2008 Winners

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