Pulitzer Prize to Recognize Online-Only Works
Well, I guess I never realized they did not accept online-only texts.
From the announcement:
The eligibility rules for the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism have been revised, opening the door wider to entries from text-based online-only newspapers and news sites, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced today. A year ago, the Board broadened the competition to include many United States news outlets that publish only on the Internet at least weekly, but it required that all entered material—whether online or in print—had to come from entities “primarily dedicated to original news reporting and coverage of ongoing events.”
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The requirement sometimes excluded possibly promising entries—notably by online columnists, critics and bloggers—because of the nature of their Web affiliation, according to Sig Gissler, administrator of the Prizes.
Hat tips: Pat Lovenhart via (the great) Nita Congress
Good news for all the bloggers out there, but I worry about a future of Twititzer Prizes.
Watch Conan O’Brien’s hysterical Twitter send up below: