Online Journalism News
Wired.com wins $10,000 Knight-Batten award for Wikipedia coverage
The site asked readers to use WikiScanner, a tool developed by California Institute of Technology student Virgil Griffith, to track edits made by certain companies to Wikipedia pages. These edits were then submitted to a polling widget, where users could vote for the worst offenders.
Award judges said the scheme provided 'an air of accountability to those who edit Wikipedia to fit their own agendas'.
"Of course, you readers should have gotten the award for finding, submitting and rating the spin jobs - a really fine bit of citizen journalism that we are proud to have a small part in sparking," wrote Wired.com's Ryan Singel, in an article accepting the award.
"But being privacy-respecting folks, we don't know who you are and will just have to accept the award on your behalf."
Last month Journalism.co.uk spoke to WikiScanner developer Virgil Griffith about the tool.
PolitiFact.com, a site analysing truth and fiction in the 2008 US presidential campaigns, and Ushahidi.com, which was set up to help Kenyan bloggers and citizen journalists share information about political violence, both received $2,000 special distinction awards.
Tags (click tag to find related articles; click icon for feed):
awards
|
wikipedia
|
wired
|
knight batten awards
|
virgil griffith
|
wikiscanner
|
Sign up here for our free, daily email newsletter to get all the latest stories, jobs, tips and more.
Got a story? Call our news team on +44 (0)1273 384290 or email them.
Other recent news
News feed- Citizen journalism news site Oh My News to stop paying contributors
- Washington newspaper rivals collaborate for online flood coverage
- Archant starts website redesign with Evening Star revamp
- Financial reporting restrictions would be threat to press freedom, says Newspaper Society
- Guardian to use AdGent 007 to sell online ads in Europe
- >> more news
Related news
- Creative Commons Q&A: How can journalists get the most out of it?
- Student journalist of the year: "Journalistically, I wouldn't really say I'm surviving"
- Knight Foundation grants $390,000 to expand non-profit news sites
- Golden Pen of Freedom awarded to Pakistan newspaper editor
- Friday deadline looms for Webby Awards 2009
Recent blog posts
Editors' blog feed- MSP raises issue of reduction in newspaper advertising by Scottish government and local councils
- Web Publishist: Why group-wide templates are bad news for newspaper publishers
- NUJ release: Union secures three-year pay deal for Telegraph journalists
- News channel’s cit-j footage of Oakland shooting goes viral
- Experiences of using Publish2 to report the Washington flooding
- >> more blog posts
Features
Features feed- Legal journalism could benefit from more open courts in 2009, says Joshua Rozenberg
- Does a media blackout really help the release of kidnapped journalists?
- Photojournalists on Flickr: the pros and the cons
- Creative Commons Q&A: How can journalists get the most out of it?
- Oakland Press Citizen Journalism Institute: 'Our exclusive franchise is diminished. We need citizens to become our eyes and ears'
- >> more features
JOB OF THE WEEK
Senior news and feature writer/PR executive
Experience of (or an interest in) the food and distribution sectors would be an advantage ...more
Freelancers for hire
...see allDISPLAY ADVERTISING
Target our journalism community of 16,000 subscribers and 100k+ visitors monthly. Call Ellie on 01273 384291


Comments
No comments
You must be registered in order to post a comment. Click here to register or login below if you are already registered:
Forgotten your password? Please click here