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{{Short description|American journalism award}}
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The '''Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting''' is awarded to an example of "significant issues of local or statewide concern, demonstrating originality and community connection".<ref name="pulitzer-local-rep">{{Cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/208|title=Local Reporting|website=www.pulitzer.org}}</ref> This [[Pulitzer Prize]] was first awarded in 1948. Like most Pulitzers the winner receives a $15,000 award.<ref name="pulitzer-local-rep" />

==History==
The Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting was first awarded from 1948 until 1952. Beginning in 1953, two awards for Local Reporting were given out by the committee, for [[Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting#List of winners for Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, Edition Time|Local Reporting, Edition Time]] and for [[Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting#Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time|Local Reporting, No Edition Time]].

In 1964 the Local Reporting Pulitzers were again renamed to "Local Investigative Specialized Reporting" and "Local General or Spot News Reporting."{{Citation needed|reason="Local Reporting, Edition Time" became "Local Investigative Specialized Reporting" or "Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting"? compare with "WP:Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting".|date=November 2013}} These prizes existed until 1984, when they were done away with.

In 1985, several new Pulitzer Prizes were introduced, the [[Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism]] (later renamed "Explanatory Reporting"), the [[Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting]] (later renamed "Breaking News Reporting"), the [[Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting]], and the [[Pulitzer Prize for Specialized Reporting]]. None of these prizes were reserved specifically for local reporting.

In 2006, the prize committee announced that the [[Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting]] was going to be replaced by a recreated Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.<ref>{{cite web |title=Winners and Finalists 1917 to present |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/cms/sites/default/files/content/the_pulitzer_prizes_2021_winners_and_finalists.pdf |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=1 July 2023 |page=24}}</ref> Debbie Cenziper of ''[[The Miami Herald]]'' became the first reporter to win the re-created Pulitzer for Local Reporting.

The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation explaining the reasons for the award.

==Winners==

===From 1948 to 1952===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
!Year
!Name(s)
!Publication
!width=50% |Rationale
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!'''[[1948 Pulitzer Prize|1948]]'''
|'''{{sortname|George|Goodwin|dab=journalist}}'''
|'''''[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|The Atlanta Journal]]'''''
|'''"for his story of the [[Three governors controversy|Telfair County vote fraud]], published in 1947."'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!'''[[1949 Pulitzer Prize|1949]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Malcolm|Johnson|dab=journalist}}'''
|'''''[[The Sun (New York City)|The Sun]]'''''
|'''"for his series of 24 articles entitled 'Crime on the Waterfront' in New York City."'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!'''[[1950 Pulitzer Prize|1950]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Meyer|Berger}}'''
|'''''[[The New York Times]]'''''
|'''"for his 4,000 word story on the mass killings by [[Howard Unruh]] in [[Camden, New Jersey]]."'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!'''[[1951 Pulitzer Prize|1951]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Edward S.|Montgomery}}'''
|'''''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'''''
|'''"for his series of articles on tax frauds which culminated in an exposé within the [[Internal Revenue Service|Bureau of Internal Revenue]]."'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!'''[[1952 Pulitzer Prize|1952]]'''
|'''{{sortname|George|De Carvalho}}'''
|'''''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'''''
|'''"for his stories of a 'ransom racket' extorting money from Chinese in the United States for relations held in [[History of the People's Republic of China (1949–1976)|Red China]]."'''
|}

===From 2007 to present===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
!Year
!Name(s)
!Publication
!width=50% |Rationale
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[2007 Pulitzer Prize|2007]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Debbie|Cenziper}}'''
|'''''[[Miami Herald]]'''''
|'''"for reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency that resulted in dismissals, investigations and prosecutions."'''
|-
|{{sortname|June|Arney}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[The Baltimore Sun]]''
|rowspan=2 |"for their reports, in print and online, about abuses under an [[Ground rent|archaic state law]] that threatened to turn hundreds out of their homes."
