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Merriman Smith
Merriman Smith
	Smith in 1962
Born	February 10, 1913; Savannah, Georgia
Died	April 13, 1970 (aged 57); Washington, D.C.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Journalist
Awards	Pulitzer Prize; Presidential Medal of Freedom;

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Albert Merriman Smith (February 10, 1913 – April 13, 1970) was an American wire service reporter, notably serving as White House correspondent for United Press International and its predecessor, United Press. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his coverage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 by Lyndon B. Johnson.^[1]^[2]

Background

Albert Merriman Smith was born on February 10, 1913, in Savannah, Georgia.^[3]

Career

Known by his middle name (and his nickname, "Smitty"), Smith covered US presidents from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Richard Nixon and originated the practice of closing presidential news conferences with "Thank You, Mr. President," which was the title of his 1946 book, written during his coverage of the Harry Truman administration.^[2] That honor, accorded the senior wire service reporter present at presidential news conferences, became more popularly known when it was continued by Smith's UPI colleague Helen Thomas.^[3]

Smith began covering the White House in 1940. After the United States entered the Second World War, he was designated as one of the wire service reporters to follow the president on all his travels. They agreed for security purposes not to file their stories until after each trip had ended. Consequently, Smith was in Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945, and filed one of the first reports on the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.^[4]

On November 22, 1963, Smith was the main UPI reporter in Dallas for John F. Kennedy's visit. He traveled in the motorcade in the White House Pool car, which had a radiotelephone.^[5] When the shots were fired, Smith grabbed the phone and called the UPI office.^[6] He stayed on the phone while Jack Bell, the AP reporter in the car, started punching Smith and yelling at him to hand the phone over.^[7]^[5] At 12:34 PM CST, four minutes after the presidential shooting, the report went out over UPI wire.^[5] In 1964, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.^[8] He was the first to publicly use the term "grassy knoll" regarding the assassination.^[9]

In the 1960s, Smith was a frequent guest on television interview programs hosted by Jack Paar and Merv Griffin. Smith was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon Johnson in 1969.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Despondent over the death of his son in the Vietnam War and perhaps suffering from PTSD as a result of witnessing the Kennedy assassination, Smith died at his home in Alexandria, Virginia, on April 13, 1970, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.^[10] Although he never served in the military himself, his grave is in Section 32 of Arlington National Cemetery next to his son's, by special permission of the Commanding General of the Military District of Washington.^{[citation needed]}

At the end of the President's press conference of May 8, 1970, concentrating on the Kent State shootings and his decision to expand the war into Cambodia, Nixon called on the White House press corps to stand in Smith's remembrance.

Merriman Smith Memorial Award

In 1970, the White House Correspondents' Association established The Merriman Smith Memorial Award for excellence in presidential news coverage under deadline pressure.^[11] His name was removed from the award in 2022 because of his support of excluding Black and female journalists from membership in the National Press Club and from attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner.^[12]

Works

Thank You, Mr. President: A White House Notebook (1946,^[13] 1976^[14])
- Danke sehr, Herr Präsident! Notizbuch aus dem Weissen Haus (1948)^[15]
President is Many Men (1948)^[16]
Meet Mister Eisenhower (1955)^[17]
President's Odyssey (1961,^[18] 1975^[19])
Good New Days (1962)^[20]
News Media – A Service and a Force (1970)^[21]
Merriman Smith's Book of Presidents: A White House Memoir (1972)^[22]

