chicagocrime.org Wins $10,000 Batten Award
The Web site chicagocrime.org, an innovative overlay of the city's reported crimes with Google's online mapping technology, has 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 credited with "setting a new standard for interactive journalism." Chicagocrime.org allows users to search by the type of crime, the street and neighborhood, or the date and pinpoint the location on a satellite map. One can even track crimes that occur en route to work.
"It is one journalist's ability to see all the pieces and put them together," the Batten judges said, "but every city should provide this as a public service."
Top honors also went to $2,000 First Place winner The View, Interactive Magazines Online (IMOL), a quarterly netcasting magazine crafted of hip new story forms produced by senior "solo-jos" - backpack journalists from England, the U.S. and South Africa - using video-centric Web tools to tell point-of-view stories.
Three more innovative efforts each received $1,000 Awards of Distinction for advancing creativity in digital storytelling and recalibrating the role that news organizations play in the community. The awards were presented at a morning symposium at the National Press Club. View the winners as well as other notable entries at www.j-lab.org.
Earning $1,000 Awards of Distinction are:
• "Town Square," News & Record, Greensboro, N.C.
A daring initiative to rethink the role of the newspaper in the community. It is newly evolving to incorporate community voices and heightened transparency of the newsgathering process.
• Public Insight Journalism, Minnesota Public Radio
An imaginative venture that has built up a 10,000-person "public source network." Its innovative online collaborative software, the "Idea Generator," has engaged people in brainstorming such public issues as the future of small towns and the racial performance gap in school test scores.
• "The Cost of War," Newsday
An extravaganza of detailed information and artful graphics about the U.S. effort in Iraq that set a new bar for telling fact-dense stories, inviting readers to burrow deeper into its interactive tiers of news.
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