Twitter helps TTN bag the Pulitzer

How The Tuscaloosa News’ post-tornado tweeting helped bring home a Pulitzer Prize

by Jeff Sonderman

The Pulitzer prize for Breaking News went to a small newspaper that combined old-fashioned field reporting with a new tool, Twitter, after a tornado devastated swaths of Tuscaloosa, Ala., on April 27, 2011.

Read the story here:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/media-lab/social-media/170607/how-the-tuscaloosa-news-post-tornado-tweeting-helped-bring-home-a-pulitzer-prize/