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Pulitzer Prize–winning newspapers

  • Los Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times first appeared on the 4th of December 1881. Nathan Cole Jr. and Thomas Gardiner published the paper under that name.
  • The New York TimesHenry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones established The New-York Daily Times in 1851. Their first issue appeared on the 18th of September 1851, with a…
  • The Washington PostThe Washington Post opened its doors in 1877 under the leadership of Stilson Hutchins. This new daily newspaper faced immediate financial instability and…
  • Pittsburgh Post-GazetteOn the 29th of July 1786, a four-page weekly called The Pittsburgh Gazette appeared on newsstands. Hugh Henry Brackenridge encouraged its creation as the…
  • St. Louis Post-DispatchOn the 12th of December 1878, the first edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch appeared with a print run of just 4,020 copies.
  • The Baltimore SunThe Baltimore Sun began its life on the 17th of May 1837. Arunah Shepherdson Abell established the paper alongside William Moseley Swain and Azariah H.
  • The Boston GlobeSix Boston businessmen pooled $150,000 to launch The Boston Globe on the 4th of March 1872. Eben Dyer Jordan of the Jordan Marsh department store and Cyrus…
  • Miami HeraldThe first edition of the Miami Evening Record appeared on the 15th of September 1903. Frank B. Stoneman reorganized and moved the Orlando Record to Miami…
  • Chicago TribuneThe first edition of the Chicago Tribune hit newsstands on the 10th of June 1847. James Kelly, John E. Wheeler, and Joseph K. C.
  • The Seattle TimesAlden J. Blethen purchased the Seattle Press-Times in 1896 for a sum that remains unrecorded in available sources. The four-page newspaper had started with a…
  • The Star-LedgerThe Newark Daily Advertiser began printing in 1832, marking the start of daily journalism in that city. Amzi Armstrong served as its first president when the…
  • Chicago Sun-TimesThe Chicago Sun-Times landed on doorsteps for the first time on the 4th of December 1941, the day Marshall Field III's Chicago Sun published its debut issue.
  • The Philadelphia InquirerOn the 1st of June 1829, printer John R. Walker and former editor John Norvell launched The Philadelphia Inquirer between Front and 2nd streets in…
  • The Wall Street JournalThe first issue of The Wall Street Journal appeared on the 8th of July 1889. It measured 20 and three-quarters inches by 15 and a half inches.
  • Detroit Free PressJohn R. Williams and his uncle Joseph Campau launched the Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer on the 5th of May 1831.
  • The Denver PostIn August 1892, The Evening Post emerged from a $50,000 fund raised by supporters of Grover Cleveland. These backers sought to stem the flow of Colorado…
  • New York Daily NewsJoseph Medill Patterson launched the Illustrated Daily News on the 24th of June 1919. He and his cousin Robert R. McCormick had decided to create a new paper…
  • The Kansas City StarThe Kansas City Star began its life on the 18th of September 1880. William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Morss established the paper in Missouri after…
  • The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionCarey Wentworth Styles purchased a small newspaper called the Atlanta Daily Opinion on the 16th of June 1868. He renamed it The Constitution and began…
  • Akron Beacon JournalIn 1897, two distinct newspapers joined forces to create a single morning publication in Akron, Ohio. The Summit Beacon had been running since 1839 while the…
  • The Christian Science MonitorMary Baker Eddy established The Christian Science Monitor in 1908 as a daily newspaper based in Boston. She created the outlet to counter sensationalist…