# What newspapers have won the most Pulitzer Prizes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 29, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-have-won-the-most-pulitzer-prizes/541241 "2010-05-29T23:51:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Logical\_Phallacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Logical\_Phallacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logical_Phallacy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-have-won-the-most-pulitzer-prizes/541241/1 "2010-05-29T23:51:38Z")
I think google is broken. Perhaps someone, somewhere, forgot to flip a switch or something, but I can’t seem to find the answer to this pretty simple question using google (and [wolfram-alpha](http://www.wolframalpha.com/) doesn’t collect award data yet,they said “Development of this topic is under investigation…”). I am trying to find out which newspapers (particularly the top two) have won the most cumulative Pulitzer. I don’t think any of the awards are given directly to newspapers, so obviously when I refer to newspapers having won the prizes, i mean journalists workings for the same papers. I found a couple suggestions online that the New York Times is number one, but none have citations, and certainly no comprehensive list of Pulitzer prizes by newspaper which is my ideal find. Or at the very least, where can I find a cite for which are the two papers with the most awards (going back to whenever they started giving them out)/ merci bien! ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-have-won-the-most-pulitzer-prizes/541241/2 "2010-05-30T02:16:45Z")
Wiki says the [NY Times](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times). > [@](#): > > The Times has won 104 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization. Of course, there are one or two they [might prefer not to have won](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty). > [@](#): > > Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a set of falsified stories written in 1931 on the Soviet Union. ---
**Author:** ![anson2995](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-have-won-the-most-pulitzer-prizes/541241/3 "2010-05-30T02:26:02Z")
> [@Logical\_Phallacy](#): > > I don’t think any of the awards are given directly to newspapers, so obviously when I refer to newspapers having won the prizes, i mean journalists workings for the same papers. Some are awarded to specific papers. Most of the reporting categories are awarded for a body of work or a series of stories, and those almost always go to a paper rather than an individual reporter. The Public Service award always goes to a paper. **Xema** is correct. The NY Times has won the most – 104, including three this year. I believe the Washington Post is next with 47, and LA Times with 39. ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-have-won-the-most-pulitzer-prizes/541241/4 "2010-05-30T03:03:48Z")
It would be interesting to see it extended to publishers outside the US. ---
**Author:** ![Logical\_Phallacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Logical\_Phallacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logical_Phallacy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-have-won-the-most-pulitzer-prizes/541241/5 "2010-05-30T03:23:01Z")
thanks all! I did come across a bit of info on wikipedia, but because they didn’t have a citation themselves for the data, I didn’t consider it a proper source. Also they definitely don’t have a list of top two or top few. I suspect it is NYT then Washington Post, but I’m trying to verify. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-have-won-the-most-pulitzer-prizes/541241/7 "2012-08-12T07:23:02Z")
It’s interesting which Pulitzer Prizes are won by which papers. You might expect that the prize for criticism, which is about the same sort of things that Cafe Society on the SDMB is about (books, movies, TV, fashion, dance, theater, restaurants, music, painting, photography), would be won mostly by papers in New York or Los Angeles. In fact, these are the top four papers for this award: _The Washington Post_ - 10 _The New York Times_ - 6 _The Boston Globe_ - 6 _The Los Angeles Times_ - 5 I’m counting Jonathan Yardley for _The Washington Post_. _The Washington Star_ folded not long after he won the Pulitzer and he’s been with _The Washington Post_ ever since. On the other hand, you might expect that the prize for national reporting, which is (mostly) about American political issues, would be won by papers in Washington. In fact, _The New York Times_ is far ahead of _The Washington Post_. (I’m not listing the other papers here.): _The New York Times_ - 11 _The Washington Post_ - 3