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ThePulitzer Prize for Local Reporting is awarded to an example of "significant issues of local or statewide concern, demonstrating originality and community connection".[1] ThisPulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1948. Like most Pulitzers the winner receives a $15,000 award.[1]
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, forLocal Reporting, Edition Time and forLocal Reporting, No Edition Time.
In 1964 the Local Reporting Pulitzers were again renamed to "Local Investigative Specialized Reporting" and "Local General or Spot News Reporting."[citation needed] These prizes existed until 1984, when they were done away with.
In 1985, several new Pulitzer Prizes were introduced, thePulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism (later renamed "Explanatory Reporting"), thePulitzer Prize for General News Reporting (later renamed "Breaking News Reporting"), thePulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, and thePulitzer Prize for Specialized Reporting. None of these prizes were reserved specifically for local reporting.
In 2006, the prize committee announced that thePulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting was going to be replaced by a recreated Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.[2] Debbie Cenziper ofThe Miami Herald became the first reporter to win the re-created Pulitzer for Local Reporting.
The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation explaining the reasons for the award.
| Year | Name(s) | Publication | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | George Goodwin | The Atlanta Journal | "for his story of theTelfair County vote fraud, published in 1947." |
| 1949 | Malcolm Johnson | The Sun | "for his series of 24 articles entitled 'Crime on the Waterfront' in New York City." |
| 1950 | Meyer Berger | The New York Times | "for his 4,000 word story on the mass killings byHoward Unruh inCamden, New Jersey." |
| 1951 | Edward S. Montgomery | San Francisco Examiner | "for his series of articles on tax frauds which culminated in an exposé within theBureau of Internal Revenue." |
| 1952 | George De Carvalho | San Francisco Chronicle | "for his stories of a 'ransom racket' extorting money from Chinese in the United States for relations held inRed China." |
| Year | Name(s) | Publication | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Debbie Cenziper | Miami Herald | "for reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency that resulted in dismissals, investigations and prosecutions." |
| June Arney | The Baltimore Sun | "for their reports, in print and online, about abuses under anarchaic state law that threatened to turn hundreds out of their homes." | |
| Fred Schulte | |||
| Staff | The Boston Globe | "for its well documented exposure, in print and online, of unscrupulousdebt collectors, causing two firms to close and prompting action by state officials." | |
| 2008 | Dave Umhoefer | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | "for his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions ofcounty employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures." |
| John Brennan | The Record | "for their probe of how plans to build a luxury community atop old landfills became entangled in questionable state loans and other allegations of favoritism." | |
| Tim Nostrand | |||
| Jeff Pillets | |||
| Chris Davis | Sarasota Herald-Tribune | "for their dogged exposure, in print and online, of predatory teachers and the system that protects them, stirring state and national action." | |
| Matthew Doig | |||
| Tiffany Lankes | |||
| 2009 | M. L. Elrick | Detroit Free Press | "for their uncovering of a pattern of lies by MayorKwame Kilpatrick that included denial of a sexual relationship with his femalechief of staff, prompting an investigation of perjury that eventually led to jail terms for the two officials."[3] |
| Jim Schaefer | |||
| Staff | |||
| Ryan Gabrielson | East Valley Tribune | "for their adroit use of limited resources to reveal, in print and online, how apopular sheriff's focus on immigration enforcement endangered investigation of violent crime and other aspects of public safety."[4] | |
| Paul Giblin | |||
