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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs, including United Nations correspondence. In its first six years (1942-1947), it was called the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - International. The Pulitzer Committee issues...
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| 2009 | The New York Times |
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded in 1851 and published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"—named for its staid appearance and style—is regarded as a national newspaper...
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For its masterful, groundbreaking coverage of America’s deepening military and political challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan, reporting frequently done under perilous conditions. | ||
| 2008 | Steve Fainaru |
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Steve Fainaru is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For his heavily reported series on private security contractors in Iraq that operate outside most of the laws governing American forces. | ||
| 2007 | The Wall Street Journal |
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The Wall Street Journal is an English-language international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, in New York City, with Asian and European editions.
The newspaper vies with USA Today for the position of...
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For reports on the adverse impact of Chinese capitalism. | ||
| 2006 | Joseph Kahn |
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Joseph Kahn (born 19 August 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American journalist who currently serves as deputy foreign editor of The New York Times. Prior to this, Kahn was Beijing bureau chief at the Times from July 2003 until December 2007....
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For their ambitious stories on ragged justice in China as the booming nation's legal system evolves. | ||
| Jim Yardley |
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James Barrett Yardley (born June 18, 1964 in New York City) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist currently working in the Beijing bureau of The New York Times.
Yardley is a graduate of Walter Hines Page High School in Greensboro, North Carolina...
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| 2005 | Kim Murphy |
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Kim Murphy is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For her eloquent, wide ranging coverage of Russia’s struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work. | ||
| 2005 | Dele Olojede |
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Dele Olojede (born 1961 in Modakeke, Nigeria) is a Nigerian Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former foreign editor for Newsday. Olojede was the first African-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Olojede was born the eleventh of 28 children. In...
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For his fresh, haunting look at Rwanda a decade after rape and genocidal slaughter had ravaged the Tutsi tribe. | ||
| 2004 | Anthony Shadid |
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Anthony Shadid was born in Oklahoma of Lebanese descent. He is a staff writer for The Washington Post where he is an Islamic affairs correspondent based in the Middle East. Before the Post, Shadid worked as Middle East correspondent for the...
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For his extraordinary ability to capture, at personal peril, the voices and emotions of Iraqis as their country was invaded, their leader toppled and their way of life upended. | ||
| 2003 | Kevin Sullivan |
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According to the Washington Post website, Kevin Sullivan and his wife, Mary Jordan, are The Washington Post's co-bureau chiefs in London. Sullivan joined the Post in 1991 after working at the Providence Journal in Rhode Island and the Gloucester...
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For their exposure of horrific conditions in Mexico's criminal justice system and how they affect the daily lives of people. | ||
| Mary Jordan |
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Mary Jordan is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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| 2002 | Barry Bearak |
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Barry Leon Bearak (born August 31, 1949, in Chicago) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and professor of journalism who has worked as a reporter and correspondent for The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. He...
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For his deeply affecting and illuminating coverage of daily life in war-torn Afghanistan. | ||
| 2001 | Ian Denis Johnson |
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Ian Johnson is a writer and journalist, working primarily in China and Germany.
A reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Johnson won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. His reporting from...
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For his revealing stories about victims of the Chinese government's often brutal suppression of the Falun Gong movement and the implications of that campaign For the future. | ||
| 2001 | Paul Salopek |
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Paul Salopek (born February 9, 1962 in Barstow, California) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning writer. Salopek was raised in central Mexico. He reported for the Chicago Tribune from 1996 until April 30, 2009, writing about Africa, the Balkans,...
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For his reporting on the political strife and disease epidemics ravaging Africa, witnessed firsthand as he traveled, sometimes by canoe, through rebel-controlled regions of the Congo. | ||
| 2000 | Mark Schoofs |
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Mark Schoofs is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For his provocative and enlightening series on the AIDS crisis in Africa. | ||
| 1999 | The Wall Street Journal |
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The Wall Street Journal is an English-language international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, in New York City, with Asian and European editions.
The newspaper vies with USA Today for the position of...
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For its in-depth, analytical coverage of the 1998 Russian financial crisis. | ||
| 1998 | The New York Times |
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded in 1851 and published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"—named for its staid appearance and style—is regarded as a national newspaper...
