eitb.com voted best-designed web in Spain and Portugal

The new eitb.com has been voted best-designed website on the Iberian Peninsula by the jury of the "ÑH Awards for Best Newspaper Design in Spain and Portugal 2011," organized by the Spanish section of the Society for News Design (SNDE).

eitb.com received the top award for on-line design in the category of web pages that receive 12 million visits or less per month. The winner of the category for websites receiving more than 12 million viewings per month was elpais.com. laVanguardia.com (Barcelona) and harpersbazaar.es (Madrid) were finalists in both categories.

The jury, who met between 29thSeptember and 1st October in Pamplona-Iruña, also rewarded the EITB Group's new website, which was launched on 29th August, with the Gold Medal for Best Web Redesign Job.

The EITB Group's was the only gold medal awarded for a redesign job. The silver medal went to laVanguardia.com, while the travel pages of elmundo.es, ocholeguas.com received a special mention.

The newly-designed eitb.com was a "Made in Euskadi" project organized by EITB's own web team in cooperation with San Sebastian web-design company "We Get It" and developed by Bilbao-based IT firm M4F.

Acknowledgement for hiru.com

With regard to on-line reports, the hiru.com website also earned a distinction for the Basque Government Department of Education, thanks to an animated graphic about 3D television created by M4F and directed by EITBnet.

"Boost the quality of visual journalism"

The ÑH awards were created to promote quality visual journalism in Spain and Portugal; to support a fundamentally journalistic approach to web design, photography, infographics and illustration within editorial departments, and recognize good practice within media companies of all ranges and sizes.

This year's jury, who came to their joint decisions following discussions held at the University of Navarre's Communications Department, was made up of the following people:

For on-line media: Alvaro Varona, qdq.com (Madrid): Mário Henriques, expresso.pt (Lisbon); Joan F. Domene, Manresa City Council (Barcelona).

For printed media: Carlos Pérez de Rozas, professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and journalism consultant (Barcelona); Mario Benito, El Mundo (Madrid); Pedro Freire, Correo da Manhã (Lisbon); Diego Zuñiga, El Correo (Bilbao); Olga Lamas, Anversal (Barcelona); Iker Barinaga, La Verdad (Murcia); Silvia Carregal, Xornal de Galicia (A Coruña); Laura González, Lecturer, CEU San Pablo (Madrid); Raúl Sanz, Diario de Mallorca (Palma de Mallorca); Quique Ciria, Universidad Carlos III (Madrid); and Marcus Hurst, Yorokobu (Madrid).