| Year |
Author(s) |
Publication |
Work |
| 1948 |
Bert Andrews |
New York Herald Tribune |
For his articles on "A S Department Security
Case" published in I947. |
| 1948 |
Nat S. Finney |
Minneapolis Tribune |
For his stories on the plan of Truman administration to
impose secrecy about the ordinary affairs of federal civilian agencies in peacetime.
|
| 1949 |
C. P. Trussel |
New York Times |
For consistent excellence covering national scene from
Washington. |
| 1950 |
Edwin O. Guthman |
Seattle Times |
For his series on the clearing of Communist charges of
Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accuse attending a secret Communist school.
|
| 1951 |
No Award |
No Award |
|
| 1952 |
Anthony Leviero |
New York Times |
For his exclusive article of April I951, 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 |
Don Whitehead |
Associated Press |
For his article called "The Great Deception,"
dealing with the intricate arrangements by which the safe President-elect Eisenhower was
guarded enroute from Morning Heights in New York to Korea. |
| 1954 |
Richard Wilson |
Des Moines Register Tribune |
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 |
Anthony Lewis |
Washington Daily News |
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. This is in the best tradition of American journalism. |
| 1956 |
Charles L. Bartlett |
Chattanooga Times |
For his original disclosures that led to the resignation of
Harold E. Tablet as Secretary of the Air Force. |
| 1957 |
James Reston |
New York Times |
For his distinguished national correspondence, including
both news dispatches and interpretive reporting, an out standing 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 |
Clark Mollenhoff |
Des Moines Register and Tribune |
For his persistent inquiry into labor racketeering, which
included investigatory reporting of wide significance. |
| 1958 |
Relman Morin |
Associated Press |
For his dramatic and incisive eyewitness report of mob
violence on September 23, 1957, during the integration crisis at the Central High School
in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
| 1959 |
Howard Van Smith |
Miami (FLA.) News |
For a series of articles that focused public notice on
deplorable conditions in a Florida migrant labor camp, resulted in the provision of
generous assistance for the 4,000 stranded workers in the camp, and thereby called
attention to the national problem presented by 1,500,000 migratory laborers.
|
| 1960 |
Vance Trimble |
of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance |
For a series of articles exposing the extent of nepotism in
the Congress of the United States. |
| 1961 |
Edward R. Cony |
The Wall Street Journal |
For his analysis of a timber transaction which drew the
attention of the public to the problems of business ethics. |
| 1962 |
Nathan G. Caldwell and Gene S. Graham |
Nashville Tennessean |
For their exclusive disclosure and six years of detailed
reporting, under great difficulties, of the undercover cooperation between management
interests in the coal industry and the United Mine Workers. |
| 1963 |
Anthony Lewis |
New York Times |
For his distinguished reporting of the proceedings of the
United States Supreme Court during the year, with particular emphasis on the coverage of
the decision in the reapportionment case and its consequences in many of the States of the
Union. |
| 1964 |
Merriman Smith |
United Press International |
For his outstanding cover of the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy. |
| 1965 |
Louis M. Kohlmeier |
The Wall Street Journal |
For his enterprise in report the growth of the fortune of
President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family. |
| 1966 |
Haynes Johnson |
Washington Evening Star |
For his distinguished coverage of the civil rights conflict
centered about Selma, Ala., and particularly his reporting of its aftermath.
|
| 1967 |
Stanley Penn and Monroe Karmin |
The Wall Street Journal |
For their investigative reporting of the connection between
American crime; gambling in the Bahamas. (The prize is shared between the two reporters
|
| 1968 |
Howard James |
The Christian Science Monitor |
For his series of articles, "Crisis in the
Courts." |
| 1968 |
Nathan K. (Nick) Kotz |
The Des Moines Register and Minneapolis Tribune |
For his reporting of unsanitary conditions in many meat
packing plants, which helped insure the passage of the Federal Wholesome Meat Act of 1967.
|
| 1969 |
Robert Cahn |
The Christian Science Monitor |
For his inquiry into the future our national parks and the
methods that may help to preserve them. |
| 1970 |
William J. Eaton |
Chicago Daily News |
For disclosures about the background of Judge Clement F.
