The Winery Gazette’s web site, vineyardgazette.com, gained a nationwide EPPY award on Tuesday for excellence in digital media.

The location was named greatest newspaper web site underneath 1 million distinctive month-to-month guests. Finalists within the class included Las Vegas Weekly and Texas-based Peoples Newspapers. The Boston Globe was the winner amongst newspaper websites with greater than 1 million distinctive guests a month.

Up to date seven days per week with breaking information, in-depth articles, group occasions, commentary and beautiful pictures, vineyardgazette.com additionally options the Time Machine, a collection of digitized tales and images from the newspaper’s huge historic assortment. Free to the general public, the location attracts greater than 2.2 million distinctive guests yearly.

“It is a super honor, and a credit score not solely to the editors, reporters and photographers who maintain our web site recent and compelling daily, however to our webmaster Graham Smith who is consistently making technical and design enhancements to maintain it sturdy,” stated writer Jane Seagrave.

Based by Editor and Writer Journal in 1996, the annual EPPY awards have change into the premier competitors for media-affiliated web sites. Winners in 38 classes had been introduced Tuesday in a digital reside ceremony.

The Winery Gazette has gained high honors for digital technique for the previous two years within the New England Higher Newspaper Competitors.