Pulitzer Board to Include Online Journalism

Newspapers seeking the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service will be able to include online journalism in their entries, the Pulitzer Prize Board said. The unanimous decision to allow online work in the public service competition was made at the board’s annual fall meeting, held last week at Columbia University. Newspapers seeking the prize based on work published in 1998 will be allowed to submit a single CD-ROM whose content was staff-produced and made available on the paper’s World Wide Web site. Including online journalism is particularly appropriate to the public service prize, the Pulitzer board said, because the prize is designed to reward papers that make full use of all journalistic resources in presenting a story.