Media News - Tuesday, April 17, 2012
2 Pulitzers for Times; Huffington Post and Politico win
The New York Times won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for its reporting
on Africa and for an investigative series on loopholes that allow the
wealthiest Americans and corporations to avoid paying taxes. In a sign
of the changing media landscape, two primarily online news outlets, The
Huffington Post and Politico, won their first Pulitzer Prizes.
Also notable this year was the absence of prizes in two categories. The
Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University in New York, which
administers the awards, did not name a winner in the editorial writing
category. More notably, the judges declined to name a winner for the
highly coveted prize for fiction. The Philadelphia Inquirer, which like many regional newspapers has
struggled lately with a decline in print advertising revenue and changes
in ownership, won the award for public service, among the most
prestigious in journalism. In 2009 the Pulitzers, now in their 96th year, expanded to include
online-only news sites, and the awards to Politico and The Huffington
Post reflect the emerging power of Web-based journalism as it competes
with legacy newspapers. The two largest newspapers by Monday-to-Friday circulation in the United
States — The Wall Street Journal and USA Today — did not win awards. (New York Times)
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