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
John Hughes, NF ’62

John Hughes, NF ’62

Hughes, the paper’s East Asia correspondent, covered the attempted Communist coup in Indonesia in 1965 and the purge that followed.Like one of its own tropical island volcanoes, Indonesia is rumbling…
August 2, 2016
Daniel R. Biddle, NF ’90, H.G. Bissinger, NF ’86, and Fredric N. Tulsky, NF ’89

Daniel R. Biddle, NF ’90, H.G. Bissinger, NF ’86, and Fredric N. Tulsky, NF ’89

Biddle, Bissinger, and Tulsky’s series on the Philadelphia court system documented an array of incompetence, politicking, and other transgressions, leading to federal and state investigations.Behind the scenes, Common Pleas Court…
August 2, 2016
Anne Hull, NF ’95

Anne Hull, NF ’95

The Washington Post’s investigation into the neglect and mistreatment of wounded veterans and the deplorable conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center incited a public outcry and prompted a…
August 2, 2016
Stanley Forman, NF ’80

Stanley Forman, NF ’80

Forman won the Pulitzer for Spot News Photography two years in a row, the second time, in 1977, for “The Soiling of Old Glory.” In a recent interview, he talks…
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