For their diligent campaign that helped reverse a decision to end fluoridation of the water supply for the 700,000 residents of the newspaper’s home county
For his well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama.
For their relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city’s better-off northern half and distressed southern half.
For his relentless, down-to-earth editorials on the perils of local government secrecy, effectively admonishing citizens to uphold their right to know.
For their compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation.
For their persuasive, richly reported editorials on abuses inside a forgotten Oregon mental hospital.
For his deeply researched editorials on reclaiming California's flooded Hetch Hetchy Valley that stirred action.
For his incisive editorials that analyzed California's troubled state government, prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues.
For her powerful, freshly challenging editorials on reform of the death penalty.
For their comprehensive and powerfully written editorials exploring the issues and dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling on the streets.
For his even-handed and influential series of editorials commenting on the divisive issues arising from civil unions for same-sex couples.
For his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations.
For its effective campaign to rescue Harlem's Apollo Theatre from the financial mismanagement that threatened the landmark's survival.
For his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents.
For his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting the lives of people in his community.
For his editorial campaign urging reform of Florida's probate system for settling estates.
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.
For her editorials about battered women in Kentucky, which focused statewide attention on the problem and prompted significant reforms.
For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.
For his editorials about a local bond issue for the preservation of farmland and other open space in rural Pennsylvania.
For her series of editorials protesting overdevelopment of Florida's Orange County.
For his editorials urging passage of the first major immigration reform act in 34 years.
For his series of editorials on various local and state matters.
For its campaign against the detention of illegal Haitian immigrants by federal officials.
For selected samples of her work.
For editorials challenging the power of a local brothel keeper.
For his editorials against government secrecy and judicial censorship.
For his editorials about the Kanawha County schoolbook controversy.
For his courageous campaign to focus public attention on scandals in New Jersey's state government.
For his editorial campaign to reduce racial tensions in Bethlehem.
For his editorials in support of the peaceful desegregation of Florida's schools.
For his successful editorial campaign for better housing in his city.
For steadfast adherence to her editorial duty in the face of great pressure and opposition.
For his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.
For his forceful editorials calling public attention to the activities of a semi-secret organization known as the John Birch Society.
For his editorials on clerical interference in the 1960 gubernatorial election in Puerto Rico.
For his series of editorials on the school integration problem in Virginia, as exemplified by "The Year the Schools Closed," published January 1, 1959, and "The Year the Schools Opened," published December 31, 1959.
For his distinguished editorial writing during 1958 as exemplified in his editorial "A Church, A School...." and for his long, courageous and effective editorial leadership.
For the forcefulness, dispassionate analysis and clarity of his editorials on the school integration conflict in Little Rock.
For his fearless and reasoned editorials in a community inflamed by a segregation issue, an outstanding example of his work being the editorial entitled, "What a Price for Peace," published on February 7,1956.
For the editorial inviting a farm delegation from the Soviet Union to visit Iowa, which led directly to the Russian farm visit to the U.S..
For an editorial on "The Cause of a Strike," impartially and clearly analyzing the responsibility of both labor and management for a local union's unauthorized strike in July, 1954, which rendered 45,000 Chrysler Corporation workers idle and unpaid. By pointing out how and why the parent United Automobile Workers' Union ordered the local strike called off and stating that management let dissatisfaction get out of hand, the editorial made a notable contribution to public understanding of the whole program of the respective responsibilities and relationships of labor and management in this field.
For a series of editorials on the "New Look" in National Defense which won wide attention for their analysis of changes in American military policy.
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
For his editorial entitled, "The Low Estate of Public Morals."
For his series of editorials analyzing and clarifying a very important constitutional issue, which is described by the general heading of the series, "Government by Treaty."
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
For a group of editorials published during the year 1945 on the subject of racial, religious and economic intolerance, as exemplified by the editorial "Go for Broke."
For his editorials published during the calendar year 1944, especially for his editorials on the subject of freedom of the press.
For his editorials published during the calendar year 1942.
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year as exemplified by the editorial entitled "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
For its series of editorials on national and international topics.
For the editorial entitled "The Gentlemen from Nebraska."
For his editorial entitled "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery," which is typical of a series of articles written on the lynching evil and in successful advocacy of legislation to prevent it.
For his editorials against gangsterism, floggings and racial and religious intolerance.
For the editorial entitled "House of a Hundred Sorrows."
For the editorial entitled "Plight of the South."
For an editorial entitled "Law and the Jungle."
For the editorial article, "Vae Victis!" and the editorial, "War Has Its Compensation."
For its editorials in the chaotic wake of Hurricane Sandy, providing a voice of reason, hope and indignation as recovery began and the future challenge of limiting shoreline devastation emerged.
