The Knight-Batten Foundation awarded Global Voices Online, a citizen media project run by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Grand Prize for Innovations in Journalism.The Knight-Batten Awards spotlight the creative use of new information, ideas and technologies to involve citizens in public issues. They are administered by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland.
I hadn’t heard of Global Voices Online until I saw this announcemnt. From the Global Voices about page:
Our global team of regional blogger-editors is working to find, aggregate
and track these conversations. Each day they link to 5-10 of the most
interesting blog posts from their regions in the “daily roundups”
section. A larger group of contributing bloggers is posting daily
features in in the left-hand Weblog section, shedding light on what
blogging communities in their countries have been talking about
recently.
There is a lot of information here and the site provides an interesting alternative source for news and information about what is going on around the world.
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