Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Organizer: The Pulitzer Prizes (Columbia University)
Why it counts: Awarded annually since 1970 by the Pulitzer Prize Board, administered by Columbia University, to a newspaper writer in the United States for distinguished commentary
Held: annual, retired after the 2025 award (merged into Opinion Writing from 2026); no next edition

Reigning winners

Year	Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
2025	Mosab Abu Toha
2024	Vladimir Kara-Murza
2023	Kyle Whitmire
2020	Nikole Hannah-Jones
2019	Tony Messenger
2018	John Archibald
2017	Peggy Noonan
2016	Farah Stockman
2015	Lisa Falkenberg
2014	Stephen Henderson
2013	Bret Stephens
2012	Mary Schmich
2011	David Leonhardt
2010	Kathleen Parker
2009	Eugene Robinson
2008	Steven Pearlstein
2007	Cynthia Tucker
2006	Nicholas Kristof
2005	Connie Schultz
2004	Leonard Pitts
2003	Colbert I. King
2002	Thomas Friedman
2001	Dorothy Rabinowitz
2000	Paul Gigot
1999	Maureen Dowd
1998	Mike McAlary
1997	Eileen McNamara
1996	E. R. Shipp
1995	Jim Dwyer
1994	William Raspberry
1993	Liz Balmaseda
1992	Anna Quindlen
1991	Jim Hoagland
1990	Jim Murray
1989	Clarence Page
1988	Dave Barry
1987	Charles Krauthammer
1986	Jimmy Breslin
1985	Murray Kempton
1984	Vermont C. Royster
1983	Claude Sitton
1982	Art Buchwald
1981	Dave Anderson
1980	Ellen Goodman
1979	Russell Baker
1978	William Safire
1977	George Will
1976	Red Smith
1975	Mary McGrory
1973	David S. Broder
1972	Mike Royko
1971	William A. Caldwell
1970	Marquis Childs