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Online Media Awards – winners announced

The Online Media Awards, organised by media and marketing title The Drum, recognise the best in online news and journalism and last night announced its award winners at a ceremony held at the Emirates Stadium in London.

Named as Website of the Year was Channel 4 / ITN and judge Nick Wrenn from CNN commented; “They make the most of their resources and really punched through with their big brand. It's not easy to seemlessly integrate TV brands and talent into digital services but this site does it better than anyone. Live from the Newsroom and Fact Check have also received critical acclaim in other newsrooms for their effective simplicity.” In all Channel 4 /ITN took home 6 awards.

The Chairman’s Award, chosen by Noel Young of ReportBoston.com, went to The Lincolnite. Noel commented; “For me this is a unique and imaginative site.”

The New York Times, The Sunday Times & The Times and Reuters all won two awards. Emap for the Nursing Times won the award again for Specialist site for Journalism, for the 2nd year in a row the Belfast Telegraph won the category Best Local/Regional News Site and Goodhousekeeping won the in new 2013 category Best Lifestyle / Leisure News site.

In the Individual awards the Online Editor of the Year went to Carla Buzasi Editor-in-chief and The Huffington Post UK for a second year in a row, the technology editor for the International Business Times, Dave Gilbert won Digital Writer of the Year and Teo Kermeliotis from CNN took home the trophy for Freelance Writer of the Year.

Online Media Awards Founder and Publisher of The Drum, Gordon Young, explains: "Now in their third year the, Online Media Awards have very quickly become established among the world’s top online media owners and editors as an important benchmark for the work that they are doing to build strong online brands. This year’s awards attracted many major national and international media brands all of whom continue to push the boundaries of online journalism. What is also encouraging to see is that not only the major media brands are winning these awards, but smaller brands are also proving that when it comes to great online journalism they can compete against the big guns.”

He added, “I’m delighted to see new entries this year by Sky, Al Jazeera, Channel 4/ ITN and ITV to name a few. This further demonstrates the importance of investing in online journalism and having awards like these to celebrate the hard work and successes of the industry.”

The winners

WEBSITE OF THE YEAR (GRAND PRIX)

Channel 4 News/ITN

CHAIRMAN’S AWARD

Stonebow Media For thelincolnite.co.uk

ONLINE EDITOR OF THE YEAR

Carla Buzasi, Editor in Chief at The Huffington Post UK

DIGITAL WRITER OF THE YEAR

Dave Gilbert, Technology editor at International Business Times UK

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL TEAM OF THE YEAR

Sponsored by the British Journalism Review

Channel 4 News web team

BEST FREELANCE WRITER

Teo Kermeliotis from CNN

BEST SITE FOR NEWS-LED JOURNALISM

Channel 4 News/ITN For channel4news.com/news

BEST SPECIALIST SITE FOR JOURNALISM

Emap For Nursing Times

BEST LOCAL/REGIONAL NEWS SITE

Independent News & Media (NI) For belfasttelegraph.co.uk

BEST NATIONAL/WORLD NEWS SITE

The New York Times For Global.nytimes.com

Financial Times For FT.com

BEST CAMPAIGNING / INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

Times Newspapers Ltd For The Times Tax Avoidance Investigation

BEST COMMENTARY/BLOGGING

Times Newspapers Ltd For The Times School Gate blog

BEST VIDEO JOURNALISM

BBC News website For BBC News On Demand

BEST DESIGNED SITE

Reuters For reuters.com/widerimage

ITV News For itv.com/news

BEST TWITTER FEED

Channel 4 News/ITN For Jon Snow Channel 4 News @jonsnowC4

BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Channel 4 News/ITN

BEST USE OF CROWD SOURCING OR CITIZEN JOURNALISM

The New York Times For Watching Syria's War

BEST BRAND DEVELOPMENT

Metro For Metro Digital Editions

BEST COMMERCIAL INNOVATION

Toronto Star For Star Dispatches

Reed Business Information For Community Care

BEST USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Reuters For The Wider Image

TECHNICAL INNOVATION

Channel Four Television Corporation For Scrapbook

Al Jazeera

BEST APP

The Economist For The Economist on iPad, iPhone and Android

Sky News For Sky News for iPad

BEST LIFESTYLE / LEISURE NEWS SITE

Hearst Magazines UK For goodhousekeeping.co.uk

MSN UK For MSN UK

BEST BUSINESS / FINANCE NEWS SITE

Agrimoney.com

BEST HEALTH / EDUCATION NEWS SITE

BACP For TherapyToday.net