Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

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The Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting was presented from 1991 to 2006 for a distinguished example of beat reporting characterized by sustained and knowledgeable coverage of a particular subject or activity. From 1985 to 1990 it was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Specialized Reporting. For 2007, the category was dropped in favor of a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, with the Pulitzer Prize Board noting that "the work of beat reporters remains ... more
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Date Established:

  • 1991

Also known as:

  • Pulitzer Prize for Specialized Reporting

Awards

Presenting Organization

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is a journalism school and one of Columbia's graduate and professional schools. It offers three degree programs: Master of Science in journalism (full and part-time), Master of Arts in journalism and a Ph.D. in communications. The school,...

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Date Discontinued:

  • 2006

Winners:

Year Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 2006
  • For her persistent, painstaking reports on secret “black site” prisons and other controversial features of the government’s counterterrorism campaign.
  • 2005
  • For her masterly stories about patients, families and physicians that illuminated the often unseen world of cancer survivors.
  • 2004
  • For his compelling and meticulously documented stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities.
  • 2003
  • For her absorbing, often poignant stories that illuminated complex medical issues through the lives of people
  • 2002
  • For her trenchant and incisive Wall Street coverage.
  • 2001
  • For his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
  • 2000
  • For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.
  • 1999
  • For their stories on corruption in the entertainment industry, including a charity sham sponsored by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, illegal detoxification programs For wealthy celebrities, and a resurgence of radio payola.
  • 1998
  • For her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court.
  • 1997
  • For his coverage of the aerospace industry, notably an exhaustive investigation of rudder control problems on the Boeing 737, which contributed to new FAA requirements For major improvements.
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