|-
|{{sortname|Fred|Schulte|dab=journalist}}
|-
|Staff
|''[[The Boston Globe]]''
|"for its well documented exposure, in print and online, of unscrupulous [[debt collector]]s, causing two firms to close and prompting action by state officials."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=7 |'''[[2008 Pulitzer Prize|2008]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Dave|Umhoefer}}'''
|'''''[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]'''''
|'''"for his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of [[Milwaukee County, Wisconsin|county employees]], prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures."'''
|-
|{{sortname|John|Brennan|dab=journalist}}
|rowspan=3 |''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]''
|rowspan=3 |"for their probe of how plans to build a luxury community atop old landfills became entangled in questionable state loans and other allegations of favoritism."
|-
|{{sortname|Tim|Nostrand}}
|-
|{{sortname|Jeff|Pillets}}
|-
|{{sortname|Chris|Davis|dab=journalist}}
|rowspan=3 |''[[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]]''
|rowspan=3 |"for their dogged exposure, in print and online, of predatory teachers and the system that protects them, stirring state and national action."
|-
|{{sortname|Matthew|Doig}}
|-
|{{sortname|Tiffany|Lankes}}
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=8 |'''[[2009 Pulitzer Prize|2009]]'''
|'''{{sortname|M. L.|Elrick}}'''
|rowspan=3 |'''''[[Detroit Free Press]]'''''
|rowspan=3 |'''"for their uncovering of a pattern of lies by Mayor [[Kwame Kilpatrick]] that included denial of a sexual relationship with his female [[Christine Beatty|chief of staff]], prompting an investigation of perjury that eventually led to jail terms for the two officials."'''<ref>Original Series: {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214203037/http://www.freep.com/kilpatrick |date=2010-02-14 |title=Kilpatrick pleads guilty, resigns }}</ref>
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Jim|Schaefer}}'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''Staff'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Ryan|Gabrielson}}'''
|rowspan=2 |'''''[[East Valley Tribune]]'''''
|rowspan=2 |'''"for their adroit use of limited resources to reveal, in print and online, how a [[Joe Arpaio|popular sheriff's]] focus on immigration enforcement endangered investigation of violent crime and other aspects of public safety."'''<ref>[http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/page/reasonable_doubt Original series]</ref>
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Paul|Giblin}}'''
|-
|{{sortname|Michael|DeMocker}}
|rowspan=3 |''[[The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate|The Times-Picayune]]''
|rowspan=3 |"for their multifaceted examination of a murder case that showed deep understanding of the community, its social ills and the often frustrating path to justice."
|-
|{{sortname|Brendan|McCarthy|dab=journalist}}
|-
|{{sortname|Ryan|Smith|dab=journalist}}
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=5 |'''[[2010 Pulitzer Prize|2010]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Raquel|Rutledge}}'''
|'''''[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]'''''
|'''"for her penetrating reports on the fraud and abuse in a child-care program for low-wage working parents that fleeced taxpayers and imperiled children, resulting in a state and federal crackdown on providers."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Edmund|Fountain}}
|rowspan=3 |''[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]]''
|rowspan=3 |"for their dogged reporting and searing storytelling that illuminated decades of abuse at a Florida [[Florida School for Boys|reform school]] for boys and sparked remedial action."
|-
|{{sortname|Ben|Montgomery|dab=journalist}}
|-
|{{sortname|Waveney Ann|Moore}}
|-
|{{sortname|Dave|Philipps}}
|''[[The Gazette (Colorado Springs)|The Gazette]]''
|"for his painstaking stories on the spike in violence within a battered [[4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division (United States)|combat brigade]] returning to [[Fort Carson]] after bloody [[Iraq War|deployments to Iraq]], leading to increased mental health care for soldiers."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=6 |'''[[2011 Pulitzer Prize|2011]]'''
|'''{{sortname|John J.|Kim}}'''
|rowspan=3 |'''''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'''''
|rowspan=3 |'''"for immersive documentation of violence in Chicago neighborhoods, probing the lives of victims, criminals and detectives as a widespread code of silence impedes solutions."'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Mark|Konkol}}'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Frank|Main}}'''
|-
|{{sortname|Marshall|Allen|dab=journalist}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[Las Vegas Sun]]''
|rowspan=2 |"for their compelling reports on patients who suffered preventable injuries and other harm during hospital care, taking advantage of print and digital tools to drive home their findings."
