AOP: RBI takes four prizes at Digital Publishing Awards 2008

Reed Business Information (RBI) won four of the 16 awards handed out at last night’s Association of Online Publishers (AOP) Digital Publishing Awards.

The publisher was named best online publisher in the business field for the second year running, as well as picking up prizes for best business website, best B2B online community for Farmers Weekly Interactive, and best online advertising sales team in the business category.

Sky News’ website was awarded the gong for best consumer website, while parent company BSkyB was named best consumer publisher online.

The Guardian picked up an accolade for its Katine project and FT.com for use of video online.

The full list of winners (courtesy of a release from the AOP):

Launch 2008 award - Guardian News and Media for www.guardian.co.uk/katine

Editorial team (business) - Accountancy Age, Incisive Media

Editorial team (consumer) - NME.com, IPC Media

Research & insights project - The Origin Panel - Women’s Space, IPC Media

Online advertising sales team (consumer) - Future Publishing - digital agency team

Online advertising sales team (business) - RBI e-newsletters

Innovation 2008 award - Financial Times, Mockingbird Model

Cross-media project - WKD Nuts Football Awards, IPC Media

Commercial partnership - Ford Bite, Channel 4

Use of video - FT.com

Mobile site - Sun Mobile, News Group Newspapers

Online community - Farmers Weekly Interactive, RBI

Best website (business) - XpertHR.co.uk, RBI

Best website (consumer) - Sky News, BSkyB

Best online publisher 2008 (business) - RBI

Best online publisher 2008 (consumer) - BSkyB

Full shortlist of Association of Online Publishers award nominees

The full list of nominees for this year’s AOP awards, which span 16 categories (courtesy of the AOP):

Launch 2008
Guardian News and Media - guardian.co.uk/katine
Hearst digital - allaboutyou.com
IPC Media - Goodtoknow
James Publishing Ltd - World Reviewer
Redwood - www.yourfamily.org.uk
Channel 4/Zone - Channel 4 Food

Editorial Team - Business
Building - Building.co.uk
Centaur Media - thelawyer.com
CNET Networks UK - silicon.com
Dow Jones & Company - eFN.com
Incisive Media - Accountancy Age
Incisive Media - Legalweek.com
Reed Business Information - PersonnelToday.com
Reed Business Information - XpertHR.co.uk

Editorial Team - Consumer 2008
BBC Worldwide - bbcgoodfood.com
Financial Times - FT.com
Guardian News and Media - guardian.co.uk/sport
IPC MEDIA - nme.com
IPC Media - Nuts.co.uk
Sky News - Sky News Online
Trinity Mirror - Gazette Communities

Research & Insights Project 2008
Guardian News & Media - GNM Total Audience
IPC Media - IPC Media for The Origin Panel - Women’s Space
ITV Online - Ad Innovations-Itv.com
Orange UK - Exposure - Orange UK
Reed Business Information - Travolution
Trinity Mirror - ARRON 2007/2008 Digital Audience Research

Online Advertising Sales Team - Consumer 2008
Bauer Media - Bauer Media Digital Sales Team
Channel 4 - Channel 4
Financial Times - FT.com
Future Publishing PLC - Future Publishing - Digital Agency Team
Guardian News and Media - guardian.co.uk Ad Sales Team
Haymarket Consumer Media - whatcar.com
ITV Online - www.itv.com

Online Advertising Sales Team - Business 2008
CMPi - Building Magazine Online Commercial Team
Incisive Media - Accountancy Age Integrated Sales Team
Redactive Media Group - People Management online sales
Reed Business Information - RBI Job Sites
Reed Business Information - RBI e-Newsletters
UBM - BD & Building Virtual Careers

Innovation 2008
Financial Times - Mockingbird Model
Guardian News and Media - Guardian Publisher Network
ITV Online - Interactive Vouchering – Coronation Street and Harveys Furniture Store
Lonely Planet Publications - Lonely Planet Audio Phrasebooks for iPhone (and iPod Touch)
Jobsite (Assoc Northcliffe Digital) - BeMyInterviewer.co.uk
Lulu Enterprises UK - Lulu.com
TSL Education - TES Resource Bank

