Award win: silicon.com nabs Editorial Team of the Year gong

The editorial team that produces silicon.com picked up another major award last night. At the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) annual awards we won Editorial Team 2007 - Business.

The ceremony featured many well-known business and consumer media brands, including silicon.com sister publication, ZDNet UK, which won Website 2007 - Business.

Other winners included Channel4oD, FT.com, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Guardian - which walked away with its usual array of gongs.

The AOP is a unit of the Periodical Publishers Association and it gathered more than two dozen judges who commended the silicon.com team for keeping "a specifically targeted and demanding professional group up-to-date, stimulated and connected".

They also picked up on silicon.com's original reporting and special reports from more than 20 countries over the past year, exclusives, campaigns and the use of the latest technology to deliver reports whether in text or - increasingly - audio or video.

silicon.com editor and site director Tony Hallett said: "This is a tremendous honour - especially when you see the quality of others there on the night - and shows the hard work the team continues to put in to make silicon.com stand out."

silicon.com won the Work Foundation's best online business publication award in 2006 and in 2005 senior reporter Jo Best was named best female technology writer at the Aurora/RIM Women and Technology Awards.