|-
|{{sortname|Alex|Richards|dab=journalist}}
|-
|{{sortname|Stanley|Nelson|Stanley Nelson (journalist)}}
|''[[Ouachita Citizen|Concordia Sentinel]]''
|"for his courageous and determined efforts to unravel a long forgotten [[Murder of Frank Morris|Ku Klux Klan murder]] during the [[Civil rights movement|civil rights era]]."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=5 |'''[[2011 Pulitzer Prize|2011]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Sara|Ganim}}'''
|rowspan=2 |'''''[[The Patriot-News]]'''''
|rowspan=2 |'''"for courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive [[Penn State child sex abuse scandal|Penn State sex scandal]] involving former football coach [[Jerry Sandusky]]."'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''Staff'''
|-
|{{sortname|Matt|Hongoltz-Hetling}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[The Advertiser Democrat]]''
|rowspan=2 |"for their tenacious exposure of disgraceful conditions in [[Section 8 (housing)|federally-supported housing]] in a [[Norway, Maine|small rural community]] that, within hours, triggered a state investigation."
|-
|{{sortname|A. M.|Sheehan}}
|-
|Staff
|[[California Watch]]
|"for its rigorous probe of deficient [[Earthquake-resistant structures|earthquake protection]] in the construction of public schools across the state, telling the story with words, graphics, videos and other tools."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=11 |'''[[2013 Pulitzer Prize|2013]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Glenn|Howatt}}'''
|rowspan=3 |'''''[[Minnesota Star Tribune|The Minnesota Star Tribune]]'''''
|rowspan=3 |'''"for powerful [https://web.archive.org/web/20130415221902/http://www.startribune.com/local/150283965.html reports] on the spike in infant deaths at poorly regulated day-care homes, resulting in legislative action to strengthen rules."'''<ref name="pulitzer2">{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2013-Local-Reporting |title=The Pulitzer Prizes &#124; Citation |publisher=pulitzer.org |access-date=2015-04-13}}</ref>
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Jeremy|Olson|dab=journalist}}'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Brad|Schrade}}'''
|-
|{{sortname|Ames|Alexander}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[The Charlotte Observer]]''
|rowspan=4 |"for their tenacious joint project investigating how the state's major nonprofit hospitals generate large profits and contribute to the high cost of health care."
|-
|{{sortname|Karen|Garloch}}
|-
|{{sortname|Joseph|Neff}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[The News & Observer|The News and Observer]]''
|-
|{{sortname|David|Raynor}}
|-
|{{sortname|David|Breen|dab=journalist}}
|rowspan=4 |''[[Orlando Sentinel]]''
|rowspan=4 |"for their aggressive coverage of hazing rituals by the [[Marching 100|Florida A&M University marching band]] that killed a drum major and led to the resignation of the band leader and the [[James H. Ammons|university president]]."
|-
|{{sortname|Stephen|Hudak}}
|-
|{{sortname|Jeff|Kunerth}}
|-
|{{sortname|Denise-Marie|Ordway}}
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=8 |'''[[2014 Pulitzer Prize|2014]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Will|Hobson}}'''
|rowspan=2 |'''''[[Tampa Bay Times]]'''''
|rowspan=2 |'''"for their relentless investigation into the squalid conditions that marked housing for the city's substantial homeless population, leading to swift reforms."'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2014-Local-Reporting |title=The Pulitzer Prizes &#124; Citation |date=April 2014 |access-date=April 15, 2014 |publisher=Pulitzer.org}}</ref>
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Michael|LaForgia}}'''
|-
|{{sortname|Joan|Garrett McClane}}
|rowspan=4 |''[[Chattanooga Times Free Press]]''
|rowspan=4 |"for using an array of journalistic tools to explore the '[[Stop Snitchin'|no-snitch]]' culture that helps perpetuate a cycle of violence in one of the most dangerous [[Chattanooga, Tennessee|cities]] in the South."
