The Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism reward news and information providers who offer more than multimedia journalism.

The awards honor novel efforts that seize and create opportunities to involve citizens in public issues and supply entry points that invite their participation or spark their imagination.

Honored are pioneering approaches to journalism that:

- Encourage new forms of information sharing
- Spur non-traditional interactions that have an impact on a community
- Enable new and better two-way conversations between audiences and news providers
- Foster new ways of imparting useful information
- Create new definitions of news

Entries
Entries could consist of such things as networked journalism projects, social networking, citizen media initiatives, online news experiences, news games, mobile news ideas, creative use of cell phones, Webcams, vlogging, podcasting, computer kiosks, new applications of software, content management systems and other advances in interactive or participatory journalism.

To Enter
Check out the Web site for more details: j-lab.org/knight_batten/

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