The Forward Wins Prestigious 2007 WebAward For "Best Newspaper Website"

The Forward, America's most influential Jewish weekly newspaper, won a prestigious 2007 WebAward for "Best Newspaper Website" from the Web Marketing Association (WMA) for its online news and information Web site, TheJewishDailyForward.com (www.forward.com). WebAwards honor the achievements of the Internet's top websites and are given annually by the Web Marketing Association, an independent organization created to formally recognize the best sites in 96 industry categories. Each site is evaluated on the basis of design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copywriting and ease of use. The highest score in each group wins best Web site of that industry.

New York, NY (PRWEB) September 18, 2007 -- The Forward, America's most influential Jewish weekly newspaper, has won a prestigious 2007 WebAward for "Best Newspaper Website" from the Web Marketing Association (WMA) for its online news and information Web site, TheJewishDailyForward.com (www.forward.com). Judges noted that the Forward's site exhibited "excellent balance between content and functionality."

"This is an extraordinary accolade for our editorial and online teams considering that we bested scores of newspapers from around the world with online sites that have larger staffs, more resources and more traffic," said Samuel Norich, executive director of the Forward Association and publisher of the Forward.

Our Web team has done a superlative job introducing and managing our news site since its relaunch as a daily updated news site, earlier this year

"Our Web team has done a superlative job introducing and managing our news site since its relaunch as a daily updated news site, earlier this year," said David Drimer, associate publisher of the Forward. "This WebAward is a fitting tribute to the careful planning and hard work that has been judged as superior according to the web publishing industry's most rigorous standards."

WebAwards honor the achievements of the Internet's top websites and are given annually by the Web Marketing Association, an independent organization created to formally recognize the best sites in 96 industry categories. This year, entries were received from 33 countries. Each site is evaluated on the basis of design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copywriting and ease of use, and given a number of points for each category. The highest score in each group wins best Web site of that industry.

The competition judges are distinguished experts from around the world in each field and include advertising executives, members of the media, top Web site designers, content providers and webmasters. Previous winners of the newspaper site category have included NYTimes.com (2006), Variety.com (2005), Christian Science Monitor (2004) and WSJ Online (2003).

ABOUT THE WEB MARKETING ASSOCIATION: The Web Marketing Association is an organization founded in 1997 comprised of Internet marketing, online advertising, PR, and top Web site design professionals, who help set a high standard for Internet marketing and development of the best sites on the Web. The group is the producer of the WebAward Competition, now in its 11th year, which names the best Web sites in 96 industries, providing a benchmark by which all Web site development can be judged. Winners of the WebAward's receive valuable feedback on their site, and recognition on both the Web Marketing Association's website and their own.
www.webmarketingassociation.org

To see the WebAward Winners Database go to The Forward Wins "Best Newspaper Website"

ABOUT THE FORWARD (www.forward.com): The Forward is widely regarded as American Jewry's essential newspaper of record. Published weekly since 1990, the Forward is committed to rigorous reporting and balanced, thoughtful commentary on news, politics and culture in the Jewish world. Forward editor J.J. Goldberg, a veteran journalist and author, and his staff have enhanced the paper's reputation for incisive, hard-hitting reportage with a populist, progressive spirit that was the Yiddish Forverts' hallmark in its early days. Headquartered in New York, the newspaper is owned by the Forward Association, Inc., a 501(c )(4) corporation. It is published on Fridays and is available on newsstands nationwide as well as by subscription and online.               
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