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.
- 1972: Mike Royko, Chicago Daily News[?], for his columns during 1971.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1977: George F. Will[?], Washington Post Writers Group, for distinguished commentary on a variety of topics.
- 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
- 1981: Dave Anderson[?], New York Times, for his commentary on sports.
- 1982: Art Buchwald[?], Los Angeles Times[?] Syndicate
- 1983: Claude Sitton[?], Raleigh (N. C.) News & Observer,
- 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.
- 1986: Jimmy Breslin[?], New York Daily News[?], for columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens
- 1987: Charles Krauthammer[?], Washington Post Writers Group, for his witty and insightful columns on national issues.
- 1988: Dave Barry, Miami Herald[?], for his consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting fresh insights into serious concerns.
- 1989: Clarence Page[?], Chicago Tribune, for his provocative columns on local and national affairs.
- 1990: Jim Murray[?], Los Angeles Times[?], for his sports columns.
- 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.
- 1992: Anna Quindlen[?], New York Times, for her compelling columns on a wide range of personal and political topics.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001: Dorothy Rabinowitz[?], Wall Street Journal, for her articles on American society and culture.
- 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.
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