Hall of Fame, be used for the back cover of Tittle's autobiography and used in a Miller Beer High-Life commercial in 2005. In 1938, Ray Sprigle won the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting for his investigation revealing that newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Staff photographer Martha Rial won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for her photographs of Rwandan and Burundian refugees. Photographer John Kaplan won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a series of photo essays on 21-year-olds, which was published in the Post-Gazette and two other papers of the Block Newspapers group. This award cited Block Newspapers rather than the Post-Gazette specifically. The Post-Gazette won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. The paper was praised for its "immersive, compassionate coverage." Other awards In 1997 Bill Moushey won the National Press Club’s Freedom of Information Award on a series investigating the Federal Witness Protection Program and was a finalist for the Pulitzer. The Post-Gazette also won the Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council (RCC) in 2017 for religion editor Peter Smith's work, Silent Sanctuaries. Smith, Stephanie Strasburg, and Shelly Bradbury were finalists for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for an investigation into sexual abuse in Pennsylvania's Amish and Mennonite communities. Politics The Post-Gazette historically had a liberal editorial stance. However, it turned more conservative in the 2010s, especially following the 2018 consolidation of its editorial department with that of longtime sister newspaper The Blade of Toledo, Ohio — specifically, the appointment of The Blade editorial page editor, Keith Burris (a frequent defender of Donald Trump), to become the Post-Gazette editorial page editor. Burris assumed the additional position of executive editor of the Post-Gazette in 2019. In 2020, the Post-Gazette endorsed Trump's reelection bid, the first time since 1972 that the paper had endorsed a Republican for president. See also Chronicle-Telegraph Cup Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'' Tom Barnes Al Helfer Cy Hungerford James O'Toole Martha Rial, 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner Dennis Roddy Bob Smizik Bill Steigerwald Y. A. Tittle photo References Bibliography and further reading External links History of the Post-Gazette Google News Archive microfilm archive 1927-2007 C-SPAN piece on the Post-Gazette Newspapers published in Pittsburgh Publications established in 1786 Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers Daily newspapers published in Pennsylvania 1786 establishments in Pennsylvania