New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau '87 has won a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his coverage of domestic spying.

Lichtblau and fellow Times journalist James Risen shared the $10,000 prize, announced April 17 by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. The Times reporters were cited by the Pulitzer jury "for their carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate on the boundary line between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberty."

Lichtblau is a Washington correspondent for The New York Times and previously was a reporter for 15 years in the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times. His investigation of the domestic spying program also recently earned him the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.

While at Cornell, Lichtblau was a reporter for the Cornell Daily Sun. He visited the Ithaca campus April 10 to give a lecture on the role of the journalist in a post-Sept. 11 world.