Blogs and niche video big winners of 2007 EPpy Awards

Steve Safran May 24th, 2007

Editor and Publisher has announced the winners of this year’s EPpy Awards for interactive media. There are awards in 32 different categories. Of note to the LR crowd… A surprise winner in the Best Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site (fewer than one million uniques/month) category: The Lawrence (Kansas) Journal-World’s BoomerGirl.com, a site that targets baby boomer women, took the honors. Best big paper site went to the NYTimes.com, while Best Weekly Newspaper Site went to WickedLocalPlymouth.com here outside Boston. Best Network TV/Cable Site went to ESPN.com, with BBC News picking up the Best News Site (more than one million uniques/month.) The Chicago Tribune’s DC politics blog, The Swamp, won Best Media-Affiliated Blog, and Best Community Website honors went to HorseCity.com and IndyMoms.com. Best Use of Video in a Web Site with fewer than one million uniques/month was a tie, with AppealTV.com (The Commercial Appeal) and Studio 55 (Naples Daily News) sharing the win. CNN.com won best use of video by a big site. Screen grab of BoomerGirl below…