這是傳媒史上劃時代事件。2009年普利策獎20日揭曉，St. Petersburg Times旗下網站politifact.com因2008年美國大選報導獲獎。今年首次允許互聯網新聞網站參與角逐。
該網站於2007年8月啟動。大選期間，5名編輯記者以及來自St. Petersburg Times兄弟刊物Congressional Quarterly的研究人員和作家組成報導團隊。
politifact.com日漸成熟，重點報導國會和白宮新聞，新近增加Obameter欄目，追蹤奧巴馬執政。
St. Petersburg Times主編說該獎項“證明網路不是報紙的死刑判決。”
評審團稱St. Petersburg Times“調查記者與互聯網檢驗750個政治立場（真偽）”。（“probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters.”）
附件一、2009 Pulitzer Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists
Announced at 3:00 p.m., Monday, April 20, 2009 at Columbia University
Click here for finalists, jurors, bios and photos of winners,
winning photos and cartoons, and links to winning stories
JOURNALISM:
Public Service - Las Vegas Sun
Breaking News Reporting - The New York Times Staff
Investigative Reporting - David Barstow of The New York Times
Explanatory Reporting - Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart of the Los Angeles Times
Local Reporting –
Detroit Free Press Staff and Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin of the East Valley Tribune, Mesa, AZ
National Reporting - St. Petersburg Times Staff
International Reporting - The New York Times Staff
Feature Writing - Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times
Commentary - Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post
Criticism - Holland Cotter of The New York Times
Editorial Writing - Mark Mahoney of The Post-Star, Glens Falls, NY
Editorial Cartooning - Steve Breen of The San Diego Union-Tribune
Breaking News Photography - Patrick Farrell of The Miami Herald
Feature Photography - Damon Winter of The New York Times
LETTERS, DRAMA and MUSIC:
Fiction - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Drama - Ruined by Lynn Nottage
History - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)
Biography - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)
Poetry - The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
General Nonfiction - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)
Music - Double Sextet by Steve Reich, premiered March 26, 2008 in Richmond, VA (Boosey & Hawkes)
附件二、Facts about PolitiFact
Launched in August 2007 to fact-check the presidential campaign and then expanded in January 2009 to fact-check members of Congress and the White House. In January, we also launched the Obameter, a new feature tracking President Obama's campaign promises.
Truth-O-Meter -- Checks the accuracy of statements by candidates, elected officials, political parties, interest groups, pundits, talk show hosts. PolitiFact writers research the statements and rate them on the Truth-O-Meter.
Six ratings on Truth-O-Meter - True, Mostly True, Half True, Barely True, False and Pants on Fire
Every official, group and pundit rated by PolitiFact is building a record of statistics on their own page that shows how many True, False, etc. ratings they have earned. It also shows the ratings on any statements made against them. (For example, here are pages for: Barack Obama, John McCain, John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi).
Flip-O-Meter -- Rates when candidates or elected officials have flip-flopped on an issue (No Flip, Half Flip, Full Flop).
Obameter -- Tracks 514 promises made by Barack Obama during the campaign, compiled from position papers, campaign Web sites, debate transcripts, speeches and interviews.
Promises are rated as No Action, In the Works, Stalled, Promise Kept, Compromise, and Promise Broken.
Each time a promise is updated, we publish an article explaining the latest development and the reason for our rating
A Top 25 list shows the progress on Obama's most significant promises
Truth-O-Meter items
865 published since August 2007 (89 of those since the January re-launch)
Breakdown of ratings
26% True
17% Mostly True
18% Half True
13% Barely True
19% False
6% Pants on Fire
Truth-O-Meter ratings are also tracked by subject. The subjects with the most ratings: Taxes (89), Economy (70), Iraq (63).
We just published a special page to mark Obama's First 100 Days, with new charts tracking the Top 25 promises and Truth-O-Meter ratings on the Obama White House.
PolitiFact items are written by reporters for the St. Petersburg Times, with several working full-time for PolitiFact. During the campaign, writers from Congressional Quarterly also contributed.
All Truth-O-Meter, Flip-O-Meter and Obameter items are published on the PolitiFact Web site. Many also appear in the newsprint edition of the St. Petersburg Times. We also send a twice-weekly e-mail to 7,000 subscribers, we have custom RSS feeds and a Twitter feed.
State and local PolitiFact items -- St. Petersburg Times reporters have done more than two-dozen Truth-O-Meter ratings on state and local officials in Florida.
Other Awards - A National Press Foundation award for online journalism, a Knight Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism, a Digital Edge Award for Best Overall News Site from the Newspaper Association of America and first place for Online Political Reporting in the Green Eyeshade Awards.
Expansion plans -- This summer, we plan to expand our coverage of pundits and talk show hosts and our state and local fact-checking.
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