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Winners |
Prize in $ |
Contact |
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MIT Media Lab, Christopher |
5,000,000 |
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Comparative Media Studies, |
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Adrian Holovaty, |
1,100,000 |
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Richard Anderson, |
885,000 |
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MTV: Music Television |
700,000 |
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Rich Gordon, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University |
639,000 |
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Christopher Callahan, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University |
552,000 |
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Geoff Dougherty, |
340,000 |
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David Ardia, Citizen Media |
250,000 |
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Gail Robinson, Gotham Gazette |
250,000 |
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Nora Paul, Institute for |
250,000 |
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Ethan Zuckerman, Global |
244,000 |
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Lisa Williams, |
222,000 |
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Todd Wolfson, Media |
150,000 |
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Adam Glenn, Co-Founder of |
90,000 |
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Amy Gahran, Co-Founder of |
w/ Glenn |
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Paul Grabowicz, University of California - Berkeley |
60,000 |
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Chris O'Brien, The |
50,000 |
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Dianne Lynch and |
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Dianne Lynch, Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College |
230,000 |
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Angela Powers, Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Kansas State |
w/ Lynch |
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Ann Brill, William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas |
w/ Lynch |
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Ardyth Broadrick Sohn, Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies, University of Las Vegas |
w/ Lynch |
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Jane Briggs-Bunting, School of Journalism, Michigan State |
w/ Lynch |
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Kimberly Sultze, |
w/ Lynch |
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Pam McAllister-Johnson, School of Journalism & Broadcasting Western Kentucky University A5 |
w/ Lynch |
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Bloggers |
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Benjamin Melançon, Agaric |
15,000 |
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Dan Schultz, Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate student |
15,000 |
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Dori Maynard, Robert C. |
15,000 |
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G. Patton Hughes, |
15,000 |
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J.D. Lasica, Ourmedia.org |
15,000 |
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Jay Rosen, Department of |
15,000 |
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Paul Lamb, Man on a Mission Consulting and Co-Founder, Lambs on Love |
15,000 |
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Leslie Rule, Digital |
w/ Lamb |
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Steven Clift, |
15,000 |
Chris
Csikszentmihályi, MIT Media Lab, $5,000,000 (shared with Henry Jenkins, Comparative
Media Studies Program)
Chris
Csikszentmihályi (pronounced Cheek-sent-me-hi) is the Muriel Cooper Associate
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and directs the Computing Culture Group at
the MIT Media Lab. A 2007 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, he has worked in the
intersection of new technologies, politics, media and the arts for 15 years,
lecturing, showing new media work and presenting installations in four
continents and one subcontinent. His work aims to create a new technology to
embody a particular social agenda. For example, he designed his piece “Afghan
Explorer” to defend the First Amendment by creating a tele-operated robot
reporter to bypass American military censorship. Csikszentmihályi has lectured
and presented to government agencies and arts, humanities and science and
engineering departments across the globe. He served on the National Academies’
“Information Technology and Creativity” panel, and has recently won fellowships
from the Langlois and Rockefeller Foundations. (MFA UC San Diego, BFA Art
Institute of Chicago)
Project: The MIT Media Lab will create the
Center for Future Civic Media, a leadership project designed to encourage
community news experiments and new technologies and practices. Goals: “We are moving to a Fifth Estate
where everyone is able to pool their knowledge, share experience and expertise,
and speak truth to power.”
Contact: csik@media.mit.edu
Henry Jenkins, MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, $5,000,000 (shared with
Chris Csikszentmihályi, Media Lab)
Henry
Jenkins is the director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He
is the author and/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and
popular culture, the newest books of which include Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory
Culture. Jenkins recently developed a white paper on the future of
media literacy education for the MacArthur Foundation, which is leading to a
three year project to develop curricular materials to help teachers and parents
better prepare young people for full participation in contemporary culture. He
is one of the principal investigators for The Education Arcade, a consortium of
educators and business leaders working to promote the educational use of
computer and video games. He is one of the leaders of the Convergence Culture
Consortium, which consults with leading players in the branded entertainment
sector in hopes of helping them adjust to shifts in the media environment.
Project
/ Goal / see Chris
Csikszentmihályi above.
