Pulitzer Centennial

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…
August 2, 2016
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…
August 2, 2016
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…
August 2, 2016
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.…
August 2, 2016
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…
August 2, 2016
Anthony Lewis, NF ’57

Anthony Lewis, NF ’57

Lewis wrote a series of articles about Abraham Chasanow, a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy who—deemed a security risk for allegedly having communist associations—was suspended from his job for…
August 2, 2016
Eugene Robinson, NF ’88

Eugene Robinson, NF ’88

Robinson’s eloquent, insightful columns on the 2008 presidential race explored what the election of the first African-American president would mean—for him, for African-Americans, and for the country as a whole.It’s…
August 2, 2016
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…
August 2, 2016
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…
August 2, 2016
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…
August 2, 2016