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The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Editorial Writing

Finalist: Kathleen Kingsbury, Jessia Ma, Matteen Mokalla and Stuart Thompson of The New York Times

For a powerfully articulated and vivid nine-part editorial series that eloquently argued that people with a history of domestic violence should not be allowed to possess firearms.

Nominated Work

Winners

Prize Winner in Editorial Writing in 2018:

Andie Dominick of The Des Moines Register

For examining in a clear, indignant voice, free of cliché or sentimentality, the damaging consequences for poor Iowa residents of privatizing the state’s administration of Medicaid. Editorial Writing

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Editorial Writing in 2018:

Sharon Grigsby of The Dallas Morning News

For extraordinary and persuasive editorials that contended that Baylor University was dramatically failing the survivors of sexual assault on campus, arguments that forced readers and the university itself to confront the damage caused not only by the denigration of women but also by obfuscation, cover-ups and lies.

The Jury

Jon Sawyer(Chair)

Executive Director

Felice H. Belman

Deputy Editor, News

Jelani Cobb

Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism

Jeffrey Good*

former Executive Editor

Jacob Weisberg

Chairman and Editor-in-Chief

Winners in Editorial Writing

2017

Art Cullen

For editorials fueled by tenacious reporting, impressive expertise and engaging writing that successfully challenged powerful corporate agricultural interests in Iowa.
2015

Kathleen Kingsbury

For taking readers on a tour of restaurant workers' bank accounts to expose the real price of inexpensive menu items and the human costs of income inequality.
2014

Editorial Staff

For its lucid editorials that explain the urgent but complex issue of rising pension costs, notably engaging readers and driving home the link between necessary solutions and their impact on everyday lives.
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2018 Prize Winners

Investigative Reporting

Staff of The Washington Post

For purposeful and relentless reporting that changed the course of a Senate race in Alabama by revealing a candidate’s alleged past sexual harassment of teenage girls and subsequent efforts to undermine the journalism that exposed it.
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