The Miami News - Pulitzer Prizes

Pulitzer Prizes

• 1939 - public service, for its campaign for the recall of the Miami City Commission
• 1959 - national reporting, Howard Van Smith, for a series of articles that focused public notice on deplorable conditions in a Florida migrant labor camp, resulted in the provision of generous assistance for the 4,000 stranded workers in the camp, and thereby called attention to the national problem presented by 1,500,000 migratory laborers.
• 1963 - international reporting, Hal Hendrix, for his persistent reporting which revealed, at an early stage, that the Soviet Union was installing missile launching pads in Cuba and sending in large numbers of MIG-21 aircraft.
• 1966 - editorial cartooning, Don Wright, for "You Mean You Were Bluffing?"
• 1980 - editorial cartooning, Don Wright