References

^ Judy Muhlberg (June 14, 1976). "Medal of Freedom" (PDF). Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum. p. 43. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Joe Alex Morris (1957). "Deadline Every Minute The Story Of The United Press".
^ ^a ^b "Helen Thomas honored". The Pittsburgh Press. June 24, 1985. p. A2.
^ Donald A. Ritchie (2005), Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps, p. 121.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sanderson, Bill. "Merriman Smith's account of JFK's assassination". www.pulitzer.org.
^ Sanderson, Bill (2013). "Fifty Years Ago This Minute: How the Assassination Story Broke". Observer. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
^ "How this forgotten journalist scored the 20th century's biggest scoop". nypost.com. 6 November 2016.
^ Sanderson, Bill (1 November 2016). Bulletins from Dallas: Reporting the JFK Assassination. Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 978-1510712645.
^ Pages documenting this are held by Gary Mack, the curator of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.
^ Lim, Young Joon; Sweeney, Michael S. (2016). "UPI's Merriman Smith may have suffered from PTSD". Newspaper Research Journal. 37 (2): 113–123. doi:10.1177/0739532916648956.
^ "2013 WHCA Journalism Award Winners". whca.press. White House Correspondents’ Association. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
^ Farhi, Paul (March 11, 2022). "His reporting on the Kennedy assassination made him a legend. Then a press group looked into his past". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
^ Smith, A. Merriman (1946). Thank You, Mr. President: A White House Notebook. Harper & Brothers.
^ Smith, A. Merriman (1976). Thank You, Mr. President: A White House Notebook. Da Capo Press.
^ Smith, A. Merriman (1948). "translation (Herbert Mühlbauer)". Thank You, Mr. President: A White House Notebook. Vienna: Humboldt.
^ Smith, A. Merriman (1948). President is Many Men. Harper.
^ Smith, A. Merriman (1955). Meet Mister Eisenhower. Harper.
^ Smith, A. Merriman (1961). President's Odyssey. Harper.
^ Smith, A. Merriman (1975). President's Odyssey. Greenwood Press.
^ Smith, A. Merriman (1962). Good New Days: A Not Entirely Reverent Study of Native Habits and Customs in Modern Washington. Bobbs-Merrill.
^ Smith, A. Merriman; Smith, Howard K.; Elliot, Osborn (1970). News Media – A Service and a Force. Memphis State University Press.
^ Smith, A. Merriman (1972). Timothy G. Smith (ed.). Merriman Smith's Book of Presidents: A White House Memoir. WW Norton.

External links

President Truman Correspondence with Merriman Smith Shapell Manuscript Foundation
Albert Merriman Smith, News Reporter at Arlington National Cemetery
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Not Your Father's UPI

[1] Judy Muhlberg (June 14, 1976). "Medal of Freedom" (PDF). Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum. p. 43. Retrieved May 11, 2020.

[deadline-2] Joe Alex Morris (1957). "Deadline Every Minute The Story Of The United Press".

[HelenThomasHonored-3] "Helen Thomas honored". The Pittsburgh Press. June 24, 1985. p. A2.

[4] Donald A. Ritchie (2005), Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps, p. 121.

[Sanderson-5] Sanderson, Bill. "Merriman Smith's account of JFK's assassination". www.pulitzer.org.

[6] Sanderson, Bill (2013). "Fifty Years Ago This Minute: How the Assassination Story Broke". Observer. Retrieved 4 September 2018.

[7] "How this forgotten journalist scored the 20th century's biggest scoop". nypost.com. 6 November 2016.

[8] Sanderson, Bill (1 November 2016). Bulletins from Dallas: Reporting the JFK Assassination. Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 978-1510712645.

[9] Pages documenting this are held by Gary Mack, the curator of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.

[10] Lim, Young Joon; Sweeney, Michael S. (2016). "UPI's Merriman Smith may have suffered from PTSD". Newspaper Research Journal. 37 (2): 113–123. doi:10.1177/0739532916648956.

[11] "2013 WHCA Journalism Award Winners". whca.press. White House Correspondents’ Association. Retrieved March 11, 2022.

[12] Farhi, Paul (March 11, 2022). "His reporting on the Kennedy assassination made him a legend. Then a press group looked into his past". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 11, 2022.

[13] Smith, A. Merriman (1946). Thank You, Mr. President: A White House Notebook. Harper & Brothers.

[14] Smith, A. Merriman (1976). Thank You, Mr. President: A White House Notebook. Da Capo Press.

[15] Smith, A. Merriman (1948). "translation (Herbert Mühlbauer)". Thank You, Mr. President: A White House Notebook. Vienna: Humboldt.

[16] Smith, A. Merriman (1948). President is Many Men. Harper.

[17] Smith, A. Merriman (1955). Meet Mister Eisenhower. Harper.

[18] Smith, A. Merriman (1961). President's Odyssey. Harper.

[19] Smith, A. Merriman (1975). President's Odyssey. Greenwood Press.

[20] Smith, A. Merriman (1962). Good New Days: A Not Entirely Reverent Study of Native Habits and Customs in Modern Washington. Bobbs-Merrill.

