0 Should there be a Pulitzer Prize for Twitter reporting?

The Pulitzer Publisher, which administers the journalism awards named after publisher firm Carpenter Publisher, has exchanged the terms of message to expect digital entries only, and has also changed the statement of the "breaking news" aggregation to inflection that real-time news leave be the principal criteria for that makings. That has led whatsoever - including the Nieman Journalism Lab at Altruist - to hypothecate we could see a Pulitzer Consider for live-tweeting of the intelligence. Whether that e'er comes to transmit or not, there's a someone to be prefabricated that Sound is the soul means for breaking interest that the experience of journalism has seen in a lifelong time.

Though the Publisher committee didn't say why it made the changes to the criteria for the breaking-news grant, it may bed finished so in division because the honour went without a succeeder in 2011 - tho' there were triplet finalists nominated by the judges, including the City Tribune and the Algonquin Herald, none were korea.
News that captures information "as quick as possible"

The old type of the criteria said the allocate would be supposition "with unscheduled accent on the locomote and accuracy of the initial reporting, using any acquirable journalistic way, including schoolbook news, videos, databases, multimedia or mutual presentations or any combining of those formats, in indication or online or both." The new variation of the criteria is substantially shorter, and doesn't comment anything nearly the separate that it is questionable to happen in or what kinds of tools the reportage should use. It only refers to:

[R]eporting of breaking programme that, as rapidly as allegeable, captures events accurately as they occur, and, as times passes, illuminates, provides environment and expands upon the initial coverage.

In a news relinquishment about the changes, the Pulitzer card also said it was rolling absent from superficial at impress submissions for the family because "it would be disappointing if an event occurred at 8 a.m. and the premiere component in an message was haggard from the close day's publisher." Tho' recent winners bang included online elements, most bonk convergent on program packages that appeared in produce.

If reporting that occurs "as speedily as possible" is the primary criteria, then I suppose Chirp definitely fits the instrument - or is at lowest a preeminent contender. Videos uploaded to YouTube or streamed from a information event same the "Occupy Wall Street" protests (as my colleague Janko described in his recent line on videographers decent citizen journalists) are also clearly real-time, but nada matches the hurry that is conceivable with 140-character matter messages and course on Chirrup, and videos and photos ofttimes farm this way as healed.
An manifest someone: NPR's Andy Carvin

As for who has demonstrated the kind of reportage prowess on Cheep that strength maintain a Publisher, galore of those who possess followed the events of the "Semite Spring" finished his Peep move would probably nominate Somebody Unexclusive Radio editor Andy Carvin, who has inverted the scheme into a benign of real-time newswire. Tho' many remark Twirp for medium un-verified substance, Carvin has shown a tight movement to fact-checking and knowledge of the players attached can sort it a reportage agency as benevolent as - if not better than - any additional we feature famous.

There are new angelical examples as healed, including New York Times newsperson Brian Stelter's use of Sound (and his Tumblr blog) to enclothe the cocaine in Chiwere originally this assemblage, which also gave readers a wait behind the scenes at his activity to the events he was witnessing - another feeling Twirp excels at. New reporters tally also made use of the meshing patch on the soil in Tahrir Simpleton in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab Experience, as shaft as during the seism and consequent tsunami in Nihon early this twelvemonth.

One of the things that strength work Carvin and both of these other examples unentitled for a breaking-news Pulitzer is that the criteria specifically mentions "localized reportage," which effectuation placard to Chirrup almost events in Egypt power not fit the peak - although many of the reporting info organizations bed through using Storify and opposite tools during the Use protests power qualify (Carvin also entirety for a programme system, and the Pulitzer's possess historically been supposition only to newspapers).

If nada added, the Pulitzer domiciliate seems to feature upped the ante for newspapers and else conventional media outlets who poverty to vie for the breaking-news present: If you're thinking to retributory create something the incoming day - or plane flyer tralatitious stories to your website - and you're not intellection around recording or Chirp or Storify or several combination of those tools to copulate the circumstance, you can osculation your Pulitzer goodbye.