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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