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

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