Launched in March 2010, it has already picked up a couple of editorial awards (example here).
Portal was awarded Game of the Year (PC), Best Narrative (PC), and Best Innovation (PC and console) honors by 1UP.com in its 2007 editorial awards.
The ProPublica prize - and an editorial cartooning award for the self-syndicated Mark Fiore, whose work appears on the San Francisco Chronicle Web site SFGate.com - represented a victory for new media in a competition long dominated by ink-on-newsprint.
The editorial writing award was given to John C. Bersia of The Orlando Sentinel for his campaign against predatory lending practices.
Mark Fiore, a self-syndicated cartoonist, won the editorial cartooning award for his animated work that appears on SFGate.com, the first purely online entry ever to win a Pulitzer.
The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, awarded since 1922, has gone only to two women, Signe Wilkinson of the Philadelphia Daily News (1992) and Ann Telnaes of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate (2001).
The prize for editorial writing was awarded to David R. Moats of The Rutland Herald in Vermont, for his advocacy of the state's law extending legal benefits to same-sex unions.
Editorial Writing: No Award Editorial Cartooning: Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily Breaking News for his provocative cartoons that rely on originality, humor and detailed artistry.
Freeman said: "Dafydd brings 25 years' front-line editorial experience, managing award-winning editorial teams with an international reputation for breaking business news.
After a brief news blackout on the announcement of the prize, China's state-controlled media began rolling out articles and editorials describing the award as an insult to the country's criminal justice system, a ploy to hold back China's rise and a tactic to subvert the country's political system.
