""Increasingly, they (editorials) were getting signed or had a name of a writer, and that was making them even more like opinion pieces, even though it was the paper's position. And fewer and fewer papers were having editorial departments or were submitting," Miller said."
""So many papers were folding, and there were just not enough entries the board felt to make it a big and competitive category.""
"In 2022, for example, Gannett (now known as USA Today Co.) it would cut back opinion pages in its more than 200 dailies to just a few days a week."
"Lee Enterprises, which owns more than 70 dailies, made similar changes around that time, to Nieman Reports."
The Pulitzer Prizes have undergone significant changes, including the introduction of new categories that reflect a decline in opinion journalism. The Beat Reporting category was awarded to Reuters journalists for exposing Meta's user manipulation. The Opinion Writing category was won by M. Gessen for essays on authoritarian regimes. The decline in entries for traditional editorial categories indicates a shift in newsroom priorities, with many outlets reducing their focus on unsigned editorials and opinion pages.
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