2007 Winners

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