The New York Daily News is known for its flashy front pages, gritty crime coverage, and polarizing politics reporting. But beyond the brash headlines lies service-minded local reporting at its best.
The proof is in our 11 Pulitzer Prizes.
We won those coveted Pulitzers, journalism’s highest honor, with a wide range of what The News does best: Dogged reporting, pointed editorials, breathtaking pictures and compelling cartoons.
Here are the prize-winning examples:
* In 1937, C.D. Batchelor won the Pulitzer for his anti-war cartoon “I Knew Your Daddy.”
* Writer Reuben Maury won in 1941 for his “distinguished” editorials throughout the year.
* In 1956, the entire News photography staff was cited for “consistently excellent news picture coverage,” including “Bomber Crashes in Street.”
* Reporters Joseph Martin and Philip Santora were winners in 1959 for their series of articles disclosing the brutality of the Batista government in Cuba before Fidel Castro’s triumph.
* William Sherman won in 1971 for local investigative specialized reporting for exposing abuse of New York’s Medicaid program.
* In 1986, Jimmy Breslin earned a Pulitzer for commentary for columns which “consistently championed ordinary citizens.”
* Ten years later, E.R. Shipp won for commentary for her “penetrating” columns on race, welfare and other social issues.
* In 1998, News columnist Mike McAlary won for his coverage of the brutalization of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima by Brooklyn cops. McAlary died later that year of cancer at age 41.
* The following year, The News editorial board — Michael Aronson, Jonathan Capehart, Michael Goodwin, Karen Hunter, Brian Kates, Alex Storozynski and Karen Zautyk — won for its campaign to rescue Harlem’s historic Apollo Theatre from financial mismanagement.
* Three members of the editorial board — Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans — were winners in 2007 for their “compassionate and compelling editorials” on the neglected health problems of Ground Zero workers.
* A decade later, ProPublica and The News, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, shared the award in the public service category for uncovering the widespread abuse of eviction rules by cops that affected mostly poor minorities.
