The International News Media Association (INMA) today announced 198 finalists in the 2023 INMA Global Media Awards, with themes around health, reaching younger audiences, sports, climate change, the war in Ukraine, and the use of data focused on user engagement at the heart of the shortlist.

INMA garnered 775 entries from 239 news brands in 40 countries, with finalists hailing from Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America, South Asia, and North America.

Companies that dominated the INMA shortlist include Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL), Jagran Prakashan, News Corp, Russmedia, and Schibsted. Leading the finalist list were entries from India (32), United States (22), Sweden (19), Norway (18), Austria and Australia (14 each), and Germany (12).

In its 86th year of rewarding excellence in the news media industry, the 2023 INMA Global Media Awards include 20 categories across two segments — national/international and regional. The categories focus on excellence in news brands, media features, product, subscriptions, advertising, newsrooms, and data and insights. 

One first place, second place, and third place will be awarded for each of the 20 categories within each segment. In some cases, judges may omit awards or advise additional awards. 

First place winners, regional winners, and the global “Best In Show” will be unveiled May 26 at the Harvard Club in New York, as the culmination of the INMA World Congress of News Media being held May 22-26.

“The Global Media Awards continue to shine a light on the best our industry has to offer,” said Earl J. Wilkinson, INMA CEO and executive director. “As past years have shown, these entries act as springboards for innovation across the globe. We are proud of the 2023 class of finalists. We can’t wait to present awards in-person in New York for the first time in four years.”

Some 54 media experts from 20 countries judged the entries in February, evaluating on breakthrough results, unique concepts, strong creativity, innovative thinking, and winning synergies across platforms.

The 775 entries in this year’s Global Media Awards competition are live on INMA.org in the association’s Best Practices archive. Finalists may be viewed publicly, while all other entries are reserved exclusively for INMA members. 

INMA has 8,000+ “best practices” from the past decade of Global Media Awards competitions, sortable to finalists and winners, category, year, and country.

About International News Media Association (INMA)

The International News Media Association (INMA) is a global community of market-leading news media companies reinventing how they engage audiences and grow revenue. The INMA community consists of more than 20,000 members at 900+ news media companies in 89 countries. INMA is the news media industry’s foremost ideas-sharing network with members connected via conferences, reports, Webinars, virtual meetings, an unparalleled archive of best practices, and strategic initiatives focused on digital subscriptions, smart data, product, advertising, newsrooms, and the publisher relationships with Big Tech. 

Global Media Awards finalists

Editor’s note: Finalists below are listed alphabetically. Click on the campaign name to view the complete entry. These entries are open to the public through May 31.

Category 1: Best Brand Awareness Campaign

Regional Brands

• The Arizona Republic, Austin American-Statesman, The Tennessean, United States, “Here For It”
• Boston Globe Media, United States, “The Boston Globe: Serving Our Community for 150 Years”
• Hearst Newspapers, Houston, United States, “Houston Chronicle ‘We Headline Houston’ Brand Campaign”
• Hindustan Media Ventures, Greater Noida, India, “Naya Hindustan: Brand Refresh”
• Stampen Media, Gothenburg, Sweden, “World Press Freedom Day”

National Brands

• Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd., Noida, India, “The Times of a Better India ”
• The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada, “Invest In You”
• Reach, London, United Kingdom, “Liz Truss and the Lettuce”
• USA Today, McLean, United States, “USA Today ‘To the Point’ Campaign”
• VG, Oslo, Norway, “VG ‘The Day Is Not the Same Without ...’”

Category 2: BEST PUBLIC RELATIONS OR COMMUNITY SERVICE CAMPAIGN

Regional Brands

• The Courier Mail, Bowen Hills, Australia, “Future Brisbane”
• Hindustan Media Ventures, Greater Noida, India, “Hindustan Mission Shakti”
• Manchester Evening News, United Kingdom, “Awaab’s Law”
• NJ Advance Media, Iselin, United States, “Mosaic Empowerment Program”
• NWT Media, Karlstad, Sweden, “War In Ukraine: When the Readers Saved Lives ”

National Brands

• Editora Globo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “Um Só Planeta”
• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “Holy Cow!!”
• NZME, Auckland, New Zealand, “Ukraine Crisis Appeal”
• The Straits Times, Singapore, “Stop Scams”
• Vecernji list, Zagreb, Croatia, “Earth Resolution: The Biggest Ecological Project in Croatia” 