[21] Smith, A. Merriman; Smith, Howard K.; Elliot, Osborn (1970). News Media – A Service and a Force. Memphis State University Press.

[22] Smith, A. Merriman (1972). Timothy G. Smith (ed.). Merriman Smith's Book of Presidents: A White House Memoir. WW Norton.

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-'''Albert Merriman Smith''' (February 10, 1913 – April 13, 1970) was an American wire service reporter, notably serving as White House correspondent for [[United Press International]] and its predecessor, United Press. He won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1964 for his coverage of the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]] and was awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]]  in 1967.
+'''Albert Merriman Smith''' (February 10, 1913 – April 13, 1970) was an American wire service reporter, notably serving as White House correspondent for [[United Press International]] and its predecessor, United Press. He won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1964 for his coverage of the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]] and was awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] in 1969 by [[Lyndon B. Johnson]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0067/7773889.pdf |title=Medal of Freedom |date=June 14, 1976 |author=Judy Muhlberg |publisher=Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum |format=PDF |page=43 |access-date=May 11, 2020 }}</ref><ref name="deadline">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/deadlineeverymin013289mbp | title = Deadline Every Minute The Story Of The United Press | year = 1957|author= Joe Alex Morris }}</ref>
-==Life and career==
+==Background==
-Smith was born in [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].  Known by his middle name (and his nickname, "Smitty"), Smith covered US presidents from [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] to [[Richard Nixon]] and originated the practice of closing presidential news conferences with "Thank You, Mr. President," which was the title of his 1946 book, written during his coverage of the [[Harry Truman]] administration.<ref name="deadline"/> That honor, accorded the senior wire service reporter present at presidential news conferences, became more popularly known when it was continued by Smith's UPI colleague [[Helen Thomas]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Helen Thomas honored |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=June 24, 1985 |publisher=Google News Archive |page=A2 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=U4McAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UWIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5835,5656080&dq=helen-thomas+thank-you-mr-president&hl=en }}</ref>
+Albert Merriman Smith was born on February 10, 1913, in [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].<ref name=HelenThomasHonored>{{cite news |title=Helen Thomas honored |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=June 24, 1985 |page=A2 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=U4McAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UWIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5835,5656080&dq=helen-thomas+thank-you-mr-president&hl=en }}</ref>
+==Career==
-Smith began covering the White House in 1940.  After the United States entered the Second World War, he was designated as one of the wire service reporters to follow the president on all his travels.  They agreed for security purposes not to file their stories until after each trip had ended.  Consequently, Smith was in Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945, and filed one of the first reports on the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.<ref>Donald A. Ritchie (2005), ''Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps'', p. 121.</ref>
+Known by his middle name (and his nickname, "Smitty"), Smith covered US presidents from [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] to [[Richard Nixon]] and originated the practice of closing presidential news conferences with "Thank You, Mr. President," which was the title of his 1946 book, written during his coverage of the [[Harry Truman]] administration.<ref name="deadline"/> That honor, accorded the senior wire service reporter present at presidential news conferences, became more popularly known when it was continued by Smith's UPI colleague [[Helen Thomas]].<ref name=HelenThomasHonored/>
