Washington, D.C. – Sunlight Live, the Sunlight Foundation‘s innovative blending of data, streaming video, liveblogging and social networking today was awarded the $10,000 Grand Prize in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Six projects that pioneered unique collaborations to advance digital engagement each received $1,000 Special Distinction Awards. Honored at a morning symposium at
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Sunlight Live’s Real-Time Participation Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Innovation Award
Posted by J-Lab on Jul. 19, 2010 in Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Sunlight Live, the Sunlight Foundation‘s innovative blending of data, streaming video, liveblogging and social networking – first used at February’s bipartisan health-care summit – is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Sunlight Live attracted nearly 43,000 viewers, 9,800 livebloggers, and more than 1,300 tweets.
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Wired.com’s WikiScanner Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Innovation Award
Posted by J-Lab on Sep. 10, 2008 in Press Releases
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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Interactivity & Empowerment: Eight Innovators Place in 2008 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations
Posted by J-Lab on Aug. 6, 2008 in Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Four bold, savvy projects – including Web sites that reveal corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries, help people map political violence in Kenya, separate fact from falsehood in the 2008 presidential campaign, and deliver hyperlocal coverage of development in the District of Columbia’s most neglected quadrant – are finalists for the Grand Prize
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