1915
World War I
Carl Ackerman ’13
Ackerman, among the earliest graduates of the Journalism School and in later... more →
1917
The Russian Revolution
George Sokolsky ’58
Sokolsky would later become a prominent foe of... more →
1923
The Sunday Times
Lester Markel ’14
In more than 40 years as Sunday editor of the New York Times, beginning in 1923... more →
1929
Modern Art
Emily Genauer ’30
Beginning her career with Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World in 1929, Genauer... more →
1929
The Great Depression
Merryle Stanley Rukeyser ’17
As one of America’s most well-known financial journalists... more →
1934
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dorothy Ducas '26
The first woman to receive a Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship, Ducas was with the... more →
1935
Lindbergh Kidnapping Trial
John Hohenberg ’27
As a young reporter with the New York Evening Journal... more →
1940
World War II
Otto Tolischus '16
Tolischus won a Pulitzer Prize for his New York Times reporting that chronicled... more →
1941
America’s Natural Wonders
Hal Borland ’23
Born on the plains of Nebraska, Borland wrote about nature... more →
1944
D-Day
A.J. Liebling ’25
One of the most admired journalists of the 20th century, Liebling covered World... more →
1945
Covering Congress
Henrietta Poynter ’22
Until Poynter helped found Congressional Quarterly in 1945, small newsrooms and... more →
1946
Creating the Postwar World
Peter Kihss ’33
Writing for the New York Herald Tribune before his legendary... more →
1946
Fighting Jim Crow
Hodding Carter
After spending a formative year at the Journalism School, Carter left before... more →
1950
The Korean War
Marguerite Higgins ’42
Higgins, who had stunned her male classmates by winning the coveted position of... more →
1956
Uprisings in the USSR
Flora Lewis ’42
In an era when accounts of the USSR were often tainted by ideology, Lewis... more →
1957
The Civil Rights Movement
Benjamin Fine '32
Benjamin Fine ’32 was in Arkansas to report for the New York Times on the... more →
1957
Sputnik
William Jorden '48
As head of the New York Times’ Moscow bureau, Jorden was in Russia when the... more →
1959
The Slums of New York City
Woody Klein '52
Woody Klein ’52 went undercover to investigate the appalling conditions in... more →
1960
Integrating New Orleans
David Zinman '52
Reporting for the Associated Press, Zinman vividly portrayed the courage and... more →
1961
Journalism, Reviewed
James Boylan ’51
Boylan helped launch a great tradition of deep reporting on journalism and the... more →
1962
Vietnam
Beverly Deepe Keever ’58
Deepe arrived in Vietnam as a freelance reporter in 1962 and remained... more →
1963
The Movies as Art
Judith Crist ’45
Beginning at the New York Herald Tribune in 1963, and serving for decades as one... more →
1966
China’s Cultural Revolution
Robert Elegant ’51
Elegant, who covered East Asia and served as... more →
1966
The Globalization of Crime
Monroe Karmin '53
Karmin won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting — at great risk to himself and... more →
1968
Life in the Ghetto
Joe Saltzman '62
In the aftermath of the Watts riots, Joe Saltzman ’62 produced a... more →
1968
Life on the Field
Dick Schaap ’56
Later to become a beloved sports broadcaster, Schaap virtually created the... more →
1969
The Moon Landing
John Noble Wilford (Ford Fellow) ’62
Several years after his time at the Journalism School with... more →
1970
South African Apartheid
Jim Hoagland ’69
Hoagland won an International Reporting Pulitzer for his penetrating work about... more →
1971
Weathermen Terrorism
Mel Gussow '56
Perhaps best known for his arts criticism and conversations with great... more →
1972
Watergate
Howard Simons ’52
As managing editor of the Washington Post, Simons received the first phone call... more →
1973
Exposing COINTELPRO
Carl Stern '59
As a reporter for NBC News, Stern made groundbreaking use of the Freedom of... more →
1974
The Power Broker
Robert Caro (Carnegie Fellow) ’68
Caro, who spent a year at the Journalism School as a Carnegie... more →
1975
The Last Flight from Da Nang
Bruce Dunning '63
Dunning produced an unforgettable CBS Evening News segment about the chaotic... more →
1978
The Modern Political Talk Show
Patrick J. Buchanan ’62
After a stint writing editorials for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat... more →
1980
Mount St. Helens
Rick Seifert '69
Seifert visited and reported on the area surrounding Mount St. Helens in the... more →