-On November 22, 1963, Smith was the main UPI reporter in Dallas [[John F. Kennedy]]'s visit. He traveled in the motorcade in the White House Pool car, which had a radiotelephone.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/article/merriman-smiths-account-jfks-assassination|title=Merriman Smith's account of JFK’s assassination|first=Bill|last= Sanderson|website=www.pulitzer.org}}</ref> When the shots were fired, Smith grabbed the phone and called the UPI office.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sanderson |first1=Bill |title=Fifty Years Ago This Minute: How the Assassination Story Broke |url=https://observer.com/2013/11/how-the-assassination-story-broke/ |website=Observer |accessdate=4 September 2018 |date=2013}}</ref> He stayed in the phone while Jack Bell, the AP reporter in the car, started punching Smith and yelling at him to hand the phone over.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2016/11/05/how-this-forgotten-journalist-scored-the-20th-centurys-biggest-scoop/|title=How this forgotten journalist scored the 20th century’s biggest scoop|date=6 November 2016|website=nypost.com}}</ref> In 1964, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the assassination of US President [[John F. Kennedy]]. He was the first to publicly use the term "grassy knoll" regarding the assassination.<ref>Pages documenting this are held by [[Gary Mack]], the curator of [[The Sixth Floor Museum]] at [[Dealey Plaza]].</ref>
+Smith began covering the White House in 1940.  After the United States entered the Second World War, he was designated as one of the wire service reporters to follow the president on all his travels.  They agreed for security purposes not to file their stories until after each trip had ended.  Consequently, Smith was in Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945, and filed one of the first reports on the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.<ref>Donald A. Ritchie (2005), ''Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps'', p. 121.</ref>
-In the 1960s, Smith was a frequent guest on television interview programs hosted by [[Jack Paar]] and [[Merv Griffin]]. Smith was presented with the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] by President [[Lyndon Johnson]] in 1967.
+On November 22, 1963, Smith was the main UPI reporter in Dallas for [[John F. Kennedy]]'s visit. He traveled in the motorcade in the White House Pool car, which had a radiotelephone.<ref name="Sanderson">{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/article/merriman-smiths-account-jfks-assassination|title=Merriman Smith's account of JFK's assassination|first=Bill|last= Sanderson|website=www.pulitzer.org}}</ref> When the shots were fired, Smith grabbed the phone and called the UPI office.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sanderson |first1=Bill |title=Fifty Years Ago This Minute: How the Assassination Story Broke |url=https://observer.com/2013/11/how-the-assassination-story-broke/ |website=Observer |accessdate=4 September 2018 |date=2013}}</ref> He stayed on the phone while Jack Bell, the AP reporter in the car, started punching Smith and yelling at him to hand the phone over.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2016/11/05/how-this-forgotten-journalist-scored-the-20th-centurys-biggest-scoop/|title=How this forgotten journalist scored the 20th century's biggest scoop|date=6 November 2016|website=nypost.com}}</ref><ref name="Sanderson"/> At 12:34 PM CST, four minutes after the presidential shooting, the report went out over UPI wire.<ref name="Sanderson"/> In 1964, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the assassination of US President [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Sanderson |first=Bill |title=Bulletins from Dallas: Reporting the JFK Assassination |publisher=[[Skyhorse Publishing]] |date=1 November 2016 |isbn=978-1510712645}}</ref> He was the first to publicly use the term "grassy knoll" regarding the assassination.<ref>Pages documenting this are held by [[Gary Mack]], the curator of [[The Sixth Floor Museum]] at [[Dealey Plaza]].</ref>
-Near the end of the novel ''[[Seven Days in May]]'', by [[Fletcher Knebel]] and [[Charles W. Bailey II]], Smith is thinly disguised as a White House reporter nicknamed "Milky."
+In the 1960s, Smith was a frequent guest on television interview programs hosted by [[Jack Paar]] and [[Merv Griffin]]. Smith was presented with the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] by President [[Lyndon Johnson]] in 1969.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
-Part of his legacy is [[White House Correspondents' Association#The Merriman Smith Memorial Award|The Merriman Smith Memorial Award]], a journalism award bestowed by the [[White House Correspondents' Association]].
 ==Death==
