Robert S. Capers (born July 15, 1949) is an American journalist.
Capers won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting with Eric Lipton for a series about the Hubble Space Telescope that illustrated many of the problems with America's space program.[1]  He worked at the Hartford Courant until 1995.[2]
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Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism from 1985–1997  | 
- Jon Franklin (1985)
 
- Staff of The New York Times (1986)
 
- Jeff Lyon & Peter Gorne (1987)
 
- Daniel Hertzberg & James B. Stewart (1988)
 
- David Hanners, William Snyder & Karen Blessen (1989)
 
- David A. Vise & Steve Coll (1990)
 
- Susan C. Faludi (1991)
 
-  & Eric Lipton (1992)
 
- Mike Toner (1993)
 
- Ronald Kotulak (1994)
 
- Leon Dash & Lucian Perkins (1995)
 
- Laurie Garrett (1996)
 
- Michael Vitez, April Saul & Ron Cortes (1997)
 
- Paul Salopek (1998)
 
- Richard Read (1999)
 
- Eric Newhouse (2000)
 
- Staff of the Chicago Tribune (2001)
 
- Staff of The New York Times (2002)
 
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2003)
 
- Kevin Helliker & Thomas M. Burton (2004)
 
- Gareth Cook (2005)
 
- David Finkel (2006)
 
- Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling & Rick Loomis (2007)
 
- Amy Harmon (2008)
 
- Bettina Boxall & Julie Cart (2009)
 
- Michael Moss & Staff of The New York Times (2010)
 
- Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar & Alison Sherwood (2011)
 
- David Kocieniewski (2012)
 
- Staff of The New York Times including David Barboza, Charles Duhigg, David Kocieniewski, Steve Lohr, John Markoff, David Segal, David Streitfeld, Hiroko Tabuchi & Bill Vlasic (2013)
 
- Eli Saslow (2014)
 
- Zachary R. Mider  (2015)
 
- T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong (2016)
 
- International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy & Miami Herald  (2017)
 
- Staff of The Arizona Republic & Staff of USA Today Network (2018)
 
- David Barstow, Susanne Craig & Russ Buettne (2019)
 
- Staff of The Washington Post (2020)
 
- Ed Yong (2021)
 
- Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts (2021)
 
- Natalie Wolchover & Staff of Quanta Magazine (2022)
 
- Caitlin Dickerson (2023)
  
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