Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

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List of winners and their official citations

• 1970: Marquis W. Childs, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  
  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwest region, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri as far south as Memphis, TN and as far north as Springfield, Illinoi...
  , "distinguished commentary during 1969."
• 1971: William A. Caldwell, The Record
  The Record (Bergen County)
  
  The Record has the second largest circulation of New Jersey's daily newspaper, behind The Star-Ledger. It is published by North Jersey Media Group, which is owned and operated by the Borg family....
   (Hackensack, New Jersey
  Hackensack, New Jersey
  
  Hackensack is a City in Bergen County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States and the county seat of Bergen County, New Jersey. Although informally called Hackensack, it was officially named New Barbadoes Township, Bergen County, New Jersey until 1921....
  ), "for his commentary in his daily column."
• 1972: Mike Royko
  Mike Royko
  
  Michael "Mike" Royko was a newspaper columnist in Chicago, Illinois, who won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Over his thirty year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for three newspapers, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune....
  , Chicago Daily News
  Chicago Daily News
  
  The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It earned thirteen Pulitzer Prizes....
  , "for his columns during 1971."
• 1973: David S. Broder
  David S. Broder
  
  David S. Broder is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, television talk show pundit , and university professor. He was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois....
  , Washington Post, "for his columns during 1972."
• 1974: Edwin A. Roberts Jr., National Observer, "for his commentary on public affairs during 1973."
• 1975: Mary McGrory
  Mary McGrory
  
  Mary McGrory was a liberal United States journalist and columnist. She was a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War and was on Richard Nixon's Nixon's Enemies List for writing "daily hate Nixon articles."...
  , Washington Star
  Washington Star
  
  The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C....
  , "for her commentary on public affairs during 1974."
• 1976: Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith
  Red Smith (sportswriter)
  
  Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith was an United States sportswriting who rose to become one of America's most widely read sports columnists.After graduating from Green Bay East High School, site of Green Bay Packers home games until 1957, Smith moved on to the University of Notre Dame....
  , New York Times, "for his commentary on sports in 1975 and for many other years."
• 1977: George F. Will, Washington Post Writers Group, for distinguished commentary on a variety of topics."
• 1978: William Safire
  William Safire
  
  William L. Safire is an United States author, semi-retired columnist, and former journalist and President of the United States speechwriter.He is perhaps best known as a long-time print syndication political columnist for The New York Times and a regular contributor to "On Language" in the New York Times Magazine, a column on popul...
  , New York Times, "for commentary on the Bert Lance affair.
• 1979: Russell Baker
  Russell Baker
  
  For the investigative journalist, see Russ BakerRussell Wayne Baker is an United States Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his autobiography, Growing Up....
  , New York Times
• 1980: Ellen H. Goodman, Boston Globe
• 1981: Dave Anderson
  Dave Anderson
  
  Dave Anderson may refer to:*Dave Anderson *Dave Anderson *David Anderson *Dave Anderson *Dave Anderson *Dave Anderson ...
  , New York Times, "for his commentary on sports."
• 1982: Art Buchwald
  Art Buchwald
  
  Arthur Buchwald was an United States List of humorists best known for his long-running columnist that he wrote in The Washington Post, which in turn was carried as a syndicated column in many other newspapers....
  , Los Angeles Times
  Los Angeles Times
  
  The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States....
   Syndicate
• 1983: Claude Sitton
  Claude Sitton
  
  Claude Fox Sitton is a retired American newspaper reporter and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He covered the civil rights movement for The New York Times during the 1950s and 1960s, eventually becoming the paper's national editor....
  , Raleigh (N. C.) News & Observer
  The News & Observer
  
  The News & Observer is the regional daily newspaper of the Research Triangle area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The N&O, as it is popularly called, is based in Raleigh, North Carolina and also covers Durham, North Carolina, Cary, North Carolina and Chapel Hill, North Carolina....
  ,
• 1984: Vermont C. Royster, Wall Street Journal,
• 1985: Murray Kempton
  Murray Kempton
  
  James Murray Kempton was an influential United States journalist....
  , Newsday, Long Island, N.Y.
  Newsday
  
