May 28 – INSIDEworldfootball (IWF) has won the Editor’s Choice Award in the Best On-line Coverage category of the World Soccer Talk Awards.
Readers of World Soccer Talk, a US-based website that annually asks its readership to vote across a range of categories, has released the results of this year’s Awards. Nominated in the Best On-line Coverge section, IWF was ranked in 6th position, way ahead of the Bleacher Report, The Times, Daily Mail, The Telegraph, Sports Illustrated and FOX Soccer. The winner this year was Goal.com followed by BBC Sport, The Guardian, ESPN and Sky Sports.
With 7.78% of all the votes cast, IWF is listed barely 0.8%-points behind the football content giant Sky Sports.
“This is a remarkable result, and very flattering, considering that we only re-launched our webmagazine a bit more than a year ago,” said Paul Nicholson, Editor-in-chief of INSIDEworldfootball.com.
“Our daily readership has increased tremendously during that time and our daily Chinese Edition, which can be accessed by over 500 million subscribers to the services of Netease (our partner and licence holder in mainland China), is most certainly not considered in the poll, which was conducted in English only,” Nicholson said.
Nor does the vote take into account IWF’s presence on social media that has now grown organically to over 40,000 on Twitter and over 65,000 on Facebook.
INSIDEworldfootball is a leading daily webproduct that focusses on the business and the politics of football. It has made substantial headway over the past 16 months and is considered a vital source for business and political news focussed on world football.
Summing up the awards in the on-line news category, Christopher Harris, founder and managing editor of World Soccer Talk, said: “So much of our news, analysis and opinion is gleaned from the Internet on a daily basis, so the role of online coverage is more important than ever … Inside World Football has won the Editor’s Choice Award for its exemplary coverage of the business side of football and its unique world focus.”
In the Best Writer category, IWF columnist Matt Scott was nominated against some of the biggest names in football writing, an outstanding achievement in itself as Matt’s Money Talk columns cover the sometimes drier and often denser financial aspects of the football business.
Matt finished half way up the voting which he says was not a “fixed” achievement though complains that many of the people he writes about probably voted against him.
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