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| 2009 | Eugene Robinson |
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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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For his eloquent columns on the 2008 presidential campaign that focus on the election of the first African-American president, showcasing graceful writing and grasp of the larger historic picture. | ||
| 2008 | Steven Pearlstein |
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Steve Pearlstein is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For his insightful columns that explore the nation's complex economic ills with masterful clarity. | ||
| 2007 | Cynthia Tucker |
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Cynthia Tucker (born 1955 in Monroeville, Alabama) is an American syndicated [[columnist]. She was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2007 "for her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and...
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For her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community. | ||
| 2006 | Nicholas D. Kristof |
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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...
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For his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world. | ||
| 2005 | Connie Schultz |
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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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For her pungent columns that provided a voice for the underdog and underprivileged. | ||
| 2004 | Leonard Pitts |
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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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For his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues. | ||
| 2003 | Colbert I. King |
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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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For his against-the-grain columns that speak to people in power with ferocity and wisdom. | ||
| 2002 | Thomas L. Friedman |
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Thomas Lauren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist, Marshall Scholar 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...
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For his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. | ||
| 2001 | Dorothy Rabinowitz |
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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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For her articles on American society and culture. | ||
| 2000 | Paul Gigot |
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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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For his informative and insightful columns on politics and government. | ||
| 1999 | Maureen Dowd |
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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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For her fresh and insightful columns on the impact of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. | ||
| 1998 | Mike McAlary |
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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 wrote a book, Buddy Boys, about corrupt...
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For reporting on the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse. | ||
| 1997 | Eileen McNamara |
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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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For her many-sided columns on Massachusetts people and issues. | ||
| 1996 | E.R. Shipp |
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E.R. Shipp is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues. | ||
| 1995 | Jim Dwyer |
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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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For his compelling and compassionate columns about New York City. | ||
| 1994 | William Raspberry |
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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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For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics. | ||
| 1993 | Liz Balmaseda |
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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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For her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami. | ||
| 1992 | Anna Quindlen |
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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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For her compelling columns on a wide range of personal and political topics. | ||
| 1991 | Jim Hoagland |
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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...
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For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev. | ||
| 1990 | 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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For his sports columns. | |||
| 1989 | Clarence Page |
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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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For his provocative columns on local and national affairs. | ||
| 1988 | Dave Barry |
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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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For his consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting fresh insights into serious concerns. | ||
| 1987 | Charles Krauthammer |
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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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For his witty and insightful columns on national issues. | ||
| 1986 | Jimmy Breslin |
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Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1930) is an American journalist 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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For columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens. | ||
| 1985 | Murray Kempton |
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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...
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For witty and insightful reflection on public issues in 1984 and throughout a distinguished career. | ||
| 1984 | Vermont C. Royster |
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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....
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| 1983 | Claude Sitton |
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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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| 1982 | Art Buchwald |
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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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| 1981 | Dave Anderson |
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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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For his commentary on sports. | ||
| 1980 | Ellen Goodman |
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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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| 1979 | Russell Baker |
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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...
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| 1978 | William Safire |
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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...
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For commentary on the Bert Lance affair. | ||
| 1977 | George Will |
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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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For distinguished commentary on a variety of topics. | ||
| 1976 | Red Smith |
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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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For his commentary on sports in 1975 and for many other years. | ||
| 1975 | Mary McGrory |
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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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For her commentary on public affairs during 1974. | ||
| 1974 | Edwin A. Roberts Jr. |
Edwin A. Roberts Jr. is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For his commentary on public affairs during 1973. | |||
| 1973 | David S. Broder |
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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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For his columns during 1972. | ||
| 1972 | Mike Royko |
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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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For his columns during 1971. | ||
| 1971 | William A. Caldwell |
William A. Caldwell is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For his commentary in his daily column. | |||
| 1970 | Marquis W. Childs |
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Marquis W. Childs is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For his distinguished commentary during 1969. | ||
