For the best editorial article written during the year, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning and power to influence public opinion in the right direction, due account being taken of the whole volume of the writer’s editorial work during the year, $500.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot , by Louis Isaac Jaffe
For his editorial entitled "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery," which is typical of a series of articles written on the lynching evil and in successful advocacy of legislation to prevent it.
The Jury
The Jury
R.C.E. Brown(Chair)
F. Fraser Bond
Arthur S. Draper
Winners in Editorial Writing
Grover Cleveland Hall
For his editorials against gangsterism, floggings and racial and religious intolerance.
F. Lauriston Bullard
For the editorial entitled, "We Submit."
Edward M. Kingsbury
For the editorial entitled "House of a Hundred Sorrows."
No author named
For the editorial entitled "Plight of the South."
1929 Prize Winners
Paul Scott Mowrer
For his coverage of international affairs including the Franco-British Naval Pact and Germany's campaign for revision of the Dawes Plan.
Rollin Kirby
For "Tammany."