Minna Lewinson (June 28, 1897 – November 19, 1938) was an American journalist and joint winner of the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for Newspaper History with Henry Beetle Hough.
[1][2][3] Lewinson was born in New York City in 1897 and attended Barnard College at Columbia University to study journalism, earning a B.Litt.
This was unprecedented at the time, and women were only gaining major access to the school due to a wartime shortage of male journalists.
[3][6] Lewinson and Henry Beetle Hough were jointly awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for Newspaper History for a research paper, "A History of the Services Rendered to the Public by the American Press During the Year 1917", described by the judges as "the best history of the services rendered to the public by the American press during the preceding year".
[8] Lewinson was the first woman hired by the Wall Street Journal, in 1918, working as a copy editor.