Circulation under 40K

Category: Special Section
Winner: The Day, Soulforce Equality Ride
Judges’ comments:  This was a very interesting story with great photography and slideshows.  I liked the integration with blogs, forums, and other online resources.   The content was in depth and very engaging.

Category: Entertainment
Winner: EncoreBuzz.com
Judges’ comments:   EncoreBuzz.com has a substantially different look and feel from the core newspaper website and caters more toward people interested in entertainment information.   The website looks great and has a very simple yet effective navigation.  With lots of images the website is attractive to the eye.   The inclusion of multimedia, podcast, and RSS shows that EncoreBuzz.com is doing what it takes to attract the right audience.

Category: Public service
Winner: Flood Prep 2007, Timesargus.com
Judges’ comments:  It's lucky that this flood never happened, but the timesargus web site was ready for it, with timely updates on the flood stages, resources and a photo tool that invited the public to submit their photos and vote on the "best" -- won, as it happens, by Times Argus staff.

Category: Sports
Winner:  Kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/sports
Judges’ comments:  The site offers personal blogs by Kennebec Journal reporters, plus a high school sports database that allows searching by sport, schedule, scores and roster.

Category: News presentation
Winner:  Kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com
Judges’ comments:  Offers breaking news, even on the weekend, as well as well-packaged feature stories with multimedia and reader involvement tools, such as "For I was hungry."

Category: Engagement:
Winner: Nashuatelegraph.com 
Judges’ comments:  For its plethora of intriguing content: Weekend Word (music podcast); prominent, top of nav link to forums, blogs with highlights for most commented, most active; Telegraph Neighbors, community news with reader-generated content.

Category: Overall site
Winner:  Kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com
Judges’ comments:  Offers the best use of rollover detail on the top menu I've seen anywhere, plus it offers a full package of updated news, clean organization and web-only features.

Circulation over 40K

Category: Engagement
Winner: MainToday.com (http://www.myMaineToday.com, http://seen.mainetoday.com)
Judges’ comments:  Seen is a great section of the website chalked full of images, video, and blogs.  Main Today uses great visual elements to draw the user into the site.   With all the things to see and do on the sections it was hard to leave.

Category: News Presentation
Winner: CapeCodOnline.com
Judges’ comments:  CapeCodonline.com is a very well designed site that organizes and presents content very well.  So often websites suffer from poor architecture, which leads to poor presentation.  CapeCodOnline.com is solid from the ground up.

Category: Sports
Winner: Projo.com Red Sox Section
Judges’ comments:  Though I'm not a Sox Fan If I were, I would love this site.  Projo.com has created a very good tool to help Red Sox fans follow their team and favorite players.  With historical information for every player the Red Sox section knocks 'em out of the park. 

Category: Public Service
Winner: Projo.com
Judges’ comments:  A Mother's Addiction is such a good piece of work on so many levels.  It starts with a touching story, one that needs to be told so that others can learn from mistakes.   It is obvious that over the two years the project was in existence the newsroom put in a lot of work to make this section happen.

Category: Special Section
Winner: Projo.com
Judges’ comments:  State of the Mob is worthy of an hour-long show on the History Channel.  I walked away from this site more knowledgeable and curious about the Mob in the United States.  Great investigative reporting work!  The slideshows and mug shots had me daydreaming about a time long ago, a time before the PS3 and MySpace.   This is one of the best special sections I've ever seen.

Category: Overall site
Winner:  CapeCodOnline.com
Judges’ comments:  This website was wonderfully designed with a great color scheme and very good content organization. CapeCodeOnline has consistent navigation which made finding information very easy.   They have tools to allow the online reader to be a part of the news conversation.  Great events section, website search, and local content.   I really enjoyed the featured local video product and myCapeCod.com.  CapeCodOnline.com is a wonderfully designed site, one to be modeled.