| Year | Name(s) | Publication | Rationale |
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| 1948 | Bert Andrews | New York Herald Tribune | "for his articles on 'A State Department Security Case' published in 1947." |
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| Nat S. Finney | Minneapolis Tribune | "for his stories on the plan of theTruman administration to impose secrecy about the ordinary affairs of federal civilian agencies in peacetime." |
| 1949 | C. P. Trussell | The New York Times | "for consistent excellence covering the national scene fromWashington." |
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| 1950 | Edwin O. Guthman | The Seattle Times | "for his series on the clearing ofCommunist charges of ProfessorMelvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school." |
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| 1951 | No award |
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| 1952 | Anthony Leviero | The New York Times | "for his exclusive article of April 21, 1951, disclosing the record of conversations between President Truman andGeneral of the ArmyDouglas MacArthur atWake Island in their conference of October 1950." |
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| 1953 | Don Whitehead | Associated Press | "for his article called 'The Great Deception', dealing with the intricate arrangements by which the safety of President-electEisenhower was guarded en route fromMorningside Heights in New York to Korea." |
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| 1954 | Richard Wilson | The Des Moines Register | "for his exclusive publication of the FBI report to theWhite House in theHarry Dexter White case before it was laid before the Senate byJ. Edgar Hoover." |
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| 1955 | Anthony Lewis | Washington Daily News | "for publishing a series of articles which were adjudged directly responsible for clearingAbraham Chasanow, an employee of theU.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." |
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| 1956 | Charles Bartlett | Chattanooga Times | "for his original disclosures that led to the resignation ofHarold E. Talbott asSecretary of the Air Force." |
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| 1957 | James Reston | The New York Times | "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 ofPresident Eisenhower's illness on the functioning of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government." |
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| 1958 | Clark Mollenhoff | The Des Moines Register | "for his persistent inquiry into laborracketeering, which included investigatory reporting of wide significance." |
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| Relman Morin | Associated Press | "for his dramatic and incisive eyewitness report of mob violence on September 23, 1957, during theintegration crisis at theCentral High School inLittle Rock, Arkansas." |
| 1959 | Howard Van Smith | The Miami News | "for a series of articles that focused public notice on deplorable conditions in aFlorida 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." |
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| 1960 | Vance Trimble | Scripps-Howard Newspapers | "for a series of articles exposing the extent ofnepotism in theCongress of the United States." |
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| 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 ofbusiness ethics." |
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| 1962 | Nat Caldwell | The 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 theUnited Mine Workers." |
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| Gene Graham |
| 1963 | Anthony Lewis | The New York Times | "for his distinguished reporting of the proceedings of theUnited States Supreme Court during the year, with particular emphasis on the coverage of thedecision in the reapportionment case and its consequences in many of the States of the Union." |
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| 1964 | Merriman Smith | United Press International | "for his outstanding coverage of theassassination of President John F. Kennedy." |
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| 1965 | Louis M. Kohlmeier Jr. | The Wall Street Journal | "for his enterprise in reporting the growth of the fortune of PresidentLyndon B. Johnson and his family." |
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| 1966 | Haynes Johnson | The Washington Star | "for his distinguished coverage of thecivil rights conflict centered aboutSelma, Ala., and particularly his reporting of its aftermath." |
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| 1967 | Monroe Karmin | The Wall Street Journal | "for their investigative reporting of the connection between American crime and gambling in theBahamas." |
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| Stanley Penn |
| 1968 | Nick Kotz | The Des Moines Register | "for his reporting of unsanitary conditions in many meat packing plants, which helped insure the passage of the federalWholesome Meat Act of 1967." |
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| Howard James | The Christian Science Monitor | "for his series of articles, 'Crisis in the Courts.'" |
| 1969 | Robert Cahn | The Christian Science Monitor | "for his inquiry into the future of our national parks and the methods that may help to preserve them." |
