Zero and Counting: Pulitzers, Circulation and USA Today
Over at Gawker, Nick Denton decries the news industry's fixation on the Pulitzers.
Too bad the payout is only $10,000 per prize: the Pulitzers aren't going to finance American journalism; in fact, one can make the argument that these self-congratulating awards, and the attention devoted to them, are symptomatic of the decline of the newspaper industry.
Denton argues that the American news business should look to the Brits for an example of what works: ...






