Just announced: 2008’s Webby Award winners! The Webby Awards picks through the best of the Web and grants awards in more categories than you can shake a stick at.
I’ve pored through the list and extracted the winners from news-related categories, as well as news organizations that won in other categories, such as science or best practices. Here’s the Journalistopia-edited list. Apologies in advance if I missed anyone:
Best Copy/Writing
Wired.com
http://www.wired.com
(Also nominated: HowStuffWorks, Design Observer, NYTimes.com and Slate)
Best Use of Photography
Your Shot – National Geographic Magazine
http://ngm.com/yourshot
Blog – Business
FT.com Alphaville
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/
Blog – Political
The Huffington Post
http://huffingtonpost.com
Broadband
ABC.com Full Episode Player
http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streami…
Magazine
National Geographic Magazine Online
http://ngm.com
(Also nominated: Dwell.com, Makezine, NYMag, Yoga Journal Yoga Journal)
Music
BBC Radio 1 Meet the DJs
http://agencyrepublic.net/awards/…
News
NYTimes.com
http://nytimes.com/
(Also nominated: BBC News, Wired, CNN and Discovery News)
Newspaper
NYTimes.com
http://nytimes.com/
(Also nominated: The Guardian, the Independent, the Wall Street Journal and Variety)
Radio
BBC World Service channel site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/
Science
nature.com
http://www.nature.com
Sports
Yahoo! Sports
http://sports.yahoo.com/
(Also nominated: ESPN.com, Nike Skateboarding, Spyker F1 Magazine, Sweet Spots)
Television
HBO Voyeur
http://www.hbovoyeur.com
VIDEO CATEGORIES
Best Use of Animation/Motion Graphics
The New York Times/T: The New York TImes Style Magazine “Circle Squared”
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/20…
Best Writing
Onion News Network
http://tv.theonion.com
Documentary: Individual Episode
Coney Island: An Uncertain Future
Getty Images
http://www.rickgershon.com/gettyi…
News and Politics: Individual Episode
Finding the Way Home
MediaStorm
http://mediastorm.org/0017.htm
Travel (video)
Frugal Traveler: American Road Trip – NYTimes.com/Video
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_s…
MOBILE
Entertainment (mobile)
Cosmo Mobile: 100 Hot Cities, Fake Calls, Dude Decoder & Cocktails!
http://m.cosmopolitan.com
Listing and Updates (mobile)
The New York Times Mobile Real Estate Listings
http://m.nytimes.com/re
News (mobile)
Mobile NYTimes
http://mobile.nytimes.com
Sports (mobile)
ESPN.com (Wireless)
http://mobileapp.espn.go.com/wire…
ALSO: Shoutouts to NYTimes.com for their best practices and best visual design/function nominations, Mama Trib’s Swamp blog for best political blog nomination, National Geographic for their best home page People’s Voice award, Consumer Reports for their Guides/Ratings/Review People’s Voice award, the Guardian and Onion for their podcasts nominations, NPR for their politics nomination, NPR and the BBC for their religion and spirituality nominations, Frontline World for their Documentary: Series and Documentray: Individual nominations, U.S. News and World Report for their Best Writing (video) nomination, the New Yorker’s animated cartoons for their animation nomination, CBS for their sports (video) nomination and many more.
Yep, no news site nominees in the navigation and structure categories. We’ll have to work on that…