Pulitzers get “webized”

The Pulitzer Prizes will allow entrants to include online exclusive materials in their submissions beginning this year: Pulitzers announce rule changes to allow more online material.

For the 2007 Pulitzers, newspapers can submit online material like video, blogs, databases and interactive graphics for all print categories.

The photography categories remain restricted to still images. In the categories of breaking news reporting and breaking news photography, the board will continue to allow entries to consist solely of work published online. Other categories must include some material from the newspaper’s print edition.

The Pulitzer Prize Board also replaced the Beat Reporting category created in 1991 with a Local Reporting category.

Creating the Local Reporting category “places particular emphasis on local news coverage, which is really the lifeblood of newspapers both in print and online,” Gissler said. Entries can either be a special project or sustained coverage of city, state or regional issues that matter to the paper’s core readership, Gissler said.

I’m mystified as to why the photography category remains restricted to still images. Would a still taken from a video camera (a practice now in use by several photojournalists) count?

The local news category is also an interesting update of the beat reporting category.

Others commenting: Howard Owens and Danny Sanchez.

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