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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Knight-Batten Awards Finalists Deliver Fresh Ideas for Journalists
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jul. 28, 2004 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A national panel of judges has selected five finalists to win the 2004 Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, showcasing several inventive ideas – from telling multiple sides of a story, to crafting visual narratives, to creating novel ways for people to interact with the news. The $10,000 winner, a $2,000
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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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U-Maryland Launches Journalism Innovation Awards for Creative Uses of Multimedia
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Mar. 12, 2003 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A unique journalism awards program at the University of Maryland will honor those who use technology in innovative ways to engage people in important issues. The Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism will honor novel approaches to journalism that can make a difference and have an impact on a community. Entries
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