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Batten Awards - 2004 Notable Entries
Murder,
Race Justice: The State vs. Darryl Hunt
JournalNow.com
(Winston-Salem, NC) |
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“Compelling
template for trial coverage,
nicely repositioned for the Web.”
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2004 Batten Award Judges
Multimedia version of reinvestigation
of a 19-year-old case in which a black man was wrongly convicted
of raping and killing a white woman. |
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Wireless
Election Connection
Ifra
Newsplex (Columbia, SC) |
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"An
interesting experiment.”
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2004 Batten Award Judges
Using mainly picture cell phones and
moblogs, student journalists covered the 2004 South Carolina
Democratic presidential primary. |
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Chronicle
Watch
San
Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) |
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“New
Age action line. Very interactive, watchdog effort.”
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2004 Batten Award Judges
Invites readers to pinpoint broken
public facilities then trains the newspaper's spotlight on
the problem and the official responsible for fixing it until
the problem is fixed. |
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Haiti:
The Eroding Nation
South
Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
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“Excellent
example of packaging using Flash.”
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2004 Batten Award Judges
A multimedia report and photo essays
on Haiti’s
ecological problems. |
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Forging
America
The
Morning Call (Allentown, PA) |
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“Elegant
piece of history that gives readers a real sense of the community
and its struggles.”
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2004 Batten Award Judges
A multimedia presentation of the 100-year
rise and fall of Bethlehem Steel on CD-Rom. |
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of Journalism. It is a spin-off of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism
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University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism
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