1980년 퓰리처상
저널리즘 상

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| 공공 서비스 | Gannett News Service  (For articles by John M. Hanchette, William F. Schmick, and Carlton Sherwood) | For "Story of the Pauline Fathers", its 18-day series on misuse of financial contributions to the Pauline Fathers. |
| 공공 서비스 | The Miami Herald  (For articles by Carl Hiaasen, Patrick Malone, and Gene Miller) | For "Dangerous Doctors: A Medical Dilemma", an 8-part series on medical incompetence, malfeasance, and abuse. |
| 공공 서비스 | The Miami Herald  (For articles by Danny Goodgame, Patrick Riordan, and Morris Thompson) | For "Police Brutality: The Dangerous Few", a 5-part series on cases of police brutality in Dade County. |
| 공공 서비스 | The Philadelphia Inquirer  (For articles by Rod Nordland and Josh Friedman) | For "Poison at Our Doorsteps", a series on irresponsible disposal of toxic waste. |
| 공공 서비스 | St. Petersburg Times | For its investigation of the Church of Scientology.  (Moved by the Board to the National Reporting category.) |
| 속보 보도 | Staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer | For coverage of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, including a 22,000-word recounting of the accident by 39 reporters and photographers. |
| 속보 보도 | Staff of the Chicago Tribune | For coverage of the worst air crash in history and the blizzard of 1979. |
| 속보 보도 | Staff of the Greensboro Daily News (North Carolina) | For coverage of the Greensboro massacre, a shooting at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally. |
| 탐사 보도 | Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi and Robert M. Porterfield of The Boston Globe | For a 10-part exposé on mismanagement of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. |
| 탐사 보도 | Carole E. Agus, Andrew V. Fetherston, Jr., and Frederick J. Tuccillo of Newsday (Long Island, New York) | For their investigation of a scandal at the Southwest Sewer District in Suffolk County. |
| 탐사 보도 | Charles R. Cook and James S. Carlton of The Port Arthur News (Texas) | For their exposé on the use of road oil contaminated with cyanide and other toxic chemicals, distributed by Browning-Ferris Industries. |
| 탐사 보도 | Judy Grande and Brian Gallagher of The Journal News (Nyack, New York) | For the 5-part series, "Getting Away with Murder", exposing the shoddy investigation and prosecution of murders in Rockland, New York. |
| 탐사 보도 | Lewis M. Simons and Ron Shaffer of The Washington Post | For a series on fraud committed by officials of a low-income housing organization, P.I. Properties, including Marion Barry's ex-wife. |
| 국내 보도 | Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford of the  St. Petersburg Times | For their 16-part investigation of the Church of Scientology. |
| 국내 보도 | Joseph P. Albright of Cox Newspapers | For "Our Trillion Dollar Treasure", a series on energy policy regarding oil and gas under federally owned lands. |
| 국내 보도 | George Anthan of The Des Moines Register | For "Vanishing Acres", a 7-part series on the dwindling amount of good farmland. |
| 국내 보도 | Staff of the Los Angeles Times | For a series on chemicals in the environment, "The Poisoning of America". |
| 국제 보도 | Joel Brinkley, reporter, and Jay Mather, photographer of The Courier-Journal | For the 4-part series, "Living the Cambodian Nightmare", about refugees from the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. |
| 국제 보도 | Peter Arnett of the Associated Press | For "The World's Homeless", a 6-part series about international refugees, with photographs by Eddie Adams. |
| 국제 보도 | Fox Butterfield of The New York Times | For dispatches from China. |
| 국제 보도 | Staff of the Los Angeles Times | For coverage of Iran. |
| 특집 기사 | Madeleine Blais of The Miami Herald | For a selection of stories profiling families and individuals. |
| 특집 기사 | Bonnie M. Anderson of The Miami Herald | For "The Execution of My Father", about her father's execution during the Cuban Revolution in 1961. |
| 특집 기사 | John R. Camp of the St. Paul Pioneer Press | For a series of articles about Native American culture. |
| 특집 기사 | Saul Pett of the Associated Press | For an article on the snail darter controversy. |
| 논평 | Ellen H. Goodman of The Boston Globe | For her syndicated daily column, commenting on a variety of topics. |
| 논평 | Richard Reeves of Universal Press Syndicate | For his syndicated political column. |
| 논평 | Carl T. Rowan of the Chicago Sun-Times and Syndicate | For his syndicated column. |
| 비평 | William A. Henry III of The Boston Globe | For critical writing about television. |
| 비평 | William C. Glackin of The Sacramento Bee | For his drama and music reviews. |
| 비평 | William K. Robertson of The Miami Herald | For a collection of columns and book reviews. |
| 사설 | Robert L. Bartley of The Wall Street Journal | For editorials on a variety of topics. |
| 사설 | John Alexander of the Greensboro Daily News (North Carolina) | For editorials about the Greensboro massacre. |
| 사설 | Alfred Ames and Joan Beck of the Chicago Tribune |  |
| 사설 | Bruce C. Davidson, Thomas N. Oliphant, and Anne C. Wyman of The Boston Globe | For the 8-part series, "Search for an Energy Policy". |
| 사설 | Tom Dearmore of the San Francisco Examiner | For editorials on a variety of topics. |
| 만평 | Don Wright of The Miami News | For his cartoons, exemplified by "Florida State Prison". |
| 만평 | Richard Locher of the Chicago Tribune |  |
| 만평 | Paul Szep of The Boston Globe |  |
| 속보 사진 | Anonymous, distributed by United Press International.  In 2006, the photographer was identified as Jahangir Razmi of Ettela'at. | For "Firing Squad in Iran", depicting the execution of prisoners in the 1979 Kurdish rebellion by an Iranian government firing squad. |
| 속보 사진 | Robert L. Gay of the Charleston Daily Mail (West Virginia) | For a series on a crazed veteran holding 29 hostages in a church. |
| 속보 사진 | Michael Haering of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner | For a photo of a girl being struck by a car at a demonstration outside the house of the Shah of Iran's sister in Beverly Hills. |
| 특집 사진 | Erwin H. Hagler of The Dallas Times Herald | For a 23-picture series documenting the life of cowboys in the Texas Panhandle. |
| 특집 사진 | David A. Kryszak of The Detroit News | For a series on children of Cambodia. |
| 특집 사진 | John J. Sunderland of The Denver Post | For a series on living and dying in a hospice. |