See Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism at Infoplease.com for the full list of winners.
Meritorious Public Service
| 1918 | New York Times; also special award to Minna Kewinson and Henry Beetle Hough |
| 1991 | Des Moines Register, reporting by Jane Schorer |
| 2000 | Washington Post, reporting by Katherine Boo |
| 2008 | Washington Post, reporting by Dana Priest and Anne Hull |
Editorial
| 1964 | Hazel Brannon Smith (Lexington [Miss.] Advertiser) |
| 1978 | Meg Greenfield (Washington Post) |
| 1988 | Jane E. Healy (Orlando Sentinel) |
| 1989 | Lois Wille (Chicago Tribune) |
| 1992 | Maria Henson (Lexington [Ky.] Herald–Leader) |
| 2003 | Cornelia Grumman (Chicago Tribune) |
Correspondence
| 1937 | Anne O'Hare McCormick (New York Times) |
Editorial Cartooning
| 1992 | Signe Wilkinson (Philadelphia Daily News) |
| 2001 | Ann Telnaes (Los Angeles Times Syndicate) |
News Photography
| 1954 | Mrs. Walter M. Schau |
| 1986 | Spot news: Michel duCille and Carol Guzy (Miami Herald); features: Tom Gralish (Philadelphia Inquirer) |
| 1995 | Spot news: Carol Guzy (Washington Post); features: Associated Press Staff |
| 1996 | Spot news: Charles Porter IV, freelance photographer for Associated Press; features: Stephanie Walsh, freelance photographer for Newhouse News Service |
| 1997 | Spot news: Annie Wells (The Press Democrat [Santa Rosa, Calif.]); features: Alexander Zemlianichenko (Associated Press) |
| 1998 | Spot news: Martha Rial (The Pittsburgh Post–Gazette); features: Clarence Williams (The Los Angeles Times) |
| 2000 | Breaking news: photographic staff of Denver Rocky Mountain News; features: Carol Guzy, Michael Williamson, and Lucian Perkins (Washington Post) |
| 2004 | Breaking news: David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer (Dallas Morning News); features: Carolyn Cole (Los Angeles Times) |
| 2005 | Features: Deanne Fitzmaurice (San Fransisco Chronicle) |
| 2007 | Features: Renee C. Byer (Sacramento Bee) |
| 2010 | Breaking news: Mary Chind (Des Moines Register) |
| 2011 | Breaking news: Carol Guzy and Nikki Kahn (Washington Post); features: Barbara Davidson (Los Angeles Times) |
National Reporting
| 1971 | Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers (United Press International) |
| 1980 | Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford (St. Petersburg Times) |
| 1990 | Ross Anderson, Bill Dietrich, Mary Ann Gwinn, and Eric Nalder (Seattle Times) |
| 1991 | Marjie Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharpe (Gannett News Service) |
| 1994 | Eileen Welsome (Albuquerque [N.M.] Tribune) |
| 1996 | Alix M. Freedman (Wall Street Journal) |
International Reporting
| 1951 | Keyes Beech and Fred Sparks (Chicago Daily News); Homer Bigart and Marguerite Higgins (New York Herald Tribune); Relman Morin and Don Whitehead (Associated Press) |
| 1981 | Shirley Christian (Miami Herald) |
| 1984 | Karen E. House (Wall Street Journal) |
| 1986 | Lewis M. Simons, Pete Carey, and Katherine Ellison (San Jose Mercury News) |
| 1990 | Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (New York Times) |
| 1991 | Caryle Murphy (Washington Post); Serge Schmemann (New York Times) |
| 2005 | Kim Murphy (Los Angeles Times); Dele Olojede (Newsday) |
| 2008 | Jo Becker (Washington Post) |
| 2011 | Ellen Barry (New York Times) |
Reporting
| 1955 | Mrs. Caro Brown (Alice [Tex.] Daily Echo);1 Roland Kenneth Towery (Cuero [Tex.] Record)2 |
| 1959 | Mary Lou Werner (Washington [D.C.] Evening Star);1 John Harold Brislin (Scranton [Pa.] Tribune & Scrantonian)2 |
| 1960 | Jack Nelson (Atlanta Constitution);1 Miriam Ottenberg (Washington Evening Star)2 |
