Finalist: Chicago Tribune
For innovative and superbly written and illustrated reporting that not only checked perilous practices by pharmacies in dispensing prescription drugs but also prevented harm from happening in the first place.
Nominated Work
December 18, 2016
December 18, 2016
December 18, 2016
February 11, 2016
February 14, 2016
December 19, 2016
December 20, 2016
October 11, 2016
February 14, 2016
December 18, 2016
December 18, 2016
February 11, 2016
Winners
Prize Winner in Public Service in 2017:
New York Daily News and ProPublica
For uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities.
Public Service
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Public Service in 2017:
Houston Chronicle
For exposing the grave injustice of arbitrary cost-cutting by the State of Texas that denied tutoring, counseling and other vital special education services to families, hindering the futures of tens of thousands of children.
The Jury
The Jury
Amy Hollyfield(Chair)
Deputy Managing Editor for Politics and Business
Clara Jeffery
Editor-in-Chief
Hank Klibanoff*
James M. Cox, Jr. Professor of Journalism
Nicholas Lemann
Director, Columbia Global Reports, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Journalism
George Papajohn
Investigations Editor
Ellen Joan Pollock
Former Editor
Howard Saltz
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Winners in Public Service
Associated Press
For an investigation of severe labor abuses tied to the supply of seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants, reporting that freed 2,000 slaves, brought perpetrators to justice and inspired reforms.
The Post and Courier
For "Till Death Do Us Part," a riveting series that probed why South Carolina is among the deadliest states in the union for women and put the issue of what to do about it on the state's agenda.
The Guardian US
For its revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, helping through aggressive reporting to spark a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy.
Sun Sentinel
For its well documented investigation of off-duty police officers who recklessly speed and endanger the lives of citizens, leading to disciplinary action and other steps to curtail a deadly hazard.
2017 Prize Winners
C. J. Chivers
For showing, through an artful accumulation of fact and detail, that a Marine’s postwar descent into violence reflected neither the actions of a simple criminal nor a stereotypical case of PTSD.
Peggy Noonan
For rising to the moment with beautifully rendered columns that connected readers to the shared virtues of Americans during one of the nation’s most divisive political campaigns.
Hilton Als
For bold and original reviews that strove to put stage dramas within a real-world cultural context, particularly the shifting landscape of gender, sexuality and race.
Art Cullen
For editorials fueled by tenacious reporting, impressive expertise and engaging writing that successfully challenged powerful corporate agricultural interests in Iowa.