James B. Steele

American journalist

James B. Steele
Born	(1943-01-03) January 3, 1943 (age 81) Hutchinson, Kansas
Occupation(s)	Investigative journalist, nonfiction writer
Notable credit(s)	The Philadelphia Inquirer, Time, Vanity Fair, books:Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes (with Donald L. Barlett), Forevermore: Nuclear Waste in America (with Donald L. Barlett), America: What Went Wrong?(with Donald L. Barlett), America: Who Really Pays the Taxes? (with Donald L. Barlett), America: Who Stole the Dream (with Donald L. Barlett), The Great American Tax Dodge (with Donald L. Barlett), Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business -- and Bad Medicine (with Donald L. Barlett), The Betrayal of the American Dream (with Donald L. Barlett), America: What Went Wrong? The Crisis Deepens (with Donald L. Barlett).
Spouse	Nancy Steele
Children	Allison Steele
Relatives	Lisa Steele (sister)
Website	http://barlettandsteele.com/index.php

James B. Steele (born January 3, 1943) is an American investigative journalist and author. With longtime collaborator Donald L. Barlett he has won two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Magazine Awards, six George Polk Awards and many other national awards during the 40 years they worked together at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Time, and Vanity Fair.

Biography

Steele was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, and was raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Missouri–Kansas City and began his career at the Kansas City Times, where he covered politics, labor and urban affairs. In 1970 he joined The Philadelphia Inquirer, where his partnership with Barlett began.

Barlett and Steele were the longest-running investigative reporting team in American history and also the co-authors of nine books, including two New York Times bestsellers.

The duo's reporting methods included extensive use of government documents and computers to analyze complex public issues. The Washington Journalism Revue in 1990 described them as "almost certainly the best team in the history of investigative reporting."^[1]

At The Inquirer from 1971 to 1997, Barlett and Steele tackled a wide range of subjects, including The Internal Revenue Service, the oil industry, American foreign aid, federal housing programs, criminal justice, nuclear waste, hidden tax breaks enacted by Congress, income inequality and the shrinking middle class.

For their series "Auditing the IRS",^[2] which documented unequal patterns of tax collection, they were awarded The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1975.^[3] They also received The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1989^[4] for their series "The Great Tax Giveaway",^[5] which disclosed the identities of individuals and corporations that received preferential tax breaks in the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

In 1972, Barlett and Steele, working with Philip Meyer, who pioneered in the field of computer-assisted journalism, used a computer to analyze more than 1,000 cases of violent crime in Philadelphia. "Crime and Injustice" was the largest computer-assisted journalism project of its time.^[6]

Their 1991 Inquirer series, "America: What Went Wrong?", on how actions of Wall Street and Washington were undermining the middle class and leading to ever-greater income inequality, was named one of the 100 greatest works of journalism of the 20th century^[7] by New York University's School of Journalism. Bill Moyers produced and narrated two one-hour specials based on the series for "Listening to America"^[8] on PBS.

In 1997, Barlett and Steele left The Inquirer to become editors-at-large for Time Inc., writing principally for Time magazine. Time won two National Magazine Awards for series by Barlett and Steele: "What Corporate Welfare Costs You" (1998)^[9] and "Big Money and Politics: Who Gets Hurt" (2000).^[10]

After Time, for financial reasons,^[11] declined to renew their contract, Barlett and Steele became contributing editors for Vanity Fair.^[11] From 2006 to 2016, they researched and wrote investigative articles on subjects including the strong-arm tactics of Monsanto against America's farmers, the military-industrial-intelligence complex, and the disappearance of billions of dollars in cash the U.S. airlifted to Baghdad at the outset of the Iraqi war.

To encourage the kind of in-depth reporting that Barlett and Steele exemplify, the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation in 2006 created the Barlett and Steele Awards administered annually by Arizona State University.

Steele and Barlett are the authors of nine books. Their first, a biography of Howard Hughes, EMPIRE: The Life, Legend and Madness of Howard Hughes (1979), received widespread critical acclaim. The New York Times Sunday Book Review called it "the first fully documented cradle-to-grave account of a unique American life...".^[12] Their second book, Forevermore: Nuclear Waste in America (1985), was selected as one of the 100 best science books of 1985 by the Library Journal. America: What Went Wrong?, an expanded version of their Inquirer series, became a number one New York Times bestseller in 1992. America: Who Really Pays the Taxes? (1994), depicts unfairness in the U.S. tax system. America: Who Stole the Dream? (1996), also an expanded edition of the Inquirer series, describes the ravages of U.S. trade policy on American manufacturing. The Great American Tax Dodge (2000) details widespread tax cheating and fraud. Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine (2004), is an indictment of America's health care system that elevates profit over health. The Betrayal of the American Dream, which tells of the ongoing impoverishment of America's middle class, quickly became a New York Times bestseller when published in 2012. Their ninth book, America: What Went Wrong? The Crisis Deepens (2020), is an updated and expanded edition of their 1992 bestseller.

