Joe Strupp: "[The Collegiate Times] may deserve some consideration from the Pulitzer board, even if a special category is required."

"The Roanoke Times, the closest daily paper to the Virginia Tech campus, has been covering the shooting of more than 30 students there on its Web site with updates to a blog-style story"

"The college paper at Virginia Polytechnical Institute kept a running account of the tragedy that struck the campus today"

Dan Gillmor: "More and more major news stories will be amplified in this way. Spot news will be, in part, a citizen-captured phenomenon, and there’s no going back."

"Dan Gillmor points to the ‘blog-style’ coverage of today’s Virginia Tech shootings in the local Roanoke Times, saying ‘It’s the right format for this kind of event.’" News outlets should have a spare blog ready to launch for cases like this.