  Newsday is a daily tabloid-size, Pulitzer Prize-winning, United States newspaper that primarily serves Long Island and the New York City borough of Queens, although it is sold throughout the New York City metropolitan area....
  , "for witty and insightful reflection on public issues in 1984 and throughout a distinguished career."
• 1986: Jimmy Breslin
  Jimmy Breslin
  
  Jimmy Breslin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States columnist and author. He has written numerous novels, and columns of his have appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City....
  , New York Daily News
  New York Daily News
  
  The Daily News of New York City is the fifth most-widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 703,137, as of March 30, 2008....
  , "for columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens."
• 1987: Charles Krauthammer
  Charles Krauthammer
  
  Charles Krauthammer , is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated Op-Ed and Pundit . His weekly column appears in the The Washington Post and is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers and media outlets....
  , Washington Post Writers Group, "for his witty and insightful columns on national issues."
• 1988: Dave Barry
  Dave Barry
  
  David "Dave" Barry is an United States author and columnist, who wrote a nationally Print syndication humor column for the The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005....
  , Miami Herald, "for his consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting fresh insights into serious concerns."
• 1989: Clarence Page
  Clarence Page
  
  Clarence Page is an American journalist, syndicated columnist, and senior member of The Chicago Tribune editorial board....
  , Chicago Tribune
  Chicago Tribune
  
  "The Trib" redirects here. For other newspapers with similar names, see Tribune The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company....
  , "for his provocative columns on local and national affairs."
• 1990: Jim Murray
  Jim Murray (sportswriter)
  
  James Patrick Murray was an United States sportswriter at the Los Angeles Times from 1961 to 1998.Many of his achievements include winning the National_Sportscasters_and_Sportswriters_Association's Sportswriter of the Year award an astounding fourteen times....
  , Los Angeles Times
  Los Angeles Times
  
  The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States....
  , "for his sports columns."
• 1991: Jim Hoagland
  Jim Hoagland
  
  Jimmie Lee "Jim" Hoagland is an American journalism and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. He is an associate editor, senior foreign correspondent, and columnist for The Washington Post....
  , Washington Post, "for searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War
  Gulf War
  
  "Persian Gulf War" and "First Gulf War" redirect here. For other uses, see Persian Gulf War .The Persian Gulf War was a United Nations-authorized military conflict between Iraq and a Coalition of Gulf War from 34 nations commissioned with expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait of Kuwait in August 1990....
   and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev
  Mikhail Gorbachev
  
  Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian politician. He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and also the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991....
  ."
• 1992: Anna Quindlen
  Anna Quindlen
  
  Anna Marie Quindlen is an American author, journalist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992....
  , New York Times, "for her compelling columns on a wide range of personal and political topics."
• 1993: Liz Balmaseda
  Liz Balmaseda
  
  Liz Balmaseda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who writes for the The Palm Beach Post newspaper.Balmaseda was born in Puerto Padre, Cuba amidst the Cuban Revolution....
  , Miami Herald, "for her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami."
• 1994: William Raspberry
  William Raspberry
  
  William Raspberry is an American columnist. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated urban affairs columnist at The Washington Post, as well as the Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University....
  , Washington Post, "for his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics."
• 1995: Jim Dwyer
  Jim Dwyer
  
  ----Jim Dwyer is an United States journalist who is a reporter and columnist with The New York Times. A native New Yorker, Dwyer wrote columns for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News before joining the Times....
  , Newsday
  Newsday
  
  Newsday is a daily tabloid-size, Pulitzer Prize-winning, United States newspaper that primarily serves Long Island and the New York City borough of Queens, although it is sold throughout the New York City metropolitan area....
  , Long Island, N.Y., for his compelling and compassionate columns about New York City
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
  .
• 1996: E.R. Shipp, New York Daily News
  New York Daily News
  
  The Daily News of New York City is the fifth most-widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 703,137, as of March 30, 2008....
  , for her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.
• 1997: Eileen McNamara
  Eileen McNamara
  