| Michael DeMocker | The Times-Picayune | "for their multifaceted examination of a murder case that showed deep understanding of the community, its social ills and the often frustrating path to justice." | |
| Brendan McCarthy | |||
| Ryan Smith | |||
| 2010 | Raquel Rutledge | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | "for her penetrating reports on the fraud and abuse in a child-care program for low-wage working parents that fleeced taxpayers and imperiled children, resulting in a state and federal crackdown on providers." |
| Edmund Fountain | St. Petersburg Times | "for their dogged reporting and searing storytelling that illuminated decades of abuse at a Floridareform school for boys and sparked remedial action." | |
| Ben Montgomery | |||
| Waveney Ann Moore | |||
| Dave Philipps | The Gazette | "for his painstaking stories on the spike in violence within a batteredcombat brigade returning toFort Carson after bloodydeployments to Iraq, leading to increased mental health care for soldiers." | |
| 2011 | John J. Kim | Chicago Sun-Times | "for immersive documentation of violence in Chicago neighborhoods, probing the lives of victims, criminals and detectives as a widespread code of silence impedes solutions." |
| Mark Konkol | |||
| Frank Main | |||
| Marshall Allen | Las Vegas Sun | "for their compelling reports on patients who suffered preventable injuries and other harm during hospital care, taking advantage of print and digital tools to drive home their findings." | |
| Alex Richards | |||
| Stanley Nelson | Concordia Sentinel | "for his courageous and determined efforts to unravel a long forgottenKu Klux Klan murder during thecivil rights era." | |
| 2011 | Sara Ganim | The Patriot-News | "for courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosivePenn State sex scandal involving former football coachJerry Sandusky." |
| Staff | |||
| Matt Hongoltz-Hetling | The Advertiser Democrat | "for their tenacious exposure of disgraceful conditions infederally-supported housing in asmall rural community that, within hours, triggered a state investigation." | |
| A. M. Sheehan | |||
| Staff | California Watch | "for its rigorous probe of deficientearthquake protection in the construction of public schools across the state, telling the story with words, graphics, videos and other tools." | |
| 2013 | Glenn Howatt | The Minnesota Star Tribune | "for powerfulreports on the spike in infant deaths at poorly regulated day-care homes, resulting in legislative action to strengthen rules."[5] |
| Jeremy Olson | |||
| Brad Schrade | |||
| Ames Alexander | The Charlotte Observer | "for their tenacious joint project investigating how the state's major nonprofit hospitals generate large profits and contribute to the high cost of health care." | |
| Karen Garloch | |||
| Joseph Neff | The News and Observer | ||
| David Raynor | |||
| David Breen | Orlando Sentinel | "for their aggressive coverage of hazing rituals by theFlorida A&M University marching band that killed a drum major and led to the resignation of the band leader and theuniversity president." | |
| Stephen Hudak | |||
| Jeff Kunerth | |||
| Denise-Marie Ordway | |||
| 2014 | Will Hobson | Tampa Bay Times | "for their relentless investigation into the squalid conditions that marked housing for the city's substantial homeless population, leading to swift reforms."[6] |
| Michael LaForgia | |||
| Joan Garrett McClane | Chattanooga Times Free Press | "for using an array of journalistic tools to explore the 'no-snitch' culture that helps perpetuate a cycle of violence in one of the most dangerouscities in the South." | |
| Mary Helen Miller | |||
| Todd South | |||
| Doug Strickland | |||
| Thomas Mashberg | The Record | "for their jarring exposure of how heroin has permeated the suburbs ofNorthern New Jersey, profiling addicts and anguished families and mapping the drug pipeline from South America to their community." | |
| Rebecca O'Brien | |||
| 2015 | Rebecca Kimitch | Daily Breeze | "for their inquiry into widespread corruption in a small, cash-strappedschool district, including impressive use of the paper's website."[7] |
| Rob Kuznia | |||
| Frank Suraci | |||
| Cary Aspinwall | Tulsa World | "for courageous reporting on theexecution process in Oklahoma after abotched execution—reporting that began a national discussion." | |
| Ziva Branstetter | |||
