WalesOnline scoops News Website of Year award

WALESONLINE is celebrating today after winning a top industry award.

WalesOnline was named the News Website of the Year at the Wales Media Awards 2017, which took place in Cardiff on Friday evening.

The award was one of 21 handed out at a gala ceremony at the Mercure Holland House Hotel in Cardiff, hosted by Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan.

Paul Rowland, who is Editor in Chief of Media Wales, WalesOnline’s parent company which also incorporates Wales on Sunday, said: “We’re delighted and proud to win this award.

“We’re passionate about making WalesOnline a success but the site is only as good as the stories on it, so this award is for every single person who works hard every day to give our readers the most important, engaging and agenda-setting content we can find.”

The judges said Wales Online “had built more than a commanding posi- tion ... it was at present unassailable”.

We also had great success in two other areas.

Football writer Chris Wathan, who produced extensive coverage of Wales’ success at last summer’s Euro 2016 tournament, was named Sports Journalist of the Year.

And Gemma Parry was the winner of Print News Reporter of the Year for her work with the South Wales Evening Post, which is now part of the Media Wales family.

The Wales Media Awards are organised by Spencer David on behalf of the Journalists’ Charity in Wales with the support of a range of sponsors and partners.