Recognition
Featured Awards
The 2023 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Investigative Reporting
Finalist in Investigative Reporting to the staff for exposing systematic failures in Minnesota’s juvenile justice system that endangered the lives of young people and crime victims.
The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Investigative Reporting
Finalist in Investigative Reporting to Jeffrey Meitrodt and Nicole Norfleet for comprehensive and tenacious reporting, which exposed how financial service companies purchased settlements from vulnerable accident victims across the country, convincing them to give up millions of dollars, often with judges’ approval.
The 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Breaking News Reporting
Winner in Breaking News Reporting to the staff for urgent, authoritative and nuanced coverage of the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis and of the reverberations that followed.
The 2020 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Editorial Writing
Finalist in Editorial Writing to Jill Burcum for passionate, persuasive writing about a pristine wilderness area, accessible largely by canoe, to demonstrate to readers why a proposed mine would do incalculable environmental damage.
The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Local Reporting
Finalist in Local Reporting to Brandon Stahl, Jennifer Bjorhus, MaryJo Webster and Renee Jones Schneider for an illuminating and disturbing series that exposed breakdowns in Minnesota’s investigation and persecution of rape cases, and how such ineptitude fails victims of sexual assault.
The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Editorial Cartooning
Finalist in Editorial Cartooning to Steve Sack for work that took on the biggest issues of the year through a distinctive style, close attention to detail and a sophisticated color palette.
The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Local Reporting
Finalist in Local Reporting to Chris Serres, Glenn Howatt and David Joles for a compelling exploration of the state’s archaic and dehumanizing healthcare system for the disabled, leading to swift proposals to improve treatment.
The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Editorial Cartooning
Finalist in Editorial Cartooning to Steve Sack for painterly cartoons that both delight and provoke, leading readers to see the world and its pressing issues in new ways.
The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Editorial Writing
Finalist in Editorial Writing to Jill Burcum for well-written and well-reported editorials that documented a national shame by taking readers inside dilapidated government schools for Native Americans.
The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Local Reporting
Winner in Local Reporting to Brad Schrade, Jeremy Olson and Glenn Howatt for powerful reports on the spike in infant deaths at poorly regulated daycare homes, resulting in legislative action to strengthen rules.
The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Editorial Cartooning
Winner in Editorial Cartooning to Steve Sack for his diverse collection of cartoons, using an original style and clever ideas to drive home his unmistakable point of view.
The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Feature Photography
Finalist in Feature Photography to Jim Gehrz for his poignant portrait of a woman soldier’s struggle to recover from grave shrapnel wounds to her head.
The 2004 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Editorial Cartooning
Finalist in Editorial Cartooning to Steve Sack for his vivid, distinctive cartoons that used creative metaphors to achieve high-impact results.
The 1996 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Public Service
Finalist in Public Service to staff for articles revealing questionable favors extended by a local legal publishing company to members of the federal judiciary, including several Supreme Court justices.
The 1991 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Public Service
Finalist in Public Service to staff for a series examining race relations and racial attitudes in Minnesota, including those prevailing at the newspaper itself.
The 1990 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Investigative Reporting
Winner in Investigative Reporting to Lou Kilzer and Chris Ison for reporting that exposed a network of local citizens who had links to members of the St. Paul fire department and who profited from fires, including some described by the fire department itself as being of suspicious origin.
The 1990 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Feature Photography
Finalist in Feature Photography to Stormi Greener for a series of photographs of a mother and her struggle to resist committing child abuse.
The 1989 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Feature Writing
Finalist in Feature Writing to Bob Ehlert for his stories about a local priest accused of sexual abuse.