Pulitzer Centennial

Stan Grossfeld, NF ’92

Stan Grossfeld, NF ’92

In 1984, Grossfeld and Globe reporter Colin Nickerson hooked up with a rebel group bringing a food convoy from Sudan to Ethiopia. As Grossfeld recalls, they traveled at night and…
Maria  Henson, NF ’94

Maria Henson, NF ’94

What started out as a single editorial, written after a Lexington woman was fatally shot by her abusive husband, turned into a series of editorials about battered women in Kentucky.…
George Rodrigue, NF ’90

George Rodrigue, NF ’90

Rodrigue and Craig Flournoy won The Dallas Morning News’s first Pulitzer for their investigation into the racial discrimination and segregation pervading public housing in East Texas and across the country.Despite…
Shirley Christian, NF ’74

Shirley Christian, NF ’74

Christian was recognized for her dispatches from Central America. Her specialty was reporting on the human dimensions of political strife.GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala—“If you want to cry out for the dignity…
Hedrick Smith, NF ’70

Hedrick Smith, NF ’70

Smith recalls his time as a member of the team at the Times that worked on the Pentagon Papers.For three months, Neil Sheehan and I disappeared into the mass anonymity…
William Lambert, NF ’60 Wallace Turner, NF ’59

William Lambert, NF ’60 Wallace Turner, NF ’59

Lambert and Turner’s stories about efforts on the part of union and underworld figures to wrest control from municipal officials in Portland, Oregon helped spur investigations into organized crime in…
Dale Maharidge, NF ’88

Dale Maharidge, NF ’88

Maharidge and Williamson revisited rural Alabama to find out what happened to the families of the poor sharecroppers chronicled by another writer-photographer pair, James Agee and Walker Evans, in the…
Gene Miller, NF ’68

Gene Miller, NF ’68

Miller won the first of two Pulitzers for his investigations into the cases of two people wrongfully convicted of murder. Both were released from prison as a result of Miller’s…
Keyes Beech, NF ’53

Keyes Beech, NF ’53

Six foreign correspondents from three news outlets shared the prize for their reporting on the Korean War. Recognized alongside Homer Bigart, Marguerite Higgins, Relman Morin, Fred Sparks, and Don Whitehead,…
Doug Marlette, NF ’81

Doug Marlette, NF ’81

Marlette, who died in 2007, is remembered by Christopher Weyant, NF ’16, a cartoonist for The New Yorker.Of the thousands of political cartoons I’ve read over the course of my…