Nominations for Online Media Awards announced
The Times leads the number of nominations, which also sees a student title and hyperlocal in with a chance of winning awards
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The Times leads this year's Online Media Awards nominations with 15 entries while the Sunday Times, which scooped the grand prix in the awards last year , has eight and the Guardian appears in seven categories.
Regional sites including the Manchester Evening News, Wales Online and Bristol 24/7 also make the nominations, plus niche and specialist sites including the Nursing Times, Exaro News and Press Gazette.
Student sites the Leedsstudent.org and thelincolnite.co.uk are also in with a chance of winning.
The Guardian, Financial Times, and Times iPad apps have all been nominated. The Guardian and FT apps are in the innovation category, while the Times app is up for best design.
Twitter feeds with nominations include @BBCBreaking, @paullewis, who gathered 30,000 followers when reporting on the England riots, @NatureNews, @timesfashion and @TheSTStyle.
The Times' Cities Fit for Cycling campaign and the title's Word Nerd are both nominated.
Citizen journalism site Blottr, the Guardian's riot coverage and BBC News website's user-generated content hub for Syria protests are among those in the best use of crowdsourcing category.
The awards, now in their second year, are organised by The Drum and supported by Press Association, Society of Editors, NUJ and Hold the Front Page.
A 20-strong panel of judges will select from the nominations, including Nick Blunden, global managing director and publisher at The Economist online; Nick Wrenn, VP at CNN International Digital Service; Noel Young, owner of ReportBoston.com; Bill Hagerty, editor of British Journalism Review; Maria Eftimiades, the former New York Bureau chief at People magazine; Maggie Hall, former editor/writer for Daily Mirror, Today, the Sunday Mail and in the US and the Enquirer; Paul Linford, publisher and editor of HoldtheFrontPage and David Mill, former editor online editor of the Daily Record and Sunday Mail.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony at the Emirates Stadium in London on Thursday 21 June.
Nominations
Best brand development
Emap, for Student Nursing Times
The Times
Best campaigning / investigative journalism
Exaro News
International Business Times UK
Press Gazette
The Sunday Times
The Times
Best commentary/blogging
Channel 4 News, for FactCheck
The Huffington Post UK
New Statesman
Reuters Breakingviews
Trinity Mirror Regionals, for Dale Street Associates
The Times
Best commercial innovation
Mindful Money
Newsquest South West London, for School Correspondents
The Times
Best designed site
Red Online
The Sunday Times
Thomson Reuters Foundation, for AlertNet - The World's Humanitarian News Site
The Times, for The Times iPad app
Trinity Mirror Regionals, for WalesOnline
Best local/regional news site
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Bristol24-7
thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk
Leedsstudent.org
thelincolnite.co.uk
liverpoolecho.co.uk
Manchester Evening News
Northcliffe Digital, for www.thisiscornwall.co.uk
southwalesargus.co.uk
walesonline.co.uk
Best national news site
The Guardian
The Sunday Times
The Times
Best site for news-led Journalism
BBC News website
Los Angeles Times
The Guardian
Mail Online
New York Times
Sky News
The Sun
The Sunday Times
Telegraph
The Times
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Best specialist site for journalism
theartsdesk.com
Bloomberg
The Economist
Financial Times
Guardian Datastore
International Network of Street Papers
Nature News and comment
Press Gazette
Wired
Reuters Breakingviews
Red Online
Best technical innovation
The Guardian, for iPad edition
Financial Times, for FT web app
Newsquest South West London, for Croydon Guardian e-Xtra
The Times, for The Times Word Nerd
Best Twitter feed
BBC News, for @BBCBreaking
Comic Relief, @sportrelief
The Guardian, Paul Lewis @paullewis
Nature Publishing Group, for @NatureNews
Yahoo!, for @YahooOmgUK
The Times, for @timesfashion
The Sunday Times, for @TheSTStyle
Best use of crowd sourcing or citizen journalism
BBC News website, for BBC UGC hub for Syria protests
Blottr, for the people powered news service
The Guardian, for Guardian coverage of the England riots
Mindful Money
The Times, for The Times' Cities Fit for Cycling
Best use of photography
The Times
The Sunday Times
Best use of social media
AOL Huffington Post Media Group
Company Magazine
The Guardian
Press Gazette
Metro
South Wales Argus
The Times
Best video journalism
BBC News
IOP Publishing, for Physics World
Thomson Reuters Foundation
The Times
The Sunday Times
Digital writer of the year
Andrew Pugh, Press Gazette
Murad Ahmed, The Times
Online editor of the year
Ananyo Bhattacharya, chief online editor, Nature News & Comment
Carla Buzasi, editor-in-chief, AOL Huffington Post Media Group
Carrie Tyler, editor, ELLEuk.com
Dominic Ponsford, editor, Press Gazette
Gordon Thomson, editor, The Sunday Times
Jon Bernstein, deputy editor, New Statesman
Tom Whitwell, online editor, The Times
Steve Herrmann, editor, BBC News website
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