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Pulitzer Prize–winning newspapers

  • Los Angeles TimesOn the 1st of October 1910, a bomb tore through the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times, killing 21 people. The attack was carried out by union leaders…
  • The New York TimesThe New York Times has been called "The Gray Lady" for as long as anyone can remember, a nickname that nods to the color of newsprint and to the paper's…
  • The Washington PostThe Washington Post has its own ZIP Code. That single fact captures something essential about a newspaper so embedded in the geography and politics of the…
  • Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was born on the western frontier of a new nation, when the Allegheny Mountains still marked the edge of the known American world.
  • St. Louis Post-DispatchThe St. Louis Post-Dispatch was born from a public auction in 1878, when Joseph Pulitzer bid on a bankrupt newspaper and walked away with the foundation of a…
  • The Baltimore SunThe Baltimore Sun was founded on the 17th of May 1837 by Arunah Shepherdson Abell and two associates, William Moseley Swain from Rhode Island and Azariah H.
  • The Boston GlobeThe Boston Globe hit the streets for the first time on the 4th of March, 1872, priced at four cents. Six Boston businessmen had pooled $150,000 to launch it…
  • 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 Chicago Tribune published its first edition on the 10th of June 1847, founded by James Kelly, John E. Wheeler, and Joseph K. C. Forrest.
  • The Seattle TimesThe Seattle Times first reached readers on the 3rd of May, 1886 - a single edition carrying the hopes of two men named Thomas H. Dempsey and Jud R. Andrews.
  • The Star-LedgerThe Star-Ledger arrived on New Jersey doorsteps every morning for decades, tossed at the end of driveways in towns across the state.
  • 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 InquirerThe Philadelphia Inquirer was founded on the 1st of June, 1829, by a printer named John R. Walker and a former newspaper editor named John Norvell.
  • The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal began on the 8th of July 1889 as a four-page sheet measuring about 20 by 15 inches, sold for two cents a copy.
  • 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 PostThe Denver Post once had more than 600 journalists working under a single joint agreement with its crosstown rival. Today it runs with a fraction of that…
  • New York Daily NewsIn 1928, a reporter working for the Daily News strapped a small camera to his leg inside an execution chamber. He captured a photograph of Ruth Snyder in the…
  • The Kansas City StarThe Kansas City Star was founded on the 18th of September 1880, priced at a paltry dime a week. That cheap subscription rate was no accident.
  • 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 JournalThe Akron Beacon Journal traces its roots to 1839, when a predecessor paper called the Summit Beacon first rolled off the presses in Akron, Ohio.
  • The Christian Science MonitorThe Christian Science Monitor was born out of one woman's fury at a newspaper. In 1908, Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, had…