The 2006 Knight-Batten Awards given by J-Lab are out.  All are worth looking at, but one caught our eye, one of the “Niche News” awards in the “Notable Entries” category.  Clearly, a lot of legwork on the streets of Boston went into this well-designed project.  Now the only question is: Who will keep it updated and how?
bostonchinatown.org
                          Emerson College
                          Journalism (Boston, MA)
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 “Quintessential 
                                          visualization of civic mapping … 
                                          Tell us more about these people.” 
                                                         -2006 
                                                        Knight-Batten Advisory 
                                                        Board Judges 
Sixteen 
                                    Emerson journalism graduate students put 
                                    in a combined 500 hours of original reporting 
                                    to develop this web chart. The chart displays 
                                    connections between more than 100 newsmakers, 
                                    organization leaders and activists in Boston’s 
                                    Chinatown based on who talks with whom about 
                                    local news. The map also acts as a directory 
                                    with personal profiles available to help 
                                    people connect. 
 
  
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