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Static view of content

November 28, 2006 - 12:27pm — yelvington

The Pulitzer Prize rules have been changed again to open the door a bit wider to online content, although the contest continues to be limited to "newspapers published daily, Sunday, or at least once a week during the calendar year." The contest now will consider "a full array of online material -- such as databases, interactive graphics, and streaming video -- in nearly all of its journalism categories."

However, the online material "must depict its original publication on the Web, not its subsequent update or alteration." That's a distressingly static approach in an increasingly conversational world and locks out some great new approaches to doing serious journalism on the Web.

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November 29, 2006 - 5:09pm — Joe Murphy (not verified)

Static view of rules

I don't see how this "depict its original publication" rule could be verified or enforced. Seems like a trash-can rule to me.

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