1984
Famine in Africa
Josh Friedman '68
Friedman, fellow reporter Dennis Bell, and photographer Ozier Muhammad of... more →
1985
The Last Years of Josef Mengele
Ralph Blumenthal '64
After years of intrepid reporting on the hunt for Nazi war criminals amid the... more →
1985
The Marcos Regime
Lewis M. Simons ’64
Simons shared a Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for indelible... more →
1985
South Africa in Black and White
Joseph Lelyveld ’60
Lelyveld won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "Move Your... more →
1986
The Iran-Contra Scandal
Andres Oppenheimer '78
Oppenheimer and colleagues at the Miami Herald sparked a global conversation... more →
1987
Christmas in Vietnam
James Lubetkin ’66
Many years after spending a Christmas serving in Vietnam, James Lubetkin... more →
1987
The Secret Government
Joan Konner ’61
Konner (later to become dean of the Journalism School... more →
1988
Modern Presidential Campaign
Richard Ben Cramer ’70
Cramer wrote the definitive... more →
1989
Tragedy in Tiananmen Square
Tom Bettag ’67
As executive producer of the CBS Evening News, Bettag oversaw... more →
1989
Scandal in India
N. Ram ’68
N. Ram, former editor-in-chief of The Hindu, was instrumental in breaking the... more →
1990
Covering the News Media
Howard Kurtz '75
In his columns and on television, media critic Kurtz has extensively covered the... more →
1990
The Voices of Women in Asia
Elisabeth Bumiller ’79
Bumiller advanced global understanding of the experiences of South Asian and... more →
1991
Subway Lives
Jim Dwyer '80
Dwyer offered an intimate look at the human faces behind and within America’s... more →
1991
Fall of the USSR
Stuart Loory ’58 and Ann Imse ’76
In "Seven Days That Shook the World: The Collapse of Soviet... more →
1994
Guns in America
Erik Larson ’78
Larson explored America’s controversial debate regarding the right to bear... more →
1994
The Working Poor
Tony Horwitz ’83
Horwitz won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigations... more →
1994
Living Deaf
Leah Hager Cohen ’91
In her book Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World, Cohen sensitively portrayed the... more →
1995
The Lives of Muslim Women
Geraldine Brooks ’83
Brooks raised public awareness of the diverse experiences... more →
1995
Journalism’s Digital Future
Josh Quittner ’86
Long a renowned chronicler of the digital revolution in news... more →
1996
The Color of Water
James McBride ’80
In his best-selling book The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his... more →
1996
Race and the Drug War
Reginald Stuart '71
In an article published in Emerge magazine, Stuart exposed the lengthy... more →
1997
Protecting the Rainforest
John Quinones ’79
Quinones won an Emmy and introduced audiences to an important... more →
1997
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom ’82
Albom inspired millions of readers with his heartwarming account of the wit... more →
1999
The Toll of Alcohol Abuse
Eric Newhouse ’72
Eric Newhouse ’72 of Montana’s Great Falls Tribune won an Explanatory... more →
2000
How Race Is Lived in America
Mirta Ojito ’01
Ojito, now a professor at the Journalism School, shared a Pulitzer Prize for... more →
2000
The Threat from Pakistan
Steve Kroft ’75
Kroft won a duPont-Columbia Award for his 60 Minutes... more →
2001
The Faces of Poverty
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz ’98
The global journey of Rivera-Ortiz to document the experience of impoverished... more →
2001
9/11
Tim Townsend ’99
Townsend was a financial reporter just blocks away from the World Trade Center... more →
2002
Corporate Scandals on Wall Street
David Wessel ’81 | Laurie Cohen ’82 | Mark Maremont ’83 | Theo Francis ’97 | Julia Angwin ’99
Wessel, Cohen, Maremont, Francis and Angwin shared in a Pulitzer Prize in... more →
2002
The Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal
Eileen McNamara ’76
McNamara helped expose sexual abuse perpetrated by Catholic... more →
2003
A Broken Child Welfare System
Barak Goodman '86
Barak Goodman ’86 was a producer for a hard-hitting three-part Frontline... more →
2003
Faulty Evidence, Unjust Verdicts
Michael Devlin ’77
As news director of KHOU-TV, Devlin shared a duPont-Columbia Award for... more →
2003
'On Top of the World'
Andrew C. Revkin ’82
Revkin took his audience on an extraordinary journey to the “pirouetting ice... more →
2003
Tyranny in Zimbabwe
Andrew Meldrum ’77
