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From AJR,   August/September 2006

The Big Winners by Number of Pulitzers   

By Donna Shaw
Donna Shaw (shaw@tcnj.edu) is an AJR contributing writer.     

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1. New York Times: 94 *

2. Associated Press: 48

3. Washington Post: 44

4. Los Angeles Times: 39

5. Wall Street Journal: 31

6. Chicago Tribune: 24

7. Boston Globe/Miami Herald/ Philadelphia Inquirer/St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 18

* The New York Times says it has won 94 Pulitzers, but the Pulitzer Prize Board credits the paper with 93. The discrepancy involves the year 1955, when the Times says one of its writers was awarded a special citation. The board says it was only a resolution, not a formal prize.

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