For a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs, published in a daily newspaper in the United States, Five hundred dollars ($500).
The New York Times , by Anthony Leviero
For his exclusive article of April 21, 1951, disclosing the record of conversations between President Truman and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island in their conference of October, 1950.
The Jury
The Jury
Richard W. Clarke
Nelson P. Poynter
Winners in National Reporting
Edwin O. Guthman
For his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.
C. P. Trussell
For consistent excellence covering the national scene from Washington.
Nat S. Finney
For his stories on the plan of the Truman administration to impose secrecy about the ordinary affairs of federal civilian agencies in peacetime.
1952 Prize Winners
Max Kase
For his exclusive exposures of bribery and other forms of corruption in the popular American sport of basketball, which exposures tended to restore confidence in the game's integrity.
No author named
For the news coverage of the great regional flood of 1951 in Kansas and Northwestern Missouri-a distinguished example of editing and reporting that also gave the advance information that achieved the maximum of public protection.