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| 1970 | William J. Eaton | Chicago Daily News | "for disclosures about the background of JudgeClement F. Haynsworth Jr., in connection with his nomination for theUnited States Supreme Court." |
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| 1971 | Lucinda Franks | United Press International | "for their documentary on the life and death of 28-year-old revolutionaryDiana Oughton: 'The Making of a Terrorist.'" |
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| Thomas Powers |
| 1972 | Jack Anderson | Syndicated columnist | "for his reporting of American policy decision-making during theIndo-Pakistan War of 1971." |
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| 1973 | Robert Boyd | Knight Newspapers | "for their disclosure of SenatorThomas Eagleton's history of psychiatric therapy, resulting in his withdrawal as theDemocratic vice presidential nominee in 1972." |
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| Clark Hoyt |
| 1974 | Jack White | The Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin | "for his initiative in exclusively disclosing PresidentNixon's federal income tax payments in 1970 and 1971." |
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| James Polk | The Washington Star | "for his disclosure of alleged irregularities in the financing of the campaign to re-elect President Nixon in 1972." |
| 1975 | Donald L. Barlett | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for their series 'Auditing theInternal Revenue Service,' which exposed the unequal application of federal tax laws." |
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| James B. Steele |
| 1976 | James V. Risser | The Des Moines Register | "for disclosing large-scale corruption in the American grain exporting trade." |
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| 1977 | Walter Mears | Associated Press | "for his coverage of the1976 presidential campaign." |
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| 1978 | Gaylord Shaw | Los Angeles Times | "for a series on unsafe structural conditions at the nation's major dams." |
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| 1979 | James V. Risser | The Des Moines Register | "for a series on farming damage to the environment." |
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| 1980 | Charles Stafford | St. Petersburg Times | "for their investigation of theChurch of Scientology." |
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| Bette Swenson Orsini |
| Joseph Albright | Cox Newspapers | "for a series on energy." |
| George Anthan | The Des Moines Register | "for a series on disappearing farmland." |
| Staff | Los Angeles Times | "for a series on chemicals in the environment, 'Poisoning of America.'" |
| 1981 | John M. Crewdson | The New York Times | "for his coverage of illegal aliens and immigration." |
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| Donald L. Barlett | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for their series 'Energy Anarchy.'" |
| James B. Steele |
| Rick Edmonds | New York Daily News | "for their series on the state of U.S. military preparedness." |
| Bob Herbert |
| Alton Slagle |
| Joseph Volz |
| Ted Gup | The Washington Post | "for their series on government contracts." |
| Jonathan Neumann |
| 1982 | Rick Atkinson | Kansas City Times | "for the uniform excellence of his reporting and writing on stories of national import." |
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| Rick Edmonds | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for their series on live-birth abortions." |
| Liz Jeffries |
| Staff | United Press International | "for its coverage of theattempted assassination of President Reagan." |
| 1983 | Staff | The Boston Globe | "for its balanced and informative special report on thenuclear arms race." |
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| Jim Henderson | Dallas Times Herald | "for his series on the persistence of racism in the 'New South' and, in a second nomination, for his reporting on the consequences ofatomic testing in America." |
| Haynes Johnson | The Washington Post | "for his reporting on the impact of the recession on communities across the nation." |
| 1984 | John Noble Wilford | The New York Times | "for reporting on a wide variety of scientific topics of national import." |
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| George Getschow | The Wall Street Journal | "for his series 'Dirty Work,' which disclosed the existence of temporary slave labor camps throughout the southwest United States." |
| Benjamin Weiser | The Washington Post | "for his series on the difficulties doctors face in making life-and-death decisions regarding their patients." |
| 1985 | Tom Knudson | The Des Moines Register | "for his series of articles that examined thedangers of farming as an occupation." |
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| Robert Parry | Associated Press | "for his exclusive stories about the CIA's production oftwomanuals forNicaraguan rebels—stories that led to an internal investigation and acongressional inquiry." |
| Staff | The Wall Street Journal | "for its thorough coverage and analysis of the1984 presidential campaign." |
| 1986 | Craig Flournoy | The Dallas Morning News | "for their investigation intosubsidized housing inEast Texas, which uncovered patterns ofracial discrimination and segregation in public housing across the United States and led to significant reforms." |
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| George Rodrigue |
