PBS for iPad is a Webby Award nominee.
PBS and Producers Receive Nine Webby Award Nominations
Additional 10 Honorees from PBS and PBS Producers Selected
On April 10, nominees and honorees for the 16th Annual Webby Awards were announced. In total, PBS and PBS producers received nine nominations, and an additional 10 were selected as honorees. The Webby Awards honor excellence on the Internet and are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Winners of this year’s Webby Awards will be announced on May 1, 2012, and the ceremony will take place on May 21, and will also be streamed live on www.webbyawards.com. Voting for the Webby People’s Voice Awards will be open through April 26.
PBS congratulates our producers as well as staff who have been named nominees and honorees. Following is the full list.
PBS Nominees
Websites - TELEVISION
pbs.tv
Websites - YOUTH
pbskids.org
&
Sesame Street Muppets
Websites - RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Websites - BEST HOME/WELCOME PAGE
Sesame Street Muppets
Websites - CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS/NON-PROFIT
Sesame Workshop
Websites - FAMILY/PARENTING
Sesame Street for Parents
Online Film & Video - DOCUMENTARY: SERIES
Women, War and Peace Documentary Shorts
Mobile & Apps - ENTERTAINMENT (TABLETS & ALL OTHER DEVICES)
PBS for iPad
PBS Honorees
Websites - MOVIE & FILM
Independent Lens
Websites - YOUTH
Cat in the Hat Knows Alot About That!
Online Film & Video - DOCUMENTARY: SERIES
StoryCorps Shorts: September 11 Stories
Online Film & Video - EVENTS & LIVE WEBCASTS
You Talk to Endeavour: Shuttle Crew on Giffords, Tile Damage, Trips to Mars (PBS NewsHour)
Online Film & Video - NEWS & POLITICS: INDIVIDUAL EPISODE
Leather Muppet to Stephen Colbert: You Are What You Eat (PBS NewsHour)
&
Why the Sioux Are Refusing $1.3 Billion (PBS NewsHour)
Online Film & Video - NEWS & POLITICS: SERIES
Presidentiality (Need to Know)
Online Film & Video - VARIETY
PBS Arts: Off Book
Mobile & Apps - ENTERTAINMENT (HANDHELD DEVICES)
PBS KIDS Video
Mobile & Apps - GAMES (TABLETS & ALL OTHER DEVICES)
Elmo Loves ABCs
In addition, PBS congratulates our colleagues in public media who were named nominees and honorees. NPR received nine nominations and was selected as an honoree in one additional category. American Public Media’s Marketplace, Public Radio Exchange and KCRW’s Music Mine iPad App were also named Webby honorees.
