Pulitzer Prizes: Commentary

1970

Marquis W. Childs (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

1971

William A. Caldwell (Record [Hackensack, N.J.])

1972

Mike Royko (Chicago Daily News)

1973

David S. Broder (Washington Post)

1974

Edwin A. Roberts, Jr. (National Observer)

1975

Mary McGrory (Washington Star)

1976

Walter W. (Red) Smith (New York Times)

1977

George F. Will (Washington Post Writers Group)

1978

William Safire (New York Times)

1979

Russell Baker (New York Times)

1980

Ellen H. Goodman (Boston Globe)

1981

Dave Anderson (New York Times)

1982

Art Buchwald (Los Angeles Times Syndicate)

1983

Claude Sitton (Raleigh [N.C.] News & Observer)

1984

Vermont Royster (Wall Street Journal)

1985

Murray Kempton (Newsday)

1986

Jimmy Breslin (New York Daily News)

1987

Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post Writers Group)

1988

Dave Barry (Miami Herald)

1989

Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune)

1990

Jim Murray (Los Angeles Times)

1991

Jim Hoagland (Washington Post)

1992

Anna Quindlen (New York Times)

1993

Liz Balmaseda (Miami Herald)

1994

William Raspberry (Washington Post)

1995

Jim Dwyer (New York Newsday)

1996

E. R. Shipp (New York Daily News)

1997

Eileen McNamara (Boston Globe)

1998

Mike McAlary (New York Daily News)

1999

Maureen Dowd (New York Times)

2000

Paul A. Gigot (Wall Street Journal)

2001

Dorothy Rabinowitz (Wall Street Journal)

2002

Thomas Friedman (New York Times)

2003

Colbert King (Washington Post)

2004

Leonard Pitts, Jr. (Miami Herald)

2005

Connie Schultz (The Plain Dealer [Cleveland, Ohio])

2006

Nicholas D. Kristof (New York Times)

2007

Cynthia Tucker (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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