Contact: henry3@mit.edu
Adrian
Holovaty, Journalist/web developer, $1,100,000
Adrian
Holovaty is a journalist and web developer in Chicago. He has developed
innovative, award-winning web applications for washingtonpost.com, Lawrence.com
and LJWorld.com. One of his projects, chicagocrime.org, an innovative overlay
of the city’s reported crimes using Google’s online mapping technology, won the
$10,000 Grand Prize in the 2005 Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. He
also co-created Django, an open-source web development framework. He graduated
from the Missouri School of Journalism in 2001 and was named one of Crain’s “40
Under 40” in 2005.
Project: To create, test and release
open-source software that links databases to allow citizens of a large city to
learn (and act on) civic information about their neighborhood or block. Goals: “To create an easy way to answer the question, ‘What's happening around me?’”
Contact: web@holovaty.com
Richard Anderson, VillageSoup, $885,000
Richard M. Anderson is president and owner of
VillageSoup Inc., a company that provides places for residents to learn, share
and shop in the neighborhoods, villages or towns in which they reside. Before
establishing VillageSoup, he spent five years teaching and 29 years developing
and publishing elementary and high school textbooks. He was co-founder and
eventual sole owner of Ligature Inc., a textbook production company. Anderson is an active community member who chairs and serves on various nonprofit
organization boards. He and his wife Sandy live in Camden, Maine, as do two of
their three children and families. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
mathematics from the University of Northern Iowa and a Ph.D. in educational
administration from the University of Iowa.
Project: To create an open-source version of
VillageSoup’s successful community news software, combining professional
journalism, blogs, citizen journalism, online advertising and “reverse
publishing” from online to print. Goals: “Turning independent weekly
newspaper companies and entrepreneurs into an imposing, lively,
worldwide creative energy that is competitive with media company chains.”
Contact: richard@villagesoup.com
Ian Rowe,
MTV: Music Television, $700,000
Ian V.
Rowe is the vice president of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for
MTV. His department oversees MTV's campaigns that build awareness of issues
important to MTV's audience. He now oversees MTV's new pro-social platform,
think MTV that informs and engages viewers to take action on the domestic and
global issues that matter most and affect their lives. Prior to MTV, Rowe was
the director of Strategy and Performance Measurement for USA Freedom Corps at
the White House, the president's initiative on volunteer service. He is an
Echoing Green Fellow and was also founder and president of Third Millennium
Media, a media consulting business. Rowe spent two years with Teach for America, holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Computer Science Engineering from
Cornell University.
Project: MTV will use its $700,000 Knight
News Challenge grant to empower one young person in all 50 states and the
District of Columbia to cover issues of prime importance to today's youth -
such as the environment, the upcoming presidential election and sexual health -
as Knight Mobile Youth Journalists. Knight "MyJos" will create weekly
video news reports for multimedia distribution, including online and over cell
phones, and the most popular reports will be showcased across MTV's platforms.
By enabling young adults to report on issues that interest them and distribute
those reports on their most commonly used digital mediums, MTV will offer its
audience another innovative way to be heard on today's most pressing social and
political issues. Goals: "By reporting on the issues most relevant
to young adults with new tools of engagement, Knight's 'MyJos' will help
mobilize this age group to effect positive social and political change."
Contact: ian.v.rowe@mtvstaff.com /
Rich Gordon, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, $639,000
Rich Gordon is an associate professor of journalism at the Medill School of
Journalism at Northwestern University, where he directs the school's graduate
program in new media journalism. Prior to joining Northwestern, he spent two
decades working for newspapers in Virginia and Florida. From 1995 to 1999,
Gordon was the first director of new media for the Miami Herald Publishing Co.
He oversaw the team that created The Miami Herald Internet Edition
(www.herald.com), El Nuevo Herald Digital (www.elherald.com), two South Florida community guides (www.miami.com and www.broward.com) and an array of other
Internet content and commerce services. He also served as newsroom technology
coordinator for The Herald. He also organizes and conducts programs on new media
publishing strategy for media company executives through Northwestern’s Media Management Center.
