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Viewing the Pulitzers through the Web

© Daryl Lease

The Pulitzer Prizes, as everyone knows, are designed to honor the best in the journalism. But journalists being journalists and prizes being prizes, there's no shortage of opinions on whether the Pulitzers always go to the year's best.

Below is a collection of links to the coverage of the contest winners; links to the winning entries; and a sampling of links to the annual hey-what-about-so-and-so? and are-prizes-good-for-journalism? conversations.

As always, feel free to post additional links-of-note in the discussion area.

http://www.pulitzer.org/

Here's the list of winners, from the official source. Click on the big 2000, and you'll be spirited to the winners in journalism and other categories, plus information on the runners-up. Click on old Joe the dynamo and you'll be escorted to a history of the prizes. The site also features a searchable archive of all the winners since 1917.

http://www.poynter.org/centerpiece/04100...

If you're interested in reading the winning entries for 1999 and learning more about how the judges select them, here's an excellent place to start. This link will take you to the Poynter Institute's coverage of the contest, beginning with an insider's account of the judging.

At the bottom of the page, you'll also find links to many of the winners. In a sidebar on the left, look for links to what others are saying about the prizes. Also visit MediaNews, where links are provided to quite a few Pulitzer-related stories.

http://ajr.newslink.org/ajrlisaapr00.html

The American Journalism Review's Alicia Patterson takes a look at "the iron grip of prize frenzy." Prizes are good for the winners, she says, but are they good for journalism?

http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?req...

The Online Journalism Review calls the Pulitzer committee to task for barring almost all entries from Web-based publications. This piece makes some excellent points. If traditional media are so intent on melding with new media, then why not honor the best of online journalism?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art...

Here you'll find The Washington Post's coverage of its victories in the Pulitzer competitions, plus links to the winning entries and more. The Post won the gold medal for public service for the second year in a row, thanks to Katherine Boo's series on group homes for mentally retarded children. Other prizes were won in photography and criticism.

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/jour...

For more links to the Pulitzers and information on 1998 winners, click on this link from the journalism archives at Suite101.com