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Batten Awards - 2005 Finalists
Finalist:
chicagocrime.org
Adrian Holovaty (Chicago, IL) |
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"A
pioneering integration of geomapping and a public database,
it delivers one of the most comprehensive crime sites online.
It's a knock-out for one journalist to see all the pieces
and put them together.”
-2005 Batten Advisory Board Judges
The site overlays a
database of all crimes reported in Chicago onto Google maps
to give a searchable and visual report of what crimes are
occurring and where.
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Finalist:
The Cost of War
Newsday.com (Melville,
NY) |
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"An
information and graphic extravaganza, it sets a new bar
for telling fact-dense stories in compelling ways."
-2005
Batten Advisory Board Judges
A terrific presentation
on the Iraq war. Users who burrow into its interactive tiers
find friendly Flash graphics on civilian and soldier casualties,
weapons and equipment, key moments, and the impact on the
U.S. and Iraq.
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Finalist:
Public Insight Journalism
Minnesota
Public Radio (St. Paul, MN) |
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“This
ambitious initiative to tap the collective wisdom of public
radio listeners has created a 10,000-person 'public source
network' and launched an interactive 'Idea Generator'."
-2005
Batten Advisory Board Judges
A keystone of MPR's efforts
to enrich its reporting with knowledge from its audience,
PIJ invites story ideas, story reaction, and brainstorming
on such public issues as the future of small towns and the
racial performance gap in the state's public schools.
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Finalist:
The Town Square
News & Record
(Greensboro, NC) |
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“A
daring initiative to reconceive the role of the newspaper
in the community, it solicits community voices and heightens
transparency of the newsgathering process."
-2005
Batten Advisory Board Judges
The
newspaper's goal is to help citizens share the news they know
and engage in civic discussion. In its early evolution, it
has 16 staff writers maintaining blogs that link users to
primary source documents and venues where citizens can contribute
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Finalist:
The View Magazine
IMOL, Interactive Magazines Online
(London, United Kingdom) |
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“This
interactive magazine foreshadows the future with its use of
hip new story forms and highly video-centric Web tools.”
-2005
Batten Advisory Board Judges
This quarterly netcasting magazine
integrates ISP broadcasting and print magazine information
produced by individual backpack journalists ("solo-jo's")
from England, the United States and South Africa. |
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See 2005 Notable Entries and
2005 Election Entries
Attend the Batten Awards Symposium on September 12 at the National
Press Club in Washington, D.C. Registration is free!
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