BBC News website wins award for Mumbai coverage

London, Oct 5 (PTI) The BBC News website has won the
Online News Association's internet award for breaking news for
its coverage of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Online Journalism Awards judges praised the site's
live updates page for being comprehensive, up to date and for
the way it incorporated social media.

The BBC News website's live updates page for Mumbai
was rich in primary source information and had hundreds of
comments on each post, judges said.

They described it as "an unassuming-looking but
engaging blog that covers many different things and covers it
well".

BBC News website features editor Giles Wilson,
accepting the award, said it was a "great honour for the team
to be recognised against such strong competition as the best
in the world for covering breaking news".

Other nominations were the Houston Chronicle for
Hurricane Ike and the New York Times for the Hudson plane
crash.

The New York Times won the main award for general
excellence in news.

The Online Journalism Awards, held in San Francisco,
were launched in May 2000. They are administered by the Online
News Association, in partnership with the University of
Miami's School of Communication. PTI PS
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