| Arthur Howe | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for his enterprising and indefatigable reporting on massive deficiencies inInternal Revenue Service (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." |
| Hugh Aynesworth | Dallas Times Herald | "for their persistent and thorough investigation of self-proclaimed mass murdererHenry Lee Lucas, which exposed him as the perpetrator of a massive hoax." |
| Jim Henderson |
| 1987 | Staff | Miami Herald | "for its exclusive reporting and persistent coverage of theU.S.-Iran-Contra connection." |
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| Staff | The New York Times | "for coverage of the aftermath of theChallenger explosion, which included stories that identified serious flaws in the shuttle's design and in the administration ofAmerica's space program." |
| Bob Woodward | The Washington Post | "for articles that consistently exposed covert government operations in theReagan administration." |
| 1988 | Tim Weiner | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for his series of reports on asecret Pentagon budget used by the government to sponsor defense research and an arms buildup." |
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| George Anthan | The Des Moines Register | "for stories about contaminated poultry, which revealed deficiencies inUSDA inspection procedures and prompted legislative action." |
| Chuck Cook | The Washington Post | "for their series of articles that profiled corruption and mismanagement infederal Indian programs nationwide and helped generate a Senate investigation." |
| Mike Masterson |
| Mark Trahant |
| Staff | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | "for its series 'Divided We Stand,' about the resurgence ofsegregation in American schools." |
| 1989 | Donald L. Barlett | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for their 15-month investigation of 'rifle shot' provisions in theTax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public indignation thatCongress subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically connected individuals and businesses." |
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| James B. Steele |
| Scot Lehigh | The Boston Phoenix | "for his insightful coverage of thepresidential campaign of Massachusetts GovernorMichael Dukakis." |
| Matthew Purdy | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for his reporting on abuses in America'skidney dialysis program." |
| 1990 | Ross Anderson | The Seattle Times | "for coverage of theExxon Valdez oil spill and its aftermath." |
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| Bill Dietrich |
| Mary Ann Gwinn |
| Eric Nalder |
| Charles Babcock | The Washington Post | "for incisive reporting ofabuses of power committed by members of Congress." |
| Gilbert M. Gaul | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for reporting that disclosed how the American blood industry operates with little governmental regulation or supervision." |
| 1991 | Marjie Lundstrom | Gannett News Service | "for reporting that disclosed hundreds ofchild abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners." |
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| Rochelle Sharpe |
| Bruce Butterfield | The Boston Globe | "for his series describingchild labor abuses in nine states." |
| Charles Green | Knight Ridder | "for a series examining the problems and failures of theMedicaid health care system." |
| 1992 | Mike McGraw | The Kansas City Star | "for their critical examination of theU.S. Department of Agriculture." |
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| Jeff Taylor |
| Donald L. Barlett | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for their series 'America: What Went Wrong?' which examined the public policy failures that have diminished theAmerican middle class." |
| James B. Steele |
| Maureen Dowd | The New York Times | "for her coverage of national politics and its personalities." |
| 1993 | David Maraniss | The Washington Post | "for his revealing articles on the life and political record of candidateBill Clinton." |
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| Donald Drake | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for their investigation of the pharmaceutical industry and its role in the soaringcosts of prescription drugs in the United States." |
| Marian Uhlman |
| Douglas Frantz | Los Angeles Times | "for documenting the clandestine effort of the U.S. government tosupply money and weapons to Iraq in the 1980s and up to the weeks before theGulf War." |
| Murray Waas |
| 1994 | Eileen Welsome | The Albuquerque Tribune | "for stories that related the experiences of American civilians who had been used unknowingly in governmentplutonium experiments nearly 50 years ago." |
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| Neill Borowski | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for their investigation that identified rampant abuses of America's nonprofit tax laws." |
| Gilbert M. Gaul |
| Isabel Wilkerson | The New York Times | "for her coverage of theMidwestern flood of 1993 and other stories." |
| 1995 | Tony Horwitz | The Wall Street Journal | "for stories about working conditions in low-wage America." |
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| Stephen Seplow | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for their stories about the origins and impact of violence in America." |
| John Woestendiek |
| David Zucchino |
