The Guardian won four awards - more than any other newspaper - at the industry's leading awards ceremony last night.
Guardian Unlimited, the Guardian's website, was named internet site of the year, MediaGuardian.co.uk's Dan Milmo won online journalist of the year, the print edition's front page of September 12 was commended, and Emma Brockes was named feature writer of the year at the British Press Awards, sponsored by Press Gazette.
Lynn Barber of the Observer, the Guardian's sister newspaper, was named interviewer of the year.
The judges said Guardian Unlimited "talks directly to its readers and delivers so much more than a newspaper alone can". They added that it was "a stylish, pace-setting and necessary destination for journalists and news junkies".
Milmo was described as "a journalist who is serving the media community with a string of good stories on a daily basis".
The Guardian's front page of September 12 headlined "A declaration of war" had a "bold and simple" impact, the judges said. "It was a courageous decision to use the picture over the entire broadsheet front page, with no written text and just a stark headline that said it all".
Brockes, who won young journalist of the year last year, was praised as "a writer of great talent who sees the extraordinary in the ordinary".
The newspaper of the year award was won by the Mirror, whose serious-minded approach to the aftermath of September 11 was applaudedby the judges.