Amid tributes to old-fashioned shoe leather and anonymous sourcing that the unveiling of Deep Throat brings, I urge you all to look at your portfolios, pull out the most innovative ideas and enter the Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.

The June 9 deadline is fast approaching.

Since May of 2004, we’ve seen new election coverage, non-narrative storytelling efforts, citizen media ventures, beat blogs, editor blogs, newsroom blogs and individual blogs with a lot of journalistic DNA. We’ve seen e-mail newsletters and multimedia advances of all sorts.

Enter and we’ll give a megaphone to your creative ideas. Plus you might win $10,000.

For guidelines and application:
Batten Awards for Innovations