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"The real differentiator between old media and new is how we relate to and interact with our audience," said O'Brien, who previously oversaw a Pulitzer finalist for The New York Times. "We see it as setting the table for an ongoing discussion that we plan to stay on for a long time."
Roy Harris Jr., author of "Pulitzer's Gold: Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism" and a contributor to Poynter.org, called the win "an eyebrow-raising step into respectability" for the Huff Post. He believes the Pulitzer jurors are looking to reward online-only journalism.
"Being acknowledged with a Pulitzer Prize is a groundbreaking move for any news organization," said Harris. "For the Huffington Post, being an online publication, it's got to be especially gratifying."
"Clearly it marks an arrival of a sort for the Huffington Post," said Ken Doctor, author of "Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get." "It has steadily built itself from being only an aggregator to a site that has picked off a number of top journalists in the country and added them on top of the aggregation, which is a very smart business model."
Huffington, who has remained as president and editor in chief of The Huffington Post Media Group after selling the site to AOL last year for $315 million, says the site will "continue doing multi-part series on big issues." It currently has 26 reporters working a series on poverty in America.
But the Pulitzer breakthrough for the Huffington Post came, ironically or not, from old-fashioned reporting.
"The kind of reporting that I did varies not at all from the kind of reporting that I was doing 10 or 20 or even 30 years ago," said Wood. "Except I'm better at it now."
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