Haynesworth Jr., in connection with his nomination for the United States Supreme Court.
|
| 1971 |
Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers |
United Press International |
For their documentary on the life and death of a
28-year-old revolution Diana Oughton: "The Making of a Terrorist."
|
| 1972 |
Jack Anderson |
Syndicated columnist |
For his reporting of American policy decision-making during
the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. |
| 1973 |
Robert Boyd and Clark Hoyt |
Knight Newspapers |
For their disclosure of Senator Thomas Eagleton's history
of psychiatric therapy, resulting in his withdrawal as the Democratic Vice Presidential
nominee in 1972 |
| 1974 |
Jack White |
Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin |
For his initiative in exclusively disclosing President
Nixon's Federal income tax payments in 1970 and 1971. |
| 1974 |
James R. Polk |
Washington Star-News |
For his disclosure of alleged irregularities in the
financing of the campaign to re-elect President Nixon in 1972. |
| 1975 |
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele |
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For their series "Auditing the Internal Revenue
Service," which exposed the unequal application of Federal tax laws.
|
| 1976 |
James Risser |
The Des Moines Register |
For disclosing large-scale corruption in the American grain
exporting trade. |
| 1977 |
Walter Mears |
Associated Press |
For his coverage of the 1976 Presidential campaign.
|
| 1978 |
Gaylord D. Shaw |
Los Angeles Times |
For a series on unsafe structural conditions at the
nation's major dams. |
| 1979 |
James Risser |
The Des Moines Register |
For a series on farming damage to the environment.
|
| 1980 |
Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford |
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times |
For their investigation of the Church of Scientology.
|
| 1981 |
John M. Crewdson |
The New York Times |
For his coverage of illegal aliens and immigration.
|
| 1982 |
Rick Atkinson |
The Kansas City Times |
For the uniform excellence of his reporting and writing on
stories of national import. |
| 1983 |
The Boston Globe |
The Boston Globe |
For its balanced and informative special report on the
nuclear arms race. |
| 1984 |
John Noble Wilford |
The New York Times |
For reporting on a wide variety of scientific topics of
national import . |
| 1985 |
Thomas J. Knudson |
The Des Moines Register |
For his series of articles that examined the dangers of
farming as an occupation. |
| 1986 |
Arthur Howe |
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For his enterprising and indefatigable reporting on massive
deficiencies in IRS processing of tax returns-reporting that eventually inspired major
changes in IRS procedures and prompted the agency to make a public apology to U.S.
taxpayers. |
| 1986 |
Craig Flournoy and George Rodrigue |
The Dallas Morning News |
For their investigation into subsidized housing in East
Texas, which uncover patterns of racial discrimination and segregation in public housing
across the United States and led to significant reforms. |
| 1987 |
The Staff |
The Miami Herald |
For its exclusive reporting and persistent coverage of the
U.S.-Iran-Contra connection. |
| 1987 |
The Staff |
The New York Times |
For coverage of the aftermath of the Challenger explosion,
which included stories that identified serious flaws in the shuttle's design and in the
administration of America's space program. |
| 1988 |
Tim Weiner |
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For his series of reports on a sec Pentagon budget used by
the government to sponsor defense research and an arms buildup. |
| 1989 |
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele |
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For their 15-month investigation of "rifle shot"
provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public
indignation that Congress subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to
many politically connected individuals and businesses. |
| 1990 |
Ross Anderson, Bill Dietrich, Mary Ann Gwinn and Eric Nalder |
The Seattle Times |
For coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and its
aftermath |
| 1991 |
Marjie Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharpe |
Gannett News Service |
For reporting that disclosed hundreds of child
abuse-related deaths undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners.
|
| 1992 |
Jeff Taylor and Mike McGraw |
The Kansas City Star |
For their critical examination of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. |
| 1993 |
David Maraniss |
The Washington Post |
For his revealing articles on the life and political record
of candidate Bill Clinton. |
| 1994 |
Eileen Welsome |
The Albuquerque Tribune |
For stories that related the experiences of Americans who
had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.
|
| 1995 |
Tony Horwitz |
The Wall Street Journal |
For stories about working conditions in low-wage America.
|
| 1996 |
Alix M. Freedman |
The Wall Street Journal |
For her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a
report that exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency.
|
| 1997 |
The Staff |
The Wall Street Journal |
For its coverage of the struggle against AIDS in all of its
aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for
the disease. |
| 1998 |
Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith |
Dayton Daily News |
For their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in
the military health care system and prompted reforms. |
| 1999 |
Staff |
The New York Times |
for a series of articles that disclosed the corporate sale of American
technology to China, with U.S. government approval despite national security risks,
prompting investigations and significant changes in policy. |
