It’s time for an update on the Poynter Promise prize. Our apologies for taking so long to tell you what’s been going on, but we’ve been busy working on the launch of the main site. We didn’t win the Poynter Promise prize. It would have given us $10,000 worth of services to help us launch the main site of Rooted, but it wasn’t meant to be. Two very deserving projects did receive the prize, however.

I-News, the Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network, is the first winner. It’s a project that’s meant to “fill the void” that the cuts in traditional newsrooms have left behind. Localcracy is the second winner. It will serve as a kind of online polling place where “registered voters using real names can weigh in on local issues.”

Both projects are very interesting and we wish them the best of luck. We’ll still be launching our main site on Dec. 1 so we’ll be working hard to bring you the full Rooted experience until then.