Pulitzer Prize for Journalism Opens Competition to Multimedia

One of the country's most storied, and traditional, institutions, the Pulitzer Prize Board, has entered the 21st century. For the first time in the 94 years since the most coveted prize in journalism was created, the competition will now accept submissions that use any kind of multimedia tool, including videos, multimedia and graphics.

One of the country’s most storied, and traditional, institutions, the Pulitzer Prize Board, has entered the 21st century.   For the first time in the 94 years since the most prestigious, and coveted, prize in journalism was created, the competition will now accept submissions that use any kind of multimedia tool, including videos, multimedia and graphics.

In changes announced this week, the Pulitzer board said that the rules in 12 of 14 categories had been changed to make it clear that news organizations can submit entries that showcase formats other than text if that’s how the pieces were published.

The two categories to remain unchanged are photography categories which are still restricted to still images.

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