I didn’t read the fine print carefully enough yesterday when I blogged about the Pulitzer board’s decision to make online content eligible for the prize. Turns out, the online content must be published by a newspaper that also puts out a print edition, so the great bloggers and cartoonists we were talking about in yesterday’s post still wouldn’t be eligible, though the New Orleans Times-Picayune’s blogs would.

Print circulation is declining. Web readership is skyrocketing. The obvious benefit is that, while the big media outlets still wield the most influence, any blogger can compete on the same playing field online. C’mon, Pulitzer board. It’s time to face facts, open up the contest to these new competitors and, as MSNBC.com’s Jennifer Sizemore put it, start giving awards for journalism instead of just awards for newspapers.