-Despondent over the death of his son in the [[Vietnam War]] and perhaps suffering from PTSD as a result of witnessing the Kennedy assassination, Smith died at his home in [[Washington, D.C.]], on April 13, 1970 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lim |first1=Young Joon |last2=Sweeney |first2=Michael S.|date=2016 |title=UPI's Merriman Smith may have suffered from PTSD |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0739532916648956 |journal=Newspaper Research Journal |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=113–123 |doi=10.1177/0739532916648956 |access-date=2018-01-04}}</ref> Although he never served in the military himself, his grave is in Section 32 of [[Arlington National Cemetery]] next to his son's, by special permission of the Commanding General of the Military District of Washington.
+Despondent over the death of his son in the [[Vietnam War]] and perhaps suffering from PTSD as a result of witnessing the Kennedy assassination, Smith died at his home in [[Alexandria, Virginia]], on April 13, 1970, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lim |first1=Young Joon |last2=Sweeney |first2=Michael S.|date=2016 |title=UPI's Merriman Smith may have suffered from PTSD |journal=Newspaper Research Journal |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=113–123 |doi=10.1177/0739532916648956 }}</ref> Although he never served in the military himself, his grave is in Section 32 of [[Arlington National Cemetery]] next to his son's, by special permission of the Commanding General of the Military District of Washington.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
+At the end of the President's press conference of May 8, 1970, concentrating on the [[Kent State shootings]] and his decision to expand the [[Cambodian campaign|war into Cambodia]], Nixon called on the White House press corps to stand in Smith's remembrance.
+==Merriman Smith Memorial Award==
+In 1970, the [[White House Correspondents' Association]] established [[White House Correspondents' Association#The Merriman Smith Memorial Award|The Merriman Smith Memorial Award]] for excellence in presidential news coverage under deadline pressure.<ref>{{cite web |title=2013 WHCA Journalism Award Winners |url=https://whca.press/news/awards/past-winners/2013-award-winners/ |website=whca.press |publisher=White House Correspondents’ Association |access-date=March 11, 2022}}</ref> His name was removed from the award in 2022 because of his support of excluding Black and female journalists from membership in the [[National Press Club (United States)|National Press Club]] and from attending the [[White House Correspondents' Association#White House Correspondents' dinner|White House Correspondents' Dinner]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Farhi |first=Paul |title=His reporting on the Kennedy assassination made him a legend. Then a press group looked into his past. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/03/11/merriman-smith-award/ |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=March 11, 2022 |access-date=March 11, 2022}}</ref>
+==Works==
+* ''Thank You, Mr. President:  A White House Notebook'' (1946,<ref>
+{{cite book
+| first = A. Merriman
+| last = Smith
+| authorlink = Merriman Smith
+| title = Thank You, Mr. President:  A White House Notebook
+| publisher = Harper & Brothers
+| date = 1946}}</ref> 1976<ref>
+{{cite book
+| first = A. Merriman
+| last = Smith
+| authorlink = Merriman Smith
+| title = Thank You, Mr. President:  A White House Notebook
+| publisher = Da Capo Press
+| date = 1976}}</ref>)
+** ''Danke sehr, Herr Präsident! Notizbuch aus dem Weissen Haus'' (1948)<ref>
+{{cite book
+| first = A. Merriman
+| last = Smith
+| authorlink = Merriman Smith
+| contribution = translation (Herbert Mühlbauer)
+| title = Thank You, Mr. President:  A White House Notebook
+| publisher = Humboldt
+| place = Vienna
+| date = 1948}}</ref>
+* ''President is Many Men'' (1948)<ref>
+{{cite book
+| first = A. Merriman
+| last = Smith
+| authorlink = Merriman Smith
+| title = President is Many Men
+| publisher = Harper
+| date = 1948}}</ref>
+* ''Meet Mister Eisenhower'' (1955)<ref>
+{{cite book
+| first = A. Merriman
+| last = Smith
+| authorlink = Merriman Smith
+| title = Meet Mister Eisenhower
+| publisher = Harper
+| date = 1955}}</ref>
+* ''President's Odyssey'' (1961,<ref>
+{{cite book
+| first = A. Merriman
+| last = Smith
+| authorlink = Merriman Smith
+| title = President's Odyssey
+| publisher = Harper
+| date = 1961}}</ref> 1975<ref>
+{{cite book
+| first = A. Merriman
+| last = Smith
+| authorlink = Merriman Smith
+| title = President's Odyssey
+| publisher = Greenwood Press
+| date = 1975}}</ref>)
+* ''Good New Days'' (1962)<ref>
+{{cite book
+| first = A. Merriman
+| last = Smith
+| authorlink = Merriman Smith
+| title = Good New Days:  A Not Entirely Reverent Study of Native Habits and Customs in Modern Washington
+| publisher = Bobbs-Merrill
