The social media publishing tool Storify has won the 2011 Knight-Batten Award for innovation in journalism. The award comes with a $10,000 prize.
“Scarcely a year into its existence, Storify has become so essential the word storify has become a verb,” said Jan Schaffer, director of J-Lab, which administers the awards. Adds judge Amy Webb, “In Storify, we see a journalism tool that truly solves a newsroom problem and also inspires others to challenge the way they’ve been telling stories.”
A popular tool among news organizations, Storify allows anyone to quickly create an social media story by dragging-and-dropping tweets, YouTube clips, Twitpics and other elements into an embeddedable timeline. As tweets are included, Storify auto-tweets users to notify them they’ve been included in a story.
Also on the social media front, NPR’s Andy Carvin and his Twitter followers were given a special distinction award for helping curate and fact-check news out of the Middle East and North Africa. For the full list of awards and honorable mentions, visit here.