Classified Avenue is the exclusive sponsor of the Local Community Web site Contest. Click here to learn more about Classified Avenue.
These Local Media Association awards recognize excellence in a variety of categories including best local community initiative, best site architecture and overall design, best reader interactivity, best advertising initiative, best niche product, best collaborative effort, best vertical-specific classified product, best blog initiative, best video initiative, and others. We also honor the best local community Web site and the local Web site innovator of the year.
Daily and non-daily newspapers each have their own division, and are further divided by circulation. Entries must be submitted in the correct circulation class or risk disqualification.
The 2012 Local Community Web Site Contest Has Launched!
It's Time to Show Off Your Online Innovations!
Thank you goes out to Newspaper Toolbox for hosting the 2012 Local Community Web site Contest platform! Through this partnership we hope to make your contest entry experience an enjoyable one. The new system also allows Local Media Association to electronically archive all entries and make them available for review.
Eligibility Period
For entries that include initiatives that are not live on your current site, the contest eligibility period is February 1, 2011 through February 1, 2012. Click here for more information on entry eligibility and contest rules.
Entry Deadline
Thank you for your interest. The deadline has past and judging will commence in May 2012. Good luck to all the participants!
Winners
Winners will be recognized via press releases, member emails and in Local Media Association's monthly newsletter, Local Media Today. Local Media Association reserves the right to publish the names of the winners and display and publish samples of any entry received for promotional and/or educational purposes.
Judges
The panel of judges will include digital consultants and other leaders in the newspaper online publishing world.
Previous Winners