WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wired.com’s WikiScanner coverage, which helped readers investigate and expose ego-editing and corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries, is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Wired.com invited readers to use new technology to get all IP addresses assigned to a particular company, organization or government department,
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J-Lab Moves to American University; Draws $2.4M Knight Foundation Grant
Posted by J-Lab on Aug. 6, 2008 in Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism has moved to American University’s School of Communication, where it will expand its operations with the help of a $2.4 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to American University. J-Lab helps journalists and citizens use digital technologies to develop new ways of
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2007 Knight-Batten Symposium
Posted by J-Lab on Sep. 17, 2007 in Summits
| National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Keynote Speech Transcript from the 2007 Knight-Batten Symposium & Awards for Innovations in Journalism at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
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TechPresident.com Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Innovations Award
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 16, 2007 in Press Releases
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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2006 Knight-Batten Symposium
Posted by J-Lab on Sep. 18, 2006 in Summits
| National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Keynote Speech Transcript of the 2006 Knight-Batten Symposium & Awards for Innovations in Journalism on September 18, 2006 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
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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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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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