CATEGORY 3: BEST USE OF AN EVENT TO BUILD A NEWS BRAND

Regional Brands

• Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd., Kolkata, India, “Ei Samay: Ek Hobar Utsav ”
• Gruppo Editoriale Athesis, Verona, Italy, “Festival del Futuro”
• Kleine Zeitung, Graz, Austria, “Kleine Zeitung Crime Night”
• Mediacorp, Singapore, “Young Reporter Challenge 2022”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “11th Children and Youth Book Fair “Buch am Bach” ”

National Brands

• Aftenposten Junior, Oslo, Norway, “How a Birthday Party in Minecraft Made a Massive Impact on Brand Awareness, Engagement, and Sales”
• Dow Jones, New York, United States, “The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival 2022”
• Editora Globo, São Paulo, Brazil, “Cidadão Global”
• Stuff, Auckland, New Zealand, “Stuff Festival of Fashion and The Ensemble Edit”
• The Times of India, Mumbai, India, “The Art of India Fest ’22”

Category 4: Best Idea to Encourage Reader Engagement

Regional Brands

• Advance Local Media, New York, United States, “Finding Readers with Potential”
• Bergens Tidende, Norway, “Reinventing Onboarding: How Bergens Tidende Increased Its Average Renewal Rate by 15% In Just a Few Months”
• The Courier and The Press Journal, Dundee, United Kingdom, “ DMP-Powered Subscriber Engagement On- and Off-Platform”
• The News-Press and Naples Daily News, United States, “Hurricane Ian: Reaching Community Through Text”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “User Engagement For a Good Cause”

National Brands

• Corriere della Sera, Milan, Italy, “Le Tue Notizie”
• Guardian News & Media, London, United Kingdom, “A Climate-Themed Campaign To Engage Guardian Supporters”
• News Corp Australia, Sydney, Australia, “Birmingham Commonwealth Games — Your Games, Your Way”
• The Straits Times, Singapore, “World Cup: A ‘Hat-Trick’ Special”
• USA Today/Gannett, McLean, United States, “Action Bar Feature”

Category 5: Best New Video Product or Feature

Regional Brands

• The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Australia, “The War”
• Jagran New Media, Noida, India, “Pulse of the City: Bajaj Pulsar”
• NTM, Norrköping, Sweden, “Capturing Sports Fanatics With Live TV to Strengthen Subscriber Loyalty”
• pd next, Augsburg, Germany, “Local Video Documentary Series”
• Rede Gazeta, Vitoria, Brazil, “Political Fox (Raposa Política)”

National Brands

• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “The Road to Kallu’s House”
• Nexo Jornal, São Paulo, Brazil, “Foi Assim”
• Relevo, Madrid, Spain, “A Video News Front Page for the TikTok Generation”
• Stuff, Auckland, New Zealand, “Fire and Fury”
• VG, Oslo, Norway, “Skrekkminuttene: Minutes of Horror”

Category 6: Best New Audio/Voice Product or Feature

Regional Brands 

(Judges selected only four finalists in this category)

• Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd., Kolkata, India, “Times Podcast Challenge ”
• Göteborgs-Posten, Gothenburg, Sweden, “Nyhetsshowen”
• Hearst Newspapers, San Francisco, United States, “San Francisco Chronicle Audio Walking Tours”
• Kleine Zeitung, Graz, Austria, “Kleine Zeitung Podcast Series GrazNOST”

National Brands

• Aftenposten, Oslo, Norway, “Creating the Synthetic Voice of Aftenposten”
• Funke, Berlin, Germany, “+100% Growth Within One Year: Our Path to Regional No. 1 Podcast Publisher”
• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “The Kids Are Alright Online. Are They?”
• Prisa, Madrid, Spain, “Victoria, the Voice of Soccer”
• VG, Oslo, Norway, “Nerid Audio Story”

Category 7: Best Use of Print

Regional Brands

• Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd., Hyderabad, India, “#iamhyderabad”
• Dainik Bhaskar, Noida, India, “Newspaper on Gajji Silk Fabric”
• Geelong Advertiser, Australia, “Geelong Advertiser Grand Final Souvenir Edition”
• pd next, Augsburg, Germany, “Rocketeer Magazin: Celebrate Ideas”
• Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, Germany, “The Reinvention of Tagesspiegel”

