BBC News website wins top prize at international Online Journalism Awards
The BBC News website has picked up the award for general excellence in journalism at the international Online Journalism Awards.
Press Gazette reports that it was the only UK-based site to pick up a prize at the US-based event.
The BBC lifted the award ahead of strong competition from the New York Times, Washington Post and Al-Jazeera English.
A BBC report saysthe judges praised the website in a posting on Twitter which described it as: “The standard bearer - pushing the whole field forward. Strong in leveraging tech for journalism.”
Press Gazette quotes the website’s editor Steve Herrmann as saying: “The award is brilliant news - it comes in the year following a major revamp of the news site, including a complete redesign.
“It’s also been a year of huge news stories and we have been able to be increasingly effective at showcasing all the BBC’s newsgathering potential and expertise on the site.
“We also launched our North America edition a year ago, and have just announced a further investment in Washington, to run an international edition of our popular Magazine section, with the backing of BBC Worldwide, the BBC’s commercial arm, which funds our services.”