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.
Whiteville News Reporter and Tabor City Tribune , by 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.
The Jury
The Jury
George A. Benson
Winners in Public Service
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.
Nebraska State Journal
For the campaign establishing the "Nebraska All-Star Primary" presidential preference primary which spotlighted, through a bi-partisan committee, issues early in the presidential campaign.
1953 Prize Winners
No author named
For the section of its Sunday newspaper edited by Lester Markel and headed, "Review of the Week," which for seventeen years has brought enlightenment and intelligent commentary to its readers.
Edward D. Kuekes
For "Aftermath."