In commentary for the Guardian written shortly after he was expelled from... more →
2003
Wal-Mart and Globalization
Abigail Goldman ’93
Goldman was awarded a National Reporting Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories... more →
2004
Rwanda and Genocide
Dele Olojede ’88
Olojede won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his... more →
2004
Abu Ghraib
Scott Higham ’85
Higham and colleagues at the Washington Post were nominated for the Pulitzer... more →
2004
The Secret Epidemic
Jacob Levenson ’99
In his groundbreaking book The Secret Epidemic: The Story of AIDS and Black... more →
2005
Israel's Withdrawal from Gaza
Andrea Stone ’81
On location for USA Today as Israel evicted Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip... more →
2005
Hurricane Katrina
Various
Stephanie Stokes ’83, Jim Varney ’89, Michael Keller ’05, Joshua Norman... more →
2005
Duke Cunningham and Corruption
Bruce Bigelow ’79
Bruce Bigelow ’79 shared in a National Reporting Pulitzer Prize for... more →
2005
The Human Elvis
Alanna Nash ’74
In Elvis and The Memphis Mafia, Nash dug beneath decades of mythmaking to piece... more →
2006
An Imam in America
Andrea Elliott ’99
Andrea Elliott ’99 earned a Feature Writing Pulitzer Prize for her sensitive... more →
2006
Uncovering the Armenian Genocide
Michael Bobelian ’03
In a fascinating story published in Legal Affairs magazine, Michael Bobelian... more →
2006
Tragedy in Darfur
Lydia Polgreen ’00
Polgreen won a George Polk Prize for Foreign Reporting for her empathetic and... more →
2007
The Great Recession
David Cho ’97
Cho won the Best of Knight-Bagehot Business Journalism Award for his lucid and... more →
2007
Capital Punishment
Timothy O’Leary ’82
In a provocative commentary for KERA, the NPR affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth... more →
2007
Sports and Coronary Health
David Epstein ’04
Reporting for Sports Illustrated, David Epstein ’04 delved into hypertrophic... more →
2007
Remaking the Democratic Party
Matt Bai ’94
In his acclaimed book The Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic... more →
2008
The Obama Election
Suzanne Malveaux ’91
Offering insightful and enterprising coverage on CNN, Malveaux played an... more →
2008
Recycling Abuse
Solly Granatstein ’94
Granatstein produced Scott Pelley’s 60 Minutes investigation of U.S... more →
2008
Af-Pak Escalation
C.J. Chivers ’95
Chivers shared a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting with other New York... more →
2008
Modern Iran
Kelly Golnoush Niknejad ’05
Editor-in-chief Niknejad founded the online outlet Tehran... more →
2009
Faces of Iranian Protest
Borzou Daragahi ’94
Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Daragahi crafted evocative portraits of the... more →
2009
An Overstretched Justice System
Ailsa Chang ’08
Chang won the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize for her incisive... more →
2010
Pete Rose's Corked Bat
Barry Petchesky ’07
In a widely discussed story for Deadspin, Barry Petchesky ’07 revealed damning... more →
2010
Immigrants in America
Franz Strasser ’09
Strasser used his international perspective for Into America, a perceptive... more →
2010
The Wreck of the Lady Mary
Amy Ellis Nutt ’95
Nutt won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for superlative reporting... more →
2010
Big Banks in the Post-Bailout Era
Louise Story ’05
In a series for the New York Times, Louise Story ’05 reported on the... more →
2011
Revolution in Egypt
Rawya Rageh ’06
Reporting for Al Jazeera English on air and on Twitter, Rageh was in Cairo’s... more →
2011
Disaster in Japan
Yuka Hayashi '91 | Rob Schmitz ’01 | Jonathan Soble ’01 | Enrique Acevedo Quintana ’06 | Lam Thuy Vo ’08 | Yoree Koh '09 | Lim Wui Liang ’10
A 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear meltdown in 2011 subjected... more →
2011
The Struggle for India's Future
Vinod K. Jose MA ’08
Writing in India’s journal The Caravan, Vinod K. Jose (MA ’08) crafted an... more →
2011
A Pilgrimage to Mecca
Rubaina Azhar ’96
Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Azhar chronicled her first journey to Mecca... more →
2011
Surviving Catastrophe in Turkey
Mimi Wells ’11
Writing in the New York Times, Wells eloquently portrayed the strength and... more →
2012
Tracking a Mysterious Disease
Sasha Chavkin M.A.
Working with the Center for Public Integrity and using new opportunities like... more →
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