COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Seven new ways to connect people with news – from showing every Congressional vote, to warning where hurricanes will strike, to blogging the world – are the winners of this year’s Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. “The hallmark of this year’s entries was the use of basic technology to add
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New Voices: New Funding for 10 Innovative Citizen Media Projects
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Apr. 18, 2006 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Environmental news in the Great Lakes, communities in rural Alaska and inner-city neighborhoods in Philadelphia will be covered in 10 innovative community news experiments to receive 2006 New Voices funding, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism announced today. This year’s award winners not only signaled a deep desire for better hyperlocal
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New Knight-Batten Awards to Honor Journalism Innovations
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Feb. 14, 2006 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Innovations that help people use media to get quality news and information in new ways will be honored this year by the renamed Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The awards program at the University of Maryland recognizes the creative use of new ideas that help people use news and information
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Chicagocrime.org Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Award
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 12, 2005 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The Web site chicagocrime.org, an innovative overlay of the city’s reported crimes with Google’s online mapping technology, today won the $10,000 Grand Prize in the Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The site, created as a free public service by online journalist Adrian Holovaty with design input by Wilson Miner, was
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J-Learning.org: J-Lab Launches “How-to” Site for Community Publishing
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Aug. 24, 2005 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – J-Learning.org, a how-to digital handbook for designing, launching and sustaining an online community news site was launched today by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland. The Web site offers 20 chapters and more than 60 subsections of basic skills training on how to plan a site,
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Interactive Storytelling and Rethinking Journalism Mark 2005 Batten Award Finalists
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jul. 26, 2005 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A national panel of judges has selected five finalists to win the 2005 Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, honoring them for setting new standards for interactive journalism, advancing creativity in digital storytelling and recalibrating the role that news organizations play in their communities. The judges chose a $10,000 grand prize
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New Voices: 10 Citizen Media Experiments to Launch
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Apr. 28, 2005 in Press Releases
College Park, Md. – Ten New Voices award winners from across the United States will receive $12,000 grants to launch innovative local media ventures, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism announced today. The 10 were selected from 243 proposals seeking inaugural New Voices funding, said Jan Schaffer, director of J-Lab, which administers the program, funded
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Call for Proposals: Citizens Media Ventures
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jan. 10, 2005 in Press Releases
College Park, MD – New Voices, a pioneering program to seed innovative citizen media ventures around the country, today issued a call for its first round of grant proposals. Eligibility guidelines and application forms can be found at the New Voices Web site, www.J-NewVoices.org, also launched today. Project proposals are due March 17, 2005. New
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Knight Foundation: $1 Million to J-Lab to Launch Community News Ventures
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Oct. 25, 2004 in Press Releases
College Park, Md – J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism will launch a pioneering program to seed community news ventures around the country with a new $1 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Over the next two years, the “New Voices” project will help fund the start-up of 20 micro-local,
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KQED’s “You Decide” wins $10,000 Batten Award
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 10, 2004 in Press Releases
Washington, DC – “You Decide” KQED’s original monthly Web series that created a novel way to present multiple sides of a news story today won the $10,000 Grand Prize in the Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. “It talks ‘up’ to the readers, not ‘down’,” said the judges of the San Francisco public broadcasting initiative.
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