Pulitzer Board Comments on No Breaking News Winner
When the Pulitzer Prize’s were announced yesterday, the Breaking News category was left blank for the first time, which left people wondering why that had happened.
Poynter spoke to Sig Gissler, a Pulitzer administrator, but because voting specifics are kept confidential, we don’t learn much. However, the reason there was no winner appears to be that the few entries received for the category just weren’t good enough:
Of all of the Pulitzer categories, breaking news coverage attracts the fewest entries, only 37 in this year’s contest, Gissler said.
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