| David Shribman | The Boston Globe | "for his analytical reporting on Washington developments and the national scene." |
| 1996 | Alix M. Freedman | The Wall Street Journal | "for her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed howammonia additives heighten nicotine potency." |
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| Russell Carollo | Dayton Daily News | "for their reporting on lenient handling ofsexual misconduct cases by the military justice system." |
| Carol Hernandez |
| Jeff Nesmith |
| David Maraniss | The Washington Post | "for their accounts of the way theRepublican takeover of the House of Representatives played out during 1995." |
| Michael Weiskopf |
| 1997 | Staff | The Wall Street Journal | "for its coverage of the struggle againstAIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease." |
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| Ron Brownstein | Los Angeles Times | "for his comprehensive political coverage during thepresidential election year." |
| Bill Moushey | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | "for his resourceful reporting on the federalWitness Protection Program illustrating how the program's secrecy and lack of oversight has led to abuses and risks to the public." |
| 1998 | Russell Carollo | Dayton Daily News | "for their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in themilitary health care system and prompted reforms." |
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| Jeff Nesmith |
| Douglas Frantz | The New York Times | "for his dogged reporting on theChurch of Scientology, particularly its questionable relationship with theInternal Revenue Service, whichgranted the organization tax-exempt status." |
| David Wood | Newhouse News Service | "for his fresh and revealing coverage of the U.S. military and the challenges facing it in thepost-Cold War world." |
| 1999 | Jeff Gerth | 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." |
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| Staff |
| Chris Adams | The Wall Street Journal | "for their reporting on the pitfalls faced by elderly Americans housed in commerciallong-term facilities." |
| Ellen Graham |
| Michael Moss |
| Staff | The Times-Picayune | "for a revealing series on the destruction of housing and the threat to the environment posed by theFormosan termite." |
| 2000 | Staff | The Wall Street Journal | "for its revealing stories that questionU.S. defense spending andmilitary deployment in thepost-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future." |
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| Cornelia Grumman | Chicago Tribune | "for their series on the growing lucrativeprivatization of jails andfoster programs for troubled youths." |
| David Jackson |
| Anne Hull | St. Petersburg Times | "for her quietly powerful stories of Mexican women who come to work in North Carolina crab shacks, in pursuit of a better life." |
| 2001 | Staff | The New York Times | "for its compelling and memorable series exploring racial experiences and attitudes across contemporary America." |
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| Frank Fitzpatrick | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for their series on the extreme commercialization ofcollege sports." |
| Gilbert M. Gaul |
| Staff | Chicago Tribune | "for its comprehensive review of death penalty cases in Texas and nine other states that pointed out fundamental flaws in the system by whichAmericans are executed for crimes." |
| 2002 | Staff | The Washington Post | "for its comprehensive coverage of America'sWar on Terrorism, which regularly brought forth new information together with skilled analysis of unfolding developments." |
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| Douglas M. Birch | The Baltimore Sun | "for their series that suggested that university research on new drug therapies is being tainted by relationships with profit-seeking drug companies." |
| Gary Cohn |
| Gregory Vistica | The New York Times | "for his enterprising and nuanced reporting that disclosed SenatorBob Kerrey's role in a massacre during theVietnam War." |
| 2003 | Alan Miller | Los Angeles Times | "for their revelatory and moving examination of amilitary aircraft, nicknamed 'The Widow Maker,' that was linked to the deaths of 45 pilots."[a] |
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| Kevin Sack |
| Anne Hull | The Washington Post | "for 'Rim of the New World,' her masterful accounts of young immigrants coming of age in the American South." |
| Staff | Chicago Tribune | "for its engrossing exploration of the fall ofArthur Andersen, a once proud accounting firm." |
| Staff | The Washington Post | "for its tenaciously reported and clearly written stories that exposed and explained corruption in corporate America." |
| 2004 | Nancy Cleeland | Los Angeles Times | "for its engrossing examination of the tactics that have madeWal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries." |
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| John Corrigan |
| Abigail Goldman |
| Evelyn Iritani |
| Tyler Marshall |
| Rick Wartzman |
| Staff |
| S. Lynne Walker | Copley News Service | "for her candid, in-depth look at how Mexican immigration transformed an all-whiteMidwestern town." |
| Staff | The Wall Street Journal | "for its masterly, richly detailed stories on how hidden decision-makers make life-and-death choices about who gets health care in America." |
| 2005 | Walt Bogdanich | The New York Times | "for his heavily documented stories about the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings." |
