Interactive Storytelling, Rethinking
Journalism

Mark 2005 Batten Awards Finalists

“COLLEGE
PARK, Md. – A
national panel of judges has selected five finalists to win the 2005
Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism,
honoring them for setting new standards for interactive journalism,
advancing creativity in
digital storytelling and recalibrating the role that news organizations play
in their communities….

“'We were impressed again this
year with the range of talents and ideas presented — from a collaboration of
former broadcast professionals from Europe to the transformation of a newsroom
in North Carolina to the wild idea of a lone innovator in Chicago” said Bryan
Monroe, chairman of the
Batten Awards Advisory Board and Knight Ridder assistant vice president/news.
“Prevailing themes were the increasing transparency, accessibility and democratization
of
news.”

“The 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.”