Press Release:
"The award, created by Nokia and Press Gazette, organisers of the British Press Awards, was judged by a high profile panel including award-winning Channel 4 news presenter, Jon Snow as well as Vicky Taylor (BBC News Interactivity editor), Nick Wrenn (editor, CNN.com Europe), and Glyn Genin (Chairman of the Picture Editors Awards and former Financial Times Picture Editor). It recognises and celebrates the growing phenomenon of citizen journalism and the ever increasing number of photographs and videos generated by the general public as a result of them witnessing news events with a camera or camera phone." You can read more here