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| Erin Hoover Barnett | The Oregonian | "for their groundbreaking reports on the failure to curtail the growing illicit use ofmethamphetamines." |
| Steve Suo |
| Staff | The Washington Post | "for its relentless, unflinching chronicle ofabuses by American soldiers atAbu Ghraib prison in Iraq." |
| 2006 | Eric Lichtblau | The New York Times | "for their carefully sourced stories onsecret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate on the boundary line between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberty." |
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| James Risen |
| Jerry Kammer | Copley News Service | "for their disclosure of bribe-taking that sent former Rep.Randy Cunningham to prison in disgrace."" |
| Marcus Stern |
| Staff |
| Staff | The San Diego Union-Tribune |
| Michael Moss | The New York Times | "for his tenacious, thoroughly researched stories on the bureaucratic inertia that led to the fatal injury of American soldiers in Iraq who lacked protective armor." |
| 2007 | Charlie Savage | The Boston Globe | "for his revelations that PresidentGeorge W. Bush often used "signing statements" to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws." |
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| Bryan Denson | The Oregonian | "for their disclosure of mismanagement and other abuses in federally-subsidized programs for disabled workers, stirring congressional action." |
| Jeff Kosseff |
| Les Zaitz |
| Steve Mills | Chicago Tribune | "for their investigation of a 1989 execution in Texas that strongly suggests aninnocent man was killed by lethal injection." |
| Maurice Possley |
| 2008 | Jo Becker | The Washington Post | "for their lucid exploration of Vice PresidentDick Cheney and his powerful yet sometimes disguisedinfluence on national policy." |
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| Barton Gellman |
| Howard Witt | Chicago Tribune | "for his wide ranging examination of complicated racial issues in America, from the courtroom to the schoolyard." |
| Staff | The New York Times | "for its stories aboutCIA interrogation techniques that critics condemned as torture, stirring debate on the legal and moral limits of American action against terrorism." |
| 2009 | Staff | St. Petersburg Times | "for 'PolitiFact,' its fact-checking initiative during the2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of theWorld Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters." |
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| Tom Avril | The Philadelphia Inquirer | "for their exhaustive reports on how political interests have eroded the mission of theEnvironmental Protection Agency and placed the nation's environment in greater jeopardy, setting the stage for remedial action." |
| John Shiffman |
| John Sullivan |
| Amy Goldstein | The Washington Post | "for their relentless exploration of America's network ofimmigration detention centers, melding reporting and computer analysis to expose sometimes deadly abuses and spur corrective steps." |
| Dana Priest |
| Staff | The Wall Street Journal | "for its highly detailed coverage of thecollapse of America's financial system, explicating key decisions, capturing the sense of calamity and charting the human toll." |
| 2010 | Matt Richtel | The New York Times | "for incisive work, in print and online, on the hazardous use of cell phones, computers and other devices while operating cars and trucks, stimulating widespread efforts to curbdistracted driving." |
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| Staff |
| Chris Adams | McClatchy | "for their examination of the nation'sfinancial collapse and notably on theinvolvement of Goldman Sachs." |
| Greg Gordon |
| Kevin Hall |
| Ken Bensinger | Los Angeles Times | "for their tenacious reporting on how design flaws and weak federal oversight contributed to a potentiallylethal problem with Toyota vehicles, resulting in corrective steps and a congressional inquiry." |
| Ralph Vartabedian |
| 2011 | Jake Bernstein | ProPublica | "for their exposure of questionable practices onWall Street that contributed to the nation'seconomic meltdown, using digital tools to help explain the complex subject to lay readers." |
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| Jesse Eisinger |
| David Evans | Bloomberg News | "for his revelations of howlife insurance companies retained death benefits owed to families of military veterans and other Americans, leading to government investigations and remedial changes." |
| Staff | The Wall Street Journal | "for its examination of thedisastrous explosion on theDeepwater Horizon oil rig in theGulf of Mexico, using detailed reports to hold government and major corporations accountable." |
| 2012 | David Wood | The Huffington Post | "for his riveting exploration of the physical and emotional challenges facing American soldiers severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan during a decade of war." |
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| Jeff Donn | Associated Press | "for his diligent exposure of federal regulators easing or neglecting to enforce safety standards as agingnuclear power plants exceed their original life spans, with interactive data and videos used to drive home the findings." |
| Jessica Silver-Greenberg | The Wall Street Journal | "for her compelling examination of aggressivedebt collectors whose often questionable tactics, profitable but largely unseen by the public, vexed borrowers hard hit by the nation'sfinancial crisis." |
