And the winner is ... BYU NewsNet -- again.

For the third consecutive year, NewsNet has been recognized as the best college online news service. NewsNet received the 2001 EPpy award Friday, Feb. 23, at the Editor & Publisher 12th Annual Interactive Newspapers Conference & Trade Show in Dallas.

This year's conference marks the third time the award has been given on a college level -- and NewsNet has won it all three years.

Michael Buhrley, NewsNet Web director, was in Dallas to accept the award on behalf of the organization. He said NewsNet has an edge on its competitors because it is the product of an integrated newsroom. In 1997, NewsNet became the first news organization in the country to physically combine its broadcast and print newsrooms.