The Doha-based state-funded broadcaster won the awards both for having the Best Website of the Year and for its rolling coverage of Turkey’s failed coup, which saw the broadcaster produce a 25-minute documentary explaining the backdrop to the coup attempt for its UK site.
The Drum Online Media Awards, now in their seventh year, aim to recognise the best, boldest and most original purveyors of news and views from around the world.
The awards ceremony took place at the Marriot London Grosvenor Square hotel on 1 June.
The full list of the winners of the Drum Online Media Awards 2017:
BEST WEBSITE OF THE YEAR (GRAND PRIX)
Al Jazeera English
CHAIRMAN'S AWARD
Al Jazeera English: Coverage of the attempted coup in Turkey, July 15/16 2016
ONLINE EDITOR OF THE YEAR
Jon Laurence, Channel 4 News / ITN
OUTSTANDING DIGITAL TEAM OF THE YEAR
Channel 4 News / ITN - Channel 4 News Digital Team
DIGITAL WRITER OF THE YEAR
Jason Murdock, International Business Times
BEST FREELANCE WRITER
Motez Bishara, CNN
BEST PHOTOGRAPHER
Showkat Shafi, Al Jazeera English
ONLINE EDITORIAL CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR
ITV - Good Morning Britain: 1 Million Minutes
BREAKING NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR
Al Jazeera English - Coverage of the attempted coup in Turkey, July 15/16 2016
BEST LAUNCH/RELAUNCH OF THE YEAR [NEW FOR 2017]
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism's new website
BEST SITE FOR NEWS-LED JOURNALISM
theguardian.com
BEST SPECIALIST SITE FOR JOURNALISM
Joint winners:
Carbon Brief
Greenpeace Energydesk
BEST LOCAL/REGIONAL NEWS SITE
The Detail
BEST NATIONAL NEWS SITE
The Independent
BEST CAMPAIGNING / INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
BBC World Service - BBC Arabic: Shame
BEST COMMENTARY / BLOGGING
Middle East Eye - Peter Oborne (Middle East Eye)
BEST VIDEO JOURNALISM
Channel 4 News / ITN: Inside Aleppo
BEST DESIGNED SITE
theguardian.com
BEST TWITTER FEED
Al Jazeera English Twitter feed (@AJEnglish)
BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
LBC Digital: Best Use of Social Media
BEST USE OF CROWD SOURCING OR CITIZEN JOURNALISM
On Our Radar and New Internationalist - Back in Touch: life in Sierra Leone after Ebola
COMMERCIAL CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR
Auto Trader UK / Fiat / Fiat Tipo Brand Partnership
B2B DIGITAL PRODUCT
Dennis Publishing: IT Pro
B2C DIGITAL PRODUCT
Dennis Publishing - Expert Reviews (expertreviews.co.uk)
B2B SALES TEAM
Quartz: We are family
B2C SALES TEAM
Creative Solutions - Haymarket Consumer Media
MEDIA SALES INDIVIDUAL OF THE YEAR
Quartz / Courtney Kobylanski, Quartz
BEST USE OF DATA FOR COMMERCIAL GAIN
Northern & Shell - Audience Platform
NATIVE ADVERTISING SOLUTION / CAMPAIGN
News UK, 'The Surprise Party'
BEST BRAND DEVELOPMENT
Joint winners:
Al Jazeera Media - #HACKED: Syria's Electronic Armies
Mirror Online - Mirror Money
BEST COMMERCIAL INNOVATION
Financial Times: Leveraging Brexit to drive commercial advantage
BEST USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Journeys by The Calvert Journal
TECHNICAL INNOVATION
BBC News US Election and EU Referendum Twitter Bot
BEST APP
upday for Samsung
BEST SPORTS NEWS SITE [NEW FOR 2017]
Goal - Perform Media
BEST LIFESTYLE / LEISURE NEWS SITE
CNN Style
BEST B2B NEWS SITE [NEW FOR 2017]
The Video News Agency
BEST B2C NEWS SITE [NEW FOR 2017]
GoodTherapy.org: Leading Mental Health Resource and Therapist Directory
BEST MEDIA PODCAST
The Independent - Kernels
MOST EFFECTIVE MEDIA TOOL
Trinity Mirror - HiveAlpha - powerful insight in the newsroom and beyond
