List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The Washington Post

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The Washington Post has won 68 Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, [1] the second-highest prize count among all newspaper and magazines in the United States, behind The New York Times . The Post has won the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for Public Service, the most prestigious of the awards, on six occasions. In 2008, the Post won a record six prizes in a single year, the most of any year for the newspaper.

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The Pulitzer Prize is a prize awarded within the United States for excellence in journalism in a range of categories. First awarded in 1917, prizes have been awarded every year since, though not in every category. News organizations submit work, or series of works, for consideration to a 19-member board, which is composed of editors, columnists, media executives, artists, as well as academic administrators from Columbia University, which administers the prize.

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1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Controversies

1980 Fabricated story scandal

In 1981, Janet Cooke, a staff writer on the Post's "Weeklies" section, received the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for her story, "Jimmy's World," a profile of an eight-year-old heroin addict in Washington, D.C. [64] The Post later returned the award when the newspaper revealed the story had been fabricated. [65] [66] The Pulitzer Board awarded the prize to Teresa Carpenter of The Village Voice. [67]

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