|-
|{{sortname|Mary Helen|Miller}}
|-
|{{sortname|Todd|South}}
|-
|{{sortname|Doug|Strickland}}
|-
|{{sortname|Thomas|Mashberg}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]''
|rowspan=2 |"for their jarring exposure of how heroin has permeated the suburbs of [[North Jersey|Northern New Jersey]], profiling addicts and anguished families and mapping the drug pipeline from South America to their community."
|-
|{{sortname|Rebecca|O'Brien|dab=journalist}}
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=8 |'''[[2015 Pulitzer Prize|2015]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Rebecca|Kimitch}}'''
|rowspan=3 |'''''[[Daily Breeze]]'''''
|rowspan=3 |'''"for their inquiry into widespread corruption in a small, cash-strapped [[Centinela Valley Union High School District|school district]], including impressive use of the paper's website."'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Local Reporting |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2015-Local-Reporting |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=20 April 2015}}</ref>
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Rob|Kuznia}}'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Frank|Suraci}}'''
|-
|{{sortname|Cary|Aspinwall}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[Tulsa World]]''
|rowspan=2 |"for courageous reporting on the [[Capital punishment in Oklahoma|execution process in Oklahoma]] after a [[Execution of Clayton Lockett|botched execution]]—reporting that began a national discussion."
|-
|{{sortname|Ziva|Branstetter}}
|-
|{{sortname|Joe|Mahr}}
|rowspan=3 |''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
|rowspan=3 |"for their probe into government corruption in a [[Harvey, Illinois|Chicago suburb]], using public records, human stories and shoe-leather reporting to lay out the consequences."
|-
|{{sortname|Joseph|Ryan|dab=journalist}}
|-
|{{sortname|Matthew|Walberg}}
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=11 |'''[[2016 Pulitzer Prize|2016]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Cara|Fitzpatrick}}'''
|rowspan=3 |'''''[[Tampa Bay Times]]'''''
|rowspan=3 |'''"for exposing a [[Pinellas County Schools|local school board]]'s culpability in turning some county schools into failure factories, with tragic consequences for the community."'''{{efn|Moved by the Pulitzer board from the [[Pulitzer Prize for Public Service|Public Service]] category.}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Local Reporting |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/michael-laforgia-cara-fitzpatrick-and-lisa-gartner |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=6 February 2017}}</ref>
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Lisa|Gartner}}'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Michael|LaForgia}}'''
|-
|{{sortname|Sohail|Al-Jamea}}
|rowspan=4 |''[[Miami Herald]]''
|rowspan=4 |"for the impressive reporting, enhanced by video and graphic elements, on a local drug sting that cost tens of millions of dollars but yielded no significant arrests."
|-
|{{sortname|Emily|Michot}}
|-
|{{sortname|Michael|Sallah}}
|-
|{{sortname|Joanna|Zuckerman Bernstein}}
|-
|{{sortname|Glenn|Howatt}}
|rowspan=3 |''[[Minnesota Star Tribune|The Minnesota Star Tribune]]''
|rowspan=3 |"for a compelling exploration of the state's archaic and dehumanizing healthcare system for the disabled, leading to swift proposals to improve treatment."
|-
|{{sortname|David|Joles}}
|-
|{{sortname|Chris|Serres}}
|-
|{{sortname|Sarah Maslin|Nir}}
|''[[The New York Times]]''
|"for an investigation into the ugly side of the [[Cosmetic industry|beauty industry]], exposing labor and health practices detrimental to workers in nail salons."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=9 |'''[[2017 Pulitzer Prize|2017]]'''
|'''Staff'''
|'''''[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]'''''
|'''"for a string of vivid reports revealing the perverse, punitive and cruel treatment given to sexual assault victims at [[Brigham Young University]], one of [[Utah]]'s most powerful institutions."'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Local Reporting |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/salt-lake-tribune-staff |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=10 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|Maria|Cramer}}
|rowspan=5 |''[[The Boston Globe]]''
|rowspan=5 |"for a revelatory look at how the closing of psychiatric hospitals left many seriously mentally ill people a danger to themselves and their loved ones and led them into deadly encounters with the police."
