washington, D.C., which stimulated widespread public consideration of these problems and encouraged further studies by both public and private agencies."
- 1959
:
John Harold Brislin
of
Scranton Tribune and Scrantonian
, "for displaying courage, initiative and resourcefulness in his effective four-year campaign to halt labor violence in his home city, as a result of which ten corrupt union officials were sent to jail and a local union was embolden to clean out racketeering elements."
- 1960
:
Miriam Ottenberg
of
Evening Star
(Washington, D.C.), "for a series of seven articles exposing a used-car racket in Washington, D.C., that victimized many unwary buyers. The series led to new regulations to protect the public and served to alert other communities to such sharp practices."
- 1961
:
Edgar May
of
Buffalo Evening News
, "for his series of articles on New York State's public welfare services entitled,
Our Costly Dilemma,
based in part on his three-month employment as a state case worker. The series brought about reforms that attracted nationwide attention."
- 1962
:
George Bliss
of
Chicago Tribune
, "for his initiative in uncovering scandals in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, with resultant remedial action."
- 1963
:
Oscar Griffin Jr.
of
Pecos Independent and Enterprise
, "who as editor initiated the exposure of the
Billie Sol Estes
scandal and thereby brought a major fraud on the United States government to national attention with resultant investigation, prosecution and conviction of Estes."
Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting
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- 1964
:
James V. Magee
,
Albert V. Gaudiosi
and
Frederick Meyer
of
Philadelphia Bulletin
, "for their expose of numbers racket operations with police collusion in
South Philadelphia
, which resulted in arrests and a cleanup of the police department."
- 1965
:
Gene Goltz
of
Houston Post
, "for his expose of government corruption Pasadena, Texas, which resulted in widespread reforms."
- 1966
:
John Anthony Frasca
of
Tampa Tribune
, "for his investigation and reporting of two robberies that resulted in the freeing of an innocent man."
- 1967
:
Gene Miller
of
Miami Herald
, "for initiative and investigative reporting that helped to free two persons wrongfully convicted of murder."
- 1968
:
J. Anthony Lukas
of
The New York Times
, "for the social document he wrote in his investigation of the life and the murder of Linda Fitzpatrick."
- 1969
:
Al Delugach
and
Denny Walsh
of
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
, "for their campaign against fraud and abuse of power within the St. Louis
Steamfitters Union
, Local 562."
- 1970
:
Harold Eugene Martin
of
Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal
, "for his expose of a commercial scheme for using Alabama prisoners for drug experimentation and obtaining blood plasma from them."
- 1971
:
William Jones
of
Chicago Tribune
, "for exposing collusion between police and some of Chicago's largest private ambulance companies to restrict service in low income areas, leading to major reforms."
- 1972
:
Timothy Leland
,
Gerard M. O'Neill
,
Stephen A. Kurkjian
and
Ann Desantis
of
The Boston Globe
, "for their exposure of widespread corruption in
Somerville, Massachusetts
."
- 1973
:
The Sun Newspapers Of Omaha
, "for uncovering the large financial resources of
Boys Town
, leading to reforms in this charitable organization's solicitation and use of funds contributed by the public."
- 1974
:
William Sherman
of
New York Daily News
, "for his resourceful investigative reporting in the exposure of extreme abuse of the New York
Medicaid
program."
- 1975
:
Indianapolis Star
, "for its disclosures of local police corruption and dilatory law enforcement, resulting in a cleanup of both the Police Department and the office of the County Prosecutor."
- 1976
:
Staff of
Chicago Tribune
, "for uncovering widespread abuses in Federal housing programs in Chicago and exposing shocking conditions at two private Chicago hospitals."
- 1977
:
Acel Moore
and
Wendell Rawls Jr.
of
The Philadelphia Inquirer
, "for their reports on conditions in the
Farview (Pa.) State Hospital
for the mentally ill."
- 1978
:
Anthony R. Dolan
of
Stamford Advocate
, "for a series on municipal corruption."
- 1979
:
Gilbert M. Gaul
and
Elliot G. Jaspin
of
Pottsville Republican
(Pennsylvania), "for stories on the destruction of the
Blue Coal Company
by men with ties to organized crime."
- 1980
:
Stephen A. Kurkjian
,
Alexander B. Hawes Jr.
,
Nils Bruzelius
,
Joan Vennochi
and
Robert M. Porterfield
of
The Boston Globe
, "for articles on
Boston's transit system
."
- 1981
:
Clark Hallas
and
Robert B. Lowe
of
Arizona Daily Star
, "for their investigation of the
University of Arizona Athletic Department
."
- 1982
:
Paul Henderson
of
Seattle Times
, "for reporting which proved the innocence of a man convicted of rape."
