• Journalism.co.uk, Sunday, June 24, 2012 2:10 PM

The Guardian was named "website of the year" at last week’s Online Media Awards "for not losing its news sense and judgment just because the distribution of the stories is digital". The site "gets the right balance between serious news and lighter features and sports and it is so easy to navigate", according to a release. Guardian special projects editor Paul Lewis took the award for best Twitter feed. His tweets reporting on the England riots were among the nominations which led to Lewis being shortlisted for the Orwell Prize reporter of the year award earlier this year. Another of the Guardian's five awards was for its use of social media during the riots. The title also received an accolade for its iPad edition.

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