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BBC News website wins major award | BBC News website wins major award |
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The BBC News website has won the Online News Association's internet award for breaking news, for its coverage of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. | The BBC News website has won the Online News Association's internet award for breaking news, for its coverage of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. |
Online Journalism Awards judges praised the site's live updates page for being comprehensive, up to date and for the way it incorporated social media. | Online Journalism Awards judges praised the site's live updates page for being comprehensive, up to date and for the way it incorporated social media. |
Other nominations were the Houston Chronicle for Hurricane Ike and the New York Times for the Hudson plane crash. | Other nominations were the Houston Chronicle for Hurricane Ike and the New York Times for the Hudson plane crash. |
The New York Times won the main award for general excellence in news. | The New York Times won the main award for general excellence in news. |
BBC News was also nominated in this category, and correspondent Mark Easton's UK blog was nominated in the blogging category. | BBC News was also nominated in this category, and correspondent Mark Easton's UK blog was nominated in the blogging category. |
The Online Journalism Awards, held in San Francisco, were launched in May 2000. | The Online Journalism Awards, held in San Francisco, were launched in May 2000. |
They are administered by the Online News Association, in partnership with the University of Miami's School of Communication. | They are administered by the Online News Association, in partnership with the University of Miami's School of Communication. |
Judges said the BBC News website's live updates page for Mumbai was rich in primary source information and had hundreds of comments on each post. | Judges said the BBC News website's live updates page for Mumbai was rich in primary source information and had hundreds of comments on each post. |
They described it as "an unassuming-looking but engaging blog that covers many different things and covers it well". | They described it as "an unassuming-looking but engaging blog that covers many different things and covers it well". |
BBC News website features editor Giles Wilson, accepting the award, said it was a "great honour for the team to be recognised against such strong competition as the best in the world for covering breaking news". |