Pulitzer is open to the web this year for journalism awards
February 27th, 2009 § 1 Comment
I linked to Editor & Publisher today from MediaBistro to check out the front-runners for Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism this year. The Pulitzer jury meets next week in New York to pick finalists. I was curious to see if there would be any web entries. As it happens, Pulitzer rules changed last fall to allow submissions from web-only contenders. E&P identified a short list of five web publishers, without ties to offline media, that have entered: St. Louis Beacon, Voice of San Diego, MinnPost.com, ProPublica and the Center for Independent Media. It is interesting to note that each of these five entrants are non-profit news organizations. Why is that, I wonder? Does it make them more credible, or less exposed to market forces? Where’s HuffingtonPost? Or Slate? As noted on this blog recently Sam Stein of the HuffPost was a factor at Obama’s press conference recently.
Pulitzer rules allow for web sites that publish original content at least once a week and that do not have ties to broadcast or non-newspaper print. I think it’d be nice to see lot’s of web entries this time next year.
[...] huge, and it comes only two years after Pulitzer’s rules changed to allow entries from digital only [...]