For the first time Pulitzer award goes to the website by Milota Sidorova

The stereotype in which a prestigious Pulitzer Prize was connected with traditional print newspapers has been broken this Monday. The award for investigative reporting was given to on-line media ProPublica. As the award winning article was chosen Sheri Fink's “The Deadly Choices At Memorial”, the piece about controversial deaths at a New Orleans medical center in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This piece was unique, because for the first time it was a case of so called “collaborative journalism”. Fink kept working on the article with the New York Times Magazine for almost two years.This fact provides a new point of view on on-line media. So far, the ! most of them were just a synonym of gossips and mediate journalism. On Monday the first sign on recognition was addressed to such media form – for instance, on-line media are much more flexible if it comes to reaction timing, collaboration or payments. Giving a writer this kind of free will at collaboration with traditional media, it could offer an article of two year's work. That wouldn't be rentable in press media. No one would keep one man on one article for such long time. Besides, almost every (if not all) of press media have their own web sisters. This way they are adjusting to the market where on-line information are not a case of sitting experience. With extending wi-fi connection, users of smart phones and internet devices are more likely to get to on-line press information 24/7.It is not the case of killing each other or a battle internet vs. press, but more likely it is about transformation and finding the common dialogue in really speeded up environment.
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