TechPresident for scooping the US$10,000 Grand Prize in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
The site tracks how the 2008 US presidential candidates are using the web, but also how content generated by voters such as YouTube videos of Flickr photos, is affecting the campaign. It is noteworthy that the top award for innovation went to a non-traditional news outlet.
TechPresident, together with the other winners, “gave the judges another way to think about innovations in journalism,” said Jan Schaffer, director of J-Lab, which administers the awards. She added:
We see a journalism emerging that is less about a narrative with a dramatic arc and more about an ongoing process of learning and building news
The other winners were:
- $2,000 First Prize: CFR.org Crisis Guides
- $1,000 Wild Card Award: Reuters’ Second Life Virtual News Bureau
- $1,000 Citizen Media Award: The Forum, Deerfield, N.H.
- $1,000 Special Distinction Award: washingtonpost.com’s onBeing
- $1,000 Special Distinction Award: OrlandoSentinel.com’s Varsity MyTeam H.S. Sports
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