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For its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico. | ||
| 1997 | John F. Burns |
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John F. Burns (John Fisher Burns) (born October 4, 1944) is a British journalist, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He is the London Bureau Chief for the The New York Times, where he covers international issues. Burns also frequently appears on PBS....
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For his courageous and insightful coverage of the harrowing regime imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban. | ||
| 1996 | David S. Rohde |
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David Stephenson Rohde (born 1967) is an American author and investigative journalist for The New York Times. While a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his coverage of the...
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For his persistent on-site reporting of the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. | ||
| 1995 | Mark Fritz |
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Mark Fritz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and award-winning author. In 1995 he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for stories concerning the Rwandan Genocide. He also reported on the reunification of Germany. His...
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For his reporting on the ethnic violence and slaughter in Rwanda. | ||
| 1994 | The Dallas Morning News |
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The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas (USA) area, with a circulation of 263,810 subscribers, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in October 2009. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio...
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For its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations. | ||
| 1993 | John F. Burns |
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John F. Burns (John Fisher Burns) (born October 4, 1944) is a British journalist, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He is the London Bureau Chief for the The New York Times, where he covers international issues. Burns also frequently appears on PBS....
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For his courageous and thorough coverage of the destruction of Sarajevo and the barbarous killings in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. | ||
| 1993 | Roy Gutman |
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Roy Gutman (born March 5, 1944, New York City) is an American journalist and author.
Gutman graduated from Haverford College, in 1966, majoring in History, and from London School of Economics in 1968 with a masters degree in International Relations....
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For his courageous and persistent reporting that disclosed atrocities and other human rights violations in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. | ||
| 1992 | Patrick J. Sloyan |
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Patrick J. Sloyan is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For his reporting on the Persian Gulf War, conducted after the war was over, which revealed new details of American battlefield tactics and friendly fire incidents. | ||
| 1991 | Caryle Murphy |
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Caryle Murphy is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For her dispatches from occupied Kuwait, some of which she filed while in hiding from Iraqi authorities. | ||
| 1991 | Serge Schmemann |
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Serge Schmemann (born April 12, 1945) is a writer and Editorial Page Editor of the International Herald Tribune. Earlier in his career, he worked for the Associated Press and was a bureau chief and editor for the New York Times.
Born in France the...
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For his coverage of the reunification of Germany. | ||
| 1990 | 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 knowledgeable reporting from China on the mass movement For democracy and its subsequent suppression. | ||
| Sheryl WuDunn |
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Sheryl WuDunn (simplified Chinese: 伍洁芳; traditional Chinese: 伍潔芳; pinyin: Wǔ Jiéfāng; born New York City, November 16, 1959) is a Chinese American author, lecturer and businesswoman who was the first Asian-American to win a Pulitzer Prize. A...
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| 1989 | Bill Keller |
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Bill Keller (born January 18, 1949) is executive editor of The New York Times.
Keller is the son of former chairman and chief executive of the Chevron Corporation, George M. Keller. Bill Keller attended the Roman Catholic schools St. Matthews and...
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For resourceful and detailed coverage of events in the U.S.S.R. | ||
| 1989 | Glenn Frankel |
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Glenn Frankel is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and former editor of the Washington Post Sunday magazine. He is also the acclaimed author of two books, "Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel" and "Rivonia's...
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For sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East. | ||
| 1988 | 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 balanced and informed coverage of Israel. | ||
| 1987 | Michael Parks |
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Michael Parks is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For his balanced and comprehensive coverage of South Africa. | ||
| 1986 | Lewis M. Simons |
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Lewis M. Simons is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For their June 1985 series that documented massive transfers of wealth abroad by President Marcos and his associates and had a direct impact on subsequent political developments in the Philippines and the United States. | ||
| Pete Carey |
Pete Carey is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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| Katherine Ellison |
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Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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| 1985 | Josh Friedman |
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Josh Friedman is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For their series on the plight of the hungry in Africa. | ||
| Dennis Bell |
Dennis Bell is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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| Ozier Muhammad |
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Ozier Muhammad is a photojournalist who as of 2008 is on the staff of The New York Times.
In 1984, Muhammad won the George Polk Award for News Photography.
As a photographer for Newsday, Muhammad won the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in...
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| 1984 | Karen Elliott House |
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Karen Elliott House is a journalist and former executive at the Wall Street Journal and its parent company Dow Jones. She served as President of Dow Jones International and then publisher of the WSJ before her retirement in the spring of 2006.
A...
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For her extraordinary series of interviews with Jordan's King Hussein which correctly anticipated the problems that would confront the Reagan administration's Middle East peace plan. | ||
| 1983 | 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 their individual reporting of the Israeli invasion of Beirut and its tragic aftermath. | ||
| Loren Jenkins |
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Loren Jenkins is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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| 1982 | John Darnton |
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John Darnton (born November 20, 1941 in New York City) is an American journalist and author.
After attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Darnton joined The New York Times as a copyboy in 1966. Two years later he became a reporter and for...
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For his reporting from Poland. | ||
| 1981 | Shirley Christian |
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Shirley Christian is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For her dispatches from Central America. | ||
| 1980 | Joel Brinkley |
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Joel Brinkley is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For stories from Cambodia. | ||
| Jay Mather |
Jay Mather is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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| 1979 | Richard Ben Cramer |
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Richard Ben Cramer (born 12 June 1950) is a Jewish-American journalist and writer.
Cramer was raised in Rochester, New York and attended Johns Hopkins University earning a bachelor's degree in the Liberal Arts. He later went on to earn a masters...
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For reports from the Middle East. | ||
| 1978 | Henry Kamm |
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Henry Kamm (born June 3, 1925, in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland)) was a correspondent for The New York Times. He reported for the Times from Southeast Asia (based in Bangkok), Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
In 1969, Kamm won the George...
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For his stories on the refugees, 'boat people,' from Indochina. | ||
| 1976 | Sydney Schanberg |
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Sydney Hillel Schanberg (born January 17, 1934 in Clinton, Massachusetts) is an American journalist who is best known for his coverage of the war in Cambodia.
Schanberg joined The New York Times as a journalist in 1959. He spent much of the early...
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For his coverage of the Communist takeover in Cambodia, carried out at great risk when he elected to stay at his post after the fall of Phnom Penh. | ||
| 1975 | William Mullen |
William Mullen is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For their coverage of famine in Africa and India. | |||
| Ovie Carter |
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Ovie Carter is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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| 1974 | Hedrick Smith |
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Hedrick Smith (born July 9, 1933 in Kilmacolm, Scotland) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter and editor for The New York Times, an Emmy Award-winning producer/correspondent for the PBS show Frontline, and author of several books.
He was a...
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For his coverage of the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe in 1973. | ||
| 1973 | Max Frankel |
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Max Frankel (born in 1930 in Gera, Germany) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He was educated at Columbia University, where he wrote for, and edited, the Columbia Daily Spectator.
Frankel worked at The New York Times for 50 years and was its...
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For his coverage of President Nixon's visit to China in 1972. | ||
| 1972 | Peter R. Kann |
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Peter R. Kann (born 1942, in Princeton, New Jersey) is a journalist, editor, and businessman. He covered the Vietnam War for The Wall Street Journal and also covered other Asian wars. He earned a Pulitzer in 1972 for his coverage of the Indo...
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For his coverage of the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. | ||
| 1971 | 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 his coverage of the struggle against apartheid in the Republic of South Africa. | ||
| 1970 | Seymour Hersh |
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Seymour (Sy) Myron Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is a United States Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, D.C. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters.
His work...
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For his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of My Lai. | ||
| 1969 | William Tuohy |
William Tuohy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who, for most of his career, was a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.
Tuohy was born and raised in Chicago. From 1944-1946 he served in the U.S. Navy aboard a submarine...
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For his Vietnam War correspondence in 1968. | |||
| 1968 | Alfred Friendly |
Alfred Friendly (December 30, 1911 – November 7, 1983) was an American journalist, editor and writer for the Washington Post. He began his career as a reporter with the Post in 1939 and became Managing Editor in 1955. In 1967 he covered the Mideast...
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For his coverage of the Middle East War of 1967. | |||
| 1967 | R. John Hughes |
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R. John Hughes is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For his thorough reporting of the attempted Communist coup in Indonesia in 1965 and the purge that followed in 1965-66. | ||
| 1966 | Peter Arnett |
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Peter Gregg Arnett, ONZM (born November 13, 1934, Riverton, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-American journalist.
