To take the news price, the BBC beat off competition from allAfrica.com, Arts and Letters Daily, Debkafile and Poynter.org. Arts and Letters Daily took the People's Voice prize, which is voted for by the public.
The corporation also picked up the radio award for Radio 4's site. The success follows on from wins the BBC had last year at the ceremony, which is dubbed the "Internet Oscars". At the 2001 ceremony, the BBC World Service radio site won the prize while the Radio 4 site was the People's Voice winner.
The BBC was also nominated in the television category, but BBCi lost out to the hugely popular 'The Osbournes'.
The BBC managed to keep to the ceremony's signature acceptance speech ritual, which allows each winner a mere five words for their acceptance speech. The BBC News Online's speech read: "Striving to report things fairly".
But if there was a prize for the evening's speeches it would have gone to Salon.com. The online cultural magazine has recently running extracts from a new book about the Watergate scandal.
The Salon speech for the Prints & 'Zines category read: "We know Deep Throat is..."
Other winners included search engine Google, which won both Webby and the People's Voice award for Best Practices.
Tiffany Shlain, founder and director of The Webby Awards, said: "The 2002 nominees demonstrate that the web is really getting back to what it does best -- connecting, building communities, entertaining and enhancing everyday life."
Other winners included: Broadband, guggenheim.com; Commerce, Amazon.com; Community, Idealist.org; Fashion, zoozoom.com Magazine; Donnie Darko, donniedarko.com, and Finance, Yahoo! Finance.
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