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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
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Eugene Robinson
Eugene H. Robinson (born 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist and former assistant managing editor for The Washington Post. His columns are syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group. Robinson is a member of the National...
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Cynthia Tucker
Cynthia Tucker (born 1955 in Monroeville, Alabama) is an American liberal syndicated columnist, and the editor of the opinion section of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2007 "for her...
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Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27, 1959 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American journalist, author, op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001 and is widely...
Connie Schultz
Connie Schultz (born July 21, 1957), of Avon, Ohio, is a nationally syndicated columnist based at The Plain Dealer newspaper. She won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, beating Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times and Tommy Tomlinson of The...
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Leonard Pitts
Leonard Pitts, Jr. is a nationally-syndicated columnist and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He was originally hired by the Miami Herald to critique music, but within a few years he received his own column in which he dealt...
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Colbert I. King
Colbert I. King (born 1939-09-20) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post. He is deputy editor of the Post's editorial page.
King earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Howard University in 1961. Before joining...
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Thomas L. Friedman
Thomas Lauren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist and multi Pulitzer Prize winning author. He is an op-ed contributor to The New York Times, whose column appears twice weekly. He has written extensively on foreign...
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Dorothy Rabinowitz is a Pulitzer Prize winning American conservative journalist and commentator. She was born in New York City, and was educated at Queens College and New York University. She has worked as editorial writer for the Wall Street...
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Paul Gigot
Paul A. Gigot is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative political commentator and the editor of the editorial pages for The Wall Street Journal. He is also the moderator of the public affairs television series Journal Editorial Report, a...
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Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for The New York Times. She has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter. In 1999, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her series of...
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Mike McAlary
Mike McAlary (December 15, 1957-December 25, 1998) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist who worked at the New York Daily News for 12 years, beginning with the police beat.
In 1988, McAlary authored a book, Buddy Boys, about corrupt...
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Eileen McNamara
Eileen McNamara, a Pulitzer Prize winning metro columnist for the Boston Globe, is a journalism professor at Brandeis University.
A graduate of Barnard College (1974) and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1976), she was a Nieman...
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Jim Dwyer
Jim Dwyer (born March 4, 1957 in New York City) is an American journalist who is a reporter and columnist with The New York Times. A native New Yorker, Dwyer wrote columns for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News before joining the Times. He...
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William Raspberry
William Raspberry (b. Okolona, Mississippi, United States, October 12, 1935) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated American public affairs columnist, or a pundit, until his retirement in 2005. He was also the Knight Professor of the Practice of...
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Liz Balmaseda
Liz Balmaseda (born January 17, 1959) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who writes for the The Palm Beach Post newspaper.
Balmaseda was born in Puerto Padre, Cuba amidst the Cuban Revolution. Her family emigrated to the United States, and she...
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Anna Quindlen
Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for...
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Jim Hoagland
Jimmie Lee "Jim" Hoagland (born January 22, 1940) is an American journalist and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. He is an associate editor, senior foreign correspondent, and columnist for The Washington Post.
Born in Rock Hill, South...
Jim Murray
James Patrick Murray (December 29, 1919 - August 16, 1998) was an American sportswriter at the Los Angeles Times from 1961 to 1998.
Many of his achievements include winning the NSSA's Sportswriter of the Year award an astounding fourteen times ...
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Clarence Page
Clarence Page (born 2 June 1947) is an American journalist, syndicated columnist, and senior member of The Chicago Tribune editorial board.
Page was born in Dayton, Ohio, and attended Middletown High School in Middletown where he worked on the...
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Dave Barry
David "Dave" Barry (born July 3, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as...
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Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer (born March 13, 1950) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist and political commentator. His weekly column appears in the The Washington Post and is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers and media outlets. He...
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Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1930) is an American columnist and author. He has written numerous novels, and columns of his have appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City. He was a regular columnist for the...
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Murray Kempton
James Murray Kempton (December 16, 1917 – May 5, 1997) was an influential, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist.
Kempton was born in Baltimore on December 16, 1917. His mother was Sally Ambler and his father was James Branson Kempton, a stock...
Vermont C. Royster
Vermont Connecticut Royster (April 30, 1914 - July 22, 1996) was the editor of The Wall Street Journal from 1958 to 1971. He was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for his writing, and numerous other awards....
Claude Sitton
Claude Fox Sitton (Dec 4, 1925 - ) is a retired American newspaper reporter and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He covered the civil rights movement for The New York Times during the 1950s and 1960s, eventually becoming the paper's...
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Art Buchwald
Arthur Buchwald (October 20, 1925 – January 17, 2007) was an American humorist best known for his long-running column that he wrote in The Washington Post, which in turn was carried as a syndicated column in many other newspapers. His column focused...
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Dave Anderson
Dave Anderson (born May 6, 1929 in Troy, New York) is an American sportswriter based in New York City. After graduating in 1947 from Xavier High School - an elite Jesuit preparatory school in New York City - Anderson attended the College of the Holy...
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Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman (April 11 1941, Newton MA) is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist.
Goodman worked as a researcher and reporter for Newsweek magazine between 1963 and 1965, and has worked as an associate editor at the...
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Russell Baker
Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his autobiography, Growing Up.
Baker was the eldest of three children born to Benny...
William Safire
William Lewis Safire (December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009) was an American author, columnist, journalist and presidential speechwriter.
He was perhaps best known as a long-time syndicated political columnist for the New York Times and a regular...
George Will
George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist, journalist, and author.
Will was born in Champaign, Illinois, the son of Frederick L. Will and Louise Hendrickson Will. His father was a respected professor of...
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Red Smith
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith (September 25, 1905 in Green Bay, Wisconsin – January 15, 1982 in Stamford, Connecticut) was an American sportswriter who rose to become one of America's most widely read sports columnists.
After graduating from Green...
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Mary McGrory
Mary McGrory (August 22, 1918 – April 20, 2004) was a liberal American journalist and columnist. She was a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War and was on Richard Nixon's enemies list for writing "daily hate Nixon articles."
Born in Roslindale, Boston...
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David S. Broder
David Salzer Broder (born September 11, 1929) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, television talk show pundit, and university professor. He was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois.
Currently, he writes a twice-a-week political column for...
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Mike Royko
Michael "Mike" Royko (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was a newspaper columnist in Chicago, Illinois, who won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Over his thirty year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for three newspapers, the...
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