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Complete list of past Pulitzer Prize winners

The following is a list of all past winners of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.

2009: Mark Mahoney of The Post-Star, Glens Falls, NY - For his relentless, down-to-earth editorials on the perils of local government secrecy, effectively admonishing citizens to uphold their right to know.
2008: No Award.
2007: Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans of New York Daily News - For their compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation.
2006: Rick Attig and Doug Bates of The Oregonian, Portland - For their persuasive, richly reported editorials on abuses inside a forgotten Oregon mental hospital.
2005: Tom Philp of The Sacramento Bee - For his deeply researched editorials on reclaiming California's flooded Hetch Hetchy Valley that stirred action.
2004: William R. Stall of Los Angeles Times - For his incisive editorials that analyzed California's troubled state government, prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues.
2003: Cornelia Grumman of Chicago Tribune - For her powerful, freshly challenging editorials on reform of the death penalty.
2002: Alex Raksin and Bob Sipchen of Los Angeles Times - For their comprehensive and powerfully written editorials exploring the issues and dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling on the streets.
2001: David Moats of Rutland (VT) Herald - For his even-handed and influential series of editorials commenting on the divisive issues arising from civil unions for same-sex couples.
2000: John C. Bersia of The Orlando Sentinel - For his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations.
1999: Editorial Board of Daily News, New York, NY - For its effective campaign to rescue Harlem's Apollo Theatre from the financial mismanagement that threatened the landmark's survival.
1998: Bernard L. Stein of The Riverdale (NY) Press - For his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents.
1997: Michael Gartner of The Daily Tribune, Ames, Iowa - For his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting the lives of people in his community.
1996: Robert B. Semple of The New York Times - For his editorials on environmental issues.
1995: Jeffrey Good of The St. Petersburg (FL) Times - For his editorial campaign urging reform of Florida's probate system for settling estates.
1994: R. Bruce Dold of Chicago Tribune - For his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system.
1993: No Award.
1992: Maria Henson of Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader - For her editorials about battered women in Kentucky, which focused statewide attention on the problem and prompted significant reforms.
1991: Ron Casey, Harold Jackson and Joey Kennedy of The Birmingham (AL) News - For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.
1990: Thomas J. Hylton of The Pottstown (PA) Mercury - For his editorials about a local bond issue for the preservation of farmland and other open space in rural Pennsylvania.
1989: Lois Wille of Chicago Tribune - For her editorials on a variety of local issues.
1988: Jane Healy of Orlando Sentinel - For her series of editorials protesting overdevelopment of Florida's Orange County.
1987: Jonathan Freedman of The Tribune, San Diego, CA - For his editorials urging passage of the first major immigration reform act in 34 years.
1986: Jack Fuller of Chicago Tribune - For his editorials on constitutional issues.
1985: Richard Aregood of The Philadelphia Daily News for his editorials on a variety of subjects.
1984: Albert Scardino of Georgia Gazette, Savannah, GA - For his series of editorials on various local and state matters.
1983: Miami Herald Editorial Board of The Miami Herald - For its campaign against the detention of illegal Haitian immigrants by federal officials.
1982: Jack Rosenthal of The New York Times.
1980: Robert L. Bartley of The Wall Street Journal.
1979: Edwin M. Yoder Jr. of The Washington Star.
1978: Meg Greenfield of The Washington Post, deputy editorial page editor - For selected samples of her work.
1977: Warren L. Lerude, Foster Church and Norman F. Cardoza of Reno (Nev.) Evening Gazette and Nevada State Journal - For editorials challenging the power of a local brothel keeper.
1976: Philip P. Kerby of Los Angeles Times - For his editorials against government secrecy and judicial censorship.
1975: John Daniell Maurice of Charleston (WV) Daily Mail - For his editorials about the Kanawha County schoolbook controversy.
1974: F. Gilman Spencer of The Trentonian, Trenton, NJ, editor - For his courageous campaign to focus public attention on scandals in New Jersey's state government.
1973: Roger B. Linscott of Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, MA - For his editorials during 1972.
1972: John Strohmeyer of Bethlehem (PA) Globe-Times - For his editorial campaign to reduce racial tensions in Bethlehem.
1971: Horance G. Davis Jr. of The Gainesville (FL) Sun - For his editorials in support of the peaceful desegregation of Florida's schools.
1970: Philip L. Geyelin of The Washington Post - For his editorials during 1969.
1969: Paul Greenberg of Pine Bluff (AR) Commercial - For his editorials during 1968.
The list goes to 1917 to the New York Tribune - For an editorial article on the first anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania.
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