Two Indian giants are among the top three most successful entrants in INMA’s 2024 Global Media Awards.

Times of India publisher Bennett, Coleman & Co and Jagran Prakashan helped make India – with 24 finalist entries – the second-most successful country after the US.

Stuff was also among the most successful finalists, contributing to New Zealand’s total of 11 of the 193 finalist places, while Newscorp was also prominent. Entries from Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong were also prominent in the region.

The annual competition garnered 771 entries from 245 news brands in 43 countries, and highlighted themes around the use of AI in newsroom innovation, promoting the public good campaigns, reaching younger audiences, sports, the war in Ukraine and user engagement.

Leading the finalist list were entries from the US (26), India (24), Germany (22), Sweden (16), Norway (13) and New Zealand (11), with Australia scoring six finalist entries. First-place and regional winners, and the global ‘best in show’ will be announced on April 25, when the awards are presented at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum during the INMA World Congress of News Media being held April 22-26.

The awards include 20 categories across two segments – national/international and regional – and focus on seven topic areas: excellence in news brands, media features, product, subscriptions, advertising and commerce, newsrooms, and AI. 

INMA executive director and chief executive Earl Wilkinson said this year’s awards had been highly competitive: “This class of finalists represent the best in the business of news, and we are proud to champion the mission of outstanding journalism.”

Entries were judged by some 60 media experts from 23 countries, and can be viewed at INMA.org in the association’s ‘best practices’ archive, with public access to finalists

Global Media Awards finalists

(Finalists below are listed alphabetically. Click on the campaign name to view the complete entry. These entries are open to the public until May 25).

Category 1: Best Brand Awareness Campaign

Regional Brands

• Brisbane Times, North Sydney, Australia, “It’s Brisbane’s Time”
• Newsday, Melville, United States, “Newsday Journalist Branding Campaign ”
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, United States, “Unsubscribe”
• The Post, Wellington, New Zealand, “Rebrand of The Post”
• The Press & Journal, Dundee, United Kingdom, “The P&J 275 Years As Your Voice”

National Brands

• Bloomberg, New York, United States, “Context Changes Everything: Bloomberg Media Brand Awareness”
• Irish Independent, Dublin, Ireland, “Irish Independent Masterbrand”
• Nation Media, Nairobi, Kenya, “Nation.Africa Paywall Campaign”
• NZME, Auckland, New Zealand, “The New Zealand Herald”
• Wyborcza.pl, Warsaw, Poland, “Read Over Manipulation”

Category 2: Best Public Relations or Community Service Campaign

Regional Brands

• Bonnier News, Stockholm, Sweden, “Region Västernorrland — The World’s Worst Secret”
• Dainik Jagran — inext, Kanpur, India, “Fostering A Safer Digital Landscape For Young Generations: Fake Friends”
• News Corp Australia, Sydney, Australia, “National Bush Summit Campaign”
• Südkurier Medienhaus, Konstanz, Germany, “Supporter Campaign: We Are One Of You”
• The Times of India, Chennai, India, “Roads So Annoying!”

National Brands

• Harian Kompas, Jakarta, Indonesia, “Unforgotten Supporters”
• Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki, Finland, “Counterstrike of the Free Press”
• Jagran New Media, Delhi, India, “Sach Ke Sathi: FactsUp Media Literacy Project”
• Stuff, Gisborne, New Zealand, “Cyclone Gabrielle Fundraiser”
• The Times of India, New Delhi, India, “Unplastic India ”

Category 3: Best Use of an Event to Build a News Brand

Regional Brands

• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, United States, “The South Got Something To Say”
• Augsburger Allgemeine, Augsburg, Germany, “Rocketeer Festival: The Conference For Future and Innovation”
• El Nuevo Día, San Juan, Puerto Rico, “From the Photo Archive: Clemente 3000th”
• Hallandsposten, Halmstad, Sweden, “An Evening for the Book”
• News Corp Australia, Bowen Hills, Australia, “Future Series Presented by News Corp ”

National Brands

• De Telegraaf, Amsterdam, Netherlands, “Political Leaders Editor-in-Chief for a Day”
• The Hindu, Chennai, India, “The Hindu Our State Our Taste”
• HT Labs, New Delhi, India, “OTTplay Awards”
• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “The Festival Experience”
• Schibsted Norge, Oslo, Norway, “How We Created the Best Wine Fair in Norway to Build a News Brand”

