2008 Knight-Batten Prize Winners Announced!
Posted September 11th, 2008 by J-Lab
Wired.com’s WikiScanner Coverage Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Innovation Award
Tool that helps readers investigate and expose ego-editing and corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries is this year's $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
This year's other winners are:
$2,000 Special Distinction Award: PolitiFact.com, St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly
$2,000 Special Distinction Award: Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information, Ushahidi, Inc.
$2,000 Citizen Media Award: JDLand.com, Jacqueline Dupree
