For the First Time Ever, No Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Awarded This Year
The Pulitzer Prize jury that reviewed the Breaking News Reporting category recommended three finalists to the Pulitzer Board. But for the first time ever, no entry won the category that recognizes local coverage of breaking news events.
This is the ninety-fifth year of the Pulitzer Prizes, and the first in which the one for breaking news reporting wasn’t awarded.
Of all of the Pulitzer categories, breaking news coverage attracts the fewest entries, only 37 in this year’s contest, Gissler said. That is down from 41 in 2010, 35 entries in 2009, 47 in 2008 and 52 in 2007.
“I am sometimes told by editors that they are doubtful that they have covered a large enough disaster in their community to win, ” Gissler said.