Kyle Whitmire | kwhitmire@al.com

Kyle Whitmire is the state political columnist for AL.com where he skewers corruption, cruelty, incompetence and hypocrisy while also searching for those righteous folks who stubbornly adhere to their principles and make their state and country better places. He has spent the last 20 years covering political culture in Alabama. After joining AL.com in 2012, he first worked as a government and politics reporter. He moved to his current position of columnist in 2014. In 2020 he was the recipient of the Scripps Howard Foundation’s Walker Stone Award for opinion writing, and in 2021 he received the Sigma Delta Chi award for best opinion writing from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Molly Ivins prize for political commentary. He is the 2023 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.