Women Pulitzer Prize Winners in Journalism
See Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism for the full list of winners. Editorial | 1956 | Lauren K. Soth (Des Moines Register and Tribune) | | 1960 | Lenoir Chambers (Virginian–Pilot) | | 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) |
Correspondence | 1937 | Anne O'Hare McCormick (New York Times) |
News Photography | 1954 | Mrs. Walter M. Schau | | 1986 | Spot news: Michel duCille and Carol Guzy (Miami Herald); features: Tom Gralish (Philadelphia Inquirer) | | 1987 | Spot news: Kim Komenich (San Francisco Examiner); features: David Peterson (Des Moines Register) | | 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) |
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) |
Reporting | 1936 | Lauren D. Lyman (New York Times) | | 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) |
General News Reporting | 1986 | Edna Buchanan (Miami Herald) |
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) |
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) |
Commentary | 1975 | Mary McGrory (Washington Star) | | 1980 | Ellen H. Goodman (Boston Globe) | | 1992 | Anna Quindlen (New York Times) | | 1993 | Liz Balmaseda (Miami Herald) | | 1997 | Eileen McNamara (Boston Globe) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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