Fans Can Vote Online to Help WSPN Win Internet’s Top Honor
NEW YORK, NY – Wayland Student Press Network (WSPN) recently announced that it has been nominated for Best Student Site in the 13th Annual Webby Awards.
Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.
WSPN is an award-winning online high school publication that uploads diverse types of content first and only on the Web, focusing on visual communication and interaction with the viewers.
“Nominees like WSPN are setting the standard for innovation and creativity on the Internet,” said David-Michel Davies, executive director of the Webby Awards. “It is an incredible achievement to be selected among the best from the nearly 10,000 entries we received this year.”
As a nominee, WSPN is also eligible to win a Webby People’s Voice Award, which is voted online by the global Web community. From now until April 30th, WSPN fans can cast their votes in The Webby People’s Voice Awards at http://pv.webbyawards.com. Winners will be announced on May 5th, 2009 and honored at a star-studded ceremony in New York City on June 8th hosted by Seth Meyers. Winners will be able to share one of the Webby’s famous five-word speeches with the world. Past Webby Award winners – and their speeches – include Al Gore (”Please don’t recount this vote.”), Beastie Boys (”Can anyone fix my computer?”), and Stephen Colbert (”Me. Me. Me. Me. Me.”).
The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 650-person judging academy whose members include Internet co-inventor Vinton Cerf, R/GA’s Chief Bob Greenberg, “Simpson’s” creator Matt Groening, Arianna Huffington, and Harvey Weinstein.
About The Webby Awards:
Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites. Established in 1996, the 13th Annual Webby Awards received over 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide. The Webby Awards is presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Sponsors and Partners of The Webby Awards include: Microsoft Silverlight; The Creative Group; .ORG; Getty Images; The Barbarian Group; Digital Kitchen; Wired; IDG; PricewaterhouseCoopers; 2advanced.Net; KobeMail and Museum of the Moving Image.
Wayland Student Press’ competitors in the Student Category under Connections are:
- MissionLocal.org: Mission Loc@l, a project of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California—Berkeley, is a community news site designed to enrich coverage of San Francisco’s Mission District. It is supported by a Ford Foundation grant.
- www.butv.com: butv10 is Boston University’s only student-produced and managed television station.
- www.businessofdetention.com:The Business of Detention project is a U.S.-based online publication created by reporters Stokely Baksh and Renee Feltz, while graduate students at Columbia University’s Graduate of Journalism.
- http://www.carolinaphotojournalism.org: photojournalism students from the University of North Carolina
