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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

http://www.pulitzercenter.org/

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (Washington, D.C.)

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The center gives travel grants for international reporting projects to journalists who agree to blog from the field, publish in print and online outlets, write longer magazine stories and short documentaries for public television and do feature-length documentary production. The focus is topics that have been under-reported or inaccurately reported.

Rough Cuts

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/

FRONTLINE/World (Berkeley, Calif.)

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A regular series of online video reports from around the globe, providing an outlet for emerging documentary talent as well as established reporters.

CFR.org Crisis Guides

http://www.cfr.org/publication/

Council on Foreign Relations (New York, N.Y.)

$2,000 First Prize

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“This is an institution stepping up and honoring the best of journalism. It’s filling an absolutely articulated need.”
—2007 Knight-Batten Judges

In-depth, interactive news and information guides to the world’s most pressing crisis zones that seek to operate according to the tenants of objective journalism within a think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, and seek to help make sense of complex issues beyond U.S. borders.

Second Life Virtual News Bureau

http://www.secondlife.reuters.com/

Reuters (New York, N.Y.)

$1,000 Wild Card

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“It’s a place for the audience that newspapers don’t have to gather.”
—2007 Knight-Batten Judges

Reuters’ virtual news bureau in the online 3D world known as Second Life is engaging more than 7 million users in financial news, participatory interviews with top newsmakers, and virtual news delivery devices all anchored within the professionalism of its real world practice of journalism.

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