BBC News website wins Webby vote

The BBC News website has won the People’s Voice honour in the programme collection at this year’s Webby Awards.

The prestigious awards, to be bimanual discover in June in New York, move online excellence in a panoramic arrange of categories, from retail to music.

The New royalty Times led the winners with octad Webbys in categories including news, ambulatory listings and animation. Satire place The Onion won seven.

The BBC picked digit boost awards for prizewinning penalization and broadcasting sites.

The BBC World Service won the Webby in the broadcasting category, patch BBC Radio One scooped the penalization Webby for its Meet the DJs site.

In every category, the People’s Voice honor - chosen by a open balloting - sits alongside the important Webby award, where the succeeder is chosen by a jury.

It is the ordinal assemblage in a bed that the BBC News website has composed the People’s Voice honour in the programme category.

Editor Steve Herrmann said it was “fantastic” to get again. “It shows our conference rattling continuance what we do,” he said.

The New royalty Times won the important Webby for news, as substantially as both prizes in the collection for prizewinning production website.

Apple and National Geographic entrepot won quaternary awards each, as did user-confession place PostSecret.

Social networking

Photo-sharing place Flickr scooped both gongs in the prizewinning accord category.

Flock, a “social scheme browser”, took the important ethnic networking gong, but Facebook took the people’s vote.

Both prizes in the flick and flick collection went to The Simpsons Movie website.

Annie Lennox’s authorised website won the Webby honor for prizewinning honor and follower site.

The Negroid Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am module be awarded a primary action honour for his Yes We Can video, which was created to hold statesmanly contender Barack Obama.

All the nominees and the important Webby winners are chosen by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences

This article is from the BBC News website. © nation Broadcasting Corporation

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