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Batten Awards - 2004 Notable Entries
GoSkokie.com:
A hyper-local citizens’ media experiment
Medill
School of Journalism (Evanston, IL) |
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“A
really important development for online reporting.”
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2004 Batten Award Judges
Six Medill graduate students created
a Web site to publish citizen-generated content for Skokie,
IL. |
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Inside
Iraq/Mainers at War
MaineToday.com,
Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME) |
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“The
tie-in with embedded reporters makes this entry stand out.”
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2004 Batten Award Judges
Maine residents stationed in Iraq could
post photos, videos, and messages on the MaineToday.com Web
site. The site spread to include users across the country. |
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News
Interactives
California
Connected and KQED Interactive (San Francisco, CA) |
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“Advances
the use of news graphics.”
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2004 Batten Award Judges
Uses Flash information grapics to tell
stories about such California topics as budget deficits, reforming
worker's compensation, urban development, the flow of capital,
and more. |
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Global
Integrity: Flawed Democracies
The
Center for Public Integrity (Washington, D.C.) |
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“Good
and important research database that helped spark reporting
by others.”
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2004 Batten Award Judges
Investigation into the extent of openness,
accountability and governance in 25 countries that hold elections. |
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J-Lab
is a center of the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College
of Journalism. It is a spin-off of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism
(www.pewcenter.org). © 2004
University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism
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