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FT Alphaville and Iain Dale have both scooped online prizes at the inaugural Comment Awards organised by Editorial Intelligence and partners.

The Financial Times site was named best online newspaper blog, while Dale took the award for best online commentator (independent blogger).

Journalist Alex Brummer picked up two prizes for financial commentator for his work for the Daily Mail and magazine commentator for his contributions to New Statesman.

The Times took the overall award for best comment pages, beating competition from the FT and Observer.

Its columnist Matthew Parris took the Chairman's Choice Award, chosen by former Press Complaints Commission (PCC) chair and awards chair Sir Christopher Meyer.

A full list of the winners across the 13 categories can be seen on the awards' website .

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Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)

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