Cross-Media Project 2008
CMPI - www.thepublican.com/proudofpubs
Guardian News and Media - British Gas Greener Living Partnership
Incisive Media - Young Professional from Accountancy Age
IPC Media - The WKD Nuts Football Awards
Reuters Media - Bearing Witness: Five Years of Reporting War in Iraq
Seven Squared - ASOS ON FACEBOOK
TelecomTV - Mobile Planet
Times Online - Times Archive

Commercial Partnership
Bauer Media - Bauer Media Zoo Royal Marines 2008
Bauer Media - FHM / Nivea for Men Really Useful Guide
Channel 4 New Media - Ford Bite
Financial Times - Financial Times SST Commercial Partnership 2008
Incisive Media - Adviser Academy - IFAonline and JPMorgan
Reed Business Information - New Scientist Visions of the Future with UniversalMcCann for Microsoft
Telegraph Media Group - Telegraph Media Group and Cisco
VideoJug - Microsoft Office 2007 “It’s a new day, It’s a new office” VideoJug Series

Use of Video 2008
BBC - BBC News website
Channel 4 - Embarrassing Bodies
Financial Times - FT.com
Guardian News and Media - Zimbabwe election: The stolen ballots
IPC Media - NME.COM Video
News Group Newspapers - Sun TV
TelecomTV - TelecomTV
Telegraph Media Group - Telegraph TV

Mobile Site 2008
Brownbook Limited - Brownbook.net
Channel 4 - Big Art Mob
CondéNet UK - Glamour Mobile
CondéNet UK - GQ Mobile
Lonely Planet Publications - Lonely Planet m-site
News Group Newspapers - Sun Mobile

Online Community 2008
National Magazine Company - www.runnersworld.co.uk
News Group Newspapers - My Sun
Reed Business Information - Farmers Weekly Interactive
The National Magazine Co - www.babyexpert.com

Website 2008 - Business
Dow Jones & Company - eFN.com
Faversham House Group Ltd - www.edie.net
MarketClusters Ltd - StrategyEye
Reed Business Information - Hairdressers Journal Interactive
Reed Business Information - XpertHR.co.uk
Reed Business Information - Bankersalmanac.com
Reed Business Information - Farmers Weekly Interactive
TSL Education - www.tes.co.uk

Website 2008 - Consumer
Associated Newspapers Ltd - Mail Online
BSkyB - Sky News
Guardian News and Media - guardian.co.uk
IPC Media - marieclaire.co.uk
IPC Media - nme.com
National Magazines Company - youandyourwedding.co.uk
News Group Newspapers - Sun Online
VideoJug - www.videojug.com

Online Publisher 2008 - Business
Dow Jones & Company - eFN.com
E-consultancy.com - E-consultancy.com
Reed Business Information - Reed Business Information
RICS - RICS
TSL Education - TSL Education
Wildfire Communications - Wildfire Communications Ltd

Online Publisher 2008 - Consumer
Associated Newspapers Ltd - Associated Northcliffe Digital
BSkyB - BSkyB
Hearst digital - Hearst digital
IPC Media - IPC Media
Microsoft - MSN UK
News Group Newspapers - Sun Online
Telegraph Media Group - Telegraph Media Group

Sky News on Georgia - let’s start with a geography lesson…

Sky News’ online section ‘Georgia In Depth’ is an aggregation of pictures, articles and info about the eastern European country, which borders with Russia, as part of coverage of the current conflict in the region

So that’s the Georgia between sandwiched between Europe and Asia and not the US state then?

If you’re going to use Wikipedia, at least get the right entry. Thank goodness for the disclaimer… it’s no one’s fault!

(Also, why does the site publish Wikipedia excerpts at all if, as the disclaimer suggests, Sky News has little faith in their accuracy?)