Category 4: Best Idea to Encourage Reader Engagement

Regional Brands

• Bergens Tidende, Bergen, Norway, “A Personalized News Experience”
• Fædrelandsvennen, Kristiansand, Norway, “Fædrelandsvennen ung”
• NTM, Uppsala, Sweden, “Superengage by Hyperlocal Newsletters”
• Ostfriesen-Zeitung, Leer, Germany, “Future North Sea”
• Reach, London, United Kingdom, “WhatsApp Communities and Channels: Using Direct Messaging to Drive Engagement and Revenue”

National Brands

• Daily Maverick, Cape Town, South Africa, “Daily Maverick Sports Supporters’ Club”
• Expressen, Stockholm, Sweden, “Young Audience Focus Month”
• La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina, “TikTok Style Posts and Helpful Boxes: Creating the Article Format for Gen Z”
• Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Germany, “Personalised Year Review for Subscribers of Süddeutsche Zeitung ”
• The Washington Post, United States, “Newsprint 2024: Engaging Consumers Through Personalized Reading Insights, Captivating Storytelling, and Relevant Content Recommendations”

Category 5: Best New Video Product or Feature

Regional Brands

• Boston Globe, United States, “Boston Globe Today”
• Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun, Canada, “On the Road”
• Rede Gazeta, Vitória, Brazil, “Crimes Brutais”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “Apprenticeship Campaign on VOL.AT”
• San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio, United States, “Ron From The Car”

National Brands

• Agence France-Presse, Paris, France, “AFP Fact Check: How to Verify Information Online”
• Daily Maverick, Cape Town, South Africa, “Tribe One Dinokeng: Sony’s Disastrous ‘Fyre Festival’”
• HT Digital Streams, New Delhi, India, “Mint Presents Rollin' with the Boss”
• The Kyiv Independent, Kyiv, Ukraine, “War Crimes Unit”
• The Straits Times, Singapore, “Ask The Next President Anything”

Category 6: Best New Audio/Voice Product or Feature

Regional Brands

• Göteborgs-Posten, Gothenburg, Sweden, “#HerNameWas”
• The Mathrubhumi, Kozhikode, India, “Pusthakvosky”
• News Corp Australia, Adelaide, Australia, “Dying Rose”
• Nordwest-Zeitung, Oldenburg, Germany, “Podcast “Vdoma”/Zuhause”
• Rheinische Post, Düsseldorf, Germany, “Audio Avatar”

National Brands

• The Economist, London, United Kingdom, “Economist Podcasts+”
• Grupo RPP, Lima, Peru, “Podcast Lima 8.8: Alerta sismo (Lima 8.8: Earthquake Alert)”
• Irish Independent, Dublin, Ireland, “The Indo Daily: Trade On a Future Promise, Not a Legacy Product ”
• Ringier, Zurich, Switzerland, “EqualVoice-Factor Video-Score by EqualVoice@Ringier”
• Stuff, Auckland, New Zealand, “Newsable ”

Category 7: Best Use of Print

Regional Brands

• The Dallas Morning News and Medium Giant, United States, “Texas Rangers World Series Run”
• Navabharat Media, Nagpur, India, “Hum Sakshi Hain (We Are Witnesses)”
• NZME, Hastings, New Zealand, “Cyclone Gabrielle: Special Free Edition”
• Stuff Group, Wellington, New Zealand, “The Post Rebrand”
• The Times of India, Chennai, India, “Roads So Annoying!”

National Brands

• Dagbladet, Oslo, Norway, “Dagbladet Magasinet Special Edition on Bullying”
• Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland, “Gazette for Refugees”
• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “Code Red”
• Jutarnji list, Zagreb, Croatia, “Next Business Magazine Croatia-Slovenia”
• The Times of India, New Delhi, India, “Unplastic India ”

Category 8: Best Use of Social Media

Regional Brands

• Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun, Canada, “Olympic Rewind”
• Newsday, Melville, United States, “How Newsday’s Social Media Team Changed Their Strategy and Increased Video Views By 56%”
• The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Brisbane Times, Australia, “Nine Metros’ Women's World Cup Coverage on Social Media”
• The Times of India, Chennai, India, “Roads So Annoying!”
• Zero Hora, Porto Alegre, Brazil, “The Historic Floods of 2023 in Southern Brazil”

