Pulitzer Prize for Editorial WritingW
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Journalism. It has been awarded since 1917 for distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year. The program has also recognized opinion journalism with its Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning from 1922.

Harry AshmoreW
Harry Ashmore

Harry Scott Ashmore was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials in 1957 on the school integration conflict in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Hodding CarterW
Hodding Carter

William Hodding Carter, II, was a Southern U.S. progressive journalist and author.

Andie DominickW
Andie Dominick

Andie Dominick is an editorial writer at the Des Moines Register. She received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for "examining the damaging consequences for poor Iowa residents of privatizing the state’s administration of Medicaid."

Meg GreenfieldW
Meg Greenfield

Mary Ellen Greenfield, known as Meg Greenfield, was an American editorial writer who worked for the Washington Post and Newsweek. She was also a Washington, D.C. insider, known for her wit. Greenfield won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.

John S. KnightW
John S. Knight

John Shively Knight was an American newspaper publisher and editor based in Akron, Ohio.

Ralph McGillW
Ralph McGill

Ralph Emerson McGill was an American journalist, best known as an anti-segregationist editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper. He was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors, serving from 1945 to 1968. He won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1959.

Eugene PattersonW
Eugene Patterson

Eugene Corbett Patterson, sometimes known as Gene Patterson, was an American journalist and civil rights activist. He was awarded the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.

F. Gilman SpencerW
F. Gilman Spencer

Frederick Gilman Spencer III was an American newspaper editor.

Thomas M. StorkeW
Thomas M. Storke

Thomas More Storke was an American journalist, politician, postmaster, and publisher. He was awarded with the famous Pulitzer Prize for Journalism in 1962. Storke also served as an interim United States Senator, appointed to serve between the resignation of William Gibbs McAdoo in November 1938 and the January 1939 swearing-in of Sheridan Downey, who had been elected to succeed McAdoo.

Alex StorozynskiW
Alex Storozynski

Alex Storozynski is an American author and was the President and Executive Director of The Kosciuszko Foundation. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner.

William Allen WhiteW
William Allen White

William Allen White was an American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement. Between 1896 and his death, White became a spokesman for middle America.