Journalism awards
- Public Service:
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch , for its exposure of wholesale fraudulent registration in St. Louis. By a coordinated news, editorial and cartoon campaign this newspaper succeeded in invalidating upwards of 40,000 fraudulent ballots in November and brought about the appointment of a new election board. [1]
- Honorable mentions to: [2]
- New York Daily News , for its public health campaign covering venereal diseases and prophylaxis.
- Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin , for a research study of direct and indirect taxes, based upon one year's detailed expenditures of three families of working people.
- Cleveland Press , for its investigation and exposé by news, editorials and cartoons of a cemetery racket.
- The Atlanta Journal , for its campaign by news, editorials and radio to end corruption and inefficiency in the Police Department.
- Reporting:
- John J. O'Neill of The New York Herald Tribune , William L. Laurence of The New York Times , Howard W. Blakeslee of the Associated Press, Gobind Behari Lal of the Universal Service, and David Dietz of Scripps-Howard, for their coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard University.
- Correspondence:
- Anne O'Hare McCormick of The New York Times , for her dispatches and feature articles from Europe in 1936.
- Editorial Writing:
- John W. Owens of The Baltimore Sun , for distinguished editorial writing during the year.
- Honorable mention to W. W. Waymack of the Des Moines Register-Tribune , for a series of editorials on farm tenancy. [3]
- Editorial Cartooning:
- C. D. Batchelor of The New York Daily News , for "Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy." [4]
- Honorable mentions to: [5]
- John Francis Knott of The Dallas News , for his cartoon on dust storms, "Nature's Answer".
- Quincy Scott of the Portland Oregonian , for "East Side, West Side", depicting Alfred E. Smith waltzing with the Republican elephant.
