Congratulations to Class of ’75 alum Tod Robberson who, along with Dallas Morning News colleagues Colleen McCain Nelson and William McKenzie, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
  
The prize is awarded for “distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction, in print or online or both.” The three were specifically commended “for their relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city’s better-off northern half and distressed southern half.”

The prize was announced on April 12 and will be presented at a luncheon at Columbia University in New York City on May 24.

More:

• “The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Editorial Writing”, The Pulitzer Prizes.
   • Citation
   • Biography [Bios of Robberson, Nelson & McKenzie]
   • Works [Re-publication of the ten editorials specifically cited.]
• “Bridging Dallas’ North-South Gap”, Dallas Morning News, website feature, last confirmed available on 2010-05-18.
• “Dallas Morning News wins Pulitzer for editorial writing”, Dallas Morning News, April 12, 2010.
• “Dallas Morning News wins Pulitzer for editorial writing”, Dallas Morning News, April 13, 2010.