Pulitzer Prize to embrace Web 2.0 elements
The Pulitzer Prize Board has established new rules allowing newspapers to submit a full array of online material such as databases, interactive graphics, and streaming video for its journalism awards. An assortment of Web 2.0 elements will now be permitted in all awards except for the competition’s two photography categories, which will continue to restrict entries to still images. ‘This board believes that its much fuller embrace of online journalism reflects the direction of newspapers in a rapidly changing media world,’ said Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. Last year, for the first time, the board allowed some online content in all categories. However, with the exception of the public service category, the online work was limited to written stories or still images. The breaking news reporting and breaking news photography categories of the awards will remain open to material published entirely on a newspaper’s website. In all other categories an entry may contain online material but it must also contain material published in the print edition. All changes will apply to work done in 2006 for prizes awarded in 2007. (Journalism.co.uk,November 29, 2006)
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