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.
Forrest W. Seymour of The Des Moines Register and Tribune
For his editorials published during the calendar year 1942.
The Jury
The Jury
John Chamberlain
Winners in Editorial Writing
Geoffrey Parsons of the New York Herald Tribune
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Reuben Maury of the (New York) Daily News
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Bart Howard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Ronald G. Callvert of The (Portland) Oregonian
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year as exemplified by the editorial entitled "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
1943 Prize Winners
Hanson W. Baldwin of The New York Times
For his report of his wartime tour of the Southwest Pacific.
Jay Norwood Darling of The Des Moines Register & Tribune
For "What a Place For a Waste Paper Salvage Campaign."