Hackney Podcast named best internet programme at Sony Awards 2010

A local free-to-download podcast scooped the top prize for best internet programme at this weeks Sony Radio Academy Awards 2010.

The Hackney Podcast, said the judges on 10 May, "is just the type of targeted and locally orientated content that sets podcasting apart from conventional radio broadcasting".

The podcast, available on iTunes, was set up by volunteer professional producers in 2008 "to record the borough's different faces". The programme, produced by Francesca Panetta and Felix Carey, was praised for its programme on water: "The production quality is outstanding giving the whole listen a water-like lyricism," said the judges.

AnswerMeThis, a weekly British podcast by Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann, won silver for a programme that is "a shining example of how to build, connect and grow an audience using a blend of social media and traditional radio production values," according to the judges.

Media Talk, the Guardian's weekly media show, produced by Ben Green and presented by Matt Wells, took bronze. The judges said the MediaTalk podcast is the "creme de la creme" of GNM's podcasts: "Week in and week out they show brilliant editorial judgement on their selection of lead stories drawing in an awesome line up of contributors who are true experts in their field. With their warm and welcoming tone of voice they've succeeded in attracting audiences from beyond the navel gazing media elite (like us)."

Also commended were 'Remembering Hillsborough' by Christian Spooner for Real Radio North West for Real Radio.co.uk; and Richard Herring's 'As It Occurs To Me' by Sky Potato, Avalon & Ben Walker for The British Comedy Guide Podcast.

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