Aporte de los medios online

Desde el 2006 que el Pulitzer acepta trabajos publicados en la web como parte de las postulaciones a las 14 categorías del área de Perodismo. Reflexiones de esta experiencia en esta entrevista realizada por Jonathan Dube de CyberJournalist.net (publicada en Poynter Online) a Sig Gissler (administrador del Pulitzer y profesor de la escuela de periodismo de Columbia).

Jon Dube: To what degree did online work factor into the decisions of the judges this year?

Sig Gissler: I cannot get into deliberations, which are confidential.

However, 15-20% of the entries had significant online elements -- nearly half of Public Service, about a fourth of Breaking News, Investigative and Explanatory, about 15% of Local Reporting, about a third of Feature Photography.

Online was present to some degree in winning entries -- such as Public Service, Breaking News, National, Feature (that little video) and Feature Photography. In Explanatory, it was supplemental.

Now that the Pulitzers have accepted online elements as part of entries for several years, what are your observations on the state of online journalism and how it's evolving?

Gissler: It's growing.

Entrants are getting better at integrating single, unified elements into Pulitzer entries, instead of dropping in a kind of digital glob (we say entire Web sites should not be submitted as part of the core entry).

We will continue to refine our procedures and monitor the whole field.

What lessons have you learned about online journalism from observing the online work included in the Pulitzer entries over the past few years?

Gissler: We're on the right track. Our competition is for the blended newspaper, part online, part in print.

This reflects where the industry is and where it is continuing to head.