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Background & Format: The website of the Manchester Evening News. Awards: 2018 - Regional Press Awards, Digital Initiative of the Year: Manchester Family (nominated)  2018 - Regional Press Awards, Digital Initiative of the Year: Instagram Initiative (highly commended)  2018 - Regional Press Awards, Website of the Year (winner)  2017 - Regional Press Awards, The Overall Digital Award (highly commended) 2017 - Regional Press Awards, Digital Initiative of the Year (nominated) 2017 - Regional Press Awards, Social Media Team of the Year (winner) 2017 - Regional Press Awards, Website of the Year (winner)  2017 - O2 Media Awards North West, Online Journalism (winner) 2016 - Regional Press Awards, Website of the Year (highly commended) 2015 - Regional Press Awards, The Digital Award: Boxing Day Floods liveblog (nominated) 2013 - Regional Press Awards, Website of the Year (winner) 2012 - Regional Press Awards, Website of the Year (nominated) 2012 - Online Media Awards, Best Local / Regional News Sites (nominated) Alerts: Gorkana UK Financial Alert: Thursday 1st December 2016 Trinity Mirror has begun rolling out its digital portfolio to a new 'Chameleon' platform, which automatically adapts depending on whether the website is being viewed on a desktop, tablet or smartphone. Articles will now load twice as quickly and the new platform provides better advertisement viability. Many daily newspaper sites have transitioned to the new look including Liverpool Echo, Manchester Evening News, Daily Post (Wales) and The Gazette (Teeside). The new platform is expected to hit all other regional news sites by the new year. For more information, Head of Digital Publishing Ed Walker can be reached at ed.walker@trinitymirror.com Gorkana Alert: Wednesday 30 January 2013 manchestereveningnews.co.uk has re-launched with a new look. The new layout aims to make navigation easier and reveal as much content as possible to visitors of the website. It also features pages for each community in Manchester as well as revamped picture galleries and a detailed listings guide. The online team can be reached at website@men-news.co.uk Gorkana Alert: Tuesday 30 October 2012 The Manchester Evening News and the Daily Post have launched live blogs on their websites to cover breaking news across their patches. The Trinity Mirror owned regional dailies will update the blogs throughout the day with news, sport, traffic and weather information. The creation of the blogs has been led by Daily Post Editor Alison Gow and Sarah Lester, Executive Editor for Digital at the Manchester Evening News. They run from the morning until around 10pm at night by one or two reporters each day. The blogs were launched as part of an experiment in new ways of covering breaking news and could be rolled out to other titles across the group. For more information, Trinity Mirror’s Head of Communications Rupert Smith can be reached at rupert.smith@trinitymirror.com Gorkana Consumer Alert: Thursday 3rd May 2007 The M