Why the Associated Press or The Wall Street Journal Should Have Won the Breaking News Pulitzer

Much speculation has been given to the fact that no news organization won the “Breaking News” Pulitzer prize this year, particularly because Pulitzer administrator Sig Gissler indicated that there was no winner because none of the entries were good enough.

Some agreed with him that breaking news is now a lost art. Other felt that Twitter really deserved the prize, if that was possible. Larry Kramer wrote that “if the newspaper industry gives up on breaking news, they should just close their doors.”

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