Steele continues to report and write investigative articles on subjects such as profiteering from the student loan crisis and how tax cuts for the rich foster income inequality.

He is a lecturer at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University, which in 2016 established the James B. Steele Chair in Journalism Innovation.^[13] He also has taught at Princeton University as a Ferris Fellow^[14] in 2009 and 2015.

Steele is a resource for young journalists and has led seminars for many organizations, including the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Norwegian Foundation for Investigative Reporting (SKUP). He has spoken at conferences of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), the premier U.S. organization of investigative journalists, since its founding in 1976.

Steele is also a director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism, which supports the work of independent journalists.

Steele is married to Nancy Steele, an editor, and they have a daughter, Allison Steele.

His sister, Lisa Steele, is a video artist and professor emeritus of art at the University of Toronto.

Published works

Books

Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1979). Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-00025-7.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1985). Forevermore: Nuclear Waste in America. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-01920-9.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1992). America: What Went Wrong?. Andrews and McMeel. ISBN 0-8362-7001-0.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1994). America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-87157-9.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1996). America: Who Stole the Dream?. Andrews and McMeel. ISBN 0-8362-1314-9.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2000). The Great American Tax Dodge: How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, And Costing You. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-81135-1.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2004). Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business — and Bad Medicine. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-50454-3.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2012). The Betrayal of the American Dream. Public Affairs. ISBN 978-161-0393201.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2020). America: What Went Wrong? The Crisis Deepens. Mission Point Press. ISBN 978-1-950659-50-0.

Newspaper articles

Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-10). "How the Influential win Billions in Special Tax Breaks". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-10). "The Tax Chairmen Fail to Respond to Queries". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A14.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-10). "A Rich Texas Widow Could Save $4 Million". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A15.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-11). "A Millionaire Businessman and his Island Tax Shelter". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-11). "A Tax Favor for Backer of Conservative Causes". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A07.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-12). "How Businesses Influence the Tax-Writing Process". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-13). "Disguising Those who get Tax Breaks". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-13). "Investors take over a Vital Atomic Plant a Tax-Saving Strategy Develops". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A10.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-14). "Congress can't add, so the Taxpayer pays". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-14). "The Wall Street star who Started Catalyst Energy". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A18.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-14). "A $4 Billion Price Tag to Stop a Nuclear Plant". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A19.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-15). "One Firm's Huge Break". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-16). "Cruising, at Taxpayers' Expense". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-04-16). "A Big Bailouts for Steel Firms with the Assistance of Heinz". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A07.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-09-25). "The Tax-Break Sweepstakes". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-09-25). "The Tax War Between the Chickens and the Pigs". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A17.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-09-26). "Family Football Seeks Bonus Through Tax Bill". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1988-09-26). "A Historic Hotel and its Quest for a Tax Cut". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1990-11-04). "A Tax Increase for the Rich that's no Increase at all". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.

"America: What Went Wrong?"

Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1991-10-20). "How the Game was Rigged Against the Middle Class". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1991-10-20). "Who -- and how many -- in America's Middle Class". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A16.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1991-10-20). "After 3 Decades, American Worker Loses out to Mexico". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A17.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1991-10-21). "The Lucrative Business of Bankruptcy". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1991-10-22). "Big Business Hits that Jackpot with Billions in Tax Breaks". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1991-10-23). "Why the World is Closing in on U.S. Economy". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1991-10-24). "The High Cost of Deregulation". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1991-10-25). "For Millions in U.S., a Harsh Reality". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1991-10-25). "How Death came to a Once-Prosperous Discount-Store Chain". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A21.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1991-10-26). "Raiders work their Wizardry on an All-American Company". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1991-10-27). "When you Retire, Will There be a Pension Waiting?". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1991-10-27). "Workers Saving for Their Retirement Lose on Junk Bonds". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A17.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1991-10-28). "How Special Interest Groups have their way with Washington". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1992-02-02). "The Politics of Tax Breaks in an Election Year". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.

"America: Who Stole the Dream?"

Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1996-09-08). "How U.S. Policies are Costing America Jobs". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1996-09-08). "Why the Series Came to be". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A18.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1996-09-09). "Importing Goods, Exporting Jobs". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1996-09-10). "Endangered Label: Made in the USA". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1996-09-11). "The "New" American Worker". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1996-09-12). "The Burden of the Working Woman". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1996-09-15). "Shortcut to U.S. Jobs". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1996-09-16). "Say Goodbye to High-Tech Jobs". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1996-09-17). "The Lobbying Game: Influence-Brokers in D.C.". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1996-09-18). "One American Industry that Thrives: Retraining". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1996-09-22). "A Nation in Search of Answers". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.