National Brands

• 20 Minutes, Levallois-Perret, France, “20 Mint Magazine Launch”
• Dainik Bhaskar Group, Noida, India, “MICA Newspaper — Bhilwara”
• Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland, “#NoNonsenseSchool”
• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “Holy Cow!!”
• South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, “Subdivided Flat Living in Hong Kong”

Category 8: Best Use of Social Media

Regional Brands

• Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd., Hyderabad, India, “#iamhyderabad”
• Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun, Canada, “Downtown Turnaround: 24 Hours, 24 Voices, 24 Ideas to Build a Better Downtown”
• A Gazeta, Vitória, Brazil, “Capixapédia”
• KStA Digitale Medien, Cologne, Germany, “EXPRESS.de Social Media Strategy”
• Pulgar Digital, Bahia Blanca, Argentina, “IGnovation”

National Brands

• Dagbladet, Oslo, Norway, “Dagbladet Tiktok”
• The Economist, London, United Kingdom, “The Economist on TikTok”
• Grupo El Comercio, Lima, Peru, “HYPE, Multiplatform Media for Centennials and Young Millennials”
• Relevo, Madrid, Spain, “Launching on Social Networks Without a Web Site: A Success Story”
• VG, Oslo, Norway, “VG’s Presence on TikTok”

Category 9: Best New Digital Product

Regional Brands

• Bergens Tidende, Bergen, Norway, “Journey Around the World: How Bergens Tidende Invented a Brand New Digital Format”
• Budstikka/NTB, Billingstad, Norway, “The Oslo Pilot”
• NJ Advance Media, Iselin, United States, “N.J. Destination of the Year”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “V+”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “ländlejobconnects.at ”

National Brands

• Dow Jones, New York, United States, “Iconic Mints: A Hybrid NFT Exhibition”
• Hindustan Media Ventures, New Delhi, India, “Mintgenie: Learn To Invest By Playing In the Stock Market”
• Newslaundry, New Delhi, India, “Newslaundry App”
• Omni, Stockholm, Sweden, “Omni Mer”
• Relevo, Madrid, Spain, “A News Front Page For the TikTok Generation”

Category 10: Best Product Iteration

Regional Brands

• The Dallas Morning News, United States, “LocalGraf: Internal Database Linking From Inside Stories”
• KStA Digitale Medien, Cologne, Germany, “Destroy ksta.de: Evolving a Traditional Local News Web Site By Changing Everything”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “Employer Reviews on ländlejob.at ”
• Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, Germany, “The Reinvention of Tagesspiegel”
• VK Media, Umeå, Sweden, “Article Recommendations: How To Increase CTR by 130%”

National Brands

• Aftenposten, Oslo, Norway, “How a New Front Page Structure and Active Personalisation Helped Kids Find Content They Love”
• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “Walking the Walk with First-Party Data”
• JP/Politikens Hus, Copenhagen, Denmark, “The Platform Intelligence in News Project (PIN)”
• Prothom Alo, Dhaka, Bangladesh, “Prothom Alo ePaper”
• Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien, Munich, Germany, “Scaling Visual Storytelling at Süddeutsche Zeitung”

Category 11: Best Initiative to Acquire Subscribers

Regional Brands

• Advance Local, New York, United States, “Gooooooooaal! How Advance Local Scored With High School Sports in 2022”
• The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Australia, “The War”
• NWT Media, Karlstad, Sweden, “Young Audiences Key For Digital Growth”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “V+ meets Ländlepoints ”
• Seven West Media, Perth, Australia, “Driving Subscriber Acquisition at the West Australian Using AI”

National Brands

• Agora, Warsaw, Poland, “Boost Your Employees’ Potential: Digital Subscription as a Benefit For Employees”
• Irish Examiner Group, Linn Dubh, Ireland, “Irish Examiner Sport Live Streaming”
• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “Shifting Subscription Gears with First-Party Data”
• The New York Times, United States, “How The New York Times Uses Machine Learning To Make Its Paywall Smarter”
• Tamedia, Zürich, Switzerland, “Understanding the Needs of Young Individuals and How to Excite Them On Eye-Level for Media”

Category 12: Best Initiative to Retain Subscribers

Regional Brands

(Judges selected only four finalists in this category)