|-
|{{sortname|Scott|Helman|dab=journalist}}
|-
|{{sortname|Michael|Rezendes}}
|-
|{{sortname|Jenna|Russell|dab=journalist}}
|-
|{{sortname|Todd|Wallack}}
|-
|{{sortname|Robert|Gebeloff}}
|rowspan=3 |''[[The New York Times]]''
|rowspan=3 |"for analyzing nearly 60,000 discipline cases and parole decisions to show that minority inmates in New York state prisons were punished at a [[Race in the United States criminal justice system|far higher rate]] than white inmates."
|-
|{{sortname|Michael|Schwirtz}}
|-
|{{sortname|Michael|Winerip}}
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=5 |'''[[2018 Pulitzer Prize|2018]]'''
|'''Staff'''
|'''''[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]]'''''
|'''"for a riveting and insightful narrative and video documenting seven days of [[Cincinnati metropolitan area|Greater Cincinnati]]'s heroin epidemic, revealing how the deadly addiction has ravaged families and communities."'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Local Reporting |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-cincinnati-enquirer |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=29 June 2018}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|Jason|Grotto}}
|rowspan=2 |[[ProPublica|ProPublica Illinois]]
|rowspan=3 |"for deep reporting that included analysis of more than 100 million electronic tax records to show how [[Joseph Berrios|systemic favoritism and political neglect influenced assessments]] at the [[Housing discrimination in the United States|expense of the working class and poor]] in majority black and Latino neighborhoods."
|-
|{{sortname|Sandhya|Kambhampati}}
|-
|{{sortname|Ray|Long|dab=journalist}}
|''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
|-
|Staff
|''[[The Boston Globe]]''
|"for a poignant and illuminating exploration of the city's fraught history of race relations that went beyond the anecdotal, using data to demonstrate how racism infiltrates every institution and aspect of city life."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=9 |'''[[2019 Pulitzer Prize|2019]]'''
|'''Staff'''
|'''''[[The Advocate (Louisiana)|The Advocate]]'''''
|'''"for a damning portrayal of the state's discriminatory conviction system, including a [[Jim Crow laws|Jim Crow-era law]], that enabled [[Judiciary of Louisiana|Louisiana courts]] to send defendants to jail without jury consensus on the accused's guilt."'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/news/announcement-2019-pulitzer-prize-winners |title=Announcement of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners |date=15 April 2019 |website=Pulitzer.org |access-date=18 April 2019}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|Jennifer|Bjorhus}}
|rowspan=4 |''[[Minnesota Star Tribune|The Minnesota Star Tribune]]''
|rowspan=4 |"for an illuminating and disturbing series that exposed breakdowns in Minnesota's investigation and prosecution of rape cases, and how such ineptitude fails victims of sexual assault."
|-
|{{sortname|Renée|Jones Schneider}}
|-
|{{sortname|Brandon|Stahl}}
|-
|{{sortname|MaryJo|Webster}}
|-
|{{sortname|Jessica|Griffin|dab=journalist}}
|rowspan=4 |''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''
|rowspan=4 |"for dogged scientific investigation and evocative storytelling that exposed toxic dangers lurking in [[School District of Philadelphia|Philadelphia school buildings]] that sickened children in their classrooms."
|-
|{{sortname|Barbara|Laker}}
|-
|{{sortname|Dylan|Purcell}}
|-
|{{sortname|Wendy|Ruderman}}
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=5 |'''[[2020 Pulitzer Prize|2020]]'''
|'''Staff'''
|'''''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'''''
|'''"for illuminating, impactful reporting on a lucrative, undisclosed financial relationship between the [[Catherine Pugh|city's mayor]] and the [[University of Maryland Medical System|public hospital system]] she helped to oversee."'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-baltimore-sun |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes|title=Staff of The Baltimore Sun - The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=2022-02-07}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|Shelly|Bradbury}}
|rowspan=3 |''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]''
|rowspan=3 |"for an unprecedented investigation of [[Anabaptist/Mennonite Church sexual misconduct cases|child sexual abuse and cover-ups in the insular Amish and Mennonite communities]]."
