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NYTimes.com and USATODAY.com
Win Big at the 13th Annual EPpy™ Awards |
| —Awards Honor Today’s Best News, Television, Radio, Magazine, Business, Sports, Entertainment, College, Classified and Community Service Web Sites— |
| New York (May 15, 2008)—The New York Times Web site, NYTimes.com, and USA Today’s site, USATODAY.com emerged as the big winners of the 2008 EPpy™ Awards, hosted by Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek and presented by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The EPpy™ winners were announced today at the Interactive Newspaper Conference and Trade Show in Las Vegas at the Rio Hotel. |
| NYTimes.com won three awards - one honored its DealBook as Best Business Blog and two crowned the site Best News Web site and Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated Web site with over one million unique monthly visitors. USATODAY.com took home the award for the Best Sports Web site with over one million unique monthly visitors as well as the Best Entertainment Blog Award. |
| Winners were named in 36 categories. In addition, Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post, was presented with the coveted “2008 Outstanding Achievement Award.” |
| Now in its 13th year, the EPpy™ Awards honor the best Web sites affiliated with the media industry, including newspapers, broadcast/cable TV, radio networks, magazines and community service. You can read more about the EPpy™ Awards at www.EPpyawards.com. |
| More than 450 nominations were submitted for this year’s EPpy™ Awards from nearly 100 domestic and international media outlets, Web-only services providers, college and universities. Over 50 judges have been evaluating the services since early March. |
| The following is a complete list of the 2008 EPpy™ Award winners: |
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Best Business Blog
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| Best Business Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Business Web Site with over 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Classified Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Classified Web Site with over 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best College Newspaper Web Site
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| Best Community Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Community Web Site with over 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Entertainment Blog
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| Best Entertainment Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Entertainment Web Site with over 1 million unique monthly visitors
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Best Local Radio-Affiliated Web Site
- iCat fm, icatfm.cat, Catalunya Radio
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| Best National Magazine-Affiliated Web Site
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Best Network or Syndicated Radio-Affiliated Web Site
- American RadioWorks from American Public Media
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| Best News Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best News Web Site with over 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best News/Politics Blog
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| Best Overall Design of a Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Overall Design of a Web Site with over 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Overall Local TV/Cable-Affiliated Web Site
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| Best Overall Network TV/Cable-Affiliated Web Site
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| Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site with over 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Regional Magazine-Affiliated Web Site
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| Best Spanish Language Newspaper - Affiliated Web Site
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| Best Special Feature in a Web Site - Enterprise, with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
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Best Special Feature in a Web Site - Enterprise, with over 1 million unique monthly visitors
- Katrina Recovery Coverage, The Associated Press
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| Best Special Feature in a Web Site - News or Event, with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Special Feature in a Web Site - News or Event, with over 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Sports Blog
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| Best Sports Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Sports Web Site with over 1 million unique monthly visitors
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Best Use of Video in a Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
- CBC Digital Archives Website - Les archives de Radio-Canada
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| Best Use of Video in a Web Site with over 1 million unique monthly visitors
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| Best Weekly Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site
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| For more information about the EPpy™ competition, contact Len Muscarella at len@imediainc.com or Catherine Lewis at Catherine@rosengrouppr.com. |
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