Women's History Month

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
Women Pulitzer Prize Winners in Journalism
 

Women's History Month

See Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism for the full list of winners.

 

Editorial

1956 Lauren K. Soth (Des Moines Register and Tribune)
1960 Lenoir Chambers (Virginian–Pilot)
1964 Hazel Brannon Smith (Lexington [Miss.] Advertiser)
1978 Meg Greenfield (Washington Post)
1988 Jane E. Healy (Orlando Sentinel)
1989 Lois Wille (Chicago Tribune)
1992 Maria Henson (Lexington [Ky.] Herald–Leader)

Correspondence

1937 Anne O'Hare McCormick (New York Times)

News Photography

1954 Mrs. Walter M. Schau
1986 Spot news: Michel duCille and Carol Guzy (Miami Herald); features: Tom Gralish (Philadelphia Inquirer)
1987 Spot news: Kim Komenich (San Francisco Examiner); features: David Peterson (Des Moines Register)
1995 Spot news: Carol Guzy (Washington Post); features: Associated Press Staff
1996 Spot news: Charles Porter IV, freelance photographer for Associated Press; features: Stephanie Walsh, freelance photographer for Newhouse News Service
1997 Spot news: Annie Wells (The Press Democrat [Santa Rosa, Calif.]); features: Alexander Zemlianichenko (Associated Press)
1998 Spot news: Martha Rial (The Pittsburgh Post–Gazette); features: Clarence Williams (The Los Angeles Times)

National Reporting

1971 Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers (United Press International)
1980 Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford (St. Petersburg Times)
1990 Ross Anderson, Bill Dietrich, Mary Ann Gwinn, and Eric Nalder (Seattle Times)
1991 Marjie Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharpe (Gannett News Service)
1994 Eileen Welsome (Albuquerque [N.M.] Tribune)
1996 Alix M. Freedman (Wall Street Journal)

International Reporting

1951 Keyes Beech and Fred Sparks (Chicago Daily News); Homer Bigart and Marguerite Higgins (New York Herald Tribune); Relman Morin and Don Whitehead (Associated Press)
1981 Shirley Christian (Miami Herald)
1984 Karen E. House (Wall Street Journal)
1986 Lewis M. Simons, Pete Carey, and Katherine Ellison (San Jose Mercury News)
1990 Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (New York Times)

Reporting

1936 Lauren D. Lyman (New York Times)
1955 Mrs. Caro Brown (Alice [Tex.] Daily Echo);1 Roland Kenneth Towery (Cuero [Tex.] Record)2
1959 Mary Lou Werner (Washington [D.C.] Evening Star);1 John Harold Brislin (Scranton [Pa.] Tribune & Scrantonian)2
1960 Jack Nelson (Atlanta Constitution);1 Miriam Ottenberg (Washington Evening Star)2

1. Reporting under pressure of edition deadlines.

2. Reporting not under pressure of edition deadlines.

General Local Reporting

1977 Margo Huston (Milwaukee Journal)

General News Reporting

1986 Edna Buchanan (Miami Herald)

Special Local Reporting

1972 Timothy Leland, Gerard N. O'Neill, Stephen A. Kurkjian, and Ann DeSantis (Boston Globe)
1980 Nils J. Bruzelius, Alexander B. Hawes, Jr., Stephen A. Kurkjian, Robert M. Porterfield, and Joan Vennochi (Boston Globe)
1983 Loretta Tofani (Washington Post)
1984 Kenneth Cooper, Joan FitzGerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary McMillan, Kirk Scharfenberg, and David Wessel (Boston Globe)

Investigative Reporting

1985 Lucy Morgan, Jack Reed (St. Petersburg [Fla.] Times), and William K. Marimow (Philadelphia Inquirer)
1988 Dean Baquet, William C. Gaines, and Ann Marie Lipinski (Chicago Tribune)
1991 Joseph T. Hallinan and Susan M. Headden (Indianapolis Star)
1992 Lorraine Adams and Dan Malone (Dallas Morning News)
1993 Jeff Brazil and Steve Berry (Orlando [Fla.] Sentinel)
1995 Stephanie Saul and Brian Donovan (Newsday)
1997 Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson, and Alex Tizon (Seattle Times)

Feature Writing

1980 Madeleine Blais (Miami Herald)
1981 Teresa Carpenter (Village Voice, New York)
1983 Nan Robertson (New York Times)
1985 Alice Steinbach (Baltimore Sun)
1988 Jacqui Banaszynski (St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch)
1991 Sheryl James (St. Petersburg [Fla.] Times)
1994 Isabel Wilkerson (New York Times)
1997 Lisa Pollak (Baltimore Sun)

Commentary

1975 Mary McGrory (Washington Star)
1980 Ellen H. Goodman (Boston Globe)
1992 Anna Quindlen (New York Times)
1993 Liz Balmaseda (Miami Herald)
1997 Eileen McNamara (Boston Globe)

Criticism

1970 Ada Louise Huxtable (New York Times)
1974 Emily Genauer (Newsday Syndicate)
1983 Manuela Hoelterhoff (Wall Street Journal)
1995 Margo Jefferson (New York Times)
1998 Michiko Kakutani (New York Times)

Explanatory Journalism

1989 David Hanners, William Snyder, and Karen Blessen (Dallas Morning News)
1991 Susan C. Faludi (Wall Street Journal)
1996 Laurie Garrett (Newsday [Long Island, N.Y.])
1997 Michael Vitez, Ron Cortes, and April Saul (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Specialized Reporting

1985 Randall Savage and Jackie Crosby (Macon [Ga.] Telegraph and News)
1986 Andrew Schneider and Mary Pat Flaherty (Pittsburgh Press)
1990 Tamar Stieber (Albuquerque (N.M.) Journal)

Beat Reporting

1991 Natalie Angier (New York Times)
1992 Deborah Blum (Sacramento Bee)
1998 Linda Greenhouse (New York Times)

 


 


 
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