Congratulations, Global Voices!

Global Voices Online, a citizen media project at the Berkman Center, has been awarded the Grand Prize for Innovations in Journalism from the Knight-Batten Foundation.

The Knight-Batten awards highlight creative use of new information, ideas and technologies to involve citizens in public issues, and are administered by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland.

"People in many parts of the world are frustrated that the international media ignores or misunderstands them. They are now taking matters into their own hands by blogging, podcasting, or uploading pictures and video to the web," said Global Voices co-founder Rebecca MacKinnon. "This award vindicates the hard work of many people. It gives us hope that innovative new media structures may promote a more democratic and inclusive global discourse."

You can read Berkman's press release here, and the Knight-Batten Foundation's release here.