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The New York Times triumphed at the Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, snaring a third of the journalism awards and seeing off online rivals who were allowed to compete for the first time.

The New York Times, which like most traditional newspapers is going through grave financial difficulties, won five out of 14 prizes, including the breaking news, investigative, and international reporting categories.

The Times' arch competitors, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, won just one prize each, for explanatory reporting and commentary respectively.

This was the first year that the Pulitzers, which date back to 1917, allowed online-only publications to compete.

Online outlets are one of the few bright spots in the written news media, with news sites shedding their previously lightweight image by breaking news and providing increasingly sought-after comment.

Although none of the newcomers made it to the podium, the medium's influence is growing.

Even traditional newspapers -- the New York Times is a major example -- are investing heavily in online capabilities, with reporters filing breaking news in real time.

Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzers, noted that online content was included in the submissions by seven of the winners.

However, no separate online category is planned and clearly many websites would fail to meet the Pulitzers' requirement that at least half of their production be news, rather than commentary.

For now the online aspect appears set to remain an arm of print journalism, rather than a replacement.

"The Pulitzer competition reflects the hybrid nature of journalism," Gissler said. "It's the combination that's important."

The New York Times' breaking news prize went for coverage of New York state governor Eliot Spitzer's shock resignation when it emerged that he was a client of a high-end prostitution ring.

The Pulitzer board noted that the newspaper broke the story on its Web site before "developing it with authoritative, rapid-fire reports."

Times journalist David Barstow won the investigative prize for revealing that retired generals working as supposedly independent media analysts "had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended."

The foreign coverage award went to all the Times staff for their "masterful, groundbreaking coverage of America?s deepening military and political challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan, reporting frequently done under perilous conditions."





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