Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism
Citizen journalism, crowdsourcing, interactive news, etc. You hear the buzz-words, but very few mainstream organizations, are experimenting with these new forms of journalism.
The Knight Foundation is out to change all of that. They are giving monetary awards to people who are stepping up to the digital plate.
Happily, I noticed that my pal Andrew Rasiej‘s venture techPresident was the recipient of a big ole award ($10,000!).
techPresident is a group blog that is breaking investigative stories, collecting voter generated content, and charting the metrics of a net-centric presidential campaign — they are tracking candidate video views on YouTube, the number of their “friends” on MySpace and Facebook, voter demands for appearances on Eventful, blog mentions on Technorati and voter-generated photos on Flickr.
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