- 1983
:
Loretta Tofani
of
The Washington Post
, "for her investigation of rape and sexual assault in the
Prince George's County, Maryland
Detention Center."
- 1984
:
Kenneth Cooper,
Joan Fitz Gerald
,
Jonathan Kaufman
,
Norman Lockman
,
Gary McMillan
,
Kirk Scharfenberg
and
David Wessel
of
The Boston Globe
, "for their series examining race relations in Boston, a notable exercise in public service that turned a searching gaze on some the city's most honored institutions including the
Globe
itself."
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
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- 1985
:
Lucy Morgan
and
Jack Reed
of
St. Petersburg Times
(Florida), "for their thorough reporting on Pasco County Sheriff John Short, which revealed his department's corruption and led to his removal from office by voters."
- 1985
:
William K. Marimow
of
The Philadelphia Inquirer
, "for his revelation that city police dogs had attacked more than 350 people - an exposure that led to investigations of the K-9 unit and the removal of a dozen officers from it."
- 1986
:
Jeffrey A. Marx
and
Michael M. York
of
Lexington Herald-Leader
(Kentucky), "for their series 'Playing Above the Rules,' which exposed cash payoffs to
University of Kentucky basketball
players in violation of
NCAA
regulations. However, the UK basketball program did little to reform itself in the wake of the articles; true reform would not come until the program was involved in another cash-for-recruits scandal three years later."
- 1987
:
Daniel R. Biddle
,
H.G. Bissinger
, and
Fredric N. Tulsky
of
The Philadelphia Inquirer
, "for their series 'Disorder in the Court,' which revealed transgressions of justice in the
Philadelphia court system
and led to federal and state investigations."
John Woestendiek
of
The Philadelphia Inquirer
for "outstanding prison beat reporting, which included proving the innocence of a man convicted of murder."
- 1988
:
Dean Baquet
,
William C. Gaines
, and
Ann Marie Lipinski
of
Chicago Tribune
, "for their detailed reporting on the self-interest and waste that plague
Chicago's City Council
."
- 1989
:
Bill Dedman
of
Atlanta Journal and Constitution
, "for his investigation of the racial discrimination practiced by lending institutions in Atlanta, reporting which led to significant reforms in those policies."
- 1990
:
Lou Kilzer
and
Chris Ison
of
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
, "for reporting that exposed a network of local citizens who had links to members of the
St. Paul fire department
and who profited from fires, including some described by the fire department itself as being of
suspicious origin
."
- 1991
:
Joseph T. Hallinan
and
Susan M. Headden
of
The Indianapolis Star
, "for their shocking series on medical malpractice in the state."
- 1992
:
Lorraine Adams
and
Dan Malone
of
The Dallas Morning News
, "for reporting that charged
Texas police
with extensive misconduct and abuses of power."
- 1993
:
Jeff Brazil
and
Steve Berry
of
Orlando Sentinel
(Florida), "for exposing the unjust seizure of millions of dollars from motorists ? most of them minorities ? by a sheriff's drug squad."
- 1994
:
Providence Journal-Bulletin
(Rhode Island) staff, "for thorough reporting that disclosed pervasive corruption within the
Rhode Island court system
."
- 1995
:
Stephanie Saul
and
Brian Donovan
of
Newsday
, "for their stories that revealed disability pension abuses by local police."
- 1996
:
The Orange County Register
staff, "for reporting that uncovered fraudulent and unethical fertility practices at a leading research university hospital and prompted key regulatory reforms."
- 1997
:
Eric Nalder
,
Deborah Nelson
, and
Alex Tizon
of
The Seattle Times
, "for their investigation of widespread corruption and inequities in the federally sponsored housing program for Native Americans, which inspired much-needed reforms."
- 1998
:
Gary Cohn
and
Will Englund
of
The Baltimore Sun
, "for their compelling series on the international
shipbreaking
industry that revealed the dangers posed to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled."
- 1999
:
The
Miami Herald
staff, "for its detailed reporting that revealed pervasive voter fraud in a
city
mayoral election that was subsequently overturned."
- 2000
:
Sang-Hun Choe
,
Charles J. Hanley
, and
Martha Mendoza
of
Associated Press
, "for a report on the
killings of Korean civilians by American soldiers
in the early days of the
Korean War
."
- 2001
:
David Willman
of
Los Angeles Times
, "for his pioneering expose of seven unsafe prescription drugs that had been approved by the
Food and Drug Administration
, and an analysis of the policy reforms that had reduced the agency's effectiveness."
- 2002
:
Sari Horwitz
,
Scott Higham
, and
Sarah Cohen
of
The Washington Post
, "for a series that exposed the District of Columbia's role in the neglect and death of 229 children placed in protective care between 1993 and 2000, which prompted an overhaul of the city's child welfare system."
