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November Online Newsroom of the Month - Vail Resorts
The Vail Resort's online newsroom features an SEO optimized URL utilizing the word news, story ideas, specific contact information, login for embargoed content, email sign up, blogs, a social media wall. hub and spoke, and an image rich and easy to navigate homepage.

September Online Newsroom of the Month- DeVry University
The DeVry University's online newsroom features an SEO maximized URL along with photo rich news articles, a distinguished faculty section, "in the news", media resources, media kits, and easy to access information on all social media channels.

August Online Newsroom of the Month- University Hospitals
The University Hospitals online newsroom features an SEO optimized URL news.uhhospitals.org. It also features news releases, available experts, multimedia, media team access, advanced search, email alerts and a media login portal for embargoed content.

July Online Newsroom of the Month- Pulte
Pulte features an SEO maximized URL newsroom.pulte.com. Other key features include a rotating carousel of featured stories, press kits, logos and videos, media contact information, advanced search, thought leadership pieces and embedded Twitter.

June Online Newsroom of the Month- Abbvie
Abbvie features an SEO maximized URL news.abbvie.com. Other key features include media contacts by country and specialty, press kits, video and image gallery, subject matter experts, brand journalism and everything is available in multiple languages.

May Online Newsroom of the Month - Vizient
Vizient features an SEO maximized URL, an easy to navigate homepage, an "in the news" section, blogs, multimedia including logos and videos, media contact information with email and phone numbers, advanced search, thought leadership, embedded Twitter and featured stories with images.

April Online Newsroom of the Month - Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes features an SEO maximized URL pitneybowes.com/us/newsroom. Other key features include an easy to navigate homepage, media contacts with phone number and email address, intuitive and "about us" section, easily accessible news stories, featured videos, searchable press releases, integrated social media, industry analyst reports and executive bios.

25 Amazing Online Newsrooms
Is your online newsroom amazing? Each year we take a look at hundreds of online newsrooms and select those that meet the criteria that journalists and news consumers expect. Categorized news stories, integrated social media, photos, videos and media kits are all essential elements of a successful online newsroom. Archive search, email distribution and "in the news" areas will help make yours amazing.

December's Online Newsroom of The Month- Motorola Solutions
Motorola Solutions is December's Online Newsroom of the Month. One of the key features of this online newsroom is the availability of translated, foreign content. Motorola site administrators are able to manage content from a variety of languages and personalize the experience for each user, based on their location preferences. This allows Motorola to manage one newsroom with multiple geographic front-end displays, giving them the ability to be more efficient and serve a much wider audience.

Why Journalists are Thankful for Online Newsrooms
Making journalists lives easier is a key role of a PR practitioner. In our recent survey, 97% of journalists said they visit online newsrooms regularly. Contact information, digital assets, resources, archive search and access to social media channels are just some of the reasons that journalists are thankful for a good online newsroom.