The Observer: Don’t hold the US front page

Peter Preston on the Pulitzer Prizes (and the cultural divide between American and British journalism): "a headline-grabbing, tale everybody has to follow up fast [like British Press Awards Scoop of the Year Wossgate]? No awards even offered for that, which may be one reason why British sites do so well globally, with the Telegraph, Times, Guardian, Mail and Sun all outscoring the New York Times on unique user counts last month."

Aron Pilhofer: A PolitiFact Moment for Journalism

"The [Pulitzer Prize] going to PolitiFact -- the first Web project to be so honored -- is a watershed moment for journalism, I believe, much like "The Color of Money" was some 20 years ago. ... "The Color of Money" ... was the first Pulitzer awarded to a project that relied heavily on statistics and data analysis -- what has come to be called 'computer-assisted reporting.'"