Project: To create an academic program
blending computer science and journalism, designed to fill a staffing void at
many digital news sites. By offering scholarships to Medill’s graduate
journalism program to people with education and/or expertise in computer
programming, the goal is to turn out students who understand both journalism
and technology, connect one to another in ways that build audiences and also
enhance and protect the civic functions of journalism in a democratic society. For
more information about the scholarships, go to: http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/medill/admissions/programmers.html. Goals: “A democratic society
in the digital age needs people who understand both journalism and
technology,"
Contact: richgor@northwestern.edu
Christopher
Callahan, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University, $552,000
Christopher
Callahan became the founding dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism
and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in August 2005. In his first
18 months, Callahan added seven award-winning journalists to the Cronkite School’s full-time faculty. He also brought to ASU the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and created the New Media Innovation Lab
and Cronkite News Service. Prior to joining the Cronkite School, Callahan
served as the associate dean at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill
College of Journalism. Before entering a career in journalism education,
Callahan was a Washington correspondent for The Associated Press.
Project: To support the development of
media entrepreneurship and the creation of new digital media products through
the establishment of the Knight-Kauffman Center for Digital Media
Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University. Goals: “Growing a cadre of
talented young entrepreneurs trained to harness the promise of emerging
technologies, new methods of storytelling and interactivity through innovative
new media products for a new generation of news consumers.”
Contact: christopher.callahan@asu.edu
Geoff Dougherty, PublicMedia, Inc,
$340,000
Geoff Dougherty
is the founding editor of ChiTownDailyNews.org and the . He was an
investigative reporter at the Chicago Tribune, and served in similar roles at
the Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times. He has 14 years of journalism
experience and has won numerous awards for his work. While at the Miami Herald,
Dougherty played a key role in the newspaper’s effort to review, count and
analyze discarded ballots from the 2000 presidential election. He is a graduate
of Colorado College.
Project: The Chi-Town Daily News will
recruit and train a network of 75 citizen journalists – one in each Chicago neighborhood. The journalists will work with editors to produce a professional,
comprehensive daily local news report. Goals: “A daily online news
report written by citizen journalists that has more scope and depth than the
coverage you find in many large newspapers.”
Contact: geoff@chitowndailynews.org
David Ardia, Citizen Media Law Project, Berkman Center for Internet and
Society, Harvard Law School, $250,000
David
Ardia is director of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. David received his J.D. degree, summa
cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law in 1996 and expects to
receive an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in June 2007. Prior to coming to
Harvard, he was assistant counsel at The Washington Post where he provided
pre-publication review and legal advice on First Amendment, newsgathering,
intellectual property, and general business issues. Before joining The Post,
David was an associate at Williams & Connolly in Washington, DC, where he handled a range of intellectual property and media litigation. David is a
former member of the Newspaper Association of America’s Legal Affairs Committee
and is a current member of the First Amendment and Media Litigation Committee
of the American Bar Association, the Media Law Committee of the District of
Columbia Bar, and the New England Media Lawyers Group.
Project: The Citizen Media Law Project, a
joint venture between Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and
Society and the Center for Citizen Media, is creating a set of online resources
for citizen journalists. This will include state and federal legal guides;
advice on business formation; and a database of lawsuits, subpoenas and legal
threats involving citizen media. Goals: “Creating a vibrant, interested and
proactively engaged community interested in journalism on the Internet.”
Contact: dardia@cyber.law.harvard.edu
Gail
Robinson, Gotham Gazette, $250,000
Gail
Robinson has 25 years experience as a political journalist. She edited and
wrote for an environmental magazine with an urban focus, covered education for
a daily newspaper, supervised political columns for a national newspaper
feature syndicate and served as executive editor of monthly magazine offering
Americans global perspectives. Robinson moved to online journalism first as a
freelancer for sites such as govWorks.com and joined the Gotham Gazette staff
in 2000. Along with editing, she has written extensively about the recent
upheaval in the New York City school system, covered local political contests
and reported on issues from parades to pollution. She has worked on Gotham
Gazette’s early forays into games. A resident of Brooklyn and loyal (if not native)
New Yorker, Robinson became editor-in-chief of Gotham Gazette this year.
Project: Gotham Gazette will develop games
to inform and engage players about key issues confronting New York City. Gotham
Gazette will hold forums on the games’ issues, report on what solutions the
players developed and relay those ideas to city officials. Goals: “These
games will let New Yorkers solve problems, not just read about them.”
