Sig Gissler On Pulitzers, Online Journalism: Prizes No Solution To 'All the Problems Facing the Newspaper Industry'
Yesterday, Pulitzer Prize administrator and Columbia School of Journalism professor Sig Gissler hosted a podcast on BlogTalkRadio discussing the “Pulitzer Prizes and the Changing Newspaper Landscape.” This was the first year that the Pulitzers recognized digital journalism and much of Gissler’s talk focused on this change. Ironically, given the focus on new media, the podcast was troubled by technical difficulties that interrupted part of the show.
Gissler says he was impressed with the quality of the work submitted to the Pulitzers from online news organizations, but he also said that, in his opinion, the best digital journalism still comes from traditional outlets:
“Interestingly, most of the material that was sent in by the online-only news organizations were
techtext stories and most of the more advanced digital journalism is really being done by traditional newspapers.
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