A Minneapolis Pulitzer?
Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 7:07 pm
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Could a Minneapolis-based news site be the first ever to pick up a Pulitzer Prize? It may be a stretch, but in a post at Editor & Publisher today, Joe Strupp handicapped the prizes, positing that an online entrant is “likely to at least garner a finalist spot.” In the first year web-only news operations are eligible for the coveted awards, at least five online newsrooms — including the Minnesota Independent and MinnPost — have applied. MinnPost entered a columnist, plus “reports on segregated schools, the Franken-Coleman Senate election recount, female combat troops in Iraq, problems with the state attorney general’s office.” MnIndy entered our multimedia coverage of the Republican National Convention, and some of our sister sites in the Center for Independent Media network are in the running, too. (No local newspaper gets the nod from Strupp.)
Prizewinners and nominated finalists will be announced at 3 pm EST on April 20.
5 Comments
Comment posted February 26, 2009 @ 7:36 pm
Not quite sure what you mean by “a Minneapolis-based news outlet be the first ever to pick up a Pultizer Prize.” The Strib has won a few, including from when they still had “Minneapolis” in their name.
I’m guessing you mean first online-only outfit?
Comment posted February 26, 2009 @ 8:33 pm
I vote for The Uptake.
No offense MN Indy. You guys are great too, but The Uptake has completely redefined what online news is.
Comment posted February 27, 2009 @ 10:29 am
Jay Weiner certainly deserves a nomination and the prize itself.
Comment posted April 20, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
The Pulitzer Prize jury talked up a great storm about the first ever inclusion of “online only” new sites, and then the jury made up of more than 25% New Yorkers rewarded the media elite across the board, with the New York Times winning the most awards.
Here the results:
http://www.pulitzer.org/files/PressRelease2009PulitzerPrizes.pdf
You will notice the only winning sites with an online component even mentioned were the New York Times, the Detroit Free Press, the East Valley Tribune (Mesa, AZ), the St. Petersburg Times, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. All have print editions.
Talk about smoke and mirrors.
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