Awards

The Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism

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2010 Knight-Batten Symposium

The Knight-Batten Awards reward news and information efforts that create opportunities to involve citizens in public issues and supply opportunities for participation. Honored are pioneering approaches to journalism that:
  • Encourage new forms of information sharing.
  • Spur non-traditional interactions that have an impact on community.
  • Foster new ways of imparting useful information.
  • Create new definitions of news.
  • Read the Guidelines

2010 Winners have been announced!

Sunlight Live, the Sunlight Foundation's innovative blending of data, streaming video, liveblogging and social networking - first used at February's bipartisan health-care summit - is this year's $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Read more.

Check out some of the winners!