2008 Winners

Title Amount Winner Organization Location Contest Year Download
Freedom Fone $ 876,000 Bev Clark Kubatana Harare, Zimbabwe 2008
Printcasting $ 837,000 Dan Pacheco The Bakersfield Californian California 2008
The News is Coming $ 630,400 Prof. Guy Berger Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa 2008
Sochi Olympics Project $ 600,000 Alexander Zolotarev City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism; M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Journalism Russia 2008
Tools for Public Access TV $ 380,000 Tony Shawcross Denver Open Media Denver, Colo. 2008
Transparent Journalism $ 350,000
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Martin Moore
Media Standards Trust England 2008
Spot.us (Spot Journalism) $ 340,000 David Cohn Spot.us California 2008
RadioEngage (RadioDrupal) $ 327,000 Margaret Rosas Quiddities Development, Inc. California 2008
News on Cell Phones $ 325,000 Dr. Joel Selanikio DataDyne Washington, D.C. 2008
Community News Network $ 275,000
Anthony Pesce
Dharmista Rood
UCLA Daily Bruin Los Angeles, Calif. 2008
Video Volunteers $ 275,000 Jessica Mayberry Video Volunteers New York City 2008
Community Radio in India $ 200,000 Aaditeshwar Seth University of Waterloo India 2008
Beanstock'd $ 40,000
Angela Antony
Sandra Ekong
The Beanstock'd Project Massachusetts 2008
Reporting On $ 15,000 Ryan Sholin ReportingOn Fairport, N.Y. 2008
Signcasts $ 15,000 Brein McNamara Signcasts - Sign Language Community Journalism Initiative Minnesota 2008
The Includer $ 15,000 Andrius Kulikauskas Minciu Sodas Lithuania 2008