Correspondence

Finalists have been announced since 1980. Full texts, photographs and cartoons are available for Journalism winners from 1995–2013 only.

Winners

1947 Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times

For distinguished correspondence during 1946, as exemplified by his series of articles on Russia.

1946 Arnaldo Cortesi of The New York Times

For distinguished correspondence during the year 1945, as exemplified by his reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina

1945 Harold V. (Hal) Boyl of Associated Press

For distinguished war correspondence during the year 1944.

1944 Ernest Taylor Pyle of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance

For distinguished war correspondence during the year 1943

1943 Hanson W. Baldwin of The New York Times

For his report of his wartime tour of the Southwest Pacific.

1942 Carlos P. Romulo of Philippines Herald

For his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia.

1941 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.

1940 Otto D. Tolischus of The New York Times

For his dispatches from Berlin.

1939 Louis P. Lochner of Associated Press

For his dispatches from Berlin

1938 Arthur Krock of The New York Times

For his exclusive authorized interview with the President of the United States on February 27, 1937.

1937 Anne O'Hare McCormick of New York Times

For her dispatches and feature articles from Europe in 1936.

1936 The late Wilfred C. Barber of Chicago Tribune

For his reports of the war in Ethiopia. (A posthumous award.)

1935 Arthur Krock of The New York Times

For his Washington dispatches

1934 Frederick T. Birchall of The New York Times

For his correspondence from Europe

1933 Edgar Ansel Mowrer of Chicago Daily News

For his day-by-day coverage and interpretation of the series of German political crises in 1932, beginning with the presidential election and the struggle of Adolph Hitler for public office.

1932 Charles G. Ross of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For his article entitled, "The Country's Plight -- What Can Be Done About It?" -- a discussion of economic situation of the United States.

1932 Walter Duranty of The New York Times

For his series of dispatches on Russia especially the working out of the Five Year Plan.

1931 H. R. Knickerbocker of Philadelphia Public Ledger and New York Evening Post

For a series of articles on the practical operation of the Five Year Plan in Russia.

1930 Leland Stowe of New York Herald Tribune

For the series of articles covering conferences on reparations and the establishment of the international bank

1929 Paul Scott Mowrer of Chicago Daily News

For his coverage of international affairs including the Franco-British Naval Pact and Germany's campaign for revision of the Dawes Plan.