Omaha World-Herald - Pulitzer Prizes

Pulitzer Prizes

The World-Herald has won three Pulitzer Prizes, including the esteemed Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, awarded in 1943.

• 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Photography - Earle L. Bunker for his photo entitled, "Homecoming."
• 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service - For its initiative and originality in planning a state-wide campaign for the collection of scrap metal for the war effort. The Nebraska plan was adopted on a national scale by the daily newspapers, resulting in a united effort which succeeded in supplying our war industries with necessary scrap material.
• 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing - Harvey E. Newbranch for an editorial entitled "Law and the Jungle," which decried the lynching of a black man on the lawn of the Douglas County Courthouse. Newbranch was the first editorial writer to win a Pulitzer under his own name—as opposed to awards for unsigned staff editorials—in opinion writing.