abstract:The Orwell Prize is a British prize for political writing of outstanding quality. Two prizes are awarded each year: one for a book and one for journalism .
But some—like Muckety, an American site which enriches news stories with interactive maps of the protagonists' networks of influence, and NightJack, the revealing and depressing blog of an anonymous British policeman, which won the Orwellprize last month—enhance society's understanding of itself, and could not have existed in the old world.