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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Two Pulitzer Prizes Go to Online Media for First Time

This isn't a Middle East story but it is of interest to all of us in publishing and blogging. Two Pulitzer prizes went to online venues this year rather than to the legacy print media. Congratulations to ProPublica and to sfgate.com for their Pulitzers. At MEJ our electronic-only subscriptions are increasing while our dead-tree subscriptions are stable or shrinking slightly; the good news is the increases in electronic subscriptions (which have no incremental marginal costs for production) are growing a lot faster than the print numbers are shrinking.

It's a brave new world, and the Pulitzers just caught on.

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