For disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by a United States newspaper, published daily, Sunday or at least once a week, during the year, a gold medal.
Newsday , by Newsday
For its expose of New York State's race track scandals and labor racketeering, which led to the extortion indictment, guilty plea and imprisonment of William C. DeKoning, Sr., New York labor racketeer.
The Jury
The Jury
Wellington Wales
C.G. Wellington
Winners in Public Service
Whiteville News Reporter and Tabor City Tribune
For their successful campaign against the Ku Klux Klan, waged on their own doorstep at the risk of economic loss and personal danger, culminating in the conviction of over one hundred Klansmen and an end to terrorism in their communities.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For its investigation and disclosures of wide spread corruption in the Internal Revenue Bureau and other departments of the government.
Miami Herald and Brooklyn Eagle
For their crime reporting during the year.
Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll.
1954 Prize Winners
Herbert L. Block (Herblock)
For a cartoon depicting the robed figure of Death saying to Stalin after he died, "You Were Always A Great Friend of Mine, Joseph."
Don Murray
For a series of editorials on the "New Look" in National Defense which won wide attention for their analysis of changes in American military policy.