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The Newspaper Society (NS) has added new categories to its annual awards programme to better reflect the increasing status of digital media in the regional press.

The NS Advertising & Digital Media Awards 2008 will include for the first time prizes for blog of the year and digital team of the year.

Submissions for the blog prize can cover any topic, be situated on the newspaper website or on a separate site linked to by the newspaper.

Each will be judged on interaction with its community of readers, development of debate and relevance to the paper and the local area.

The digital team of the year award is intended to acknowledge innovation and creativity in expanding local media's digital portfolio.

The NS awards already recognise several different forms of digital journalism through awarding prizes for community website of the year, newspaper website of the year.

The award winners will be announced in October and the deadline for entries is August 8.

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Laura Oliver
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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