| 2013 | David Hasemyer | Inside Climate News | "for their rigorous reports on flawed regulation of the nation's oil pipelines, focusing on potential ecological dangers posed by diluted bitumen (or "dilbit"), a controversial form of oil." |
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| Elizabeth McGowan |
| Lisa Song |
| Karen DeYoung | The Washington Post | "for their fresh exploration of howAmerican drones moved from a temporary means to kill terrorists to apermanent weapon of war, raising issues of legality and accountability." |
| Greg Miller |
| Julie Tate |
| Craig Whitlock |
| Carolyn Johnson | The Boston Globe | "for their aggressive coverage of the deadlynational outbreak offungal meningitis traced to acompounding pharmacy in suburban Boston, revealing how the medical regulatory system failed to safeguard patients." |
| Liz Kowalczyk |
| Kay Lazar |
| Todd Wallack |
| Patricia Wen |
| 2014 | Dave Philipps | The Gazette | "for expanding the examination of how wounded combat veterans are mistreated, focusing on loss of benefits for life after discharge by the Army for minor offenses, stories augmented with digital tools and stirring congressional action." |
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| John Emshwiller | The Wall Street Journal | "for their reports and searchable database on the nation's often overlooked factories and research centers that once produced nuclear weapons and now posecontamination risks." |
| Jeremy Singer-Vine |
| Jon Hilsenrath | The Wall Street Journal | "for his exploration of theFederal Reserve, a powerful but little understood national institution." |
| 2015 | Carol D. Leonnig | The Washington Post | "for her smart, persistent coverage of theSecret Service, its security lapses and the ways in which the agency neglected its vital task: the protection of the President of the United States." |
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| Walt Bogdanich | The New York Times | "for stories exposing preferential police treatment forFlorida State University football players who are accused of sexual assault and other criminal offenses." |
| Mike McIntire |
| Jonathan Landay | McClatchy | "for timely coverage of theSenate Intelligence Committee'sreport on CIA torture, demonstrating initiative and perseverance in overcoming government efforts to hide the details." |
| Marisa Taylor |
| Ali Watkins |
| 2016 | Staff | The Washington Post | "for its revelatory initiative in creating and using a national database to illustrate how often and why thepolice shoot to kill and who the victims are most likely to be." |
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| Jason Cherkis | The Huffington Post | "for deeply researched multimedia reporting onopioid addiction that punctured conventional wisdom by showing how manydrug overdose deaths may have been preventable, not inevitable." |
| Jeff Larson | ProPublica | "for ambitious reporting that uncovered greed, political cowardice and willful ignorance as prominent causes of thewater crisis currently affecting the American West." |
| Abrahm Lustgarten |
| Naveena Sadasivam |
| Al Shaw |
| David Sleight |
| 2017 | David Fahrenthold | The Washington Post | "for persistent reporting that created a model for transparent journalism in political campaign coverage while casting doubt onDonald Trump's assertions of generosity toward charities." |
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| Renee Dudley | Reuters | "for uncovering aU.S. college admissions process corrupted by systematic cheating on standardized tests in Asia and the complicity of American officials eager to cash in on full-tuitionforeign students." |
| Alexandra Harney |
| Irene Jay Liu |
| Steve Stecklow |
| Staff |
| Staff | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | "for an extraordinary series revealing the prevalence ofsexual misconduct by doctors in Georgia and across the nation, many of whom continued to practice after their offenses were discovered." |
| 2018 | Staff | The New York Times | "for deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation's understanding ofRussian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to theTrump campaign, thePresident-elect's transition team and hiseventual administration." |
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| Staff | The Washington Post |
| Amy Julia Harris | The Center for Investigative Reporting | "for poignantly exposing a shocking practice that took root in Oklahoma, Arkansas and other states in which, under the guise of criminal justice reform, judges steered defendants into drug rehabs that were little more than lucrative work camps for private industry." |
| Shoshana Walter |
| Brett Murphy | USA Today | "for a graceful, data-driven narrative populated by the truckers who transport goods from America's ports—spirited characters exploited by some of the country's largest and best-known companies." |
| 2019 | Staff | The Wall Street Journal | "for uncovering President Trump'ssecret payoffs totwowomen during his campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him, and the web of supporters who facilitated the transactions, triggering criminal inquiries and calls for impeachment." |
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| Carole Cadwalladr | The Guardian | "for reporting on howFacebook and other tech firms allowed thespread of misinformation and failed to protect consumer privacy, leading toCambridge Analytica's theft of 50 million people's private information, data that was used to boostDonald Trump's campaign." |
