Press Gazette has received six nominations in the inaugural Online Media Awards.
This website has been named among the finalists as best site for news-led journalism, best specialist site for journalism, best use of social media and best site for campaigning and investigative journalism. Editor Dominic Ponsford has been shortlisted for online editor of the year and digital writer of the year.
Press Gazette currently attracts some 140,000 unique users a month online with a further 6,000 daily email newsletter subscribers and 16,500 Twitter followers.
The awards judges include former editor of The Age Andrew Jaspan, former online editor of Mirror Group David Mill, former editor of The Herald Charles McGhee and former director of the World Association of Newspapers Jim Chisholm.
The winners of the Press Association-sponsored event will be announced at a dinner being held at the Marriot Kensington on 23 June.
Awards founder Gordon Young said: ‘As online services develop there is no doubt that the quality of journalism will ultimately decide which platforms are simply a flash in the pan and which ones endure.
‘That is why it is important that there is an event to recognise and celebrate who is getting it right.
‘The standard of entries have been extremely high and this has ensured a high octane shortlist. Our judges really have their work cut out in terms of deciding who will pick up the prestigious awards in June.”
Full list of finalists for the Online Media Awards:
Online editor of the year
Dominic Ponsford – pressgazette.co.uk
Rachel Purkett – HSJ.co.uk and Nursingtimes.net
Gordon Thomson – The Sunday Times
Martin Ashplant – www.metro.co.uk
Best Site for news-led Journalism
guardian.co.uk
thesundaytimes.co.uk
pressgazette.co.uk
dailymail.co.uk
bbc.co.uk
huffingtonpost.com
thetimes.co.uk
latimes.com
telegraph.co.uk
usatoday.com
sun.co.uk
nypost.com
Nytimes.com
wsj.com
www.spiegel.de/international
cbsnews.com
reuters.com
nydailynews.com
Best specialist site for journalism
physicsworld.com
www.irinnews.org
pressgazette.co.uk
hsj.co.uk
allstreetdance.co.uk
Espn.com
foxsports.com
forbes.com
mashable.com
smashingmagazine.com
Best campaigning/investigative Journalism
www.guardian.co.uk for Wikileaks
pressgazette.co.uk
thesundaytimes.co.uk for Insight investigations by the Sunday Times
Best commentary/blogging
bbc.co.uk for All the Life of London on our Blogs
Techcrunch.com
wired.com
Masahble.co.uk
www.huffingtonpost.com
Best video journalism
thesundaytimes.co.uk
thesun.co.uk
telegraph.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk
Best designed site
FoodBev.com
reuters.com
thesundaytimes.co.uk
Best Twitter feed
@BBCTravelAlert
@TheSTStyle
mashable.com/follow/topics/twitter/
@naturenews
Best use of social media
BBC London
Pressgazette.co.uk
examiner.com
mashable.com
Best Use of crowd sourcing or citizen journalism
BBC London for Mapping the Tube Strike – with your help
Social Business Group for MindfulMoney
Best use of photography
thesundaytimes.co.uk
Guardian.co.uk
dailymail.co.uk
Best commercial innovation
FoodBev.com
Digital writer of the year
Adrian Warner – BBC London
Tom Edwards – BBC London
Emma Barnett – The Daily Telegraph
Kurt Barling – Barling’s London (BBC)
Dominic Ponsford – Pressgazette.co.uk
Best podcast
bbc.co.uk – Non League Football Show
Technical innovation
guardian.co.uk – guardian.co.uk/data
FoodBev.com
The Sun for The Sun for iPad
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