COLLEGE PARK, Md. – TechPresident.com, a data-rich, nonpartisan group blog that covers real-time, online activity of the 2008 presidential candidates – and chronicles online content from voters who will elect them, is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The site invites every-day people to help break campaign
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Creativity Unleashed: 10 Innovators Place in 2007 Knight-Batten Awards
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Aug. 8, 2007 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Ten creative ways of generating news and information – from tracking how the 2008 presidential candidates are using the Web and how the Web is using them, to in-depth guides to world crisis areas, and virtual guides to news in virtual places – are named the finalists of this year’s Knight-Batten
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Global Voices Online Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Innovations Award
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 18, 2006 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Global Voices Online, a web site about how news affects daily life and conversations in more than 130 countries, is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The site uses skilled multilingual editors to find and publish thoughtful or entertaining bloggers who discuss what
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2006 Knight-Batten Award Winners
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jul. 25, 2006 in Press Releases
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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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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MSNBC.com Wins First innovator Awards – Chicago Tribune, MPR Take Top Honors
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 15, 2003 in Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 15, 2003—MSNBC.com’s dynamic “Big Picture” series today won the first $10,000 Grand Prize in the Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism for cutting-edge storytelling that connected users to journalism with an array of new media tools. Top honors also went to the Chicago Tribune and Minnesota Public Radio, each awarded $2,500 as
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Batten Award Finalists Pioneer Novel Interactions
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jul. 22, 2003 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Five newsroom initiatives that used technology in innovative ways to involve people in the news have been selected as the first finalists in the new Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The $10,000 winner and two $2,500 runners-up will be announced Sept. 15 at the Batten Awards Symposium in Washington, D.C.,
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