• Bergens Tidende, Norway, “Reinventing Onboarding — How Bergens Tidende Increased Its Average Renewal Rate by 15% in Just a Few Months”
• Keskisuomalainen, Jyväskylä, Finland, “Improving Retention with Hyperlocal Personalised and Automated JAMES Newsletters Introduced Across 16 Local Newsrooms of Keskisuomalainen Oyj”
• NTM, Norrköping, Sweden, “Capturing Sports Fanatics With Live TV to Strengthen Subscriber Loyalty”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “V+ ”

National Brands

• Expressen, Stockholm, Sweden, “The Engagement Month: How One Test Changed Expressens Newsroom Strategy”
• The Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland, “Surprise and Delight”
• New Zealand Herald, Auckland, New Zealand, “Win Back Offer by Reason for Cancellation”
• Schibsted, Oslo, Norway, “How Aftenposten Convinced More People to Stay by Making It Easier to Leave”
• Time, New York, United States, “AI-Driven Article Recommendations: Dynamic Subscriber E-Mails”

Category 13: Best Subscription Niche Product

Regional Brands

• Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd., Kolkata, India, “Times Philanthropy Honours”
• Lee Enterprises, Davenport, United States, “HuskerExtra Sports Web Site and Mobile App”
• Newsday Media Group, Melville, United States, “Newsday’s FeedMe”
• NTM, Norrköping, Sweden, “Capturing Sports Fanatics With Live TV to Strengthen Subscriber Loyalty”
• La Voz de Galicia, Arteixo, Spain, “The Health Curious Gen”

National Brands

• Bonnier News, Stockholm, Sweden, “A Unique Combination: Streaming of Live Sport+Journalism — a Local and National Success”
• The Hindu Group, Chennai, India, “The Hindu In School Weekender ”
• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “Shifting Subscription Gears with First-Party Data”
• NZME, Auckland, New Zealand, “Viva Premium Launch”
• Telegraph Media Group, London, United Kingdom, “How The Telegraph Are Using Puzzles to Crack the Subscription Conundrum”

Category 14: Best Idea to Grow Advertising Sales

Regional Brands

• Amedia, Oslo, Norway, “It’s a Match: Unique Accuracy With CRM-Match”
• The Chronicle, Toowoomba, Australia, “Custom Publishing Digital Acquisition”
• Nordwest Mediengruppe, Oldenburg, Germany, “Innovative Digital Magazines of Northwest Mediagroup”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “ländlejobconnects.at ”
• Stampen Lokala Medier, Gothenburg, Sweden, “Stampen Deals”

National Brands

• Amedia, Oslo, Norway, “Use of Personalisation to Increase Content Relevance and Grow Advertising Sales”
• Bloomberg Media, New York, United States, “Bloomberg Media Launches New Suite of First-Party Ad Products”
• Media24, Sandton, South Africa, “Adspace24: Swipe Cards and Catalogue”
• New Zealand Herald, Auckland, New Zealand, “NZME Print Makes an Instant Impression”
• Prothom Alo, Dhaka, Bangladesh, “bKash Eid Gathering”

Category 15: Most Creative Use of Advertising Formats

Regional Brands

• Hearst Newspapers, San Francisco, United States, “SFGATE, HNP StoryStudio & Ka’anapali Beach Resort”
• Jagran New Media, Noida, India, “Roke Na Ruke”
• Newsday Media Group, Melville, United States, “Do It Downtown Brand360 Custom Content Marketing Program”
• NTM, Norrköping, Sweden, “The Fading Words”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “VOL.AT Topscroll”

National Brands

• Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd, Gurgaon, India, “Print Ad with Augmented Reality (Hyundai Ad)”
• Guardian News Media Australia, Sydney, Australia, “Guardian Australia Live Headlines ”
• Media24, Sandton, South Africa, “Adspace24: Swipe Cards and Catalogue”
• Tempo Digital, South Jakarta, Indonesia, “Optimising Programmatic Ads Revenue and User Engagement by Debunking Disinformation”
• USA Today/Gannett, McLean, United States, “Walmart’s Holiday Top Toys”

Category 16: Best Multi-Channel Client Advertising Campaign

Regional Brands

• ABP, Kolkata, India, “Cadbury Gaane Mishti Jugalbandi”
• ABP, Kolkata, India, “Coke Pet Pujor Pandal”
• Dainik Jagran Inext, Kanpur, India, “Trends: Holi Ka Har Rang”
• Media24, Sandton, South Africa, “City Press & ABSA Money Make Over”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “Unter Strom (“Electrified”)”

