Curated playlist
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service winners
- Los Angeles TimesIn 1910, a bomb tore through the Los Angeles Times headquarters and killed 21 people.
- The New YorkerThe phrase "back to the drawing board" began as a 1941 New Yorker cartoon.
- The Washington PostThe Washington Post has its own ZIP Code, 20071. The newspaper was founded in 1877 in the capital.
- 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.
- 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.
- The GuardianGCHQ agents supervised the destruction of The Guardian's Snowden hard drives in July 2013.
- Detroit Free PressThe Detroit Free Press first rolled off a press hauled by wagon from Pontiac. Its first issue came out in 1831.
- Associated PressThe Associated Press began as five newspapers splitting a telegraph bill.
- 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 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.
- ProPublicaIn 2010, ProPublica became the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize.