Batten Innovations finalists named

The finalists have been selected for the new Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, which "pay tribute to news organizations that use technology in innovative ways to engage people in important issues." The $10,000 winner and two $2,500 runners-up will be announced Sept. 15 at the Batten Awards Symposium in Washington, D.C. The five finalists are:
• Minnesota Public Radio’s “Budget Balancer,” a 19-page Web game that challenged users to fix the state’s $4.2 billion deficit by cutting programs and raising taxes without spending too much political capital; 7,000 visitors submitted 11,000 budgets.
• The Chicago Tribune’s “When Evil Struck America,” a CD-ROM time capsule distributed to more than 1 million subscribers on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks. Interactive and easy to navigate, it boosted single-day street sales of the newspaper by 100,000.
• The San Francisco Chronicle’s “Two Cents” project, a “virtual man-on-the-street” effort involving a database of more than 1,450 “field correspondents,” residents who contribute and react to articles, opinion pieces and a standing op-ed column.
• MSNBC.com’s “The Big Picture,” a sophisticated series of in-depth guided tours on three subjects – Iraq, the 2002 elections, and the Oscars – that integrated video, audio, text, interactive polls and games into playful, yet informative, multimedia packages intended to give the big-picture overview on the topics.
• VillageSoup.com for its community media Web sites that are delivering homespun news and information to three Maine towns, along with interactive virtual tours and e-mails of scenic postcards.

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