Abstract
As newspaper competition increases, the likelihood of producing quality journalism—as measured by winning Pulitzer Prizes—also increases. This study, using log-linear methods, analyzed the relationship between categories of newspaper competition and winning of certain types of Pulitzer Prizes. As newspaper competition increased, the likelihood of winning Pulitzers in several categories increased. But that was not true for local reporting, the mainstay of all newspapers. Thus this study concludes that newspaper competition has less effect on the quality of local reporting but more on inducing newspapers to produce a greater variety of excellent reporting in other areas.
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