Four in the morning

1. The Washington Post hearts the Huffington Post's content model. Nieman Journalism Lab

2. NBC 4 in LA has launched a new web project called "Prop Zero" that bills itself as the Ground Zero for change in California politics. Joe Mathews of the New America Foundation is a contributor. Prop Zero

3. The danger of plagiarism in the reTweet. Good

4. A lengthy piece in the New York Times Magazine about the emerging business models for online news... It looks like the lifestyle of a starving actor trying to break into the movies: lots of work for low (or no) pay and, in the end, the audience gets to decide who's talented enough to rise to the top. NYT Magazine

2010 Pulitzer Prize winners

The Pulitzer committee has announced the winners for 2010. The Bristol Herald Courier in Virginia won the coveted public service award and the Seattle Times won for breaking news reporting. The investigative reporting prize went to two winners: the online nonprofit ProPublica working in collaboration with the New York Times Magazine, and the Philadelphia Daily News. The Washington Post won four awards, including best commentary, feature writing and international reporting. The New York Times won three awards, including for national reporting.

The full list is here.

Bad exposure

The New York Times Magazine has been forced to pull a photo essay from its site after a reader discovered that at least one of the photographs - and clearly more, according to further analysis - were digitally altered. The photographer, Edgard Martins, has yet to comment. The Times photo editor has posted the following comment:

A picture essay in The Times Magazine on Sunday and an expanded slide show on NYTimes.com entitled 'Ruins of the Second Gilded Age' showed large housing construction projects across the United States that came to a halt, often half-finished, when the housing market collapsed. The introduction said that the photographer, a freelancer based in Bedford, England, 'creates his images with long exposures but without digital manipulation.

A reader, however, discovered on close examination that one of the pictures was digitally altered, apparently for aesthetic reasons. Editors later confronted the photographer and determined that most of the images did not wholly reflect the reality they purported to show. Had the editors known that the photographs had been digitally manipulated, they would not have published the picture essay, which has been removed from NYTimes.com.

On McCain

Read the Matt Bai cover piece on John McCain four days early.