Huge Step for Legitimacy of Online Journalists: Pulitzers
Wow! Mashable reports that the Pulitzer Prize people have opened up the award to online journalists without a print publication, if they meet certain criteria. That means bloggers, e-zine/webzine publishers and perhaps others are seen as legitimate journalists.
As a blogger, publisher of four e-zines, and publisher of five webzines, I welcome this.
And perhaps it’s not surprising that I heard this news on a social media site: Twitter.