Contact: grobinson_117@yahoo.com
Nora Paul, Institute for
New Media Studies, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, $250,000
Nora
Paul is director of the Institute for New Media Studies, School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. She previously taught at the
Poynter Institute teaching news library management, computer-assisted research,
and new media leadership from 1991 to 2000. She was editor for information
services at the Miami Herald from 1979 to 1991. Paul is the co-author of “Behind
the Message: Information Strategies for Communicators.” She is a member of the
board of the World Press Institute, and has traveled worldwide presenting
seminars and lectures on research methods and on innovation in online news.
Her work at the University of Minnesota focuses on evolving digital
storytelling forms.
Project: Playing the News is a news
simulation environment which lets citizens play through a complex, evolving
news story through interaction with the newsmakers.
Goals: “We hope to imagine a new way to
compile and display the development of complex news events.”
Contact: npaul@umn.edu
Ethan
Zuckerman, Global Voices, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, $244,000
Ethan
Zuckerman is a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
at Harvard Law School. His research in the field of information and
communication technology for development includes work on telecommunications
policy, free and open source software, and citizen media. With Rebecca
MacKinnon, he is the cofounder of Global Voices (www.globalvoicesonine.org), an
international community of webloggers and citizen journalists. Prior to his
work with Berkman and Global Voices, Zuckerman founded Geekcorps, a volunteer
organization that sent technology experts to work with ICT companies in the
developing world. He is the former CTO of Tripod.com, a pioneering web site
hosting company based in western Massachusetts, where he lives and works. He
serves on the board of several nonprofit projects that focus on technology and
social change. His personal blog, “My Heart’s in Accra” is located at
http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog.
Project: Over the past two years, Global
Voices has introduced readers around the world to the brilliant, funny,
insightful and touching voices of bloggers from developing nations. Rising
Voices is our new effort to introduce thousands of new developing world
bloggers to the world, helping students, journalists, activists and people from
rural areas to the blogosphere.
Goals: “It’s becoming clear that the world
is listening, so now we’re trying to get new groups of people talking.”
Contact: ethanz@gmail.com /
Lisa Williams, Placeblogger, $222,000
Lisa
Williams is the founder of Placeblogger, the largest live site of local weblogs
and of H2otown, a nationally recognized citizen journalism site and online
community for Watertown, Mass. After attending Emerson College, she worked
briefly at a regional daily newspaper. Later, as an analyst at Daratech she
wrote about computer-aided design technology. Williams moved from Daratech to
Yankee Group, where she became the director of their enterprise software
research group. Williams is an active member of the regular bloggers’ meeting at the Berkman Center for the Internet
and Society in Cambridge, Mass. She was recently named a fellow of
Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution at the National Constitution Center.
Project: To make it easier for people to
find hyperlocal news and information about their city or neighborhood through
promotion of “universal geotagging” in blogs. Goals: “Placeblogger
wants to make it so simple to know what’s fresh, interesting and compelling
about where you are right now, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.”
Contact: lisa@fig.com
Todd Wolfson, Media Mobilizing
Project of Philadelphia, $150,000
Todd
Wolfson is finishing a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the role of new information and communication
technologies on social movement building. Correspondingly he is one of the
founders of the Media Mobilizing Project, which attempts to take advantage of
new technologies as a way to give voice to those left out of mainstream media.
Project: To develop online digital newscasts
for Philadelphia’s immigrant community and to distribute them via the new citywide
wireless platform. Goals: “We aim to utilize Wireless Philadelphia to
empower immigrant communities with tools to represent themselves.”
Contact: twolfson@dolphin.upenn.edu
Adam Glenn, I, Reporter, $90,000
(shared with Amy Gahran)
Adam Glenn
is an Internet news veteran now working as an independent online consultant in New York. He specializes in environment, science, technology, health and business. He
has held posts with a wide variety of news media, most recently as senior
producer at ABCNews.com. He co-founded I, Reporter with Amy Gahran in 2005.
Glenn is an active member of the Online News Association and the Society of
Environmental Journalists, where he serves on the editorial advisory board. He was
awarded a 2002 Ford Environmental Journalism Fellowship to teach in India and a 2005 Environmental Media Fellowship at Vermont Law School. He trained at the University of Colorado-Boulder, the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes
of Health. Glenn previously earned a mid-career Masters of International
Affairs (environmental policy) at Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy in Boston.
