COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A national panel of judges has selected five finalists to win the 2004 Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, showcasing several inventive ideas – from telling multiple sides of a story, to crafting visual narratives, to creating novel ways for people to interact with the news. The $10,000 winner, a $2,000
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MSNBC.com Wins First innovator Awards – Chicago Tribune, MPR Take Top Honors
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 15, 2003 in Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 15, 2003—MSNBC.com’s dynamic “Big Picture” series today won the first $10,000 Grand Prize in the Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism for cutting-edge storytelling that connected users to journalism with an array of new media tools. Top honors also went to the Chicago Tribune and Minnesota Public Radio, each awarded $2,500 as
Reporting on Race: Building a New Definition of ‘News’
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 1, 2003 in Articles
A report on race reporting by civic journalists highlights some common approaches.
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Batten Award Finalists Pioneer Novel Interactions
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jul. 22, 2003 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Five newsroom initiatives that used technology in innovative ways to involve people in the news have been selected as the first finalists in the new Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The $10,000 winner and two $2,500 runners-up will be announced Sept. 15 at the Batten Awards Symposium in Washington, D.C.,
U-Maryland Launches Journalism Innovation Awards for Creative Uses of Multimedia
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Mar. 12, 2003 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A unique journalism awards program at the University of Maryland will honor those who use technology in innovative ways to engage people in important issues. The Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism will honor novel approaches to journalism that can make a difference and have an impact on a community. Entries
Maryland J-School Opens Institute Promoting Interactive Journalism
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Dec. 6, 2002 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md.—The University of Maryland today launched a new journalism center designed to help news organizations use innovative computer technologies to develop new ways for people to engage in critical public policy issues. J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism will provide seed money to news organizations that propose interactive news ideas and team them
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Ten of the Many Things I’ve Learned Since Abscam
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 1, 2002 in Articles
As a federal court reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, I got a tip one Friday that something big was going to happen that would “involve the Halls of Congress.”
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Civic Journalism
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 1, 2000 in Articles
In its first effort at inventing a new relationship between the newsroom and the Internet, New Hampshire Public Radio came up with an elegantly logical idea. It created an on-line Tax Calculator that last year helped state residents actually compute the cost of different tax reform measures to their own pocketbooks.
Civic Journalism: How the Media Engages Citizens in Public Discourse
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jun. 24, 1996 in Articles
In Charlotte, N.C., more than 1,000 citizens have responded to lists of critical needs in nine of the city’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods. The newspaper collected the lists from neighborhood residents as part of what became its award-series, “Talking Back Our Neighborhoods.”
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