- 2003
:
Clifford J. Levy
of
The New York Times
, "for his vivid, brilliantly written series 'Broken Homes' that exposed the abuse of mentally ill adults in state-regulated homes."
- 2004
:
Michael D. Sallah
,
Joe Mahr
, and
Mitch Weiss
of
Toledo Blade
, "for a series on atrocities by the
Tiger Force
during the
Vietnam War
."
- 2005
:
Nigel Jaquiss
of
Willamette Week
,
Portland, Oregon
, "for his investigation exposing former governor
Neil Goldschmidt
's long concealed
sexual misconduct
with a 14-year-old girl."
- 2006
:
Susan Schmidt
,
James V. Grimaldi
and
R. Jeffrey Smith
of
The Washington Post
, "for their indefatigable probe of Washington lobbyist
Jack Abramoff
that exposed congressional corruption and produced reform efforts."
- 2007
:
Brett Blackledge
of
The Birmingham News
, "for his exposure of cronyism and corruption in the state's two-year college system, resulting in the dismissal of the chancellor and other corrective action."
- 2008
(dual winners):
Walt Bogdanich
and
Jake Hooker
of
The New York Times
, "for their stories on
toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China
, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials." Staff of
The Chicago Tribune
, "for its exposure of faulty governmental regulation of toys, car seats and cribs, resulting in the extensive recall of hazardous products and congressional action to tighten supervision."
- 2009
:
David Barstow
of
The New York Times
, "for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended."
- 2010
(dual winners):
Barbara Laker
and
Wendy Ruderman
of
Philadelphia Daily News
, "for their resourceful reporting that exposed a rogue police narcotics squad, resulting in an FBI probe and the review of hundreds of criminal cases tainted by the scandal."
Sheri Fink
of
ProPublica
, in collaboration with
The New York Times Magazine
, "for a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of
Hurricane Katrina
."
- 2011
:
Paige St. John
of
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
, "for her examination of weaknesses in the murky property-insurance system vital to Florida homeowners, providing handy data to assess insurer reliability and stirring regulatory action."
- 2012
(dual winners):
Matt Apuzzo
,
Adam Goldman
,
Eileen Sullivan
and
Chris Hawley
of
Associated Press
, "for their spotlighting of the New York Police Department’s clandestine spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities, resulting in congressional calls for a federal investigation, and a debate over the proper role of domestic intelligence gathering."
Michael J. Berens
and
Ken Armstrong
of
The Seattle Times
, "for their investigation of how a little known governmental body in Washington State moved vulnerable patients from safer pain-control medication to methadone, a cheaper but more dangerous drug, coverage that prompted statewide health warnings."
- 2013
:
David Barstow
and
Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab
of
The New York Times
, "for their reports on how Wal-Mart used widespread bribery to dominate the market in Mexico, resulting in changes in company practices."
- 2014
:
Chris Hamby of
The Center for Public Integrity
, Washington, D.C. "for his reports on how some lawyers and doctors rigged a system to deny benefits to coal miners stricken with
black lung disease
, resulting in remedial legislative efforts."
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- 2015
(dual winners):
Eric Lipton
of
The New York Times
, "for reporting that showed how the influence of lobbyists can sway congressional leaders and state attorneys general, slanting justice toward the wealthy and connected."
The Wall Street Journal
staff, "for 'Medicare Unmasked,' a pioneering project that gave Americans unprecedented access to previously confidential data on the motivations and practices of their health care providers."
[4]
The Wall Street Journal
team included
John Carreyrou
,
Chris Stewart
,
Rob Barry
,
Tom McGinty
,
Martin Burch
,
Jon Keegan
and
Stuart Thompson
.
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- 2016
:
Leonora LaPeter Anton
and
Anthony Cormier
of
Tampa Bay Times
and
Michael Braga
of
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
, "for a stellar example of collaborative reporting by two news organizations that revealed escalating violence and neglect in Florida mental hospitals and laid the blame at the door of state officials."
- 2017
:
Eric Eyre
of
Charleston Gazette-Mail
,
Charleston, West Virginia
, "for courageous reporting, performed in the face of powerful opposition, to expose the flood of opioids flowing into depressed West Virginia counties with the highest overdose death rates in the country."
[6]
- 2018
:
The staff of
The Washington Post
, "for purposeful and relentless reporting that changed the course of a
Senate race in Alabama
by revealing a candidate's
alleged past sexual harassment
of teenage girls and subsequent efforts to undermine the journalism that exposed it." Team:
Stephanie McCrummen
,
Beth Reinhard
and
Alice Crites
.
[7]
- 2019
:
Matt Hamilton,
Harriet Ryan
and
Paul Pringle
of
Los Angeles Times
, "for consequential reporting on a University of Southern California gynecologist accused of violating hundreds of young women for more than a quarter-century."
