Finalists for Knight-Batten Awards
Ten sites have been chosen as finalists or given honorable mention for the 2007 Knight-Batten Awards for their creative use of new information ideas and technologies to involve citizens in public issues.
The $10,000 Grand Prize, $2,000 First Place and $1,000 Wild Card, Citizen Media and Special Distinction award winners will be announced at a Sept. 17 symposium and luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Check them out...
CFR.org Crisis Guides – In-depth, interactive news and information guides to the world's most pressing crisis zones that seek to operate according to the tenets of objective journalism within a think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations. They help make sense of complex issues beyond U.S. borders.
Second Life Virtual News Bureau – Reuters' virtual news bureau in the online 3D world known as Second Life is engaging more than 7 million users in financial news, participatory interviews with top newsmakers and virtual news delivery devices, all anchored within the professionalism of Reuters' real world practice of journalism.
TechPresident.com – A data-rich, group blog that is breaking investigative stories, collecting voter-generated content, and charting the metrics of a net-centric presidential campaign – from tracking video views of candidates on YouTube, numbers of their "friends" on MySpace and Facebook, voter demands for appearances on Eventful, blog mentions on Technorati and voter-generated photos on Flickr.
MyTeam Varsity High School Sports – The OrlandoSentinel.com's highly participative high school sports zone shows the newspaper's commitment to serving its community by offering every school a customized sports page and every parent a way to track an athlete. User-generated content supplies scores, schedules, announcements, photos and ways to compare high school statistics in Central Florida.
onBeing – The washingtonpost.com's engrossing video-portrait series captures intimate, unexpected stories that citizen narrators share with an invisible journalist who distills the epiphanies of commonalities among her diverse subjects. Each video can be viewed, downloaded, e-mailed, sent by cell phone or discussed.
The Forum – An all-volunteer online newspaper for Deerfield, N.H., that in two years has become the major source of news for three rural communities. In a readership area of 7,000 homes, it has more than 200 bylined contributors and averages 37 original articles per week, excluding obituaries, classifieds, letters to the editor and events listings.
Because of the diversity and breadth of creative ideas in this year's competition, the awards judges for the first time this year cited four projects for Honorable Mention:
The News-Press, Fort Myers, Fla. – For watchdog journalism at its citizen-participation finest. The news organization has done an exemplary job of elevating crowdsourcing by systematically enlisting its readers to be the eyes and ears watching over the accountability of their public officials and government. Its biggest project drew more than 6,500 user contributions.
NewAssignment.net/Assignment Zero – An intriguing open-source experiment by NewAssignment.net and Wired News to harness the collective wisdom and expertise of members of the public under the guidance of professional journalists in reporting and writing stories.
GreatLakesWiki.org – For collecting information as broad and deep as the Great Lakes it covers. This project of Michigan State's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism has the categories, content and organization that made this wiki the best of those entered.
Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada-Reno – For the collected work of journalism students that engaged them in how they might reinvent election coverage and how they could engage the public in issues of concern around Lake Tahoe. Clearly, the judges said, this is a school where students are being prepared for the future of journalism.
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