Resilience in the Asian media market was demonstrated by the strength of entries in this year's Asia Media Awards, presented at a gala dinner during the IfraExpo India/publishAsia conference in Chennai, India.
The event - staged by the newly-merged WAN-Ifra, was held in India for the first time - honoured the best of the 472 entries received for this year's competition. The conference itself has also attracted 600 delegates its four parallel conferences, and some 50 exhibitors.
Best in print
Below 150,000: Gold– HT Media for Mint; silver– Nayang Press Holdings Bhd for Nanyang Siang Pau; bronze– Sin Chew Media for Guang Ming Daily.
Over 150,000: Gold– Sin Chew Media for Sin Chew Daily; silver– HT Media for Hindustan Times; bronze DB Corp for Divya Bhaskar.
Best in Design: gold– South China Morning Post; silver– Singapore Press Holdings for The Business Times Weekend; bronze Ming Pau.
Magazine overall design: gold– The Sesame Seed Creative for Imagine; silver– SPH Magazines for The Peak Singapore August 2008; bronze– The Antithesis for Kee magazine.
Best in design, newspaper front page: gold– PT Republika Media Madiri for Republika Daily; silver– Apple Daily Taiwan; bronze– Ming Pao.
Best in infographics: gold– Awraq Publishing for Emarat Al Youm; silver– Singapore Press Holdings for Berita Harian/Berita Minggu; bronze– Al Nisr Publishing for Gulf News.
Best in special coverage, newspaper section: HT Media for Mint; silver– Maing Pao; bronze– Al Nisr Publishing for Gulf News.
Best in online media, newspaper website: Singapore Press Holdings for www.omy.sg; silver– SPH for RazorTV; bronze– Financial Times for FT.com.
Best in cross media, editorial coverage: SPH for www.omy.sg; silver– SPH for My paper; bronze– Post Media for Phnom Penh Post.
Best in cross media, cross media advertising: gold– SPH for The Sunday Times/Asiaone/Radio91.3FM for ‘Unexpected Australia’; silver– SPH for www.omy.sg; bronze– Mid Day Multimedia for Visa Pizza Hut campaign.
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