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Washington Post: 'Online: It's Where the News Is'
Washington Post's Robert MacMillan:
Jonathan Dube, the MSNBC editor who runs http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/002286.php CyberJournalist.Net, spotted what he thinks is a first -- a http://www.pulitzer.org/ Pulitzer Prize handed out for a story that broke online.Willamette (Oregon) Week reporter http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=6180 Nigel Jacquiss won the Pulitzer this week for investigative reporting on his story about former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt and his past sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl. When the paper summarized the article for Goldschmidt and asked him for comment, the former governor resigned from Oregon's board of higher education and the Oregon Electric Utility Co. The paper, which publishes weekly, worried that it would be scooped by the dailies, so it broke the story on its Web site.
"The Pulitzer Prizes -- a newspaper award -- only allow online materials to be submitted as part of entries in the Public Service category, so technically the print version of the story won the award," Dube wrote. "Still, Jacquiss and the Willamette Week deserve kudos for recognizing the value of the Web and using it to help ensure that the Willamette Week -- and not the daily Portland Oregonian -- broke the news first. It would be nice if the Pulitzer committee could recognize that as well."
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