Magazine articles

Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1998-11-09). "States at War". Time. Archived from the original on January 12, 2005.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1998-11-09). "Corporate Welfare". Time. Archived from the original on February 14, 2008.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1998-11-16). "Fantasy Islands". Time. Archived from the original on June 4, 2008.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1998-11-23). "Sweet Deal". Time. Archived from the original on June 4, 2008.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1998-11-23). "Paying a Price for Polluters". Time. Archived from the original on June 4, 2008.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1998-11-30). "The Empire of the Pigs". Time. Archived from the original on October 23, 2006.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1998-11-30). "Five Ways Out". Time. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2000-02-07). "How the Little Guy Gets Crunched". Time. Archived from the original on November 16, 2005.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2000-02-07). "How to Become a Top Banana". Time. Archived from the original on February 11, 2001.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2000-05-15). "Soaked By Congress". Time. Archived from the original on February 11, 2001.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2000-09-25). "Throwing the Game". Time. Archived from the original on June 11, 2001.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2002-12-16). "Who Gets the Money?". Time. Archived from the original on June 4, 2008.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2002-12-16). "Wheel of Misfortune". Time. Archived from the original on June 4, 2008.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2002-12-23). "Playing the Political Slots". Time. Archived from the original on January 23, 2005.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2003-02-03). "The Really Unfair Tax". Time. Archived from the original on October 26, 2004.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2003-05-19). "The Oily Americans". Time. Archived from the original on March 9, 2005.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2003-05-19). "Iraq's Crude Awakening". Time. Archived from the original on May 20, 2005.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2003-07-21). "The U.S. is Running Out of Energy". Time. Archived from the original on December 31, 2006.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2003-10-13). "The Great Energy Scam". Time. Archived from the original on October 26, 2004.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2003-10-13). "Asleep at the Switch". Time. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2004-02-02). "Why We Pay So Much for Drugs". Time. Archived from the original on November 15, 2006.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2004-02-02). "Has Your Life Become Too Much a Game of Chance?". Time. Archived from the original on June 4, 2008.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2004-09-20). "Who Left the Door Open?". Time. Archived from the original on June 4, 2008.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2005-10-23). "The Broken Promise". Time. Archived from the original on October 24, 2005.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2005-10-31). "Where Pensions are Golden". Time. Archived from the original on October 25, 2005.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (March 2007). "Washington's $8 Billion Shadow". Vanity Fair.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (October 2007). "Billions Over Baghdad". Vanity Fair.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (May 2008). "Monsanto's Harvest of Fear". Vanity Fair.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (October 2009). "Good Billions After Bad". Vanity Fair.
Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (January 2011). "Deadly Medicine". Vanity Fair.
Steele, James B. (December 2015). "The Disturbing Truth on How Airplanes Are Maintained Today". Vanity Fair.

References

^ ""The Old Pros of Investigating."". Washington Journalism Review. October 1990.
^ "Auditing the IRS". Philadelphia Inquirer. April 14, 1974.
^ "1975 Pulitzer Prizes". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
^ "1989 Pulitzer Prizes". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
^ "The Great Tax Giveaway". Philadelphia Inquirer. April 10, 1988.
^ "February 2, 1973". Philadelphia Inquirer.
^ Shedden, David (2015-02-18). "Today in Media History: In 1973, the Philadelphia Inquirer published one of the first computer-assisted reporting projects". Poynter. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
^ "America: What Went Wrong? (Part One)". BillMoyers.com. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
^ Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (1998-11-09). "Corporate Welfare: States At War". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
^ Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. (2000-02-07). "How to Become a Top Banana". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
^ ^a ^b Seelye, Katharine Q. (2006-08-07). "An Established Reporting Team Moves to Vanity Fair". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
^ Morgan, Ted (1979-05-06). "Poor Big Rich Man". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
^ "James B. Steele Chair in Journalism Innovation | Calendar of Events". events.temple.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
^ "Professorships and Fellowships". Princeton University Humanities Council. Retrieved 2023-07-04.

External links

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Don Barlett and Jim Steele's website
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Terry Gross's interview about gambling on reservations with Barlett & Steele on NPR's Fresh Air (16 December 2002)
Terry Gross's interview "The Big Business of Health Care" with Barlett & Steele on NPR's Fresh Air (6 October 2004)
Exposé:"Friends in High Places" on PBS (July 2007)
Liberadio(!) Interview with Don Barlett (12 February 2007)
Appearances on C-SPAN
- In Depth interview with Barlett and Steele, January 6, 2013

Gerald Loeb Award winners for Large Newspapers

(1974–1979)

