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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing has been awarded since 1917 for distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction. The Pulitzer...
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New York Tribune
The New York Tribune was an American newspaper, first established by Horace Greeley in 1841, which was long considered one of the leading newspapers in the United States. In 1924 it was merged with the New York Herald to form the New York Herald...
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William Allen White
William Allen White (February 10, 1868 – January 29, 1944) was a renowned American newspaper editor, politician, and author. Between World War I and World War II White became the iconic middle American spokesman for thousands throughout the United...
Boston Herald
The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the USA. It has been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes in its history,...
The Post and Courier
Charleston's The Post and Courier is oldest daily newspaper in the South and the eighth oldest newspaper still in publication in the United States. It traces its ancestry to three newspapers, the Charleston Courier, founded in 1803, the Charleston...
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Edward M. Kingsbury
Edward M. Kingsbury was a writer and reviewer for The New York Sun and later The New York Times. He won a Pulitzer for "House of a Hundred Sorrows."
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Louis Isaac Jaffe
Louis Isaac Jaffe (1888? – 1950) was an editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot from 1919 to 1950. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1929 for An Unspeakable Act of Savagery, which condemned lynching
A biography of him, titled Editor...
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The Kansas City Star
The Kansas City Star is a McClatchy newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. The Star is most notable for its influence on the career of President...
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Felix Morley
Felix Morley (1894 - 1982) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from the United States.
Morley was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania, his father being the mathematician Frank Morley. Like his brothers, Christopher and Frank, Felix was educated at...
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John W. Owens
John W. Owens was the 1937 Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing for his editorials on the Baltimore Sun.
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Forrest W. Seymour
Forrest W. Seymour was born July 10, 1905, in South Dakota, and died October 3, 1983, in Dennis, Massachusetts. He was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for the Des Moines Register and Worcester, Massachusetts Telegram. One of his most notable...
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Hodding Carter
William Hodding Carter, II (February 3, 1907 - April 4, 1972) was a prominent Southern U.S. progressive journalist and author. Carter was born in Hammond, the largest community in Tangipahoa Parish, in southeastern Louisiana, to William Hodding...
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Virginius Dabney
Virginius Dabney (February 8, 1901 to December 28, 1995) was a U.S. teacher, journalist, writer, and editor. He was the editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch from 1936 to 1969 and author of several historical books. He won the Pulitzer Prize for...
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The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company headquartered in Downtown Miami, Florida. It primarily serves Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties in the U.S. state of Florida, but also circulates throughout South Florida,...
Louis LaCoss
Louis LaCoss (born 1889 or 1890; died ???) was an editorial writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for the editorial "The Low Estate of Public Morals." He had been writing editorials for the...
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Royce Howes
Royce Bucknam Howes (January 3, 1901 – March 18, 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author who also published a biography of Edgar Guest and a number of crime novels. He worked for the Detroit Free Press from 1927–1966 and won the...
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Harry Ashmore
Harry Scott Ashmore (July 28, 1916, Greenville, South Carolina – January 20, 1998, Santa Barbara, California) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials in 1957 on the school integration conflict in Little Rock, Arkansas....
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Lenoir Chambers
Lenoir Chambers (1891-1970) was a writer, biographer and newspaper editor. In 1960, as editor of The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Virginia (now owned by Landmark Communications), he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for his series of...
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William J. Dorvillier
William J. Dorvillier, born in Massachusetts in 1908, was the 1961 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. The publisher and editor of then 18-month old and now defunct The San Juan Star, he wrote 20 stinging editorials criticizing...
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Thomas M. Storke
Thomas More Storke (November 23, 1876–October 12, 1971) was an American politician, rancher, journalist and publisher. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in 1962.
Born in Santa Barbara, California to eminent local citizen and politician...
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Ira B. Harkey Jr.
Ira B. Harkey Jr. (January 15, 1918 – October 8, 2006) was an author of books, professor of journalism, and editor and publisher of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Chronicle-Star from 1951 to 1963. Harkey was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial...
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Hazel Brannon Smith
Hazel Freeman Brannon Smith (February 4, 1914, Somerset, New Jersey - May 15, 1994, Cleveland, Tennessee), the owner and editor of four weekly newspapers in rural Mississippi, was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing....
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The Courier-Journal
The Courier-Journal, nicknamed the "C-J", is the main newspaper for the city of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the paper is the 48th largest daily paper in the United States and the single...
John S. Knight
John Shively Knight (October 26, 1894 – June 16, 1981) was an American newspaper publisher and editor.
He was born in Bluefield, West Virginia to Charles Landon Knight and Clara Scheifley. He attended Cornell University but never graduated, leaving...
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John Strohmeyer
John Strohmeyer (b. 1923, Boston, MA) was the 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing “for his editorial campaign to reduce racial tensions in Bethlehem.”
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John D. Maurice
John D. Maurice won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for his editorials about the Kanawha County schoolbook controversy.
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Meg Greenfield
Mary Ellen (Meg) Greenfield (December 27, 1930 – May 13, 1999) was a Washington Post and Newsweek editorial writer and a Washington, D.C. insider known for her wit and for being reclusive.
Greenfield was born in Seattle, where she attended The Bush...
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Edwin Yoder
Edwin Milton Yoder (born July 18 1934) is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Yoder was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in English in 1956. He then won a Rhodes Scholarship to Jesus College,...
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Robert L. Bartley
Robert Leroy Bartley (October 12, 1937 - December 10, 2003) was the editor of the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal for more than 30 years. He won a Pulitzer Prize for opinion writing and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003....
