Web editors compete in British Society of Magazine Editors' shortlist

United Business Media has picked up three nominations for Website Editor of the Year prizes in this year's British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) awards.

The publisher leads the business half of the category with nominations for Property Week's Iain O'Neil, Building.co.uk's Alex Smith and Pulse Today's Steve Nowottny.

The UBM websites will compete against Terry Lloyd of Inside Housing and Dominic Ponsford of pressgazette.co.uk for the prize.

Jon Bernstein of NewStatesman.com and James Dyer of film site Empire Online will compete against six others for the consumer magazines web editor award, including online editors from Wired.co.uk, NME.com, and Vogue.com.

This is the fourth year running that Dyer has been nominated for the award, which he won in 2007 and 2009. David Moynihan, nominated for his work on IPC's NME.com, took the award home in 2008.

Shortlists for the rest of the Editor of the Year categories were also announced, with the exception of Campaign and Innovation/Brand-Building, which will follow next month. In the Men's Magazines category, last year's winner Terri White, of ShortList, will go up against GQ's Dylan Jones and Morgan Rees of Men's Health, who has also been nominated for the Editor's Editor of the Year prize, announced last week.

In the News and Current Affairs category, the New Statesman's Jason Cowley is shortlisted alongside Michael Elliott, editor of Time Magazine, and Sally Eyden, editor of the News of the World's Fabulous magazine, who will be taking over the editorship of IPC celebrity weekly Now, it was announced yesterday.

The Women's Magazines category is dominated by the National Magazine Company, with Cosmopolitan's Louise Court, Good Housekeeping's Lindsay Nicholson and Lucy Yeomans of Harper's Bazaar all nominated. Elle editor and 2009 winner Lorraine Candy will contest the prize again alongside the editors of Tatler, InStyle, Marie Claire and Glamour.

The Fiona McPherson New Editor of the Year award is divided up between business and consumer magazines, with Local Government Chronicle editor Emma Maier and Peter Guest of the FT's This is Africa nominated alongside four others for the business section.

NME editor Krissi Murison, the title's first female editor, will go up against New Scientist editor Roger Highfield and Ben Preston, who oversees both the Radio Times print edition and website.

The winners of the awards, including the Society’s Mark Boxer Award, will be announced on 9 November 2010.

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