+| date = 1962}}</ref>
+* ''News Media – A Service and a Force'' (1970)<ref>
+{{cite book
+| first1 = A. Merriman
+| last1 = Smith
+| authorlink1 = Merriman Smith
+| first2 = Howard K.
+| last2 = Smith
+| authorlink2 = Howard K. Smith
+| first3 = Osborn
+| last3 = Elliot
+| authorlink3 = Osborn Elliott
+| title = News Media – A Service and a Force
+| publisher = Memphis State University Press
+| date = 1970}}</ref>
+* ''Merriman Smith's Book of Presidents:  A White House Memoir'' (1972)<ref>
+{{cite book
+| first1 = A. Merriman
+| last1 = Smith
+| author-link1 = Merriman Smith
+| title = Merriman Smith's Book of Presidents:  A White House Memoir
+|editor=Timothy G. Smith
+| publisher = WW Norton
+| date = 1972}}</ref>
 ==See also==
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 ==References==
+{{reflist}}
-{{Reflist|
-<ref name="deadline">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/deadlineeverymin013289mbp | title = Deadline Every Minute The Story Of The United Press | year = 1957|author= Joe Alex Morris }}</ref>
-}}
 ==External links==
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 *[http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2006/12/not-your-fathers-upi.html Reflections of a Newsosaur: Not Your Father's UPI]
+{{PulitzerPrize National Reporting}}
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+[[Category:1970 suicides]]
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-[[Category:Journalists who committed suicide]]
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-[[Category:Male suicides]]
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-[[Category:United Press International]]
+[[Category:United Press International people]]
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v t e Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting – National from 1942–1947
1942–1950	Louis Stark (1942) Dewey L. Fleming (1944) James Reston (1945) Edward A. Harris (1946) Edward T. Folliard (1947) Bert Andrews & Nat S. Finney (1948) C. P. Trussell (1949)
1950–1975	Edwin O. Guthman (1950) Anthony Leviero (1952) Don Whitehead (1953) Richard Wilson (1954) Anthony Lewis (1955) Charles L. Bartlett (1956) James Reston (1957) Clark Mollenhoff & Relman Morin (1958) Howard Van Smith (1959) Vance Trimble (1960) Edward R. Cony (1961) Nathan G. Caldwell & Gene S. Graham (1962) Anthony Lewis (1963) Merriman Smith (1964) Louis M. Kohlmeier Jr. (1965) Haynes Johnson (1966) Stanley Penn & Monroe Karmin (1967) Nathan K. (Nick) Kotz & Howard James (1968) Robert Cahn (1969) William J. Eaton (1970) Lucinda Franks (1971) Jack Anderson (1972) Robert Boyd & Clark Hoyt (1973) Jack White & James R. Polk (1974) Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele (1975)
1976–2000	James V. Risser (1976) Walter Mears (1977) Gaylord D. Shaw (1978) James V. Risser (1979) Bette Swenson Orsini & Charles Stafford (1980) John M. Crewdson (1981) Rick Atkinson (1982) The Boston Globe (1983) John Noble Wilford (1984) Thomas J. Knudson (1985) Craig Flournoy, George Rodrigues & Arthur Howe (1986) Staff of The Miami Herald & Staff of The New York Times (1987) Tim Weiner (1988) Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele (1989) Ross Anderson, Bill Dietrich, Mary Ann Gwinn & Eric Nalder (1990) Marjie Lundstrom, Rochelle Sharpe & Gannett News Service (1991) Jeff Taylor, Mike McGraw & The Kansas City Star (1992) David Maraniss (1993) Eileen Welsome (1994) Tony Horwitz (1995) Alix M. Freedman (1996) Staff of The Wall Street Journal (1997) Russell Carollo & Jeff Nesmith (1998) Staff of The New York Times (1999) Jeff Gerth (1999)
2000–2009	Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2000) Staff of The New York Times (2001) Staff of The Washington Post (2002) Alan Miller & Kevin Sack (2003) Staff of Los Angeles Times (2004) Walt Bogdanich (2005) James Risen & Eric Lichtblau (2006) Staff of The San Diego Union-Tribune & Staff of Copley News Service including Marcus Stern & Jerry Kammer (2006) Charlie Savage (2007) Jo Becker & Barton Gellman (2008) Staff of St. Petersburg Times (2009) Matt Richtel & Staff of The New York Times (2010) Jesse Eisinger & Jake Bernstein (2011) David Wood (2012) Lisa Song, Elizabeth McGowan & David Hasemyer (2013) David Philipps (2014) Carol D. Leonnig (2015) Staff of The Washington Post (2016) David Fahrenthold (2017) Staff of The New York Times & Staff of The Washington Post (2018) Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2019) Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker & Lewis Kamb of The Seattle Times (2020) T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose & Robert Faurtechi of ProPublica (2020) Staff of The New York Times (2022) [Caroline Kitchener]] (2023)

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