The Denver Post won three EPPY awards today from Editor & Publisher for best media-affiliated websites — including best professional sports blog, political blog and Spanish-languague newspaper website.
with contributions from staff writers Lindsay Jones, Mike Klis, Jeff Legwold, Nick Groke and Patrick Saunders, won best professional sports blog in the top category of 1 million unique monthly visitors and over. The blog beat out finalists from Sports Illustrated, ESPN/, Newsday and .
produced by The Denver Post, won for best overall Spanish-language newspaper website. In May, the weekly-in-print publication became the state’s largest bilingual news source, launching a new website with expanded social media presence and mobile applications for iPhone and Android. It has already won awards this year from the National Association of Hispanic Publications and took a first place prize from the Best of the West 2011.
In politics, , opinion and analysis — took the top award for best news/political blog with under 250,000 unique monthly visitors. Post staff writers Lynn Bartels, Tim Hoover, Kurtis Lee, Jeremy P. Meyer, Allison Sherry — who reports from Washington, D.C. — and members of The Post’s editorial board contribute daily.
Judges named The Post as a finalist in two other categories: best social media platform with more than 1 million unique monthly visitors and best entertainment blog — Reverb at — with less than 250,000 unique monthly visitors. In the social media category, Entertainment Weekly topped The Post and Time Inc./InStyle Magazine.
The EPPY Awards, now in their 16th year, acknowledge the best media-affiliated websites in 43 categories. A panel of people in the media industry, chosen by the staff of Editor & Publisher, judged the entires from Oct. 15 to Nov. 11, 2011.