Project: (with Amy
Gahran) Create
a citizen/professional journalism project using innovative web tools and
citizen journalism practices to track Boulder, Colo.’s, implementation of a
carbon tax. Goals: “In Boulder, people love to talk – especially about energy and the environment.”
Contact: aadamglenn@hotmail.com
Amy
Gahran, I, Reporter, $90,000 (shared with Adam Glenn)
Amy
Gahran is a media consultant and journalist based in Boulder, Colo. Working
closely with the Society of Environmental Journalists, she covered energy and
environmental issues for more than 15 years. She authors several blogs such as Contentious.com,
one of the earliest leading voices on online content and communication, and
RightConversation.com, which focuses on conversational and social media. Gahran
edits the Poynter Institute's group blog E-Media Tidbits, and she’s created
e-learning modules for News University. Two years ago she and business partner
Adam Glenn launched I, Reporter, a guide for citizen journalists and news
professionals who work with them. Their projects include an interactive
database of nearly 500 citizen journalism projects throughout North America and
helping launch the online side of a weekly community paper in NY state. Gahran
also advises the NewAssignment.net pro/amateur journalism project.
Project:
(with Adam Glenn) Create
a citizen/professional journalism project using innovative web tools and
citizen journalism practices to track Boulder, Colo.’s, implementation of a
carbon tax. Goals: “In Boulder, people love to talk – especially about energy and the environment.”
Contact: amy@gahran.com
Paul Grabowicz, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California – Berkeley, $60,000
Paul
Grabowicz is Assistant Dean, Adjunct Professor and Director of the New Media
Program at the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
where he teaches classes in multimedia reporting, new media publishing,
computer assisted reporting and video game storytelling. He is co-author of
“California Inc.,” a book about how the entrepreneurial spirit shaped the
politics, culture and economy of California. He spent most of his career as the
investigative reporter at The Oakland Tribune, where he also served as night
city editor and acting city editor and developed an early prototype of a web
site for the paper. (It was rejected). He began his journalism career in 1973
working for local papers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Bay
Guardian and has written for publications such as The Washington Post, Esquire
magazine, The Village Voice and Newsday.
Project: Re-creating Oakland’s once vibrant
jazz and blues club scene as an online video game and virtual world. The game
will allow players to experience the club scene as it was in its heyday in the
1940s and 1950s, before it fell victim to redevelopment schemes and urban
decay. Goals: “Reconnecting residents of a community to their history
and cultural heritage through video game technology and storytelling.”
Contact: grabs@berkeley.edu
Chris O’Brien, The Chronicle, Duke University's student
newspaper, $50,000
Chris
O’Brien, a business reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, is a former editor
of Duke University’s independent student newspaper, The Chronicle. He has
volunteered his time and expertise to help The Chronicle train students with
the new skills required for digital journalism, including helping to plan and
design a new newsroom. He graduated from Duke University in 1991.
Project: The Chronicle staff will plan an
“ideal newsroom” for the digital news era and create an online resource for
student newspapers and other news organizations looking to bring their
facilities up to date with new media trends. Goals: “We want to prepare
future generations of journalists and consumers for an era of constantly
changing media choices.”
Contact: cobrien@mercurynews.com
Dianne Lynch, Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College, $230,000
Dianne
Lynch is dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. The school is launching an endowed Center for Independent Media to explore
new journalistic forms. As the founding executive director of the national
Online News Association, she was the editorial director of the first national
study of the credibility of online news, and co-producer of a series of digital
training modules for online newsrooms on the Poynter Institute’s News University. Lynch is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in new media technologies and
learning; a member of the national Accrediting Council on Education in
Journalism and Mass Communications; and a member of the inaugural class of the
ASJMC Leadership Institute. Lynch earned her master’s degree from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. in Art History and Communications
from McGill University in Montreal.
Project: Create ‘incubators’
at seven academic institutions to foster creative thinking about solutions to
digital news problems. The schools are: Michigan State, University of Kansas, Kansas State, Western Kentucky University, Ithaca College, University of Nevada-Las Vegas and St. Michael’s College. Goals: “It’s time to leverage the creative
and intellectual capital of the next generation of journalists to spur
innovation in our newsrooms and our communities.”