1974: Paul Steiger
1975: Allan Sloan
1976: Willard Randal, Stephen Solomon
1977: Larry Collins, Susan Trausch
1978: Sam Jameson, Robert Rosenblatt, Murray Seeger, Ronald Soble, Paul Steiger
1979: N. R. Kleinfield, Richard C. Longworth, Bill Neikirk

(1980–1989)

1980: Cathleen Decker, William J. Eaton, Norman Kempster, Penelope McMillan, Larry Pryor, Tom Redburn, William C. Rempel, Gaylord Shaw, Bill Stall
1981: Jonathan Neumann, Ted Gup
1982: Linda Grant, Karen Tumulty
1983: Robert Frump
1984: Dan Morgan
1984 (HM): Ted Gup
1985: Paul Blustein
1985 (HM): Jane Applegate, Patrick Boyle, James Flanigan, Linda Grant, Michael Hiltzik, John Lawrence, Paul Richter, Nancy Rivera, Debra Whitefield
1986: Ken Auletta
1987: Kimberly Greer
1988: Daniel Hertzberg, James B. Stewart
1989: Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele

(1990–1999)

1990: David A. Vise, Steve Coll
1991: Bryan Burrough
1992: Karen Douglass, Dick Lehr, Bruce Mohl, Brian C. Mooney, Gerard O'Neill
1993: Alix M. Freedman
1994: Scot J. Paltrow
1995: Timothy Heider, Joel Rutchick
1996: Thomas M. Burton, Richard Gibson, Scott Kilman
1997: Bruce D. Butterfield
1998: Michael Siconolfi
1999: Joel Rutchick

(2000–2009)

2000: Ellen E. Schultz
2001: Ronald Campbell, William Heisel, Mark Katches
2002: David Heath, Duff Wilson
2003: Alec Klein
2004: David B. Ottaway, Joe Stephens
2005: Walt Bogdanich
2006: Ann Hardie, Alan Judd, Carrie Teegardin
2007: James Bandler, Charles Forelle, Mark Maremont, Steve Stecklow
2008: David Barboza, Walt Bogdanich, Jake Hooker, Andrew W. Lehren
2009: Jo Becker, Julie Creswell, Eric Dash, Carter Dougherty, Charles Duhigg, Peter S. Goodman, Stephen Labaton, Gretchen Morgenson, Sheryl Gay Stolberg

(2010–2014)

2010: Andrew Martin, Michael Moss
2011: Alexandra Berzon, Douglas A. Blackmon, Ana Campoy, Ben Casselman, Russell Gold, Vanessa O'Connell
2012: Ken Bensinger
2013: Patricia Callahan, Michael Hawthorne, Sam Roe
2014: Barton Gellman, Ellen Nakashima, Laura Poitras, Steven Rich, Ashkan Soltani, Craig Timberg

v t e Gerald Loeb Special Award winners
1960s	1966: Marcus Gleisser 1968 (tie): Nicholas Molodovsky 1968 (tie): Newsweek Magazine 1969: McGraw-Hill
1970s	1970: Philip B. Osborne 1972: James W. Michaels 1973: Louis Rukeyser 1975: Donald Bartlett, James Steele 1976: John Guinther
1980s	1983: Frederick Andrews, Business and Financial Staff of The New York Times 1985: Robert Heilbroner 1987: Los Angeles Times
1990s	1994: John Hays

v t e Recipients of the Orwell Award
1975–1999	1975: David Wise 1976: Hugh Rank 1977: Walter Pincus 1978: Sissela Bok 1979: Erving Goffman 1980: Sheila Harty 1981: Dwight Bolinger 1982: Stephen Hilgartner, Richard C. Bell, and Rory O'Connor 1983: Haig Bosmajian 1984: Ted Koppel 1985: Torben Vestergaard and Kim Schroder 1986: Neil Postman 1987: Noam Chomsky 1988: Donald Barlett and James B. Steele 1989: Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky 1990: Charlotte Baecher, Consumers Union 1991: David A. Kessler 1992: Donald L. Barlett and James Steele 1993: Eric Alterman 1994: Garry Trudeau 1995: Lies of Our Times 1996: William D. Lutz 1997: Gertrude Himmelfarb 1998: Juliet Schor 1998: Scott Adams 1999: Norman Solomon
2000–present	2000: Alfie Kohn 2001: Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber 2002: Bill Press 2004: Seymour Hersh and Arundhati Roy 2005: Jon Stewart and The Daily Show cast 2006: Steven H. Miles 2007: Ted Gup 2008: Charlie Savage 2009: Amy Goodman 2010: Michael Pollan 2011: F.S. Michaels 2012: Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan 2013: Paul L. Thomas 2014: The Onion 2015: Anthony Cody 2016: David Greenberg 2017: Richard Sobel 2018: Katie Watson 2019: Michael P. Lynch 2020: April Baker-Bell
National Council of Teachers of English George Orwell

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)