2012 Pulitzers: Two Online Winners

No prizes given for Fiction, Editorial Writing

The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners released Monday contained a couple of surprises. Two online news outlets, The Huffington Post and Politico, won their first Pulitzers, while in two other categories, no awards were given.

The prize board gave no prize for Editorial Writing for the first time in four years and for the first time in 35 years gave no Fiction prize. But Sig Gissler, the administrator of the prizes, said the lack of awards in those categories doesn’t suggest anything about the quality of the entries.

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