| The Observer |
| Staff | The New York Times |
| Staff | Associated Press | "for authoritative coverage of theTrump administration's migrant family separation policy that exposed a federal government overwhelmed by the logistics of caring for and tracking thousands of immigrant children." |
| 2020 | Mike Baker | The Seattle Times | "for groundbreaking stories that exposed design flaws in theBoeing 737 MAX that led to twodeadlycrashes and revealed failures in government oversight." |
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| Dominic Gates |
| Lewis Kamb |
| Steve Miletich |
| Robert Faurtechi | ProPublica | "for their investigation intoAmerica's 7th Fleet after a series of deadly naval accidents in the Pacific." |
| T. Christian Miller |
| Megan Rose |
| Staff | The Wall Street Journal | "for revelatory work showing how aCalifornia utility's neglect of its equipment caused countless wildfires, including one thatwiped out the town ofParadise and killed 85 people." |
| 2021 | Staff | AL.com | "for a year-long investigation of K-9 units and the damage thatpolice dogs inflict on Americans, including innocent citizens and police officers, prompting numerous statewide reforms." |
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| Staff | The Indianapolis Star |
| Staff | Invisible Institute |
| Staff | The Marshall Project |
| Staff | The New York Times | "for detailed reporting on how theTrump administration consistently failed torespond properly or adequately to the coronavirus threat, including downplaying its seriousness." |
| Staff | The Wall Street Journal | "for its series of stories documenting hownursing home residents were hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic, partially because of improper decisions made by government officials." |
| 2022 | Staff | The New York Times | "for an ambitious project that quantified a disturbing pattern of fataltraffic stops by police, illustrating how hundreds of deaths could have been avoided and how officers typically avoided punishment."[1] |
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| Eli Hager | The Marshall Project | "for powerful reporting that exposed how local government agencies throughout America quietly pocketed Social Security benefits intended for children in foster care." |
| Joseph Shapiro | National Public Radio |
| Staff | The Washington Post | "for a sweeping series onenvironmental racism, illuminating how American communities of color have disproportionately suffered for decades from dirty air, polluted water and lax or nonexistent environmental protection." |
| 2023 | Caroline Kitchener | The Washington Post | "for unflinching reporting that captured the complex consequences of life afterRoe v. Wade, including the story of a Texas teenager who gave birth to twins afternew restrictions denied her an abortion."[2] |
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| Kristina Cooke | Reuters | "for a year-long investigation that exposed how two of the world's largest automakers and a major poultry supplier in Alabamaviolated child labor laws and exploited undocumented immigrant children." |
| Mica Rosenberg |
| Joshua Schneyer |
| Stephania Taladrid | The New Yorker | "for sweeping and empathetic reporting on individuals caught in the abortion fight in New Mexico, Texas and Mexico, including stories about an abortion underground, women and girls trying to get health care, and the final days of a Houston abortion clinic." |
| 2024 | Staff | Reuters | "for an eye-opening series of accountability stories focused onElon Musk'sautomobile andaerospace businesses, stories that displayed remarkable breadth and depth and provoked official probes of his companies' practices in Europe and the United States."[3] |
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| Staff | The Washington Post | "for its sobering examination of theAR-15 semi-automatic rifle, which forced readers to reckon with the horrors wrought by the weapon often used formass shootings in America."[b] |
| Sharon Lurye | Associated Press | "for a deeply reported series on the corrosiveeffect of the pandemic on public education, highlighting the staggering number of students missing from classrooms across America." |
| Bianca Vázquez Toness |
| Dave Philipps | The New York Times | "for groundbreaking reporting that uncovered a pattern oftraumatic brain injuries among U.S. troops fromblast exposures caused by the weapons they were firing." |
| 2025 | Staff | The Wall Street Journal | "for chroniclingpolitical and personal shifts of the richest person in the world,Elon Musk, including his turn toconservative politics, his use of legal and illegal drugs and his private conversations with Russian PresidentVladimir Putin." |
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| Jennifer Gollan | San Francisco Chronicle | "for an immersive and revelatory series that exposed the soaring death toll tied to police pursuits and detailed thenear-total immunity that shields officers who initiate deadly chases." |
| Susie Neilson |
| Staff | The Washington Post | "for a sweeping examination of thehuman and environmental toll ofHurricane Helene inWestern North Carolina, including stories about the arrival ofconspiracy theorists inone town and the efforts of residents ofanother to rebuild three months later." |
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