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BBC, ESPN, MarketWatch among Eppy winners

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The annual Eppy awards for media websites were announced in Miami today by Editor & Publisher.

But wait, Craigslist didn’t even make the finalists for Best Classifieds site? 😉

Best News Web Site (more than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: BBC News
Bloomberg.com
The Wall Street Journal Online

Best News Web Site (fewer than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: asap (The Associated Press)
AzStarNet.com – Arizona Daily Star
HeraldTribune.com – Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune
PilotOnline.com – The Virginian-Pilot

Best Media-Affiliated News Blog
WINNER: The Swamp (Chicagotribune.com)
The Buzz (Tampabay.com)
The Fix (Washingtonpost.com)

Best Sports Web Site (more than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: ESPN.com
CBS SportsLine
SI.com

Best Sports Web Site (fewer than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: KUsports.com – Lawrence Journal-World
LoHud’s Varsity Central (LoHud.com) – The Journal News, White Plains, N.Y.
McHenryCountySports.com – NorthWest News Group of Greater Chicago
TideSports.com – The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News

Best Media-Affiliated Sports Blog
WINNER: Seahawks Insider – Tacoma News Tribune
SportsJustice (Chron.com) – Houston Chronicle
The LoHud Yankees Blog (LoHud.com)

Best Business Web Site (more than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: MarketWatch.com (Dow Jones)
The Detroit News Auto Insider
The Wall Street Journal Online

Best Business Web Site (fewer than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: ChicagoBusiness.com
BNET, The Go-To Place for Management
Smartrecruit.com (Dolan Media Management)

Best Media-Affiliated Business Blog
WINNER: FT Alphaville
Brand New Day (BusinessWeek.com)
Hot Property (BusinessWeek.com)

Best Entertainment Web Site (more than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: Life Section, USATODAY.com
Azcentral.com’s Entertainment Guide
ShowBuzz.com (CBS)

Best Entertainment Web Site (fewer than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: EP3.es (Madrid)
Explore L.I. – Newsday Interactive
Vita.mn – The Star Tribune Co.

Best Media-Affiliated Entertainment Blog
WINNER: Stuck in the ’80s (TampaBay.com)
HandStamp (Chron.com)
Kentucky.com: It’s All About Blog
Spokane7.com: Taste of the Town (The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.)

Best Special Feature in a Web Site – News or Event (more than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNERS: A People Torn (StarTribune.com), and House of Lies (MiamiHerald.com) (TIE)
Everest: Beyond the Limit (Discovery Channel Online)
The Fall of Enron (Chron.com)

Best Special Feature in a Web Site – News or Event (fewer than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: Kyrgyzstan Revolution Revisited (EurasiaNet.org)
Gators Championship Coverage (Gatorsports.com), The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun
Indianapolis 500 (IndyStar.com), Indianapolis Star
Train Jumping: A Desperate Journey (PalmBeachPost.com), The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post

Best Special Feature in a Web Site – Enterprise (more than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: The Weight (Sacbee.com), The Sacramento Bee
GenTech on CBSNews.com
MSNBC: Inside Gitmo

Best Special Feature in a Web Site – Enterprise (fewer than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: Unrighteous Traffick: Rhode Island’s slave history (Projo.com), The Providence (R.I.) Journal
Habitat vs. Development (PE.com),
The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.
Jordan’s War (Roanoke.com), Roanoke (Va.) Times

Best Community Web Site (more than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: HorseCity.com
Riding Talk (CBC.ca, Canadian Broadcasting Corp.)
The Deadly Gap (Newsday.com), Newsday Interactive

Best Community Web Site (fewer than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: IndyMoms.com (The Indianapolis Star)
MyNewsOK (NewsOK.com), The Oklahoman
Ohioelects.com (Dispatch Digital) 

Best Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site (more than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: NYTimes.com
Washingtonpost.com
USATODAY.com

Best Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site (fewer than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: BoomerGirl.com (The World Co.)
HeraldTribune.com
PilotOnline.com and HamptonRoads.com

Best Weekly Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site
WINNER: WickedLocalPlymouth.com
OrlandoWeekly.com
VillageSoup.com

Best Spanish-Language Newspaper Web Site
WINNER: ELPAIS.com
AlDiaTx.com
ElNuevoHerald.com

Best Network TV/Cable-Affiliated Web Site
WINNER: ESPN.com
MSNBC.com
Sundance Channel

Best Local TV/Cable-Affiliated Web Site
WINNER: TV3.cat – Televisió de Catalunya
CBC.ca/bc
WRAL.com, Raleigh, N.C.

Best National Magazine-Affiliated Web Site
WINNER: FastCompany.com
Inc.com
Newsweek.com

Best Design of a Media-Affiliated Web Site (more than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: Washingtonpost.com
ELPAIS.com
NYTimes.com
Slate.com

Best Design of a Media-Affiliated Web Site (fewer than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: BNET, The Go-To Place for Management
IndyMoms.com
Commercialappeal.com, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.

Best Use of Video in a Web Site (more than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: CNN.com
NYTimes.com Video
PGA.com Pipeline
Washingtonpost.com

Best Use of Video in a Web Site (fewer than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNERS: AppealTV.com (The Commercial Appeal), and Studio 55 (Naplesnews.com), Naples (Fla.) Daily News (TIE)
Runners-up: HGTV KitchenDesign
The Frederick (Md.) News-Post

Best Classified Web Site (more than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: DallasNews.com
Boston.com Real Estate
Washingtonpost.com Jobs

Best Classified Web Site (fewer than one million unique visitors per month)
WINNER: NWjobs.com
BostonWorks.com
PalmBeachPost.com Classifieds

Best College Newspaper Internet Service
WINNER: Indiana Daily Student at idsnews.com
ASU Web Devil
Horizonlines.org (Minnesota State University Moorhead)

The Inaugural Knight News Innovation Award
WINNER: Public Insight Journalism (Center for Innovation in Journalism at American Public Media)
Crowd-Sourcing (The News-Press, Fort Myers, Fla.)
Data Universe (Asbury Park Press, Neptune, N.J.)
Poverty in the Northwest Suburbs, Harvard’s South Trailer Park (Northwest News Group of Greater Chicago)

Source: Editor & Publisher