  Eileen McNamara, a Pulitzer Prize winning metro columnist for the Boston Globe, is a journalism professor at Brandeis University..A graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she was a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard for the academic year 1987-88....
  , Boston Globe, "for her many-sided columns on Massachusetts
  Massachusetts
  
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
   people and issues."
• 1998: Mike McAlary
  Mike McAlary
  
  Mike McAlary was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist who worked at the New York Daily News for 12 years, beginning with the police beat....
  , New York Daily News
  New York Daily News
  
  The Daily News of New York City is the fifth most-widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 703,137, as of March 30, 2008....
  , "for reporting on the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse."
• 1999: Maureen Dowd
  Maureen Dowd
  
  Maureen Dowd is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for The New York Times. She has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter....
  , New York Times, "for her fresh and insightful columns on the impact of President Clinton
  Bill Clinton
  
  William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the fifteenth Democrat elected to that office....
  's affair with Monica Lewinsky
  Monica Lewinsky
  
  Monica Samille Lewinsky is an United States woman with whom then-United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an "inappropriate relationship" while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996....
  ."
• 2000: Paul A. Gigot, Wall Street Journal, "for his informative and insightful columns on politics and government."
• 2001: Dorothy Rabinowitz
  Dorothy Rabinowitz
  
  Dorothy Rabinowitz is a Pulitzer Prize winning United States Conservatism journalist and commentator. She was born in New York City, and was educated at Queens College, New York and New York University....
  , Wall Street Journal, "for her articles on American society and culture."
• 2002: Thomas Friedman
  Thomas Friedman
  
  Thomas Lauren Friedman is an award-winning American journalist, columnist and author. He is an op-ed contributor to The New York Times, whose column appears twice weekly and mainly addresses foreign affairs....
  , New York Times, "for his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist
  Terrorism
  
  Terrorism, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, is the systematic use of terror, "violent or destructive acts committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands." At present, there is no internationally agreed upon definition of terrorism....
   threat."
• 2003: Colbert I. King
  Colbert I. King
  
  Colbert I. King is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post. He is Deputy Editor of the Post's editorial page.King earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Howard University in 1961....
  , Washington Post, "for his against-the-grain columns that speak to people in power with ferocity and wisdom."
• 2004: Leonard Pitts
  Leonard Pitts
  
  Leonard Pitts, Jr. is a nationally-syndicated columnist and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He was originally hired by the Miami Herald to critique music, but within a few years he received his own column in which he dealt extensively with race, politics, and culture....
  , Miami Herald, "for his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues."
• 2005: Connie Schultz
  Connie Schultz
  
  Connie Schultz , of Avon, Ohio, is a nationally syndicated columnist based at The Plain Dealer newspaper. She won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, beating Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times and Tommy Tomlinson of The Charlotte Observer....
   of Plain Dealer
  The Plain Dealer (newspaper)
  
  The Plain Dealer is the major daily newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio. It has the largest newspaper circulation of any Ohio newspaper, and is a top 20 newspaper for circulation in the United States....
  , Cleveland, "for her pungent columns that provided a voice for the underdog and underprivileged."
• 2006: Nicholas Kristof of New York Times, "for his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur
  Darfur
  
  Darfur is a region in Sudan. An independent sultanate for several hundred years, it was incorporated into Sudan by History of the Anglo-Egyptian co-dominium....
   and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world."
• 2007: Cynthia Tucker
  Cynthia Tucker
  
  Cynthia Tucker is an United States syndicated columnist, and the editor of the opinion section of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary 2007 Pulitzer Prize "for her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community"; she wa...
   of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  
  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the only major daily newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia, United States and metro Atlanta. The AJC, as it is called, is the flagship publication of Cox Enterprises....
  , "for her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community."
• 2008: Steven Pearlstein
  Steven Pearlstein
  
  Steven Pearlstein is an American columnist. He writes a column on business and the economy that is published twice weekly in The Washington Post....
   of The Washington Post
  The Washington Post
  
  The Washington Post is the newspaper with the largest circulation in Washington, D.C., United States and is the city's oldest paper, founded in 1877....
  , "for his insightful columns that explore the nation's complex economic ills with masterful clarity."

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