INMA Global Media Awards

Rewarding excellence in engaging and funding news brands and the outstanding journalism they produce

Journalism, by itself, won’t change the world.

To have influence and impact, resonating content requires a great user experience, packaging, funding mechanisms, clever creative execution, an intimate knowledge of customers.

Yet as the foundation for news media’s value proposition, how can we reward the outstanding work of making journalism financially sustainable for a world that needs truth and trust?

Since 1937, the INMA Global Media Awards has rewarded business practices that sustain news media and journalism. The years and categories change, but the mission remains the same.

Across 20 categories, eight genres, and two audience segments, INMA aims to tell a story of creativity and aspiration for the unsung heroes behind news media’s renaissance in a complicated Digital Age.

Journalism matters. And the business decisions to bolster that journalism matter, too.

Reward excellence. Reach for something bigger. Benchmark your work. Enter your best work in sustaining news media in the 2026 INMA Global Media Awards competition.

For 2026, INMA will lean into the competition’s mission by focusing on:

Advertising
Innovation
Media features
Newsroom
News brands
Product
Readership
Subscriptions

Why you should enter the INMA Global Media Awards competition:

Shines a light on your best innovation and growth initiatives
Motivates and focuses your staff, your agency, your stakeholders
Benchmarks your best efforts against your peers’ best efforts
Recognition, respect, and prestige for your company
The INMA Global Media Awards were presented at a glamourous dinner Thursday evening, May 22, 2025, at the Edison Ballroom in Midtown New York. This video captures the highlights of the evening. The next GMA deadline will be Friday, January 30, 2026. More information will be posted here soon.

From 2025 Awards Dinner in New York

See what it was like to win a Global Media Award at the Edison Ballroom in New York

Global Best In Shows

See more winners

What the “best of the best” looks like

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Raquel Meikle
Global Awards Manager

Raquel Meikle

Germany
awards@inma.org
+1 214 269-7485 or +49 170 3015197
Languages: English, Español, Deutsch
Doreen Mbaya
Africa Division

Doreen Mbaya

Kenya
doreen.mbaya@inma.org
+254 721541025
Languages: English, Swahili
Tom Corbett
Europe Division

Tom Corbett

Belgium
tom.corbett@inma.org
+32 486 37 13 36
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Ana Gutiérrez
Latin America Division

Ana Gutiérrez

El Salvador
ana.gutierrez@inma.org
+503 7986 7383
Languages: Español, English
Marni Drew
North America Division

Marni Drew

United States
marni.drew@inma.org
+1 503 826 6664
Languages: English
Madhavi Sekhri
Asia/Pacific Division

Madhavi Sekhri

India
madhavi.sekhri@inma.org
+91 9971600632
Languages: English, Hindi