National Brands

• Bonnier News, Stockholm, Sweden, “Kry: Doktorn Svarar”
• Editora Globo, São Paulo, Brazil, “Embratel — Vamos Habilitar o Próximo Nível? (Let’s Enable the Next Level)”
• Hindustan Media Ventures, New Delhi, India, “SLURRP”
• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “Connecting the Last Mile”
• Stuff, Auckland, New Zealand, “Pascall: The Family FUNdamentals”

Category 17: Best Internal Data Dashboard and Reports

Regional Brands

• The Age, Docklands, Australia, “Homepage CTR Bootstrap”
• Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd, Noida, India, “Driving Subscriptions, Traffic, and User Engagement Through Smart Use of Data Visualisation”
• Göteborgs-Posten, Gothenburg, Sweden, “User-Friendly Data”
• De Limburger, Antwerp, Belgium, “Article DNA: The Secret Life of Article Characteristics”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “Real People Index”

National Brands

• Harian Kompas (Kompas Daily), Jakarta, Indonesia, “BIKOM: Serving Data in One Portal to Achieve Digital Transformation and Become Customer Oriented Digital Media ”
• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “Good Horns, Good Brakes ... and Good Luck”
• News Corp Australia, Surry Hills, Australia, “Project Heartbeat”
• News UK, London, United Kingdom, “New Performance Measurement Toolkit for The Sun”
• SBS, Artarmon, Australia, “Transforming Editorial and Content Strategy Using an Audience User Needs Data Approach”

Category 18: Best Use of Data to Drive a Business Result

Regional Brands

• Amedia, Oslo, Norway, “It’s a Match: Unique Accuracy With CRM-Match”
• KStA Digitale Medien, Cologne, Germany, “Man vs. Machine: Rapid Design, Deploy, and Run an ML-Based Recommender to Drive User Engagement”
• NTM, Norrköping, Sweden, “Calibration of Content: The Seven Subject Strategy”
• Reach, London, United Kingdom, “Creating Reasons to Log In to News”
• Stampen Lokala Medier, Gothenburg, Sweden, “Stampen Deals ”

National Brands

• Financial Times, London, United Kingdom, “FT Customer Segmentation 2022”
• Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat, Helsinki, Finland, “SML Model”
• Hindustan Media Ventures, New Delhi, India, “Ottplay Premium Subscription”
• Stuff, Auckland, New Zealand, “Digital Advertising Inventory Optimisation”
• The Times of India, Gurugram, India, “Client Deduplication: Innovative AI-Driven Customer Data Grouping”

Category 19: Best Innovation in Newsroom Transformation

Regional Brands

• Göteborgs-Posten, Gothenburg, Sweden, “GP Academy”
• Mediahuis Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, “Local News”
• Nordwest Mediengruppe, Oldenburg, Germany, “Newsletter Incubator”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “V+”
• The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, “The Sydney Morning Herald Trainee Program”

National Brands

• Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat, Helsinki, Finland, “SML Model”
• Mediacorp, Singapore, “AI SmartCut”
• NZME, Auckland, New Zealand, “Te Rito Journalism Cadetship — Te Ara Hou: A New Pathway”
• Omni, Stockholm, Sweden, “Omni Mer”
• Relevo, Madrid, Spain, “Sprinting For Success: Innovating Sports Coverage by Working Together”

Category 20: Best Use of Visual Journalism and Storytelling Tools

Regional Brands

• Bergens Tidende, Norway, “Journey Around the World: How Bergens Tidende Brought the Whole World to Its Readers ”
• The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Australia, “The War”
• Funke Mediengruppe, Berlin, Germany, “Climate Crisis: Mapping Where the Earth Will Become Uninhabitable”
• La Presse, Montréal, Canada, “Récit Numérique”
• The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Docklands, Australia, “Multi-Dimensional Data Visualisation”

National Brands

• Gazeta.pl, Warsaw, Poland, “One Day In”
• La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina, “This Is How the Attack Against Cristina Kirchner Was Planned and Carried Out”
• El País, Montevideo, Uruguay, “La hazaña de los Andes: a 50 Años del Accidente, la Historia de los 72 Días en la Montaña”
• South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, “Life in Hong Kong’s Shoebox Housing”
• The Straits Times Media, Singapore, “Living Inside and Outside with Dementia”

Winners in the INMA Global Media Awards competition will be announced during the World Congress of News Media in New York on May 26.

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