The Lost Art of Breaking News

When no Pulitzer was given for the “Breaking News” category this year, Pulitzer administrator Sig Gissler indicated to Poynter that perhaps there was no winner because the few entries received for the category just weren’t good enough.

The odd thing is that news is now being broken faster than ever, via a variety of different means, in particular, Twitter. But Karen Dunlap argues for Poynter that the weakness today is not in quickly reporting breaking news, but in presenting facts to tell a cohesive story.

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