1. Reporting under pressure of edition deadlines.
2. Reporting not under pressure of edition deadlines.
General Local Reporting
| 1977 | Margo Huston (Milwaukee Journal) |
| 2007 | Debbie Cenziper (Miami Herald) |
| 2007 | Raquel Rutledge (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) |
General News Reporting
Special Local Reporting
| 1972 | Timothy Leland, Gerard N. O'Neill, Stephen A. Kurkjian, and Ann DeSantis (Boston Globe) |
| 1980 | Nils J. Bruzelius, Alexander B. Hawes, Jr., Stephen A. Kurkjian, Robert M. Porterfield, and Joan Vennochi (Boston Globe) |
| 1983 | Loretta Tofani (Washington Post) |
| 1984 | Kenneth Cooper, Joan FitzGerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary McMillan, Kirk Scharfenberg, and David Wessel (Boston Globe) |
Investigative Reporting
| 1985 | Lucy Morgan, Jack Reed (St. Petersburg [Fla.] Times), and William K. Marimow (Philadelphia Inquirer) |
| 1988 | Dean Baquet, William C. Gaines, and Ann Marie Lipinski (Chicago Tribune) |
| 1991 | Joseph T. Hallinan and Susan M. Headden (Indianapolis Star) |
| 1992 | Lorraine Adams and Dan Malone (Dallas Morning News) |
| 1993 | Jeff Brazil and Steve Berry (Orlando [Fla.] Sentinel) |
| 1995 | Stephanie Saul and Brian Donovan (Newsday) |
| 1997 | Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson, and Alex Tizon (Seattle Times) |
| 2000 | Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley, and Martha Mendoza (Associated Press) |
| 2002 | Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham, and Sarah Cohen (Washington Post) |
| 2006 | Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi, and R. Jeffrey Smith (Washington Post) |
| 2010 | Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman (Philadelphia Daily News ) and Sheri Fink of ProPublica |
| 2011 | Paige St. John (Sarasota Herald-Tribune) |
Feature Writing
| 1980 | Madeleine Blais (Miami Herald) |
| 1981 | Teresa Carpenter (Village Voice, New York) |
| 1983 | Nan Robertson (New York Times) |
| 1985 | Alice Steinbach (Baltimore Sun) |
| 1988 | Jacqui Banaszynski (St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch) |
| 1991 | Sheryl James (St. Petersburg [Fla.] Times) |
| 1994 | Isabel Wilkerson (New York Times) |
| 1997 | Lisa Pollak (Baltimore Sun) |
| 2003 | Sonia Nazario (Los Angeles Times) |
| 2005 | Julia Keller (Chicago Tribune) |
| 2007 | Andrea Elliott (New York Times) |
| 2011 | Amy Ellis Nutt (Star Ledger) |
Commentary
| 1975 | Mary McGrory (Washington Star) |
| 1980 | Ellen H. Goodman (Boston Globe) |
| 1992 | Anna Quindlen (New York Times) |
| 1993 | Liz Balmaseda (Miami Herald) |
| 1996 | E. R. Shipp (New York Daily News) |
| 1997 | Eileen McNamara (Boston Globe) |
| 1999 | Maureen Dowd (New York Times) |
| 2001 | Dorothy Rabinowitz (Wall Street Journal) |
| 2005 | Connie Schultz (Plain Dealer) |
| 2007 | Cynthia Tucker (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) |
| 2010 | Kathleen Parker (Washington Post) |
Criticism
| 1970 | Ada Louise Huxtable (New York Times) |
| 1974 | Emily Genauer (Newsday Syndicate) |
| 1983 | Manuela Hoelterhoff (Wall Street Journal) |
| 1995 | Margo Jefferson (New York Times) |
| 1998 | Michiko Kakutani (New York Times) |
| 2001 | Gail Caldwell (Boston Globe) |
| 2006 | Robin Givhan (Washington Post) |
2010 | Sarah Kaufman (Washington Post) |
Explanatory Journalism
| 1989 | David Hanners, William Snyder, and Karen Blessen (Dallas Morning News) |
| 1991 | Susan C. Faludi (Wall Street Journal) |
| 1996 | Laurie Garrett (Newsday [Long Island, N.Y.]) |
| 1997 | Michael Vitez, Ron Cortes, and April Saul (Philadelphia Inquirer) |
| 2009 | Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart (Los Angeles Times |
| 2011 | Kathleen Gallagher and Alison Sherwood (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) |
Specialized Reporting
| 1985 | Randall Savage and Jackie Crosby (Macon [Ga.] Telegraph and News) |
| 1986 | Andrew Schneider and Mary Pat Flaherty (Pittsburgh Press) |
| 1990 | Tamar Stieber (Albuquerque (N.M.) Journal) |
Beat Reporting
| 1991 | Natalie Angier (New York Times) |
| 1992 | Deborah Blum (Sacramento Bee) |
| 1998 | Linda Greenhouse (New York Times) |
| 2002 | Gretchen Morgenson (New York Times) |
| 2003 | Diana K. Sugg (Baltimore Sun) |
| 2005 | Amy Dockser Marcus (Wall Street Journal) |
| 2006 | Dana Priest (Washington Post) |
| 2008 | Amy Harmon (New York Times) |
