Guardian.co.uk wins two awards for digital news

The Guardian website has won two major prizes at the Newspaper Awards , the Oscars of the journalism industry. Guardian.co.uk was named digital news service of the year, with the judges describing the site's WikiLeaks coverage as "a jaw-dropper". "Guardian.co.uk is constantly raising the bar by which other news-oriented websites are judged," they said. The Guardian Datablog , which publishes raw data and graphic visualisations of the news, won the category for best use of new media. The judges praised "the interactive information, and comprehensive, in-depth content" as "head and shoulders above the competition". The judges also commended the Guardian's iPhone app for its "imaginative extra features".