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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service winners

  • 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 YorkerThe New Yorker debuted on the 21st of February, 1925, with a cover image of a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle.
  • 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…
  • 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 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…
  • 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.
  • The GuardianThe Guardian was born on the 5th of May 1821 - by chance the very day Napoleon Bonaparte died - as a weekly paper selling for 7d in the streets of Manchester.
  • Detroit Free PressJohn R. Williams and his uncle Joseph Campau launched the Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer on the 5th of May 1831.
  • Associated PressThe Associated Press sent its first war correspondent to cover the Mexican-American War in 1846, and the organization that dispatched him has not stopped…
  • 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 Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionOn 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…
  • 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.
  • ProPublicaProPublica made history in 2010 by becoming the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize. The winning story followed the exhausted doctors of a New…