Arnett worked for National Geographic magazine, and later for various television networks, most notably CNN. He is well known for his...
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For his coverage of the war in Vietnam. | ||
| 1965 | J. A. Livingston |
J. A. Livingston is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For his reports on the growth of economic independence among Russia's Eastern European satellites and his analysis of their desire for a resumption of trade with the West. | |||
| 1964 | Malcolm Browne |
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Malcolm W. Browne (born 1933) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and photographer. His best known work is the award-winning photograph of the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức in 1963.
Browne's career in journalism began...
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For their individual reporting of the Vietnam War and the overthrow of the Diem regime. | ||
| David Halberstam |
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David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports...
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| 1963 | Hal Hendrix |
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Hal Hendrix is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For his persistent reporting which revealed, at an early stage, that the Soviet Union was installing missile launching pads in Cuba and sending in large numbers of MIG-21 aircraft. | ||
| 1962 | Walter Lippmann |
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Walter Lippmann (23 September 1889 – 14 December 1974) was an American intellectual who was a writer, reporter, and political commentator, who twice was awarded, in 1958 and 1962, a Pulitzer Prize for his syndicated newspaper column, “Today and...
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For his 1961 interview with Soviet Premier Khrushchev, as illustrative of Lippmann's long and distinguished contribution to American journalism. | ||
| 1961 | Lynn Heinzerling |
Lynn Heinzerling is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For his reporting under extraordinarily difficult conditions of the early stages of the Congo Crisis and his keen analysis of events in other parts of Africa. | |||
| 1960 | A. M. Rosenthal |
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Abraham Michael "A.M." Rosenthal (May 2, 1922 – May 10, 2006), born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, was a New York Times executive editor (1977-88) and columnist (1987-1999) and New York Daily News columnist (1999-2004). He joined the New York...
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For his perceptive and authoritative reporting from Poland. Mr. Rosenthal's subsequent expulsion from the country was attributed by Polish government spokesmen to the depth his reporting into Polish affairs, there being no accusation of false reporting. | ||
| 1959 | Joseph Martin |
Joseph Martin is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For their exclusive series of articles disclosing the brutality of the Batista government in Cuba long before its downfall and forecasting the triumph of the Cuban revolution party led by Fidel Castro. | |||
| Philip Santora |
Philip Santora is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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| 1958 | The New York Times |
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded in 1851 and published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"—named for its staid appearance and style—is regarded as a national newspaper...
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For its distinguished coverage of foreign news, which was characterized by admirable initiative, continuity and high quality during the year. | ||
| 1957 | Russell Jones |
Russell Jones is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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For his excellent and sustained coverage of the Hungarian revolt against Communist domination, during which he worked at great personal risk within Russian-held Budapest and gave front-line eyewitness reports of the ruthless Soviet repression of the Hungarian people. | |||
| 1956 | William Randolph Hearst, Jr. |
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William Randolph Hearst, Jr. (January 27, 1908 – May 14, 1993) was the second son of the publisher William Randolph Hearst. He became editor-in-chief of Hearst Newspapers after the death of his father in 1951. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his...
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For a series of exclusive interviews with the leaders of the Soviet Union. | ||
| J. Kingsbury-Smith |
J. Kingsbury-Smith is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
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| Frank Conniff |
Frank Conniff (April 24, 1914 – May 25, 1971) was an American journalist and editor who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1956.
Conniff was born in Danbury, Connecticut. He worked for Hearst Newspapers and was editor of the World Journal Tribune of New York...
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| 1955 | Harrison Salisbury |
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Harrison Evans Salisbury (November 14, 1908 – July 5, 1993), an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (1955), was the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated...
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For his distinguished series of articles, 'Russia Re-Viewed,' based on his six years as a Times correspondent in Russia. The perceptive and well-written Salisbury articles made a valuable contribution to American understanding of what is going on inside Russia. This was principally due to the writer's wide range of subject matter and depth of background plus a number of illuminating photographs which he took. | ||
| 1954 | Jim G. Lucas |
Jim G. Lucas (June 22, 1914 - July 21, 1970) was a war correspondent for Scripps-Howard Newspapers who won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting "for his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and...
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For his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent. | |||
