1980 Pulitzer Prize

• Public Service:
• Gannett News Service, for "Story of the Pauline Fathers", its 18-day series on misuse of financial contributions to the Pauline Fathers.{{cite news|title=Gannett News Service receives Pulitzer Prize|work=Public Opinion|location=Chambersburg, PA|author=John T. McGowan|agency=Gannett|date=April 15, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/public-opinion-gannett-news-service-rece/139964842/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite book|title=Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000|author1=Heinz-Dietrich Fischer|author2=Erika J. Fischer|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|year=2011|isbn=978-3110939125|page=30|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w3CdrctE80IC&pg=PA30}}
• The Miami Herald, for "Dangerous Doctors: A Medical Dilemma", an 8-part series on medical incompetence, malfeasance, and abuse.{{cite news|title=Tropic's Blais wins a Pulitzer; Herald has four other finalists|work=The Miami Herald|date=April 15, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92823428/tropics-blais-wins-a-pulitzer-herald/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92823488/tropics-blais-wins-a-pulitzer-herald/ Part 2 of article])
• The Miami Herald, for "Police Brutality: The Dangerous Few", a 5-part series on cases of police brutality in Dade County.
• The Philadelphia Inquirer,{{cite news|title=Inquirer wins top awards in newswriting contest|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=June 15, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93015167/inquirer-wins-top-awards-in-newswriting/|via=Newspapers.com}} for "Poison at Our Doorsteps", a series on irresponsible disposal of toxic waste.
• St. Petersburg Times, for its investigation of the Church of Scientology. (Moved by the Board to the National Reporting category.)
• Local General or Spot News Reporting:
• Staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for coverage of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, including a 22,000-word recounting of the accident by 39 reporters and photographers.{{cite news|title=Countdown: How the nation's worst nuclear accident happened|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=April 8, 1979|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92720567/countdown-how-the-nations-worst/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Staff of the Chicago Tribune, for coverage of the worst air crash in history and the blizzard of 1979.
• Staff of the Greensboro Daily News (North Carolina), for coverage of the Greensboro massacre, a shooting at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally.{{cite news|title=Communists, Klan, blacks hold rallies|work=The Charlotte News|date=July 14, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93016034/communists-klan-blacks-hold-rallies/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
• Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi and Robert M. Porterfield of The Boston Globe, for a 10-part exposé on mismanagement of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.{{cite news|title=Members of Globe staff win 3 Pulitzer Prizes|work=The Boston Globe|date=April 15, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92720193/members-of-globe-staff-win-3-pulitzer/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92720216/members-of-globe-staff-win-3-pulitzer/ Part 2 of article])
• Carole E. Agus, Andrew V. Fetherston, Jr., and Frederick J. Tuccillo of Newsday (Long Island, New York), for their investigation of a scandal at the Southwest Sewer District in Suffolk County.{{cite news|title=Press winners, finalists|work=Newsday|date=April 15, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93325558/press-winners-finalists/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Charles R. Cook and James S. Carlton of The Port Arthur News (Texas), for their exposé on the use of road oil contaminated with cyanide and other toxic chemicals, distributed by Browning-Ferris Industries.{{cite news|title=Texas paper nominated|work=Longview News-Journal|agency=UPI|date=April 15, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93325875/texas-paper-nominated/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news|title=Poison reportedly used on E. Texas roads|work=Austin American-Statesman|date=April 27, 1979|agency=Cox News Service|author1=Jim Carlton|author2=Chuck Cook|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93327113/poison-reportedly-used-on-e-texas-roads/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93327136/poison-reportedly-used-on-e-texas/ Part 2 of article])
• Judy Grande and Brian Gallagher of The Journal News (Nyack, New York), for the 5-part series, "Getting Away with Murder", exposing the shoddy investigation and prosecution of murders in Rockland, New York.{{cite news|title=Finalist for a Pulitzer|work=The Journal News|location=Nyack, NY|date=April 21, 1980|author=Bob Baird|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93327844/finalist-for-a-pulitzer/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Lewis M. Simons and Ron Shaffer of The Washington Post, for a series on fraud committed by officials of a low-income housing organization, P.I. Properties, including Marion Barry's ex-wife.{{cite news|title=Ron Shaffer, Washington Post journalist who founded 'Dr. Gridlock' column, dies at 76|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=November 13, 2021|author=Matt Schudel|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ron-shaffer-dead/2021/11/13/aa0f7d9a-44c4-11ec-a88e-2aa4632af69b_story.html|accessdate=2022-01-27}}{{cite news|title=Pride firm tied to $600,000 theft|newspaper=The Washington Post|author1=Lewis M. Simons|author2=Ron Shaffer|date=October 21, 1979|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/10/21/pride-firm-tied-to-600000-theft/b30e882b-e5c4-44d5-92ef-45d3bb1688ec/|accessdate=2022-01-27}}
• National Reporting:
• Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford of the St. Petersburg Times, for their 16-part investigation of the Church of Scientology.{{cite news|title=2 Times reporters win Pulitzers for Scientology reports|work=St. Petersburg Times|author=Charles Patrick|date=April 15, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92728928/2-times-reporters-win-pulitzers-for/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92728968/2-times-reporters-win-pulitzers-for/ Part 2 of article])
• Joseph P. Albright of Cox Newspapers, for "Our Trillion Dollar Treasure", a series on energy policy regarding oil and gas under federally owned lands.{{cite news|title=Pulitzer Prize board, for first time, names finalists in all categories|work=The Boston Globe|date=April 16, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93624505/pulitzer-prize-board-for-first-time/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news|title=Natural irony: Oil may lie beneath scenic national parks|work=The Atlanta Constitution|date=April 15, 1979|author=Joseph Albright|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93624595/natural-irony-oil-may-lie-beneath/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• George Anthan of The Des Moines Register, for "Vanishing Acres", a 7-part series on the dwindling amount of good farmland.{{cite news|title=George Anthan, journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, dies at 80|newspaper=The Washington Post|author=Bart Barnes|date=August 30, 2016|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/george-anthan-journalist-and-two-time-pulitzer-prize-finalist-dies-at-80/2016/08/30/da5d29fc-6bd0-11e6-99bf-f0cf3a6449a6_story.html|accessdate=2022-01-27}}{{cite news|title=Feeding our hungry world from less and less farm land|work=The Des Moines Register|date=July 8, 1979|author=George Anthan|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93625454/feeding-our-hungry-world-from-less-and/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93625489/feeding-our-hungry-world-from-less-and/ Part 2 of article])
