1980 Pulitzer Prize

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
• * Gannett News Service, for its series on financial contributions to the Pauline Fathers.
• Local General or Spot News Reporting:
• * Staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for coverage of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.
• Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
• * Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi and Robert M. Porterfield of The Boston Globe Spotlight Team, for articles on Boston's transit system.
• National Reporting:
• * Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford of the St. Petersburg Times, for their investigation of the Church of Scientology.
• International Reporting:
• * Joel Brinkley, reporter and Jay Mather, photographer of The Louisville Courier-Journal, for stories from Cambodia.
• Feature Writing:
• *Madeleine Blais of The Miami Herald, for Zepp's Last Stand.
• Commentary:
• *Ellen H. Goodman of The Boston Globe
• Criticism:
• * William A. Henry III of The Boston Globe, for critical writing about television.
• Editorial Writing:
• * Robert L. Bartley of The Wall Street Journal
• Editorial Cartooning:
• * Don Wright of The Miami News
• Spot News Photography:
• * Anonymous, distributed by United Press International, for "Firing Squad in Iran". In 2006, the photographer was identified as Jahangir Razmi.
• Feature Photography:
• * Erwin H. Hagler of The Dallas Times Herald, for a series on the Western cowboy.

  Letters, Drama and Music Awards

• Fiction:
• * The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
• Drama:
• * Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson
• History:
• * Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
• Biography or Autobiography:
• * The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
• Poetry:
• * Selected Poems by Donald Justice
• General Non-fiction:
• * by Douglas Hofstadter
• Music:
• * In Memory of a Summer Day by David Del Tredici