Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1953, under one name or another, for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series in a U.S. news publication.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/files/entryforms/2011jentformbutton.pdf|title=Entry Form for a Pulitzer Prize In Journalism|date=Jan 2011|website=pulitzer.org|access-date=2018-03-27}} It is administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.

From 1953 through 1963, the category was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time. From 1964 to 1984, it was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting.{{cite book|author1=Heinz-D Fischer|author2=Erika J. Fischer|title=Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w3CdrctE80IC&pg=PA118|date=1 January 2003|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-093912-5|pages=118, 124}}

The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation explaining the reasons for the award.

Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time

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1953: Edward J. Mowery of New York World-Telegram & Sun, "for his reporting of the facts which brought vindication and freedom to Louis Hoffner."
1954: Alvin McCoy of The Kansas City Star, "for a series of exclusive stories which led to the resignation under fire of C. Wesley Roberts as Republican National Chairman."
1955: Roland Kenneth Towery of Cuero Record (Texas), "for his series of articles exclusively exposing a scandal in the administration of the Veterans' Land Program in Texas. This 32-year-old World War II veteran, a former prisoner of the Japanese, made these irregularities a state-wide and subsequently a national issue, and stimulated state action to rectify conditions in the land program."
1956: Arthur Daley of The New York Times, "for his outstanding coverage and commentary on the world of sports in his daily column, Sports of the Times."
1957: Wallace Turner and William Lambert of Portland Oregonian, "for their exposé of vice and corruption in Portland involving some municipal officials and officers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, Western Conference. They fulfilled their assignments despite great handicaps and the risk of reprisal from lawless elements."
1958: George Beveridge of Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), "for his excellent and thought-provoking series, "Metro, City of Tomorrow," describing in depth the urban problems of Washington, D.C., which stimulated widespread public consideration of these problems and encouraged further studies by both public and private agencies."
1959: John Harold Brislin of Scranton Tribune and Scrantonian, "for displaying courage, initiative and resourcefulness in his effective four-year campaign to halt labor violence in his home city, as a result of which ten corrupt union officials were sent to jail and a local union was embolden to clean out racketeering elements."
1960: Miriam Ottenberg of Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), "for a series of seven articles exposing a used-car racket in Washington, D.C., that victimized many unwary buyers. The series led to new regulations to protect the public and served to alert other communities to such sharp practices."
1961: Edgar May of Buffalo Evening News, "for his series of articles on New York State's public welfare services entitled, Our Costly Dilemma, based in part on his three-month employment as a state case worker. The series brought about reforms that attracted nationwide attention."
1962: George Bliss of Chicago Tribune, "for his initiative in uncovering scandals in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, with resultant remedial action."
1963: Oscar Griffin Jr. of Pecos Independent and Enterprise, "who as editor initiated the exposure of the Billie Sol Estes scandal and thereby brought a major fraud on the United States government to national attention with resultant investigation, prosecution and conviction of Estes."

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Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting

1964: James V. Magee, Albert V. Gaudiosi and Frederick Meyer of Philadelphia Bulletin, "for their exposé of numbers racket operations with police collusion in South Philadelphia, which resulted in arrests and a cleanup of the police department."
1965: Gene Goltz of Houston Post, "for his exposé of government corruption Pasadena, Texas, which resulted in widespread reforms."
1966: John Anthony Frasca of Tampa Tribune, "for his investigation and reporting of two robberies that resulted in the freeing of an innocent man."
1967: Gene Miller of Miami Herald, "for initiative and investigative reporting that helped to free two persons wrongfully convicted of murder."
1968: J. Anthony Lukas of The New York Times, "for the social document he wrote in his investigation of the life and the murder of Linda Fitzpatrick."
1969: Al Delugach and Denny Walsh of St. Louis Globe-Democrat, "for their campaign against fraud and abuse of power within the St. Louis Steamfitters Union, Local 562."
1970: Harold Eugene Martin of Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal, "for his exposé of a commercial scheme for using Alabama prisoners for drug experimentation and obtaining blood plasma from them."
1971: William Jones of Chicago Tribune, "for exposing collusion between police and some of Chicago's largest private ambulance companies to restrict service in low income areas, leading to major reforms."
1972: Timothy Leland, Gerard M. O'Neill, Stephen A. Kurkjian and Ann Desantis of The Boston Globe, "for their exposure of widespread corruption in Somerville, Massachusetts."
1973: The Sun Newspapers Of Omaha, "for uncovering the large financial resources of Boys Town, leading to reforms in this charitable organization's solicitation and use of funds contributed by the public."
1974: William Sherman of New York Daily News, "for his resourceful investigative reporting in the exposure of extreme abuse of the New York Medicaid program."
1975: Indianapolis Star, "for its disclosures of local police corruption and dilatory law enforcement, resulting in a cleanup of both the Police Department and the office of the County Prosecutor."
1976: Staff of Chicago Tribune, "for uncovering widespread abuses in Federal housing programs in Chicago and exposing shocking conditions at two private Chicago hospitals."
1977: Acel Moore and Wendell Rawls Jr. of The Philadelphia Inquirer, "for their reports on conditions in the Farview (Pa.) State Hospital for the mentally ill."
1978: Anthony R. Dolan of Stamford Advocate, "for a series on municipal corruption."
1979: Gilbert M. Gaul and Elliot G. Jaspin of Pottsville Republican (Pennsylvania), "for stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime."
1980: Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi and Robert M. Porterfield of The Boston Globe, "for articles on Boston's transit system."
1981: Clark Hallas and Robert B. Lowe of Arizona Daily Star, "for their investigation of the University of Arizona Athletic Department."
1982: Paul Henderson of Seattle Times, "for reporting which proved the innocence of a man convicted of rape."
1983: Loretta Tofani of The Washington Post, "for her investigation of rape and sexual assault in the Prince George's County, Maryland Detention Center."
1984: Kenneth Cooper, Joan Fitz Gerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary McMillan, Kirk Scharfenberg and David Wessel of The Boston Globe, "for their series examining race relations in Boston, a notable exercise in public service that turned a searching gaze on some the city's most honored institutions including the Globe itself."