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Pulitzer Prize–winning newspapers

  • Los Angeles Times10 minOn 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 targeting one of the most aggressively anti-labor newspapers in the American West. It…
  • The New York Times9 minThe 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 long-standing refusal to embrace yellow journalism. Founded in 1851 as the New-York…
  • The Washington Post12 minThe 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 American capital that the postal service gave it its own address: 20071. Founded in…
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette11 minThe 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. On the 29th of July 1786, a four-page weekly called The Pittsburgh Gazette rolled…
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch7 minThe 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 journalistic institution. He paid for the St. Louis Dispatch, merged it with the…
  • The Baltimore Sun10 minThe 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. Simmons from Philadelphia. The three men had already launched another paper…
  • The Boston Globe11 minThe 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, and among them were figures whose names would become woven into the fabric of New…
  • Miami Herald11 minThe Miami Herald published its first edition on the 15th of September 1903, not as a bold venture by a media titan, but as a reorganized remnant of an Orlando paper dragged south by a lawyer named Frank B. Stoneman. Stoneman was the father…
  • Chicago Tribune12 minThe Chicago Tribune published its first edition on the 10th of June 1847, founded by James Kelly, John E. Wheeler, and Joseph K. C. Forrest. From that modest beginning, the paper grew into something its own editors considered the finest…
  • The Seattle Times6 minThe 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 city of Seattle was barely a generation old. Today, that same paper holds the…
  • The Star-Ledger7 minThe Star-Ledger arrived on New Jersey doorsteps every morning for decades, tossed at the end of driveways in towns across the state. On the HBO series The Sopranos, Tony Soprano himself padded out to collect it in his bathrobe. That image…
  • Chicago Sun-Times10 minThe 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. Three days later, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor upended the country. That…
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer13 minThe 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. On its first day, it made a promise: to defend the right of the minority to voice their…
  • The Wall Street Journal11 minThe 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. Its very first issue carried a raw wire report on a boxing match between John L. Sullivan and Jake…
  • Detroit Free Press7 minThe Detroit Free Press printed its first issue on the 5th of May, 1831. The Washington press used that day had been hauled by wagon from Pontiac over rough roads. It came from the discontinued Oakland Chronicle of Pontiac. Two people…
  • The Denver Post9 minThe 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 number. That collapse did not happen quietly. It happened in public, with the paper's…
  • New York Daily News15 minIn 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 electric chair. The next morning's front page carried a single word: "DEAD!" That…
  • The Kansas City Star9 minThe 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. William Rockhill Nelson, who started the paper with Samuel E. Morss after selling a newspaper in…
  • The Atlanta Journal-Constitution11 minOn the 31st of December 2025, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran its printing presses for the last time. The paper had been publishing in some form since 1868, more than 150 years without stopping. Two rival papers spent decades…
  • Akron Beacon Journal4 minThe Akron Beacon Journal traces its roots to 1839, when a predecessor paper called the Summit Beacon first rolled off the presses in Akron, Ohio. That makes it Summit County's oldest continuously operating business. Over the decades it has…
  • The Christian Science Monitor10 minThe 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 grown tired of the New York World's relentless attacks on her. Her answer was to start…

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