• Staff of the Los Angeles Times, for a series on chemicals in the environment, "The Poisoning of America".{{cite news|title=Chemical wastes imperil water supplies|work=The Los Angeles Times|author=Bob Secter|date=September 6, 1979|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93626671/chemical-wastes-imperil-water-supplies/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• International Reporting:
• Joel Brinkley, reporter, and Jay Mather, photographer of The Courier-Journal, for the 4-part series, "Living the Cambodian Nightmare", about refugees from the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.{{cite news|title=C-J wins Pulitzer Prize for Cambodian series|work=The Courier-Journal|location=Louisville, KY|date=April 15, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92730370/c-j-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-cambodian/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92730398/the-courier-journal/ Part 2 of article])
• Peter Arnett of the Associated Press, for "The World's Homeless", a 6-part series about international refugees, with photographs by Eddie Adams.{{cite news|title=Divided island: Cypriot Greeks camp in forest and watch as Turkish soldiers loot their village|work=The Journal Herald|location=Dayton, OH|agency=AP|author=Peter Arnett|date=May 5, 1979|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93737761/divided-island-cypriot-greeks-camp-in/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news|title=Millions seek new homes|work=Abilene Reporter-News|date=April 22, 1979|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93737854/millions-seek-new-homes/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Fox Butterfield of The New York Times, for dispatches from China.
• Staff of the Los Angeles Times, for coverage of Iran.
• Feature Writing:
• Madeleine Blais of The Miami Herald, for a selection of stories profiling families and individuals, particularly "Zepp's Last Stand".{{cite news|title=Pulitzer for public service won by Gannett News|work=Editor & Publisher|date=April 19, 1980|page=56|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1980-04-19_113_16/page/56/mode/2up}}{{cite news|title=Zepp's Last Sand|work=The Miami Herald|date=November 11, 1979|author=Madeline Blais|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-herald-zepps-last-stand/92728473/}}
• Bonnie M. Anderson of The Miami Herald, for "The Execution of My Father", about her father's execution during the Cuban Revolution in 1961.{{cite news|title=The Execution of My Father|work=The Miami Herald|author=Bonnie M. Anderson|date=February 25, 1979|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93201486/the-execution-of-my-father/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• John R. Camp of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, for a series of articles about Native American culture.{{cite web|title=About the Author|publisher=John Sandford|url=http://www.johnsandford.org/author.html|accessdate=2022-01-22}}
• Saul Pett of the Associated Press, for an article on the snail darter controversy.{{cite news|title=Tiny fish casting big shadow over TVA dam project|work=Asbury Park Press|author=Saul Pett|agency=AP|date=April 1, 1979|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93200797/tiny-fish-casting-big-shadow-over-tva/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Commentary:
• Ellen H. Goodman of The Boston Globe, for her syndicated daily column, commenting on a variety of topics.
• Richard Reeves of Universal Press Syndicate, for his syndicated political column.{{cite news|title=Political historian-commentator Richard Reeves dies at 83|work=Los Angeles Times|author=Arit John|agency=AP|date=March 27, 2020|url=https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-27/political-historian-commentator-richard-reeves-dies-at-83|accessdate=2022-01-29}}
• Carl T. Rowan of the Chicago Sun-Times and Syndicate, for his syndicated column.
• Criticism:
• William A. Henry III of The Boston Globe, for critical writing about television.
• William C. Glackin of The Sacramento Bee, for his drama and music reviews.{{cite news|title=An unseasonal Valentine arrives for William Glackin|work=The Sacramento Bee|date=April 19, 1980|author=Herb Michelson|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93743458/an-unseasonal-valentine-arrives-for/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• William K. Robertson of The Miami Herald, for a collection of columns and book reviews.
• Editorial Writing:
• Robert L. Bartley of The Wall Street Journal, for editorials on a variety of topics.
• John Alexander of the Greensboro Daily News (North Carolina), for editorials about the Greensboro massacre.{{cite news|title=A leader among leaders|work=News & Record|location=Greensboro, NC|author=Stephen Martin|date=December 4, 1999|url=https://greensboro.com/a-leader-among-leaders-john-alexander-tried-out-graduate-school-and-starred-in-journalism-before/article_4646931b-45f1-5e05-b76d-f76f157a3476.html|accessdate=2022-02-06}}
• Alfred Ames and Joan Beck of the Chicago Tribune
• Bruce C. Davidson, Thomas N. Oliphant, and Anne C. Wyman of The Boston Globe, for the 8-part series, "Search for an Energy Policy".{{cite news|title=An editorial view of the energy fix|work=The Boston Globe|date=July 1, 1979|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94325419/an-editorial-view-of-the-energy-fix/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news|title=A plan for action|work=The Boston Globe|date=July 1, 1979|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94325398/a-plan-for-action/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Tom Dearmore of the San Francisco Examiner, for editorials on a variety of topics.
• Editorial Cartooning:
• Don Wright of The Miami News, for his cartoons, exemplified by "Florida State Prison".{{cite book|title=Editorial Cartoon Awards 1922-1997: From Rollin Kirby and Edmund Duffy to Herbert Block and Paul Conrad|author1=Heinz-Dietrich Fischer|author2=Erika J. Fischer|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|year=1999|page=225|isbn=978-3-11-095577-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8hZN60X5kO0C&pg=PA225}}{{cite news|title=Florida State Prison|work=The Miami News|date=May 22, 1979|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94283250/florida-state-prison/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news|title=Pulitzer No. 2 for News's Don Wright|work=The Miami News|author=Patrice Gaines-Carter|date=April 15, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94284102/pulitzer-no-2-for-newss-don-wright/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Richard Locher of the Chicago Tribune
• Paul Szep of The Boston Globe

