2015: Three national Edward R. Murrow awards in broadcasting are won by The Post: Winning overall excellence is a multimedia work called “State of Hope,” the story of a family who moved to Colorado specifically hoping for access to marijuana as medicine for a child; best sports reporting by videographer Helen H. Richardson and editor Eric Lutzens for “Bridal Veil Falls Ascent,” about a paraplegic ice climber; best news series for videographer Mahala Gaylord’s videos, “Mental Health in Colorado.”
2013: The Post staff wins the Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news category for its exhaustive coverage in print and online of the midnight massacre of twelve people by a lone gunman at an Aurora movie theater.
2012: Photographer Craig F. Walker is awarded a Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for his online-only photo essay telling the story of a returning Iraq-war combat veteran and his fight against severe post-traumatic stress disorder in “Welcome Home.”
2011: Editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe wins a Pulitzer Prize for a portfolio of 20 of his single-panel editorial cartoons.
2010: Photographers Joe Amon, Hyoung Chang, Andy Cross, Judy DeHaas, Reza Marvashti and RJ Sangosti are honored with a Sidney Hillman Prize in photojournalism for “Below the line: Childhood poverty in Colorado,” a photo essay on low-income families living in rural and urban areas.
2010: A Pulitzer Prize in feature photography is won by photographer Craig F. Walker, who recorded the processing of a teenager into the Army during the Iraq war, “Ian Fisher: American Soldier.”
2010: A Sidney Hillman Prize in photojournalism is awarded to photographer Craig F. Walker for his work on “Ian Fisher: American Soldier.”
2002: Reporter David Olinger is awarded a Sidney Hillman Prize in the newspaper category for “Seller Beware,” a series of reports on predatory lending and foreclosure investors.
2000: A Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news category is won by The Post for covering the shootings at Columbine High School in April 1999. Thirteen victims died in the rampage by two armed students. The Rocky Mountain News wins a Pulitzer Prize for its photography covering the same event.
1986: The Post staff wins a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for a series debunking the myth of high numbers of missing children in America, “The truth about missing kids: Exaggerated statistics stir national paranoia.” The Post team found that most child abductions were custody related and not carried out by strangers.
1985: Reporters Diana Griego and Louis Kilzer win a George Polk Award for national reporting.
1984: Reporter John Aloysius Farrell wins a George Polk Award for medical reporting.
1984: Photographer Anthony Suau wins the feature photography Pulitzer Prize for two different subjects: Starving children suffering during the Ethiopian famine in 1983, and another of a widow embracing her husband’s headstone at Fort Logan National Cemetery close to Memorial Day 1983.
1967: Editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant wins a Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning. His winning piece depicts Ho Chi Minh carrying a dead North Vietnamese victim during the Vietnam War in 1966.
1964: Editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad wins a Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning for his body of work in 1963.
Sources: The Denver Post archives; The Sidney Hillman Foundation; The George Polk Awards; The Pulitzer Prizes at Pulitzer.org
Vickie Makings is former head of The Denver Post archives.