|-
|{{sortname|Peter|Smith|dab=journalist}}
|-
|{{sortname|Stephanie|Strasburg}}
|-
|Staff
|''[[The Boston Globe]]''
|"for its engaging approach to exposing socioeconomic inequities by surveying the city's brightest public high school students a decade after graduation."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=5 |'''[[2021 Pulitzer Prize|2021]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Neil|Bedi}}'''
|rowspan=2 |'''''[[Tampa Bay Times]]'''''
|rowspan=2 |'''"for resourceful, creative reporting that exposed how a powerful and politically connected [[Pasco County Sheriff's Office|sheriff]] built a [[Predictive policing|secretive intelligence operation]] that harassed residents and used grades and child welfare records to profile schoolchildren."'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/kathleen-mcgrory-and-neil-bedi-tampa-bay-times |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes |title=Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi of the Tampa Bay Times - The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=2022-02-07}}</ref>
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Kathleen|McGrory}}'''
|-
|{{sortname|Jack|Dolan|dab=journalist}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|rowspan=2 |"for exposing failures in [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]]'s safety-net healthcare system that resulted in months-long wait times for patients, including some who died before getting appointments with specialists."
|-
|{{sortname|Brittny|Mejia}}
|-
| Staff
|''[[The Post and Courier]]''
|"for an ambitious look at how water levels in the city were rising faster than previously thought that also explored the broader social, environmental and regulatory challenges [[Climate change in South Carolina|posed by climate change]]."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=9 |'''[[2022 Pulitzer Prize|2022]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Madison|Hopkins}}'''
|'''[[Better Government Association]]'''
|rowspan=2 |'''"for a piercing examination of the city's long history of failed building- and fire-safety code enforcement, which let scofflaw landlords commit serious violations that resulted in dozens of unnecessary deaths."'''<ref name=2022Pulitzer>{{cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2022 |title="2022 Pulitzer Prizes & Finalists" |website=[[The Pulitzer Prizes|Pulitzer Prize]] |date=May 9, 2022|accessdate=May 9, 2022}}</ref>
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Cecilia|Reyes|dab=journalist}}'''
|'''''[[Chicago Tribune]]'''''
|-
|{{sortname|Tony|Cook|dab=journalist}}
|rowspan=3 |''[[The Indianapolis Star]]''
|rowspan=3 |"for their critical examination of Indiana's [[Red flag law|'red flag' gun law]], identifying numerous instances where police and prosecutors had failed to understand and enforce the law."
|-
|{{sortname|Johnny|Magdaleno}}
|-
|{{sortname|Michelle|Pemberton}}
|-
|{{sortname|Maya|Miller}}
|rowspan=3 |[[ProPublica]]
|rowspan=4 |"for a comprehensive investigation, including interactives and graphics, that revealed dangerous air quality during Florida's sugar cane harvest season and prompted significant reforms."
