Tony Messenger

Tony Messenger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Education and career Messenger is a native of Littleton, Colorado, and attended Loyola University Chicago.

In 2019, Messenger won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "for bold columns that exposed the malfeasance and injustice of forcing poor rural Missourians charged with misdemeanor crimes to pay unaffordable fines or be sent to jail." the American Society of New Editors and the Scripps Howard Foundation. In 2016 he was awarded the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism by the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Awards

2019 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary 2016 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism 2015 Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (with Kevin Horrigan) 2014 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Editorial Writing 2014 American Society of News Editors Burl Osborne Editorial Leadership Award 2014 Scripps Howard Foundation Walker Stone Editorial writing Award (with Kevin Horrigan)