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.
New York Daily News , by Reuben Maury
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
The Jury
The Jury
Roscoe B. Ellard
Winners in Editorial Writing
Bart Howard
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Ronald G. Callvert
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year as exemplified by the editorial entitled "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
William Wesley Waymack
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
John W. Owens
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
1941 Prize Winners
No author named
For the public educational value of its foreign news report, exemplified by its scope, by excellence of writing and presentation and supplementary background information, illustration, and interpretation.
Group Award
In place of an individual Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence, the Trustees approved the recommendation of the Advisory Board that a bronze plaque or scroll be designed and executed to recognize and symbolize the public services and the individual achievements of American news reporters in the war zones of Europe, Asia and Africa from the beginning of the present war.