Sky News blog: Diary of a chief video sub-editor

links for 2008-06-26

• Why Media Gets Community Wrong - One Man and His Blog
  “most media people don’t realise that blogging is a community strategy. They think of it as a publishing process and, perhaps, as articles published with a particular tone of voice. They certainly don’t think of it as a conversation.”
  (tags: blogging)
• Lost Remote » Local business video spending to skyrocket
  “A study by The Kelsey Group predicts that small and medium-sized businesses in local markets will increase their video spending from $10.9 million in 2007 to $1.5 billion in 2012.”
  (tags: ads video)
• Sky News Blogs - Editors Blog
  “Welcome to the new-look home of Sky News online. I hope you will find it useful, informative, entertaining, and an improvement on its predecessor.”
  (tags: skynews revamp)
• Associated Press Begins Member Choice Pricing Rollout
  The Associated Press will begin rolling out details of its new pricing to members this week, a plan that will return up to $21 million to its U.S. member newspapers.
  (tags: ap newspapers usa)
• Bloggers: Big Media Is Watching
  As content recognition software gets more sophisticated, expect more copyright-related battles online like the recent AP-blogger flap
  (tags: blogging ap journalism copyright)
• SacredFacts: State of Journalism
  Alan Rusbridger ruminates at the Frontline Club, pressed by Stephen Sackur, on the changing face of news and the problems of going 24/7:
  (tags: video guardian rusbridger)
• Inside Facebook » Facebook Launching Mini-Feed Comments Today (Updated Screenshot)
  Facebook has confirmed that it will launch in-line Mini Feed comments later today.
  (tags: facebook)
• Semantic Journalism: Ideas | Online Journalism Blog
  Semantic journalism is a vision for the future of journalism. As the writer works on her article, her computer would gather data on the matter, from pictures to other articles to assessing global opinion trends.
  (tags: journalism web newspapers)

Sky News new beta site

Sky News has launched a beta version of its new website, to run in parallel with its existing news site.

It has adopted a top story carousel for the homepage that displays the latest breaking news in video and pictures.

It has also added a story tracker in the right column, which lets you follow a story as it develops, and in the left column a See Your News personalisation feature.

“What you are visiting is very much work in progress. We are testing and trialling new features and a very different design,” Steve Bennedik, editor of Sky News Networked Media, wrote on his blog.

“At the same time we are still offering our existing site. When we are ready, we will switch off the old site and this will be our public face.”

Sky News uses CoveritLive for Crewe by-election debate

Sky News yesterday used live blogging service CoveritLive to host a debate between candidates standing in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election (thanks to Simon Dickson and his Puffbox blog for the tip).

Candidates Tamsin Dunwoody (Labour), Elizabeth Shenton (Lib Dem) and Edward Timpson (Conservatives) responded to questions directly from readers of the blog and Sky News’ host Martin Stanford.

The service is becoming increasingly popular with news sites: today the Lancashire Evening Post is liveblogging an afternoon from a local pub, while US newspaper the Grand Island Independent used the tool as a feedback channel during the redesign of its website.

Elsewhere Farmers’ Weekly is liveblogging ‘an afternoon in the life of the newsroom’ - a similar experiment to that conducted by the Liverpool Daily Post.

Read Journalism.co.uk’s interview with CoveritLive president Keith McSpurren.

A plug for Sky News Unplugged

From tomorrow Sky News will air its new online programme Sky News Unplugged.

The show, which promises ‘a sideways look at the week’s news’, will be available only on the channel’s website and through interactive services on TV.

The programme will later be available on demand through the site’s video channel.

Guardian: Times website seeks Sky News link-up

The Times website wants to carry more video content from Sky News.

Times Online editor-in-chief, Anne Spackman, told MediaGuardian.co.uk that negotiations to make this happen were at an early stage on the newspaper website carrying breaking news videos from Sky.

Any deal is likely to improve the online video offering from the Times.

Despite being one of the first national newspapers to adopt a TV service the Times offering has fallen behind other nationals - in terms of quality - and seems to be due an overhaul.

Sky News creates multimedia timeline to mark disappearance of Madeleine McCann

Sky News has produced a multimedia timeline detailing the events and news coverage of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance over the last year.

The timeline incorporates videos, pictures and analysis from Sky’s crime correspondent Martin Brunt. Users can scroll through the timeline, which offers over 100 screens of multimedia.