Webby Award winners announced

The Webby Award winners were announced today, and include four for the BBC, including for news in both the Webby and Popular Choice categories.

The Webby Awards will present former Vice President Al Gore with The Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the pivotal role he has played in the development of the Internet over the past three decades. Academy member Vint Cerf, widely credited as a founder of the Internet, will present the award to Gore.

Other Webby Special Achievement recipients include: Craig Newmark, the founder of craigslist, for Webby Person of the Year; The Kleptones, an acclaimed British band pioneering new musical genres and methods of online distribution, for Webby Artist of the Year; and Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the founders of Flickr, who have taken photo sharing and management to an exciting new level, for Webby Breakout of the Year.

Related: Webby Awards name CyberJournalist.net 'Webby Worthy'

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