Wow! Does this breaking story mean that this place is now the MSM? Heh.
New media recognized in Pulitzer competition
ADAM GOLDMAN
From Associated Press
April 13, 2010 6:51 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) -- When the Pulitzer board handed out the most important prizes in journalism, The New York Times and The Washington Post topped the list of winners-- and finalists -- as usual.
But they were joined for the first time by a trio of new media publications that scored unprecedented recognition in a competition long dominated by newspapers.
On Monday, judges awarded the nonprofit ProPublica, in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine, a Pulitzer in investigative reporting for a 13,000-word story on the life-and-death decisions made by New Orleans doctors during Hurricane Katrina.
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Also representing a new model was the prize for editorial cartooning, which was won by the self-syndicated Mark Fiore. His work appears on the San Francisco Chronicle Web site SFGate.com. Matt Wuerker of Politico was a finalist for the cartooning award.
Awarded by Columbia University "...on the recommendation of a board of distinguished journalists and others..." the article continues on to remind us that the Pulitzers, awarded annually, are considered to be the top prize in U.S. journalism.
A few weeks ago, I posted this diary regarding a story in the Columbia Journalism Review...
"Biggest Scandal In US History." CJR: "Blogs Beat The Press."
by bobswern
Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 11:57:50 PM EDT
Today, the Columbia Journalism Review tells us that if you want to know about what L. Randall Wray, William Black's colleague at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, has just referred to as "the biggest scandal in U.S. history" ("in terms of dollar cost"), you won't be getting the scoop from the MSM. You've gotta' read Naked Capitalism and Zero Hedge for the real deal.
That's the Columbia Journalism Review, folks! "The Blogs Beat the Press on the Lehman Brothers Scandal."
Blogs Beat the Press on the Lehman Brothers Scandal
Columbia Journalism Review
Economic Crisis, The Audit -- March 15, 2010 04:20 PM
Monday, March 15, 2010
Last Update: Mon 7:38 PM EST
...Look, I know that Lehman collapsed a year and a half ago, but this is a major story--one that finally gets awfully close to putting the crimes in the crisis. I'll go ahead and say it: If you've wanted to know about the Valukas report and its implications, you've been better served by reading Zero Hedge and Naked Capitalism than you have The Wall Street Journal or New York Times. This on the biggest financial news story of the week--and one of the biggest of the year. These papers have hundreds of journalists at their disposal. The blogs have one non-professional writer and a handful of sometime non-pro-journalist contributors...
Today, we learn that online journalists are finally getting a seat at the MSM table, so to speak. This is great stuff!
The Pulitzer story continues on to list the following, additional winners from the MSM:
The Bristol Herald Courier, "a small paper in the coalfields of Appalachia," won the Pulitzer for public service, while kicking big media's butt when they uncovered a scandal whereby Virginia landowners were ripped-off for millions of dollars in natural gas royalties.
The WaPo captured four Pulitzers (international reporting on Iraq, feature writing, commentary and criticism). And, the New York Times won three (national reporting, for explanatory reporting and for investigative reporting, with this last category being the one where they collaborated with ProPublica on the Hurricane Katrina story).
The Pulitzer Board also recognized the way newspapers are branching out with new media.
The Seattle Times was recognized by the Pulitzer Board for its "...use of Twitter and e-mail alerts to help inform readers about a deadly shooting, and used the social media tool Google Wave to encourage reader participation." They also won a Prize in the breaking news category for their coverage of the shooting deaths of four police officers.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel won an award for local reporting for its series on fraud and abuse in child-care programs.
Best editorial writing kudos went to The Dallas Morning News.
And, the Des Moines Register and the Denver Post won for breaking-news and feature photography, respectively.
"Next to Normal" (a musical) -- drama.
The article tells us that "Tinkers," a debut novel by Paul Harding, scored somewhat of an upset in the fiction category.
T.J. Stiles won for best biography for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt."
"The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy," by David E. Hoffman, received the Prize for general nonfiction.
Liaquat Ahamed's work about the financial crisis, "Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World," won for history.
A posthumous Special Citation was given to Hank Williams for his "craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life."
Other winners announced by Columbia University on Monday were: a posthumous "Special Citation" was awarded to Hank Williams; "Versed," by Rae Armantrout, for poetry; and Violin Concerto by Jennifer Higdon, for music.
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