Pulitzer Prizes now open to online journalists

Big news out of the Pulitzer Prizes camp today is that online-only publications are now eligible to win journalism’s most distinguished award.

The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, which honor the work of American newspapers appearing in print, have been expanded to include many text-based newspapers and news organizations that publish only on the Internet, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced today.

See the full release here.

Newspapers have been able to submit online content for a couple years, but this opens things up to sites like minnpost.com and the St. Louis Beacon.

And of course Mashable (where I first heard the news).

Perhaps this news helped the Pulitzer board come to its decision.