For his passionate editorials on the civil conflict in Syria, arguing for greater engagement by the United States to help stop bloodshed in a strategic Arab nation.
For their analysis of and prescription for the European debt crisis, dealing with important technical questions in ways that the average readers could grasp.
For editorials that examined the policies of a new, inexperienced governor and their impact on the state, using techniques that stretched the typical editorial format and caused the governor to mend some of his ways.
For their campaign that resulted in the state’s first reform of open government laws in 35 years, reducing legal obstacles that helped shroud the work of government officials.
For his insightful editorials on foreign affairs, marked by prescient pieces critical of America’s policy toward Egypt well before a revolution erupted there.
For his relentless campaign to reform an unsustainable public pension system that threatens the economic future of Illinois.
For his editorials on health care reform that cut through the clutter, debunk myths and often bring the national debate home to Missouri.
For their unyielding editorials urging reform of a culture of corruption in Illinois state government, repeatedly sounding the alarm when lawmakers faltered.
For his succinct and insightful editorials on the nation’s economic collapse, zeroing in on problems and offering solutions with a steady voice of reason.
For their persistent campaign to reform statehouse ethics, drawing on corruption in the governor’s office to drive home their successful call for legislative action.
For her compelling editorials on the harsh sentences that teenagers can receive for consensual sex in Georgia.
For his relentless editorials that led to mandating roll-call votes on all statewide legislation in Texas.
For its persistent, high-spirited campaign against abuses in the governor's veto power.
For her persuasive heavily reported editorials on development projects that imperiled Florida's wetlands and wildlife.
For his eloquent, rigorously researched editorials on rising inequality in America.
For its series of incisive editorials reversing the paper's long-held support of the death penalty.
For their passionate editorials in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that empathized with victims while pleading for relief from the outside world.
For his persistent and passionate editorials on the tragedy in the Darfur region of the Sudan.
For their forceful editorial campaign against unethical behavior in city hall that resulted in significant change.
For his refreshing, richly textured editorials that illuminated a variety of life situations.
For his exhaustively researched series of editorials that exposed the harmful global effects of American agricultural trade policy.
For his clear, compelling editorials on the Food and Drug Administration's delay in approval of new cancer drugs.
For her passionate, persuasive editorials on illegal immigrants and on the state's flawed justice of the peace courts.
For his editorials, passionate and powerful, opposing the nomination and policies of U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft.
For its crusade on behalf of the city's neglected parks.
For her persuasive editorial series urging reform of the process by which the state draws its legislative and congressional districts.
For her searching and knowledgeable editorials on international and human rights issues.
For his carefully reasoned editorial campaign against the passage of a proposition to legally allow Missouri residents to carry concealed weapons.
For his elegantly-written editorials urging America's continued commitment to international human rights issues.
For his campaign that was instrumental in bringing about reform of the inequities in Long Island's system of property assessment.
For his powerful series of editorials on the legal ordeal of a rape victim who took her case to trial. (Moved by the jury from the Commentary category.)
For her editorials pressing for a civic agenda of economic and educational renewal.
For his editorials dissecting federal welfare reform legislation, directing attention to the problems of the poor and powerless.
For his editorials on a wide range of topical subjects.
For his editorials about welfare reform and its effect on children.
For their series of editorials advocating the revision of Alabama's 1901 constitution.
For its elegantly written series, "What's Right About Iowa?"
For a series of editorials examining the benefits and drawbacks of drug legalization.
For editorials urging the reform of Alabama's failing public school system.
For his clear and persuasive editorials decrying corruption and advocating reform in the Kentucky legislature.
For a bold campaign to defuse myths and prejudice promoted by an anti-homosexual constitutional amendment, which was subsequently defeated.
For a campaign that focussed attention on a neglected area of the city and generated an immediate civic response to the newspaper's suggestions for change.
For his editorials on a variety of local and national issues.
For his editorial campaign urging state support of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit System, the fourth largest mass-transit system in the nation.
For his editorials on a variety of national issues, including some of specific interest to the American Jewish community.
For his editorial series "Why Politics Stinks," which called for reform of the nation's troubled political system.
For an editorial campaign against broad-form deeds in the state which helped convince voters to approve limits on their use.
For a series of editorials about the coming generation of children threatened by poverty and about the urgent need for political intervention and reform
For his editorials on a variety of local and national issues.
For his editorials on the rights of Cuban refugees imprisoned in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
For his editorials on various campaign issues affecting the Bronx, N.Y. community.
For his editorials on medical and ethical issues, which helped inspire changes in FDA drug approval procedures.
For their editorial campaign in favor of busing to achieve racially balanced schools.
For his editorials on various state concerns.
For their series of editorials on immigration problems and policies.
For her series of editorials which stressed ways to make Chicago city government more economical and efficient.
For their editorial campaign urging passage of an immigration reform bill.