The National Press Club is one meeting away from including bloggers in the long list of journalists eligible for membership–could literary bloggers, blog editors, and other online writers find a new air of legitimacy in the 21st Century media world?
Our blogging siblings at FishbowlDC report that the National Press Club’s Record proposes a key change adding bloggers to the already inclusive pool of applicable writers: “Reporters, editors, writers, publishers, editorial and news cartoonists and artists, news photographers, producers, librarians, presidents, general managers, videographers, web masters and other editorial employees who work for qualified news outlets.”
The measure will be up for final passage on Monday, July 13, at 6:30 p.m., if you are interested in following this historic addition. Last year, Pulitzer Prize eligibility was widened to include online journalists.