We request that The Pulitzer Prizes organization create and fund an award for Data Journalism.

Many important aspects of the world are quantitative in nature. The ability to communicate the impact of quantitative information is and always has been important to societies.

Many important issues---such as climate change or election polls---require communicating quantitative information to the public, many of whom do not encounter graphs, charts, or data visualizations in everyday life. Yet a well-crafted data visualization, like any well-crafted piece of journalism, can communicate important information to anyone, regardless of background. Such pieces of data journalism play an important role in informing the public.

Communicating quantitative information is no less an important than traditional journalism. Those who excel at it should be similarly recognized.

Therefore, we request that the Data Journalism be recognized and supported by your organization as a distinctive category of the Pulitzer Prize.