National Brands

• The Daily Prothom Alo, Dhaka, Bangladesh, “Meril Prothom Alo Awards Explode on TikTok, Setting New Engagement Records”
• El Comercio, Lima, Peru, “No More Child Abuse. Because Growing Up Without Fear is a Right”
• Expressen, Stockholm, Sweden, “Expressen on TikTok”
• VG, Oslo, Norway, “VG’s Use of TikTok as a Source for Evolving Our Entire Video Product”
• Wyborcza.pl, Warsaw, Poland, “30 PiS Scandals: A Series of Daily Short Videos Published Before the Parliamentary Elections in Poland in 2023, Recalling Journalistic Investigations and Abuses of Power”

Category 9: Best New Digital Product

Regional Brands

• Bergens Tidende, Bergen, Norway, “Everyone Talks About the Weather: How Bergens Tidende’s Groundbreaking New Service Gave People Even More to Discuss”
• KStA Digitale Medien, Cologne, Germany, “KStA Click & Read”
• Mediahuis Noord, Groningen, Netherlands, “Stories App”
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, United States, “Discover Tab”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “Story Premium Format”

National Brands

• Alma Media, Helsinki, Finland, “IL Palat”
• CNN Business Arabic, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, “CNN Business Arabic App”
• The Logic, Toronto, Canada, “The Logic Mobile App”
• Post, New York, United States, “Post”
• Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm, Sweden, “SvD Kompakt”

Category 10: Best Product Iteration

Regional Brands

• Bergens Tidende and Stavanger Aftenblad, Bergen and Stavanger, Norway, “How We Tripled the Amount of Users on Our Reward Programs”
• The Dallas Morning News, United States, “News Alert Email Strategy”
• Ippen Digital, Munich, Germany, “Driving Loyalization and Engagement for Local News on a Unified App Platform”
• Mediahuis Noord, Groningen, Netherlands, “Stories App”
• NTM, Uppsala, Sweden, “Project Improved News Density”

National Brands

• Hindustan Media, New Delhi, India, “OTTplay Product Iteration”
• IOL, Johannesburg, South Africa, “IOL Newsletters”
• Der Spiegel, Hamburg, Germany, “Let’s Debate: How Der Spiegel Created a New Space for User Participation ”
• La Tercera, Santiago, Chile, “The Match Project”
• WeltN24, Berlin, Germany, “Revitalizing the Welt Community”

Category 11: Best Initiative to Grow Subscriptions

Regional Brands

• Advance Local, Parma, United States, “Journalism: Our Core Product and the Cornerstone of Selling Subscriptions”
• Hearst Newspapers, New York, United States, “Article Gifting Pays It Forward for Hearst Newspapers”
• KstA Digitale Medien, Cologne, Germany, “KStA Click & Read”
• Le Devoir, Montréal, Canada, “Le Devoir Acquisition Strategy: How to Increase Your Digital Subscription Base by 13% in Six Months”
• Malayala Manorama, Kottayam, India, “Read and Win”

National Brands

• Bonnier News, Stockholm, Sweden, “The Launch of +Allt”
• Daily Maverick, Cape Town, South Africa, “Maverick Insider Marketing”
• Frankfurter Allgemeine, Frankfurt, Germany, “How F.A.Z. Acquired More Young Subscribers”
• Omni, Stockholm, Sweden, “Omni Mer: The Boost”
• United Daily News, Xizhi Dist., Taiwan, “Cracking the Code: How Our Homegrown Data-Driven Curation Program Reshaped Subscription Growth”

Category 12: Best Subscripton or Registration Experience

Regional Brands (judges awarded only four finalists in this segment)

• Hearst Newspapers, New York, United States, “Article Gifting Pays It Forward for Hearst Newspapers”
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, United States, “Mobile-First Digital Subscription Checkout Flow”
• Sydney Morning Herald & The Age, Australia, “Which (Introductory) Price is Right?”
• Zero Hora, Itajaí, Brazil, “ZH Birthday Covers”

National Brands

• Blick, Zürich, Switzerland, “The Cliffhanger Effect: How Blick’s Paywall Strategy Drives Digital Subscription Growth”
• Business Insider, New York, United States, “Mobile ‘One Click’ Paywall”
• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “Joining the Data Dots”
• Publico, Lisbon, Portugal, “Increasing Registrations with a New Datawall Strategy”
• The Straits Times, Singapore, “Experience myST: Giving What Matters Most to Readers”

Category 13: Best New Subscriber Onboarding Experience

Regional Brands (judges awarded only two finalists in this segment)

• Newsday, Melville, United States, “Newsday Subscriber Onboarding Journey”
• Stampen, Göteborg, Sweden, “Digi-What? From What is Digital to I Am Digital”