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• Spot News Photography:
• Anonymous, distributed by United Press International. (In 2006, the photographer was identified as Jahangir Razmi of Ettela'at),{{cite news|title=A chilling photograph's hidden history|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=December 2, 2006|author=Joshua Prager|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB116499510215538266|access-date=2022-01-17}}{{cite news|title=27 years after it was awarded, a Pulitzer Prize is acknowledged|work=The New York Times|author=Pradnya Joshi|date=May 28, 2007|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/business/media/28pulitzer.html|access-date=2021-01-16}} for "Firing Squad in Iran", depicting the execution of prisoners in the 1979 Kurdish rebellion by an Iranian government firing squad.
• Robert L. Gay of the Charleston Daily Mail (West Virginia), for a series on a crazed veteran holding 29 hostages in a church.{{cite news|title=Photojournalist reflects on close encounters during career|work=The Daily Athenaeum|date=January 15, 2008|author=Jon Offredo|url=https://www.thedaonline.com/photojournalist-reflects-on-close-encounters-during-career/article_3f7046cb-186c-511e-a4a3-d8af5e18988b.html|accessdate=2022-01-30}}{{cite news|title=Vet's broadcast ends hostage drama|work=The Olympian|location=Olympia, WA|agency=Gannett|author=Jack A. Seamonds|date=October 22, 1979|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-olympian-vets-broadcast-ends-hostag/140075269/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Michael Haering of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, for a photo of a woman being struck by a car at a demonstration outside the house of the Shah of Iran's sister in Beverly Hills.{{cite news|title=200 attack home of shah's sister|work=Minneapolis Tribune|date=January 3, 1979|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-tribune-200-attack-home-of-shahs-s/137268303/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news|title=Pulitzer finalist had local ties|work=The Pantagraph|location=Bloomington, IL|date=May 3, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93839488/pulitzer-finalist-had-local-ties/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Feature Photography:
• Erwin H. Hagler of The Dallas Times Herald, for a 23-picture series documenting the life of cowboys in the Texas Panhandle.{{cite news|title=Photographer's dream fulfilled|work=Longview News-Journal|agency=UPI|date=April 15, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92828380/photographers-dream-fulfilled/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news|title=Mailer receives second Pulitzer|work=Longview News-Journal|agency=AP|date=April 15, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92828416/mailer-receives-second-pulitzer/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite web|title=Texas Cowboys: The Pulitzer Prize Collection|work=Skeeter Hagler Photography|url=http://www.skeeterhagler.net/pulitzer.html|accessdate=2022-01-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528042442/http://www.skeeterhagler.net/pulitzer.html|archive-date=2023-05-28}}
• David A. Kryszak of The Detroit News, for "Cambodian Exodus", a five-part photo-essay on Cambodian refugees in Thailand.{{cite news|title=Cambodian Exodus|work=The Detroit News|author=David Kryszak|date=December 9–13, 1979}}
• John J. Sunderland of The Denver Post, for photos of patients living and dying in a hospice in Lakewood, Colorado.{{cite news|title=Hospice: Death with dignity|work=The Denver Post|date=October 7, 1979|department=Empire magazine|author1=Patrick A. McGuire|author2=John Sunderland}}

