Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting

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The Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting is awarded to an example of "local reporting that illuminates significant issues or concerns." This Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1948. Like most Pulitzers the winner receives a $10,000 award. The Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting was first awarded from 1948 until 1952. Beginning in 1953, two awards for Local Reporting were given out by the committee, for "Local Reporting, Edition Time" and for "Local... more
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Year Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 2009
  • For their uncovering of a pattern of lies by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that included denial of a sexual relationship with his female chief of staff, prompting an investigation of perjury that eventually led to jail terms for the two officials. Original series
  • 2009
  • For their adroit use of limited resources to reveal, in print and online, how a popular sheriff’s focus on immigration enforcement endangered investigation of violent crime and other aspects of public safety. Original series
  • 2008
  • For his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures.
  • 2007
  • For reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency that resulted in dismissals, investigations and prosecutions.
  • 1952
  • For his stories of a ransom racket extorting money from Chinese in the United States for relations held in Red China.
  • 1951
  • For his series of articles on tax frauds which culminated in an expose within the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
  • 1950
  • For his 4,000 word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, N.J.
  • 1949
  • For his series of 24 articles entitled Crime on the Waterfront in New York City. (The film On the Waterfront was based on this series of articles.)
  • 1948
  • For his story of the Telfair County vote fraud, published in 1947.
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