[8]
- 2020
:
Brian M Rosenthal
of
The New York Times
, "for an expose of New York City’s taxi industry that showed how lenders profited from predatory loans that shattered the lives of vulnerable drivers, reporting that ultimately led to state and federal investigations and sweeping reforms."
[9]
- 2021
:
Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen and Brendan McCarthy of
The Boston Globe
, "For reporting that uncovered a systematic failure by state governments to share information about dangerous truck drivers that could have kept them off the road, prompting immediate reforms."
[10]
- 2022
:
Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington and Eli Murray of the
Tampa Bay Times
, "For a compelling expose of highly toxic hazards inside Florida’s only battery recycling plant that forced the implementation of safety measures to adequately protect workers and nearby residents."
[11]
- 2023
:
Staff of
The Wall Street Journal
, "for sharp accountability reporting on financial conflicts of interest among officials at 50 federal agencies, revealing those who bought and sold stocks they regulated and other ethical violations by individuals charged with safeguarding the public’s interest."
[12]
- 2024
:
Hannah Dreier
,
The New York Times
, "for a deeply reported series of stories revealing the stunning reach of migrant child labor across the United States and the corporate and governmental failures that perpetuate it."
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Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time from 1953?1963 and the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting from 1964?1984
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1953?1975
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1976?2000
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- Chicago Tribune
(1976)
- Acel Moore
&
Wendell Rawls Jr.
(1977)
- Anthony R. Dolan
(1978)
- Gilbert M. Gaul
&
Elliot G. Jaspin
(1979)
- Stephen Kurkjian
,
Alexander B. Hawes Jr.
,
Nils Bruzelius
,
Joan Vennochi
&
Robert M. Porterfield
(1980)
- Clark Hallas
&
Robert B. Lowe
(1981)
- Paul Henderson
(1982)
- Loretta Tofani
(1983)
- Kenneth Cooper
,
Joan Fitz Gerald
,
Jonathan Kaufman
,
Norman Lockman
,
Gary McMillan
,
Kirk Scharfenberg
&
David Wessel
(1984)
- Lucy Morgan
,
Jack Reed
&
William K. Marimow
(1985)
- Jeffrey A. Marx
&
Michael M. York
(1986)
- Daniel R. Biddle
,
H.G. Bissinger
,
Fredric N. Tulsky
&
John Woestendiek
(1987)
- Dean Baquet
,
William C. Gaines
&
Ann Marie Lipinski
(19)
- Bill Dedman
(1989)
- Lou Kilzer
(1990)
- Joseph T. Hallinan
&
Susan M. Headden
(1991)
- Lorraine Adams
&
Dan Malone
(1992)
- Jeff Brazil
&
Steve Berry
(1993)
- Providence Journal-Bulletin
(1994)
- Stephanie Saul
&
Brian Donovan
(1995)
- The Orange County Register
(1996)
- Eric Nalder
,
Deborah Nelson
&
Alex Tizon
(1997)
- Gary Cohn
&
Will Englund
(1998)
- Miami Herald
(1999)
- Sang-Hun Choe
,
Charles J. Hanley
&
Martha Mendoza
(2000)
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2001?2025
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- David Willman
(2001)
- Sari Horwitz
,
Scott Higham
&
Sarah Cohen
(2002)
- Clifford J. Levy
(2003)
- Michael D. Sallah
,
Joe Mahr
&
Mitch Weiss
(2004)
- Nigel Jaquiss
(2005)
- Susan Schmidt
,
James V. Grimaldi
&
R. Jeffrey Smith
(2006)
- Brett Blackledge
(2007)
- Walt Bogdanich
,
Jake Hooker
&
Chicago Tribune
(2008)
- David Barstow
(2009)
- Barbara Laker
,
Wendy Ruderman
&
Sheri Fink
(2010)
- Paige St. John
(2011)
- Matt Apuzzo
,
Adam Goldman
,
Eileen Sullivan
,
Chris Hawley
,
Michael J. Berens
&
Ken Armstrong
(2012)
- David Barstow
&
Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab
(2013)
- Chris Hamby
(2014)
- Eric Lipton
&
The Wall Street Journal
(2015)
- Leonora LaPeter Anton
,
Anthony Cormier
,
Michael Braga
&
Esther Htusan
(2016)
- Eric Eyre
(2017)
- The Washington Post
(2018)
- Matt Hamilton
,
Harriet Ryan
&
Paul Pringle
(2019)
- Brian Rosenthal
(2020)
- Matt Rocheleau
,
Vernal Coleman
,
Laura Crimaldi
,
Evan Allen
&
Brendan McCarthy
(2021)
- Corey G. Johnson
,
Rebecca Woolington
&
Eli Murray
(2022)
- Staff of
The Wall Street Journal
(2023)
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