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|The Boston Globe

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|The Courier-Journal

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|The Dallas Times Herald

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|Gannett News Service

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|The Miami Herald

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|The Philadelphia Inquirer

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• Fiction:
• The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
• Birdy by William Wharton
• The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth

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• Drama:
• Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson{{cite news|title=When the pain stops, he'll smile|work=Daily News|location=New York City|date=April 17, 1980|author=Ernest Leogrande|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-when-the-pain-stops-hell-sm/140096940/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• History:
• Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack{{cite news|title=UC historian wins Pulitzer|work=Independent & Gazette|location=Berkeley, CA|date=April 15, 1980|author=Marcy Kates|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-berkeley-gazette-uc-historian-wins-p/140098367/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-berkeley-gazette-uc-historian-wins-p/140098393/ Part 2 of article])
• The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–60 by John D. Unruh, Jr.
• The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash
• Biography or Autobiography:
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
• Being Bernard Berenson by Meryle Secrest
• Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur by Ernest Samuels
• The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father by Geoffrey Wolff
• Poetry:
• Selected Poems by Donald Justice{{cite news|title=Iowa poet shrugs at Pulitzer fame|work=The Des Moines Register|date=April 16, 1980|author=Jerald Heth|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-iowa-poet-shrugs/137371239/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-iowa-poet-shrugs/137371259/ Part 2 of article])
• Goshawk, Antelope by Dave Smith
• Selected Poems by Richard Hugo
• General Nonfiction:
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter{{cite news|title=Hofstadter doesn't plan sequel to Pulitzer book|work=The Indianapolis News|date=April 19, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-news-hofstadter-doesnt/140096813/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar{{cite news|title='Near-prize' thrills authors|work=The Indianapolis Star|date=May 6, 1980|author=Betsy Harris|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-near-prize-thril/141262974/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas
• Music:
• In Memory of a Summer Day by David Del Tredici{{cite web|title=SLSO Untold: SLSO Commissioned 1980 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Piece|publisher=St. Louis Symphony Orchestra|author=Eric Dundon|date=April 12, 2022|url=https://www.slsostories.org/post/untold-pulitzer|accessdate=2023-12-24}}
• After the Butterfly by Morton Subotnick
• Quintets for Orchestra by Lukas Foss

{{gallery|title=The Pulitzer Prize-winning books for 1980

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|The Executioner's Song

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|Been in the Storm So Long

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|The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

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|Selected Poems

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|Gödel, Escher, Bach

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