Contact: dlynch@ithaca.edu
Angela
Powers, Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Kansas State University (with Dianne
Lynch)
Angela Powers is director
and a professor of the Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State. In addition to teaching, she has worked as a reporter for NBC and CBS
affiliates, been a Senior Fulbright Specialist, Fulbright Scholar and Poynter
fellow; written for journals and books and remained active in organizations
such as the World Media Economics organization and AEJMC. Her research
interests include influences on news content and media convergence. Powers
received her Ph.D. from Michigan State.
Project
/ Goals: see Dianne
Lynch above.
Contact: powers@cal.jmc.ksu.edu
Ann Brill, William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas (with Dianne Lynch)
Ann M.
Brill, Ph.D., is the dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and
Mass Communications at the University of Kansas. She is a former director of
the Missouri Scholastic Press Association. Her areas of expertise include
online journalism, online advertising, e-commerce and its relationship to
editorial content and effects of implementation of new technology. In the past,
Brill has worked at newspapers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana and Missouri; served as director of the Dow
Jones Newspaper Fund Online Editing Program and serves as a consultant to
online media in staff and marketing development. She earned her doctoral degree
at the University of Minnesota.
Project
/ Goals: see Dianne
Lynch above.
Contact: abrill@ku.edu
Ardyth Broadrick Sohn, Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies, University of Las Vegas (with Dianne Lynch)
Ardyth
Broadrick Sohn is director of the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism
and Media Studies at the University of Nevada. She has been a Fulbright Scholar
in Ukraine and is serving as outside evaluator for the University of Belgrade
Journalism Department through the University of Georgia Cox Center. With Sohn’s
expertise in media management, she has led work with Poynter and AEJMC. Sohn is
the author or co-author of 15 books, book chapters or monographs and over a
dozen scholarly articles. She was a newspaper reporter and assistant editor
before returning to graduate school where she earned her master’s and Ph.D.
degrees in Journalism.
Project
/ Goals: see Dianne
Lynch above.
Contact: abrill@ku.edu
Jane
Briggs-Bunting, School
of Journalism, Michigan State University (with Dianne Lynch)
Jane
Briggs-Bunting is director of the Michigan State University School of Journalism.
She joined the MSU faculty in August 2003 after 24 years in journalism
education at another university. In April 2003, she was inducted into the
Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. Before joining the faculty, she worked as a
Detroit Free Press reporter covering breaking and hard news. She earned her law
degree at night. While at the university, she reported for the Free Press,
People and LIFE magazines. Since her arrival at MSU she has been transitioning
the curriculum to address the revolutionary changes in the media industry.
Project / Goals: see Dianne Lynch above.
Contact: jbb@msu.edu
Kimberly
Sultze, Department
of Journalism and Mass Communication, Saint Michael's College (with Dianne
Lynch)
Kimberly
Sultze is chair of the
department of journalism and mass communication at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt. After 13 years of teaching, she is an expert in curriculum development in
journalism, mass communication and media studies. Her research interests
include the history and cultural interpretation of visual communication.
From 2003-2004, she was Head of the Visual Communication division of the AEJMC.
She received her B.A. from Carleton College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University’s Department of Culture and Communication, Program in Media Ecology.
Prior to earning her academic credentials, she worked in print journalism in Sydney, Australia, in television production in the Twin Cities, Minn., and as an editor
with FIS-New York.
Project
/ Goals: see Dianne
Lynch above.
Contact: ksultze@smcvt.edu
Pam McAllister-Johnson, School of Journalism &
Broadcasting, Western Kentucky University (with Dianne Lynch)
Pam
McAllister-Johnson, Ph.D. is director of the Center for 21st Century Media, and
School of Journalism & Broadcasting at Western Kentucky University. She has worked as both a print and broadcast reporter. During her 13-year term as
president and publisher of the Ithaca (NY) Journal, a Gannett newspaper,
McAllister-Johnson was the first black female publisher of a general
circulation newspaper in the United States. McAllister-Johnson has a joint
Ph.D. in Mass Communication and Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin where she also did her undergraduate and master’s work.
Project / Goals: see Dianne Lynch above.
Contact: pam.johnson@wku.edu
Benjamin
Melançon, Agaric Design Collective, $15,000 (blog winner)
As
co-founder of Agaric Design Collective, Benjamin Melançon develops and
maintains web sites for companies, organizations, and individuals, using open
source free software. He also promotes and supports several nonprofit
organizations, especially public interest news sources, including the Fund for
Authentic Journalism, Art For Change in Spanish Harlem New York, Gringoyo
Productions, and the NewStandard. He helped found and was elected to the board
of directors of the Amazing Things Arts Center and is helping to form a nonprofit
called People Who Give a Damn. He has worked in media, retail and consulting.
