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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary has been awarded since 1970. List of winners:
- 1970: Marquis W. Childs , St. Louis Post-Dispatch, distinguished commentary during 1969.
- 1971: William A. Caldwell , Record, Hackensack, New Jersey, for his commentary in his daily column.
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1972: Mike Royko, Chicago Daily News, for his columns during 1971.
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1973: David S. Broder, Washington Post, for his columns during 1972.
- 1974: Edwin A. Roberts Jr. , National Observer, for his commentary on public affairs during 1973.
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1975: Mary McGrory, Washington Star, for her commentary on public affairs during 1974.
- 1976: Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith , New York Times, for his commentary on sports in 1975 and for many other years.
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1977: George F. Will, Washington Post Writers Group, for distinguished commentary on a variety of topics.
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1978: William Safire, New York Times, for commentary on the Bert Lance affair.
- 1979: Russell Baker , New York Times
- 1980: Ellen H. Goodman , Boston Globe
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1981: Dave Anderson, New York Times, for his commentary on sports.
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1982: Art Buchwald, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
- 1983: Claude Sitton , Raleigh (N. C.) News & Observer,
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1984: Vermont Royster, Wall Street Journal,
- 1985: Murray Kempton , Newsday, Long Island, N.Y., for witty and insightful reflection on public issues in 1984 and throughout a distinguished career.
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1986: Jimmy Breslin, New York Daily News, for columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens
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1987: Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post Writers Group, for his witty and insightful columns on national issues.
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1988: Dave Barry, Miami Herald, for his consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting fresh insights into serious concerns.
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1989: Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, for his provocative columns on local and national affairs.
- 1990: Jim Murray , Los Angeles Times, for his sports columns.
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1991: Jim Hoagland , Washington Post, for searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.
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1992: Anna Quindlen, New York Times, for her compelling columns on a wide range of personal and political topics.
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1993: Liz Balmaseda, Miami Herald, for her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami.
- 1994: William Raspberry , Washington Post, for his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.
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1995: Jim Dwyer , Newsday, Long Island, N.Y., for his compelling and compassionate columns about New York City.
- 1996: E.R. Shipp , New York Daily News, for her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.
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1997: Eileen McNamara , Boston Globe, for her many-sided columns on Massachusetts people and issues.
- 1998: Mike McAlary , New York Daily News, for reporting on the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse.
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1999: Maureen Dowd, New York Times, for her fresh and insightful columns on the impact of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.
- 2000: Paul A. Gigot , Wall Street Journal, for his informative and insightful columns on politics and government.
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2001: Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street Journal, for her articles on American society and culture.
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2002: Thomas Friedman, New York Times, for his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat.
- 2003: Colbert I. King , Washington Post, for his against-the-grain columns that speak to people in power with ferocity and wisdom.
- 2004: Leonard Pitts Jr. , Miami Herald, for his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues.
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2005: Connie Schultz of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland
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