Past Knight-Batten Award Winners

2008 Winners:

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$10,000 Grand Prize: Wired.com, WikiScanner Coverage (San Francisco, Calif.).

$2,000 Special Distinction: Politifact, St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

$2,000 Special Distinction: Ushahidi, Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (Orlando, Fla.).

$2,000 Citizen Media Award:JDLand.com, Jacqueline Dupree (Washington, D.C.).

Honorable Mentions:
Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica, Bluecadet Interactive (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Iowa's Deadly Tornado, The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa).

iReport.com, CNN (Atlanta, Ga.).

U.S. Congress MAPLight.org, MAPLight.org (Berkeley, Calif.).

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2007 Winners:

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$10,000 Grand Prize: techPresident.com, Personal Democracy Forum (New York, N.Y.).

$2,000 First Prize: CFR.org Crisis Guides, Council on Foreign Relations (New York, N.Y.).

$1,000 Wild Card: Second Life Virtual News Bureau, Reuters (New York, N.Y.).

$1,000 Citizen Media Award: The Forum, Philbrick James Forum (Deerfield, N.H.).

$1,000 Special Distinction Awards:
MyTeam Varsity High School Sports Site, OrlandoSentinel.com (Orlando, Fla.)
onBeing, washingtonpost.com (Washington, D.C.).

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2006 Winners:

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$10,000 Grand Prize: Global Voices Online, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard (Cambridge, Mass.).

$1,000 Wild Card: Twin Cities Daily Planet, Twin Cities Media Alliance (Minneapolis).

$1,000 Awards of Distinction:
HealthNewsReview.org, University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communications (Minneapolis).
Transparent Newsroom, SpokesmanReview.com (Spokane, Wash.).
IBISEYE.com, Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Sarasota, Fla.).
U.S. Congress Votes Database, WashingtonPost.com (Arlington, Va.).
Bakersfield Californian Social Media Platform, The Bakersfield Californian (Bakersfield, Calif.).

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2005 Winners:

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$10,000 Grand Prize: chicagocrime.org, Adrian Holovaty (Chicago).

$2,000 First Place: The View Magazine, IMOL, Interactive Magazines Online (London).

$1,000 Awards of Distinction:
Town Square, News & Record (Greensboro, N.C.).
Public Insight Journalism, Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul, Minn.).
The Cost of War, Newsday.com (Melville, N.Y.).

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2004 Winners:

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$10,000 Grand Prize: You Decide, KQED (San Francisco).

$2,000 Runner-up: P.O.V.'s Borders/Environment, POV Interactive (New York).

$1,000 Special Distinction Awards:
The Nature of Things: The Investigation of Swissair 111, CBC.ca (Toronto).
Tribute to Our Troops, Providence Journal Web site, Projo.com (Providence, R.I.).
Sing My Song, USAToday.com (McLean, Va.).

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2003 Winners:

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$10,000 Grand Prize: The Big Picture, MSNBC.com (Redmond, Wash.).

$2,500 Runner-up: When Evil Struck America, The Chicago Tribune (Chicago).

$2,500 Runner-up: Budget Balancer, Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul, Minn.).

Honorable Mentions:
The Two Cents Project, The San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco).
VillageSoup.com, (Knox and Waldo counties, Maine).

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