2007 Winners

Project Amountsort icon Location Organization Winner Year
Center for Future Civic Media $ 5,000,000 Cambridge, Mass. MIT Media Lab Comparative Media Studies Dept.
Chris Csikszentmihályi
Mitchel Resnick
Henry Jenkins
2007
Everyblock $ 1,100,000 Chicago, Ill. Everyblock Adrian Holovaty 2007
Open-Source Community News $ 885,000 Bar Harbor, Maine VillageSoup Richard Anderson 2007
Mobile Youth Journalism (08 Election) $ 700,000 New York, N.Y. MTV Ian V. Rowe 2007
Digital News Academic Program $ 639,000 Evanston, Ill. Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University Rich Gordon 2007
Taking Radio 'Out of the Box' $ 600,000 New York, N.Y. WNYC Radio Alex Villari 2007
Knight-Kauffman Center (ASU) $ 552,000 Arizona Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University Christopher Callahan 2007
Chi-Town Daily News $ 340,000 Chicago, Ill. Chi-Town Daily News Geoff Dougherty 2007
Citizen Journalist Resources $ 250,000 Cambridge, Mass. Citizen Media Law Project, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, and the Center for Citizen Media David Ardia 2007
NY News Games $ 250,000 New York City Gotham Gazette Gail Robinson 2007
Playing the News $ 250,000 Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota
Nora Paul
Kathleen Hansen
2007
Rising Voices $ 244,000 Cambridge, Mass. Global Voices, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School Ethan Zuckerman 2007
Digital News 'Incubators' $ 230,000 Various Seven U.S. Universities
Jane Briggs-Bunting
Ann Brill
Diane Lynch
Pam McAllister Johnson
Angela Powers
Ardyth Broadrick Sohn
Kimberly Sultze
2007
Placeblogger $ 222,000 Watertown, Mass. Placeblogger Lisa Williams 2007
Media Mobilizing Project of Philadelphia $ 150,000 Philadelphia, Pa. Media Mobilizing Project of Philadelphia Todd Wolfson 2007
Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker $ 90,000 Boulder, Colo. I, Reporter
Amy Gahran
Adam Glenn
2007
Oakland Jazz Scene Game $ 60,000 Berkeley, Calif. University of California - Berkeley Paul Grabowicz 2007
NextNewsroom (Ideal Newsroom) $ 60,000 Durham, North Carolina The Chronicle, the student paper of Duke University Chris O'Brien 2007
Related Items (blog) $ 15,000 Natick, Mass. Agaric Design Collective Benjamin Melançon 2007
Connecting People, Content and Community (blog) $ 15,000 Elkins Park, Penn. Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate student Dan Schultz 2007
Interactive Community Spaces $ 15,000
Leslie Rule
Paul Lamb
2007
The Ideas Factory (blog) $ 15,000 Steven Clift 2007
Beat Reporters & Social Networks (blog) $ 15,000 New York, N.Y. Department of Journalism, New York University Jay Rosen 2007
Creating and Maintaining Diversity (blog) $ 15,000 Oakland, Calif. Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education Dori J. Maynard 2007
Paulding.com (blog) $ 15,000 Neomaxcom, LLC G. Patton Hughes 2007
Community Media Toolset (blog) $ 15,000 San Francisco, Calif. Ourmedia.org J.D. Lasica 2007