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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New Voices: 10 New Citizen Media Ideas Are Funded
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Apr. 4, 2007 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Ten new ideas for amplifying community news will receive $12,000 New Voices grants to launch news sites for under-covered communities, embed TV reporters in neighborhoods, network regional radio programs, and map the local impact of climate change, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism announced today. “These award winners are embarking on
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Launched Today: The Knight Citizen News Network
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Mar. 26, 2007 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The Knight Citizen News Network, a free web portal to help both citizens and journalists create and responsibly operate community news sites, launched today with an array of learning and resource modules contributed by a network of participants. KCNN.org was created to help citizens use digital media in ways that enrich
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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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New Journalism Building at Maryland to be Named for Knight Newspaper Brothers
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 18, 2006 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has made a $4.4 million, multi-part grant to the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, University President C.D. Mote Jr. announced today. In recognition of this latest gift, and the university’s strong historical support from the foundation, the planned
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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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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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