|-
|{{sortname|Ash|Ngu}}
|-
|{{sortname|Nadia|Sussman}}
|-
|{{sortname|Lulu|Ramadan}}
|''[[The Palm Beach Post]]''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=6 |'''[[2023 Pulitzer Prize|2023]]'''
|'''{{sortname|John|Archibald|dab=writer}}'''
|rowspan=4 |'''[[The Birmingham News|AL.com]]'''
|rowspan=4 |'''"for a series exposing how the police force in the town of [[Brookside, Alabama|Brookside]] preyed on residents to inflate revenue, coverage that prompted the resignation of the police chief, four new laws and a state audit."'''<ref name=2023Pulitzer-2>{{cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/john-archibald-ashley-remkus-ramsey-archibald-and-challen-stephens-alcom-birmingham |title=The 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Local Reporting |website=[[The Pulitzer Prizes|Pulitzer Prize]] |accessdate=May 15, 2023}}</ref>
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Ramsey|Archibald}}'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Ashley|Remkus}}'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Challen|Stephens}}'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Anna|Wolfe}}'''
|'''''[[Mississippi Today]]'''''
|'''"for reporting that revealed how a [[Phil Bryant|former Mississippi governor]] used his office to [[Mississippi welfare funds scandal|steer millions of state welfare dollars]] to benefit his family and friends, including NFL quarterback [[Brett Favre]]."'''<ref name=2023Pulitzer-1>{{cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/anna-wolfe-mississippi-today-ridgeland-miss|title=The 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Local Reporting |website=[[The Pulitzer Prizes|Pulitzer Prize]] |accessdate=May 15, 2023}}</ref>
|-
|Staff
|''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|"for coverage of the [[Cannabis in California|state's legal cannabis industry]] that combined satellite imagery, public records searches and sometimes dangerous on-the-ground reporting to reveal widespread criminality, labor abuses and environmental consequences."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=7 |'''[[2024 Pulitzer Prize|2024]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Sarah|Conway}}'''
|'''[[City Bureau]]'''
|rowspan=2 |'''"for their investigative series on missing Black girls and women in Chicago that revealed how systemic racism and police department neglect contributed to the crisis."'''<ref name=2024LocalReporting>{{cite web |url=https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2024/2024-pulitzer-prize-winners |title=Here are the winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes |website=[[Poynter]] |accessdate=May 6, 2023}}</ref>
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Trina|Reynolds-Tyler}}'''
|'''[[Invisible Institute]]'''
|-
|{{sortname|Ilyssa|Daly}}
|rowspan=4 |[[Mississippi Today]] /<br>''[[The New York Times]]''
|rowspan=4 |"for their detailed examination of corruption and abuse, including the [[Rankin County torture incident|torturing of suspects]], by Mississippi sheriffs and their officers over two decades."
|-
|{{sortname|Brian|Howey}}
|-
|{{sortname|Jerry|Mitchell|dab=reporter}}
|-
|{{sortname|Nate|Rosenfield}}
|-
|Staff
|''[[The Villages Daily Sun]]''
|"for its comprehensive investigation and moment-by-moment account of Florida officials' inaction before, during and after [[Hurricane Ian]], the [[Effects of Hurricane Ian in Florida|deadliest storm]] to strike the state since 1935."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=8 |'''[[2025 Pulitzer Prize|2025]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Jessica|Gallagher|dab=journalist}}'''
|rowspan=3 |'''''[[The Baltimore Banner]]'' /<br>''[[The New York Times]]'''''
|rowspan=3 |'''"for a compassionate investigative series that captured the breathtaking dimensions of Baltimore's fentanyl crisis and its disproportionate impact on older Black men, creating a sophisticated statistical model that ''The Banner'' shared with other newsrooms."'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Nick|Thieme}}'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Alissa|Zhu}}'''
|-
|{{sortname|Lynda|Mapes}}
|rowspan=3 |''[[The Seattle Times]]''
|rowspan=3 |"their investigative series revealing how the [[Government of Washington (state)|Washington state government]] spent $1 million per day on construction that failed to safeguard either the salmon or the [[Puyallup Tribe of Indians|tribal treaty rights]] it was meant to protect."
|-
|{{sortname|Fiona|Martin|dab=journalist}}
|-
|{{sortname|Mike|Reicher}}
|-
|{{sortname|Katey|Rusch}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' /<br>[[University of California, Berkeley]] Investigative Reporting Program
|rowspan=2 |"for a multiyear investigation into a secret system of legal settlements that concealed California police misconduct for decades and kept offending officers in positions of power."
|-
|{{sortname|Casey|Smith|dab=journalist}}
|}

==Notes==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* Pulitzer.org [https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/208 Winners and Finalists – Local Reporting]

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[[Category:Pulitzer Prizes by category|Local reporting]]