Editorial Writing

Although he wrote it during the holiday season, a deeply personal editorial in the portfolio that won a Pulitzer Prize for Michael Gartner seems especially appropriate for Fathers Day weekend.

Maverick editor-publisher Bill Dorvillier denounces attempted political malfeasance by the Roman Catholic Church in Puerto Rico — and wins a Pulitzer Prize.

As late as 1970, the specter of de facto segregation loomed large in Florida's Alachua County — home to a major public university. The plainspoken earnestness of Buddy Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning editorials, including this one, helped turn the tide.

In 1987, Jonathan Freedman won a Pulitzer for writing about immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border. One piece began: "The night before Easter, three companeros crawled through a hole in the chain-link fence — into America."

As arguments on marriage equality in Vermont gathered momentum, David Moats wrote a series of quiet, well-reasoned editorials that helped The Rutland Herald’s readers consider this issue.

When bookstores began pulling Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" from their shelves for fear of retribution, the 14,000-circulation Riverdale Press took a stand.

In 1984 it still seemed possible to think that gun laws in the United States might be tightened. Editorial writers across the country regularly took up the cause, including Richard Aregood of the Philadelphia Daily News

A 1950s-era editorial in the Des Moines Register argued for sharing Iowa agricultural know-how with none other than Nikita Kurshchev.