Online Eligibilty for the Pulitzer Prize Remains Unclear

As GalleyCat reported this week, the Pulitzer Prize Board will now permit online entries for all 14 categories of Journalism entries, a change that will permit web-based submissions in Investigative Reporting, Criticism, Feature Writing, and eleven other categories.

So who exactly is eligible this year? PBS’s MediaShift investigated, and Pulitzer administrator Sig Gissler tried to explain: “Blogs tend to fall into three categories. There are news reporting blogs, there are commentary blogs, and there’s a hybrid version of the two. If they’re text-based and meet our criteria, then they probably could compete. But it would be up to them to satisfy the criteria.”

The article also asked editors at Slate, Salon, and ProPublica what they think about these changes. Nevertheless, these new rules only apply to journalism entries–still excluding more literary-minded online endeavors in the Letters, Drama, and Music categories.

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