| Joe Mahr | Chicago Tribune | "for their probe into government corruption in aChicago suburb, using public records, human stories and shoe-leather reporting to lay out the consequences." | |
| Joseph Ryan | |||
| Matthew Walberg | |||
| 2016 | Cara Fitzpatrick | Tampa Bay Times | "for exposing alocal school board's culpability in turning some county schools into failure factories, with tragic consequences for the community."[a][8] |
| Lisa Gartner | |||
| Michael LaForgia | |||
| Sohail Al-Jamea | Miami Herald | "for the impressive reporting, enhanced by video and graphic elements, on a local drug sting that cost tens of millions of dollars but yielded no significant arrests." | |
| Emily Michot | |||
| Michael Sallah | |||
| Joanna Zuckerman Bernstein | |||
| Glenn Howatt | The Minnesota Star Tribune | "for a compelling exploration of the state's archaic and dehumanizing healthcare system for the disabled, leading to swift proposals to improve treatment." | |
| David Joles | |||
| Chris Serres | |||
| Sarah Maslin Nir | The New York Times | "for an investigation into the ugly side of thebeauty industry, exposing labor and health practices detrimental to workers in nail salons." | |
| 2017 | Staff | The Salt Lake Tribune | "for a string of vivid reports revealing the perverse, punitive and cruel treatment given to sexual assault victims atBrigham Young University, one ofUtah's most powerful institutions."[9] |
| Maria Cramer | The Boston Globe | "for a revelatory look at how the closing of psychiatric hospitals left many seriously mentally ill people a danger to themselves and their loved ones and led them into deadly encounters with the police." | |
| Scott Helman | |||
| Michael Rezendes | |||
| Jenna Russell | |||
| Todd Wallack | |||
| Robert Gebeloff | The New York Times | "for analyzing nearly 60,000 discipline cases and parole decisions to show that minority inmates in New York state prisons were punished at afar higher rate than white inmates." | |
| Michael Schwirtz | |||
| Michael Winerip | |||
| 2018 | Staff | The Cincinnati Enquirer | "for a riveting and insightful narrative and video documenting seven days ofGreater Cincinnati's heroin epidemic, revealing how the deadly addiction has ravaged families and communities."[10] |
| Jason Grotto | ProPublica Illinois | "for deep reporting that included analysis of more than 100 million electronic tax records to show howsystemic favoritism and political neglect influenced assessments at theexpense of the working class and poor in majority black and Latino neighborhoods." | |
| Sandhya Kambhampati | |||
| Ray Long | Chicago Tribune | ||
| Staff | The Boston Globe | "for a poignant and illuminating exploration of the city's fraught history of race relations that went beyond the anecdotal, using data to demonstrate how racism infiltrates every institution and aspect of city life." | |
| 2019 | Staff | The Advocate | "for a damning portrayal of the state's discriminatory conviction system, including aJim Crow-era law, that enabledLouisiana courts to send defendants to jail without jury consensus on the accused's guilt."[11] |
| Jennifer Bjorhus | The Minnesota Star Tribune | "for an illuminating and disturbing series that exposed breakdowns in Minnesota's investigation and prosecution of rape cases, and how such ineptitude fails victims of sexual assault." | |
| Renée Jones Schneider | |||
| Brandon Stahl | |||
| MaryJo Webster | |||
| Jessica Griffin | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for dogged scientific investigation and evocative storytelling that exposed toxic dangers lurking inPhiladelphia school buildings that sickened children in their classrooms." | |
| Barbara Laker | |||
| Dylan Purcell | |||
| Wendy Ruderman | |||
| 2020 | Staff | The Baltimore Sun | "for illuminating, impactful reporting on a lucrative, undisclosed financial relationship between thecity's mayor and thepublic hospital system she helped to oversee."[12] |
| Shelly Bradbury | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | "for an unprecedented investigation ofchild sexual abuse and cover-ups in the insular Amish and Mennonite communities." | |
| Peter Smith | |||
| Stephanie Strasburg | |||
| Staff | The Boston Globe | "for its engaging approach to exposing socioeconomic inequities by surveying the city's brightest public high school students a decade after graduation." | |
