"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.

“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.

“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 their own content.

“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.

"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.