2018 Pulitzer Prize 2018 Pulitzer Prize The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2017 calendar year. Prize winners and nominated finalists were announced by Dana Canedy at 3:00 p.m. EST on April 16, 2018. "The New York Times" won the most awards of any newspaper, with three, bringing its total to one hundred and twenty-five Pulitzer Prizes. "The Washington Post" won Investigative Reporting and National Reporting, the latter of which was shared with the "New York Times". "The New York Times" and "The New Yorker" won the prize in public service, bringing their totals to
Walter Lippmann in Woodrow Wilson's post-World War I board of inquiry, as its research director. His views regarding the role of journalism in a democracy were contrasted with the contemporaneous writings of John Dewey in what has been retrospectively named the Lippmann-Dewey debate. Lippmann won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his syndicated newspaper column "Today and Tomorrow" and one for his 1961 interview of Nikita Khrushchev. He has also been highly praised with titles ranging anywhere from "most influential" journalist of the 20th century, to "Father of Modern Journalism". Michael Schudson writes that James W. Carey considered Walter Lippmann's book "Public Opinion"