| The Associated Press has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization in categories for which it can compete. The AP has won 19 Pulitzer Prizes for writing and 28 Pulitzer Prizes for pictures.
The Pulitzer Prizes, American journalism's most prestigious honor, were established by Joseph Pulitzer and are presented annually for outstanding achievement.
Here is a list of The Associated Press winners:
1922 -Kirke L. Simpson, for a series of stories on the burial of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
1933 -Francis A. Jamieson, for a news beat on finding the body of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby.
1937 -Howard W. Blakeslee, for reporting on the Harvard Tercentenary celebration.
1939 -Louis P. Lochner, for news reports from Nazi Germany.
1942 -Laurence E. Allen, for war reporting, especially stories on the bombing of the British aircraft carrier Illustrious.
1943 -Frank Noel, for a picture of a survivor of a torpedo attack begging for water in a lifeboat.
1944 -Frank Filan, for a picture of a blasted Japanese pillbox on Tarawa.
1944 -Daniel DeLuce, for a series of stories from Yugoslavia disclosing the strength of the Tito movement.
1945 -Joe Rosenthal, for a picture of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima.
1945 -Hal Boyle, for columns and stories from the North African and European war theaters.
1947 -Eddy Gilmore, for news reports from Russia, especially an interview with Joseph Stalin.
1947 -Arnold Hardy, for his photo of a girl leaping to death in a hotel fire.
1951 -Relman Morin and Don Whitehead, for war reports from Korea.
1951 -Max Desfor, for a picture of Korean War refugees in flight over ruins of a Taedong River bridge.
1952 -John Hightower, for reporting of international affairs.
1953 -Don Whitehead, for a story on President-elect Eisenhower's secret trips to Korea.
1954 -Mrs. Walter M. Schau, for a photo of a thrilling rescue in Redding, Calif.
1958 -Relman Morin, for reports on school desegregation rioting at Little Rock.
1961 -Lynn Heinzerling, for reports on the early stages of the Congo crisis and analysis of other African events.
1962 -Paul Vathis, for a picture of President Kennedy and former President Eisenhower walking at Camp David following an unsuccessful 1961 Cuban invasion.
1964 -Malcolm Browne, for war reports from Vietnam, including the overthrow of the Diem regime.
1965 -Horst Faas, for photos from Vietnam.
1966 -Peter Arnett, for war reports from Vietnam.
1967 -Jack Thornell, for a picture of James Meredith falling after being hit by a shotgun blast near Hernando, Miss.
1969 -Edward (Eddie) Adams, for a picture of Vietnamese Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner on a Saigon street.
1970 -Steve Starr, for a picture of armed black students emerging after their 36-hour occupation of a Cornell University building.
1972 -Horst Faas and Michel Laurent, for a series of pictures of tortures and executions in Bangladesh.
1973 -Huynh Cong (Nick) Ut, for a picture of a Vietnamese girl fleeing in terror after a napalm attack.
1974 -Slava (Sal) Veder, for a picture of a U.S. Air Force officer being greeted by his family after being held a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
1974 -Anthony K. Roberts, for his picture sequence made during an alleged kidnapping attempt in Hollywood.
1977 -Walter R. Mears, for reports on the 1976 presidential campaign and election.
1977 -Neal Ulevich, for a series of pictures showing bloody fighting between police and left-wing students in Bangkok, Thailand.
1978 -J. Ross Baughman, for a series of pictures showing white Rhodesian soldiers beating and torturing black nationalist guerrillas.
1982 -Ron Edmonds, for a series of pictures showing the attempted assassination of President Reagan.
1982 -Saul Pett, for a series of stories on the bureaucracy of the federal government.
1983 -Bill Foley, for a series of pictures of victims and survivors of the massacre of Palestinians in a refugee camp in Beirut.
1991 -Greg Marinovich, for a series of pictures showing the brutal killing of a man believed to be a Zulu Inkatha supporter in South Africa.
1992 -Olga Shalygin, Liu Heung Shing, Czarek Sokolowski, Boris Yurchenko and Alexander Zemlianichenko, for a series of pictures on the attempted coup in the Soviet Union and the collapse of the Communist regime.
1993 -J. Scott Applewhite, Richard Drew, Greg Gibson, David Longstreath, Doug Mills, Marcia Nighswander, Amy Sancetta, Stephan Savoia, Reed Saxon and Lynne Sladky for a series of pictures from the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign.
1995 -Jackie Arzt, Javier Bauluz, Jean-Marc Bouju, Karsten Thielker for photos of the ethnic violence in Rwanda.
1995 -Mark Fritz, for reports on the ethnic violence in Rwanda.
1996 -Charles Porter IV, for his photo of a fireman cradling an infant victim of the Oklahoma City bombing.
1997 -Alexander Zemlianichenko, for his photo of Russian President Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert in Rostov before elections.
1999 -Sayyid Azim, Jean-Marc Bouju, Dave Caulkin, Brennan Linsley, John McConnico and Khalil Senosi, Spot News Photography, for a series of pictures after the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
1999 -J. Scott Applewhite, Roberto Borea, Khue Bui, Robert F. Bukaty, Ruth Fremson, Greg Gibson, Ron Heflin, Charles Krupa, Wilfredo Lee, Dan Loh, Joe Marquette, Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Doug Mills, Stephan Savoia and Susan Walsh, Feature Photography, for a series of pictures of the events surrounding President Clinton's impeachment.
2000 -Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley, Martha Mendoza and Randy Herschaft for "The Bridge at No Gun Ri," a series uncovering the alleged mass killings of South Korean civilians by American troops at the start of the Korean War.
2001-Alan Diaz for his photo of a federal agent in riot gear during a pre-dawn raid in Miami, confronting a man holding Elian Gonzalez in a closet. |
