For the first time ever, an online-only publication has received a Pulitzer Prize. Sheri Fink of ProPublica shares the Investigative Reporting category prise with Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman of the Philadelphia Daily News.

Although Fink’s article about “the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina.” was co-published by The New York Times Magazine, it originally appeared as an online article in a publication that has no print version.

Any thoughts on what this means for the future of online publishing and the ongoing electronic vs print publishing debate?