Editor & Publisher EPpy? Awards Entry Deadline Extended

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The entry period for the 15^th Annual EPpy? Awards, honoring the best media-affiliated Web sites, has been extended to midnight Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Entries are accepted online at the EPpy? Awards Web site, www.eppyawards.com.

?With all of the interest in social networking technology, we thought it was only right to add a new category this year to address it?

Awards will be given in 36 categories, including a new competition for Best Social Networking Implementation on a Media-Affiliated Web site.

?With all of the interest in social networking technology, we thought it was only right to add a new category this year to address it,? said Charles McKeown, Publisher of Editor & Publisher magazine, which sponsors the annual program.

The EPpy? Awards will be presented at an awards luncheon at the Interactive Media Conference and Trade Show at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Finalists will be announced in May. The conference and trade show is also sponsored by Editor & Publisher. To register or for more information about the conference, visit www.interactivemediaconference.com.

EPpys? will be given to both large (more than one million unique monthly users) and small (fewer than one million unique monthly users) media-affiliated Web sites in the following categories:

• Best Social Networking Implementation on a Media-Affiliated Web site
• Best News Web Site
• Best Sports Web Site
• Best Business Web Site
• Best Entertainment Web Site
• Best Special Feature in a Web Site ? News or Event
• Best Special Feature in a Web Site -- Enterprise
• Best Community Web Site
• Best Overall Design of a Web Site
• Best Use of Video in a Web Site
• Best Classified Web site

In addition, the EPpy? Awards will continue its tradition of honoring the best Web site sponsored by a College Newspaper.

Contest fees are $150 per entry except in the College category, where each entry is $50.

The judging of the EPpy? Awards will be conducted by senior executives representing all the major media and with a special interest in Web sites.

Questions about the competition can be directed to Robert Kuwada at robert_kuwada@yahoo.com.

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