The editorial staff of the
New Orleans Times-Picayune earned kudos from readers and industry peers for going beyond the call of duty in the immediate wake of Hurricane Katrina and the floods
that followed. But their coverage--a sizable portion of which was published online but never made it into print due to the flooding--could not in previous years have been awarded the newspaper
industry's highest honor, a Pulitzer Prize, because of rules prohibiting the submission of online journalism. -- Gavin O'Malley