BT Press Awards winners

Journalist of the Year - Betsan Powys News Broadcaster of the Year - Betsan Powys Website Publication of the Year - BBC Wales News online News/Current Affairs Programme of the Year - Week In Week Out Business/E-Commerce - Miles Fletcher Award for Technical Innovation - BBC Wales News Online videophones

BBC Wales News Online took the BT Openworld Welsh Website Publication of the Year, and was praised for its "accessibility, variety and sparkling writing".

Its sister website Cymru'r Byd was also commended for its "lively style of writing and imaginative use of Welsh language and video".

BBC Wales News Online also pocketed the new technical innovation award for "pioneering use of the videophone which gave voters a fresh way of interacting" during its general election coverage.

Highly commended in this category was BBC Cymru'r Byd, the online Welsh-language newspaper whose introduction of two virtual newsreaders was labelled "a great team effort and a rip-roaring success".

Double scoop

The title of BT Welsh Journalist of the Year went to Betsan Powys from current affairs programme Week In Week Out.

Ms Powys was rewarded for programmes which included a report on whistleblower social worker Charles Faber, Running into Crisis.

Betsan Powys took home two awards

In a remarkable double, Ms Powys was also named BT Welsh News Broadcaster of the Year, with judge Simon Cole, Managing Editor of Sky News describing her journalism as "full of maturity enhanced by a clear and articulate presentation style."

Highly commended in this category were BBC Wales's Geraint Vincent and Gilbert John.

In the category of News/Current Affairs programme, Week In Week Out took home the top award, while Newyddion and BBC Radio Wales's The Week That Changed the World, about the 11 September terrorism attacks, were highly commended.

Finally, in the Business/E-Commerce category, winner Miles Fletcher, BBC Wales's business correspondent was praised as a "highly informed reporter who brings background, context and history into sustained and authoritative news reporting".

Journalism commitment

Elsewhere in the ceremony, other commendations came for Robert Andrews and Manjiri Kulkarni in the Welsh Internet Journalist of the Year category.

Robert Andrews was highly commended for his work

And BBC Wales Today's Hywel Griffith was praised for "producing high quality work for someone so new to his trade".

"It's a fantastic performance by BBC Wales journalists," said Aled Eirug, Head of News And Current Affairs for BBC Wales.

"It shows the importance of our commitment to investigative journalism."

In the Daily Newspaper of the Year category, The Westen Mail won for the third time in four years, and Wales on Sunday reporter Martin Shipton was named Newspaper Journalist.

South Wales Echo writer Bob Cypher won the title of Internet Journalist of the Year, and Cathryn Janes, from Western Mail and Echo magazines, triumphed in the Feature Writer category.

The winners of all categories now go forward to represent Wales in a UK-wide competition at the BT Tower in London on 14 June.