| 2021 | Neil Bedi | Tampa Bay Times | "for resourceful, creative reporting that exposed how a powerful and politically connectedsheriff built asecretive intelligence operation that harassed residents and used grades and child welfare records to profile schoolchildren."[13] |
| Kathleen McGrory | |||
| Jack Dolan | Los Angeles Times | "for exposing failures inLos Angeles County's safety-net healthcare system that resulted in months-long wait times for patients, including some who died before getting appointments with specialists." | |
| Brittny Mejia | |||
| Staff | The Post and Courier | "for an ambitious look at how water levels in the city were rising faster than previously thought that also explored the broader social, environmental and regulatory challengesposed by climate change." | |
| 2022 | Madison Hopkins | Better Government Association | "for a piercing examination of the city's long history of failed building- and fire-safety code enforcement, which let scofflaw landlords commit serious violations that resulted in dozens of unnecessary deaths."[14] |
| Cecilia Reyes | Chicago Tribune | ||
| Tony Cook | The Indianapolis Star | "for their critical examination of Indiana's'red flag' gun law, identifying numerous instances where police and prosecutors had failed to understand and enforce the law." | |
| Johnny Magdaleno | |||
| Michelle Pemberton | |||
| Maya Miller | ProPublica | "for a comprehensive investigation, including interactives and graphics, that revealed dangerous air quality during Florida's sugar cane harvest season and prompted significant reforms." | |
| Ash Ngu | |||
| Nadia Sussman | |||
| Lulu Ramadan | The Palm Beach Post | ||
| 2023 | John Archibald | AL.com | "for a series exposing how the police force in the town ofBrookside preyed on residents to inflate revenue, coverage that prompted the resignation of the police chief, four new laws and a state audit."[15] |
| Ramsey Archibald | |||
| Ashley Remkus | |||
| Challen Stephens | |||
| Anna Wolfe | Mississippi Today | "for reporting that revealed how aformer Mississippi governor used his office tosteer millions of state welfare dollars to benefit his family and friends, including NFL quarterbackBrett Favre."[16] | |
| Staff | Los Angeles Times | "for coverage of thestate's legal cannabis industry that combined satellite imagery, public records searches and sometimes dangerous on-the-ground reporting to reveal widespread criminality, labor abuses and environmental consequences." | |
| 2024 | Sarah Conway | City Bureau | "for their investigative series on missing Black girls and women in Chicago that revealed how systemic racism and police department neglect contributed to the crisis."[17] |
| Trina Reynolds-Tyler | Invisible Institute | ||
| Ilyssa Daly | Mississippi Today / The New York Times | "for their detailed examination of corruption and abuse, including thetorturing of suspects, by Mississippi sheriffs and their officers over two decades." | |
| Brian Howey | |||
| Jerry Mitchell | |||
| Nate Rosenfield | |||
| Staff | The Villages Daily Sun | "for its comprehensive investigation and moment-by-moment account of Florida officials' inaction before, during and afterHurricane Ian, thedeadliest storm to strike the state since 1935." | |
| 2025 | Jessica Gallagher | The Baltimore Banner / The New York Times | "for a compassionate investigative series that captured the breathtaking dimensions of Baltimore's fentanyl crisis and its disproportionate impact on older Black men, creating a sophisticated statistical model thatThe Banner shared with other newsrooms." |
| Nick Thieme | |||
| Alissa Zhu | |||
| Lynda Mapes | The Seattle Times | "their investigative series revealing how theWashington state government spent $1 million per day on construction that failed to safeguard either the salmon or thetribal treaty rights it was meant to protect." | |
| Fiona Martin | |||
| Mike Reicher | |||
| Katey Rusch | San Francisco Chronicle / University of California, Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program | "for a multiyear investigation into a secret system of legal settlements that concealed California police misconduct for decades and kept offending officers in positions of power." | |
| Casey Smith |
