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Pulitzer Prize–winning newspapers

  • Los Angeles TimesIn 1910, a bomb tore through the Los Angeles Times headquarters and killed 21 people.
  • The New York TimesThe New York Times printed a crooked political boss's own account books in 1871.
  • The Washington PostThe Washington Post has its own ZIP Code, 20071. The newspaper was founded in 1877 in the capital.
  • Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette began in 1786 as a four-page weekly.
  • St. Louis Post-DispatchA cartoon bird has run on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch front page every day since 1901.
  • The Baltimore SunThe Baltimore Sun once ran eight foreign bureaus, then closed every one by 2008.
  • The Boston GlobeIn 1967, The Boston Globe became the first major American paper to oppose the Vietnam War.
  • Miami HeraldThe Miami Herald began as a remnant of an Orlando paper. A lawyer named Frank B. Stoneman moved it south in 1903.
  • Chicago TribuneThe Chicago Tribune printed "Dewey Defeats Truman" before the 1948 election was settled.
  • The Seattle TimesMore than 100 Seattle Times journalists signed a protest letter to their own publisher in 2012.
  • The Star-LedgerTony Soprano collected the Star-Ledger from his driveway in The Sopranos.
  • Chicago Sun-TimesChicago Sun-Times reporters bought and ran a saloon in 1977 to expose corruption. Some Pulitzer judges saw entrapment.
  • The Philadelphia InquirerThe Philadelphia Inquirer printed a reporter's account of a Union defeat, and crowds threatened to burn its building.
  • The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal's first issue in 1889 carried a boxing report stitched from conflicting accounts.
  • Detroit Free PressThe Detroit Free Press first rolled off a press hauled by wagon from Pontiac. Its first issue came out in 1831.
  • The Denver PostIn 2018, The Denver Post's own editorial board called its owners "vulture capitalists."
  • New York Daily NewsIn 1928, a Daily News reporter strapped a camera to his leg in an execution chamber.
  • The Kansas City StarThe Kansas City Star taught young Ernest Hemingway to use short sentences. He worked there for six months.
  • The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionAn Atlanta newspaper won a 1989 Pulitzer for a series that had already cost its editor his job.
  • Akron Beacon JournalThe Akron Beacon Journal was the first paper of what became Knight Ridder. It has also won four Pulitzer Prizes.
  • The Christian Science MonitorNelson Mandela was allowed to read The Christian Science Monitor in prison. He later visited its Boston offices.

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