He attended the University of Massachusetts-Amherst on a Commonwealth
Scholarship and studied journalism, economics, political science and
information technology.
Blog: About “Related Items,” a module for
the community-oriented and open-source content management system, Drupal, which
enables people to quickly and easily connect any item (news, idea, group,
event) to any other content they consider related. Goals: “The greatest
possible control for all people over our own lives.”
Contact: ben@melanconent.com
Dan Schultz, Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate student, $15,000 (blog winner)
Dan Schultz is a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he is studying Information Systems. His professional experience
has been limited to technically oriented internships, but he is known among
friends for his independent work on dynamic web systems. Schultz began exploring
the potential of the Internet as a community facilitator during his freshman
year of high school. He built a forum and polling system from scratch, which he
has used as an outlet for his talents in Information Systems. In pursuing his
undergraduate degree from CMU, he is considering minors in Computer
Science, Mathematical Sciences, and Policy and Management. He plans to
improve his abilities as a programmer and a thinker and looks forward to taking
on some of the creative challenges that lie ahead for this field.
Blog: About giving all individuals a
voice within their local and global communities through a centralized,
user-maintained news system. The idea currently combines GPS (Global
Positioning System) tagging, Internet technology, and community-oriented design
to allow news media consumers to see the information that matters most to them.
Goals: “Media best defines the community
that created it.”
Contact: dschultz@andrew.cmu.edu
Dori Maynard, C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, $15,000
(blog winner)
Dori J. Maynard is president and CEO of the Robert C.
Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, the nation’s leading trainer of
journalists of color. She is the co-author of “Letters to My Children,” a
compilation of nationally syndicated columns by her late father, Bob Maynard,
the first African American to own a major metropolitan newspaper. Maynard was a
reporter at the The Bakersfield Californian, The Patriot Ledger in
Quincy, Mass., and the Detroit Free Press. In 1993, she and her father
became the first father-daughter duo to be appointed Nieman Fellows at Harvard University.
Blog: About creating and maintaining diversity in digital media. Goals: As Robert Maynard said, “This country cannot be the country we want it to
be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all
Americans front door access to the truth.”
Contact: djm@maynardije.org
G. Patton Hughes, neomaxcom, LLC, $15,000 (blog winner)
G. Patton “Pat” Hughes has worked in a wide variety of
media jobs, including community journalism, advertising, online hosting,
clerking, TV reporting, sports reporting, and marketing. As the population of Paulding County, Ga. began to boom, Hughes saw the opportunity for a hyperlocal news site
and obtained the Paulding.com domain in 1997 as editor of a local weekly
newspaper. Monthly reach in the community is about 30 percent of households.
Hughes has a BA degree from Hendrix College and is married with two children.
Blog: About making
Paulding.com a financial success, from discussing practical aspects of building
its revenue base from advertising and paid subscriptions, to sharing prior (and
future) technical and strategic successes, failures, objections and issues. Goals: “Because of the
passion and dedication required to create a hyperlocal media site, my goal is
to classify this work as an art form – and make my art worth something in my
lifetime.”
Contact: publisher@paulding.com
J.D.
Lasica, Ourmedia.org, $15,000 (blog winner)
J.D.
Lasica is an independent strategist, journalist, author and social media
pioneer. He is president of the Social Media Group, a company that offers consulting
in social media, video and podcasting services to companies and organizations.
He is also co-founder and president of Ourmedia, a free community site and
learning center for user-created video and audio. His book, “Darknet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation” explores the personal media revolution and
the emerging media landscape. He was the first new media columnist for both the
American Journalism Review and Online Journalism Review. He writes about
citizen media and social networks at Socialmedia.biz. CNET named him one of the
100 top media bloggers in the world.
Blog: About a Community Media Toolset that
will provide publishers, editors and developers at citizen media sites with
easy-to-use social media tools – plug-ins, scripts, guides and tutorials – to
expand public participation. Goals: “We need to ensure that ordinary
people with something to say get to participate in the media conversation – as
they heed the standards of good journalism.”
