BBC Online, Guardian Unlimited and Scotsman.com feature highly in the shortlist for this year's European Online Journalism Awards.

The contest is open to English-language sites from around the world for work first published online between 1 July 2001 and 30 June 2002.

The categories are: general journalistic excellence for a large site; general excellence for a small site; breaking news; enterprise journalism; service journalism; feature journalism; and creative use of the medium and individuals (self nominations welcome).

These will be broken down into two categories: independent sites and affiliated sites.

The Audit Bureau of Circulation's digital media arm has already reported that entries are up to 785, double that of last year.

The deadline for submissions is 15 July. The full shortlist can be viewed at www.net-media.co.uk/awards/shortlist.asp

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