List of Pulitzer Prizes Awarded To The New York Times - 1940s

1940s

• 1940: Otto D. Tolischus, for articles from Berlin explaining the economic and ideological background of war-engaged Germany.
• 1941: The New York Times, special citation for the public education value of its foreign news reports.
• 1942: Louis Stark, for distinguished reporting of labor stories.
• 1943: Hanson W. Baldwin, for a series of articles reporting a tour of the Pacific battle areas.
• 1944: The New York Times, for the most disinterested and meritorious service rendered by an American newspaper—a survey of the teaching of American history.
• 1945: James B. Reston, for news and interpretive articles on the Dumbarton Oaks Security Conference.
• 1946: Arnaldo Cortesi, for distinguished correspondence from Buenos Aires; William L. Laurence, for his eyewitness account of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and articles on the atomic bomb.
• 1947: Brooks Atkinson, for a distinguished series of articles on Russia.
• 1949: C.P. Trussell, for consistent excellence in covering the national scene from Washington.