New media publications recognized alongside traditional powerhouses in Pulitzer competition

New media recognized in Pulitzer competition

NEW YORK — When the Pulitzer board handed out the most important prizes in journalism, The New York Times and The Washington Post topped the list of winners— and finalists — as usual.

But they were joined for the first time by a trio of new media publications that scored unprecedented recognition in a competition long dominated by newspapers.

Judges awarded the nonprofit, Manhattan-based ProPublica a Pulitzer in investigative reporting for a story on the life-and-death decisions made by New Orleans doctors during Hurricane Katrina.

Joining ProPublica was an editorial cartooning award for the self-syndicated Mark Fiore, whose work appears on the San Francisco Chronicle Web site SFGate.com.

Matt Wuerker of Politico was a finalist for the cartooning award.