Congratulations to the Twin Cities Daily Planet and managing editor Craig Cox (also the new editor of the Bridge) for winning a 2006 Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism. The Knight-Batten Awards are sponsored J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland.

The TC Daily Planet, a project of the Twin Cities Media Alliance, won a $1,000 Wild Card Award, which is given for an early developing innovation. The TC Daily Planet, which formally launched in May 2006, gathers news from more than 35 ethnic and community news outlets in Minneapolis and St. Paul. In giving the Wild Card Award to the TC Daily Planet, the Knight-Batten judges said, “It targets so many fragmented city groups and helps them to connect.”

To check out the dozens of local stories the TC Daily Planet reports on each day, go to its website, www.tcdailyplanet.net. You can also participate as a citizen journalist by submitting your own stories to the website.

The Knight-Batten Awards are funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which promotes journalism excellence worldwide and invests in the vitality of U.S. communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. For more information about the Knight-Batten awards, go to www.j-lab.org.

last revised: July 25, 2007

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