At work, I appreciate having both a blog and a reporting-driven Web site as a vehicle for news. The blog is great for quick-hit things that ought to be published immediately. Today I was able to post a fast blog update within a minute or two of the Pulitzer announcement (followed by a longer and more thoughtful story on the main site), and I posted a short summary of an auction I attended tonight (but won’t have time to research and a write full story about until tomorrow). Plus there were some stray things going on that didn’t warrant a full story but were interesting enough to share with our readers.

12:11 p.m.: Jury: Photogs Share Blame For Diana Death
12:55 p.m.: Absolut Ad Campaign Backfires Horribly
3:13 p.m.: Breaking News: Pulitzer Prizes Announced
4:25 p.m.: Andrees Latif On His Pulitzer-Winning Picture
9:03 p.m.: Weston Print Fetches $1.6M At Auction

See- if you’d stayed in New Hampshire and kept your mouth shut you could’ve won a Pulitzer!

The Monitor’s Pulitzer is a strange one. The reporter who worked on that story did not win - only the photographer. The photographer who won, and her photo editor, have both left the Monitor. And to give fuel to its critics, the Monitor’s top editor is co-chair of the Pulitzer board.