Wall Street Journal writer Joseph Rago '05 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for his editorials challenging the Obama administration's health care reform bill, according to the Pulitzer website.
A senior editorial writer for The Journal, Rago won $10,000 with the Pulitzer for editorial writing. Jackson Diehl of The Washington Post and John McCormick of the Chicago Tribune were also nominated as finalists in that category, according to the Pulitzer website.
Rago, who majored in history at the College, served as the editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review and currently serves on its advisory board, according to The Review.
Rago's Pulitzer, which was administered by Columbia University, was the first awarded to a Wall Street Journal writer since Rupert Murdoch's purchase of The Journal in 2007, according to The New York Times.
