The Pulitzer Prize Board has announced it will now accept submissions from online-only news outlets for the first time in its history.
The market can only take so much and there will always be specific niches to fill. That being said, let's also remember that geeks have been declaring the death of print since at least 1984.
The attention span of Internet users has been the subject of many studies, most coming to the conclusion that, on average, people only spend a few seconds on any given site. An eye tracking study from Poynter Online, however, reveals that users who go online searching for news actually spend longer amounts of time in consuming content than their offline counterparts.
Though the most prestigious award in writing has yet to fully embrace online content, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced that more online material would be considered; but the board, perhaps stubbornly traditional, still only allows online submissions that have a print counterpart.
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