Contact: jdlasica@gmail.com
Jay
Rosen, Department of Journalism, New York University, $15,000 (blog winner)
Jay
Rosen teaches journalism at New York University, where he has been on the
faculty since 1986. From 1999 to 2005 he was department chair. Rosen is the
author of PressThink, a weblog
about journalism issues that launched in September 2003. In June 2005,
PressThink won the Reporters Without Borders 2005 Freedom Blog award for outstanding defense of
free expression. He also blogs at the Huffington Post. In July 2006 he announced the debut of NewAssignment.Net, his
experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting
projects. His book about the rise of the civic journalism movement, What Are
Journalists For?, was published in 1999 by Yale University Press. He lives in New York City.
Blog: About how beat reporters can work
with social networks to improve their reporting. Goals: “Journalism that
is 'of' the Web and not just 'on' the Web.”
Contact: jr3@nyu.edu
Paul Lamb, Man on a Mission Consulting, $15,000 (blog winner, shared with Leslie Rule)
Paul Lamb is a consultant and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in
business, nonprofit management, technology and public policy. He is currently
the principal of Man on a Mission Consulting, a management consulting firm
dedicated to leveraging technology for the social good. Paul is a founder and
former executive director of Street Tech, an award-winning program providing
computer training and job placement for low-income and underserved youth in San Francisco’s East Bay. Paul’s business background includes positions in U.S.-Asia
relations at the U.S.-China Business Council in Washington, D.C., and Ernst
& Young. Paul is a graduate of Earlham College, the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University’s Center for Chinese and American Studies, and the University of California, San Diego’s School for International Relations and Pacific Studies.
Blog:
(with Leslie Rule) About
the Interactive Community Spaces project, the use of GPS tracking to inform
people through mobile media. Goals: “This is about
bringing physical spaces to life, and empowering people to feel
a part of their neighborhoods and communities as soon as they step out the
door.”
Contact: pauljlamb@comcast.net
Leslie Rule, Center for Locative Media, ($15,000,
blog winner, shared with Paul Lamb)
Leslie
Rule is the Project Supervisor for KQED’s Digital Storytelling Initiative in San Francisco, working in the fields Community Education and Outreach. She is an
acknowledged expert on using digital storytelling as a communication strategy,
sat on the Executive Board of the Digital Storytelling Association, and is on
the advisory board of ourmedia.org. Currently she is moving her storytelling
practice out of the lab and into the community using mobile devices and
emerging technologies to create locative media projects. Recent projects
include a neighborhood “mediascape,” a creek restoration project, a Girl Scout
science quest, a re-visioning of the 1906 earthquake, and a social justice
project inspired by “Eyes on the Prize,” and located in Oakland. Rule has
undergraduate degrees in Rhetoric and Linguistics from U.C. Berkeley and an MA
in Education with an emphasis in Instructional Technology.
Blog: (with Paul Lamb) About the Interactive
Community Spaces project, the use of GPS tracking to inform people through
mobile media. Goals: “This is about bringing physical spaces
to life, and empowering people to feel a part of their neighborhoods and
communities as soon as they step out the door.”
Contact: leslie@leslierule.com
Steven
Clift, E-Democracy.Org, $15,000 (blog winner)
Steven
Clift is a public speaker and consultant who has worked across 25 countries,
tapping the extremely small market of governments willing to pay for advice on
how to listen to people online. A one time Visiting Fellow at the Institute for
New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota, he is a new Ashoka Fellow now
focused full-time on expanding non-profit E-Democracy.org’s local network of
volunteer-based forums on public issues. Through E-Democracy.Org, Clift fosters
conversations that create news in local communities in Minnesota, England, and New Zealand. In 1994, with the launch of the world’s first election information
website, he coined the term “e-democracy.” He coordinated Minnesota’s early
e-government efforts through 1997 while volunteering with E-Democracy.Org.
Democracies Online, Clift’s blog/wiki/online community of practice opened in
1998 at DoWire.Org and his past speeches and articles are available at
Publicus.Net.
Blog: About The Ideas Factory, which will
generate and share big ideas from the world of citizen engagement online via
the Knight Foundation blog for innovators in online news and citizen media. Goals: “Putting the ‘citizen’ into citizen media.”
Contact: clift@publicus.net