How two Pulitzer finalists used public data and the Internet to connect with readers
The reporters used reader-friendly multimedia presentations to make the data come alive.
Pulitzer Prize
Could a blog win a Pulitzer prize?
After online publications won Pulitzer Prizes this year, Dennis Yang at Techdirt asks if a blog could ever win: Nothing about a physical newspaper inherently makes it better suited for doing great reporting. Print and online are just mediums, and as consumption patterns shift towards online, we should see more of this in the future. … Read more
The stories behind the Pulitzer winners
The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to some outstanding journalists today. Long before the awards were announced, several of the reporters had already been interviewed about how they chased down difficult, complex stories that made a difference: Poynter’s Mallary Jean Tenore interviewed Daniel Gilbert about how he found the time at a small newspaper to uncover … Read more
Lost talent: Profiles of Pulitzer-prize winning journalists who left newspapers
To reveal how cutbacks are damaging the newspaper industry, John Temple is profiling talented, Pulitzer-prize winning reporters who are no longer in the business: How best to get at the cost for society, for journalism and for journalists of the loss of thousands of jobs at American newspapers? This series tries to do it by … Read more