Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

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The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting has been awarded since 1948 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs. The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation explaining the reasons for the award.
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Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York (commonly known as Columbia University) is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. It was founded in 1754...

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Year Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 1948
  • For his stories on the plan of the Truman administration to impose secrecy about the ordinary affairs of federal civilian agencies in peacetime.
  • 1949
  • For consistent excellence covering the national scene from Washington.
  • 1950
  • For his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.
  • 1952
  • For his exclusive article of April 21, 1951, disclosing the record of conversations between President Truman and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island in their conference of October, 1950.
  • 1953
  • For his article called 'The Great Deception,' dealing with the intricate arrangements by which the safety of President-elect Eisenhower was guarded enroute from Morningside Heights in New York to Korea.
  • 1954
  • For his exclusive publication of the FBI Report to the White House in the Harry Dexter White case before it was laid before the Senate by J. Edgar Hoover.
  • 1955
  • For publishing a series of articles which were adjudged directly responsible for clearing Abraham Chasanow, an employee of the |U.S. Navy Department, and bringing about his restoration to duty with an acknowledgment by the Navy Department that it had committed a grave injustice in dismissing him as a security risk. Mr. Lewis received the full support of his newspaper in championing an American citizen, without adequate funds or resources for his defense, against an unjust act by a government department.
  • 1956
  • For his original disclosures that led to the resignation of Harold E. Talbott as Secretary of the Air Force.
  • 1957
  • For his distinguished national correspondence, including both news dispatches and interpretive reporting, an outstanding example of which was his five-part analysis of the effect of President Eisenhower's illness on the functioning of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
  • 1958
  • For his persistent inquiry into labor racketeering, which included investigatory reporting of wide significance.
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