Pulitzer Centennial

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…
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…
Ken Armstrong, NF ’01

Ken Armstrong, NF ’01

For “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” Armstrong and ProPublica’s T. Christian Miller investigated the case of an 18-year-old woman who said she was raped at knifepoint, then said she made…
Cynthia Tucker, NF ’89

Cynthia Tucker, NF ’89

Tucker was recognized for her columns exhibiting a strong sense of morality and connection to the community, such as the one excerpted here about former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell, who…
Anja Niedringhaus, NF ’07

Anja Niedringhaus, NF ’07

Santiago Lyon, NF ’04, vice president/photography of  The Associated Press, recalls his longtime friend and colleague Niedringhaus, who was shot and killed in Afghanistan in 2014.She made it her life’s…
Robert A. Caro,  NF ’66

Robert A. Caro, NF ’66

 Robert A. CaroIn “Master of the Senate,” the third installment of “The Years of Lyndon Johnson” biography (of which there are currently four published volumes; a fifth is expected), Caro…