washingtonpost.com Wins Four Digital Edge Awards

Washingtonpost.com won four Digital Edge Awards on Sunday night, including Best Overall News Site for papers with a circulation of 250,000 or greater. Other awards included Best Employment Strategy, Best Automotive Strategy and Best Entertainment Site. The Digital Edge Awards, presented by the Newspaper Association of America's New Media Federation, were awarded at the NAA's Connections Conference in Orlando. In honoring washingtonpost.com as the best overall news site winner, the judges said: "Pushing the boundaries of a multimedia news site, washingtonpost.com is building a model of a newspaper Web site as an interactive forum. The site's breadth of coverage, video storytelling and embrace of blog culture and collaborative media make it a standout." In the Best Employment Strategy category, the judges said of our Jobs section: "It's no mystery why washingtonpost.com/jobs has won twice during the past three years: The site search is excellent, the design clean and the listings