These days I think everyone and anyone can make website for them and start up an online business or newspaper. But when someone really works hard for something, they do want to get noticed and get appreciated by others. I was really impressed when I got to know about Online News Association which "is a leader in the rapidly changing world of journalism; a catalyst for innovation in story-telling across all platforms; a resource for journalists seeking guidance and growth, and a champion of best practices through training, awards, community outreach."
Last year, they announced
30 outlets in 27 categories.
BBC News won the award for general excellence in Online Journalism, in the category of large site. I personally believe that they do deserve this award because since I was a kid I remember everyone in my hometown waiting for the most trustworthy news from BBC News. They are usually the first one to report any news and as far as their website is concerned then its really user friendly. the color combination is very good, it doesn't pinch your eyes and apart from that it really neat an easily scannable. Everything is divided in categories and as soon as you open the page you know where you will get your news that you are looking for.
The thing that I really liked about this website is that unlike others it doesn't have any flashing or popping things coming up as soon as you open the page. The breaking news comes in very neat and clean red bar with white fonts but I think it would have been better if the background was not red because its kind of pinchy but that's going with the theme so it can be ignored.
They using bullets for listing which is good and the curation of the news is good but could have been better if it had more useful links.
But overall I feel they deserve this award because they have always shown excellence in news reporting.
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