National Brands

• Aftenposten, Oslo, Norway, “How Aftenposten Created an Engaging and Customer-Centric Onboarding Experience Across Product and 1:1 Channels with Promising Results”
• Handelsblatt, Düsseldorf, Germany, “Now Read This! The New Web Onboarding Journey @ Handelsblatt & WirtschaftsWoche”
• The Hindu, Chennai, India, “The Hindu Digital’s Free Trial Gamification Onboarding Journey ”
• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “Joining the Data Dots”
• The Wall Street Journal, New York, United States, “Maximizing The Moment of Purchase for New Subscriber Onboarding”

Category 14: Best Idea to Grow Advertising Sales

Regional Brands

• ABP, Kolkata, India, “Cadbury Gaane Mishti Folk Fusion”
• The Dallas Morning News, United States, “Digital Replica Revenue Growth to Future Proof Local Journalism”
• Nordwest Zeitung, Oldenburg, Germany, “Using GeoIntelligence: Boosting the Sales ”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “Story Premium Format ”
• VK Media, Umeå, Sweden, “How VK Media Used Predictive Analysis to Increase Ad Revenue and Digital Subscriptions from Articles Gone Viral”

National Brands

• Bonnier News, Stockholm, Sweden, “Expressen Story”
• The Daily Prothom Alo, Dhaka, Bangladesh, “University Admission Festival”
• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “Be a Part of the Story”
• News UK, Reach, Guardian Media & Telegraph Media, London, United Kingdom, “Ozone Smart Bidstream: Powering Premium Publisher Programmatic”
• NZME, Auckland, New Zealand, “Imprint”

Category 15: Most Creative Use of Advertising Formats

Regional Brands

• Newsday, Melville, United States, “Let’s Go! Brand360 Shared Sponsorship Program”
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, United States, “Restoring Hope”
• Rede Gazeta, Vitória, Brazil, “U.Break”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “Story Premium Format ”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “Online Brochure Super Push”

National Brands

• Bloomberg Media, New York, United States, “Context Changes Everything: Bloomberg Media: Most Creative Use of Advertising Formats”
• El Comercio, Lima, Peru, “Todos Somos Santa ”
• Fortune Media, New York, United States, “Salesforce and Fortune Brand Studio Present The Ecopreneurs”
• The Irish Times and The Irish Examiner, Dublin, Ireland, “Dulux Heritage in Partnership with The Irish Times Group”
• Stuff, Auckland, New Zealand, “Triton Hearing + Stuff”

Category 16: Best Commerce Product or Service

Regional Brands (judges awarded only two finalists in this segment)

• Amedia, Oslo, Norway, “How the Publisher Ecosystem Can Fuel Advertising Funnels Generating Business Growth for E-commerce and News Media”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “Online Brochure 'Super Push'”

National Brands

• The Daily Prothom Alo, Dhaka, Bangladesh, “Prothom Alo’s TV Mela: Revolutionizing Bangladeshi Retail with Content-Driven Commerce”
• Exame, São Paulo, Brazil, “Adding to Exame’s Brand Value Proposition with the Creation of a New Revenue Stream Through E-commerce Products”
• Media24, Cape Town, South Africa, “Paygates”
• Mediahuis, Dublin, Ireland, “YourAdNow | Advertising Made Easy”
• VG, Oslo, Norway, “How VG Solves Consumer Needs and Funds Journalism by Leveraging a Shopping Frenzy”

Category 17: Best Use of AI for Internal Productivity

Regional Brands

• Hearst Newspapers, San Francisco, United States, “Producer-P: Hearst’s AI-Powered Audience Optimization Tool”
• Ippen Digital, Munich, Germany, “Editing Tool: A Deep Dive Into Our Editor-Centric AI Product Development”
• iTromsø, Tromsø, Norway, “Djinn — Data Journalism Interface for Newsgathering and Notifications”
• OVB Media, Rosenheim, Germany, “Improving Newsroom Efficiency with AI-Enhanced Print Production”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “Russmedia Meets AI ”

National Brands

• Aftonbladet, Stockholm, Sweden, “Aftonbladet’s AI Hub”
• Blick, Zurich, Switzerland, “AI-powered Audio & Video Transcriptions”
• Ekstra Bladet, Copenhagen, Denmark, “Magna”
• Mediacorp, Singapore, Singapore, “AI SmartCut”
• Omni, Stockholm, Sweden, “The AI Transformation at Omni: This Is Why We Let Our Journalists (And Not Our Devs) Build Our AI Tools”

Category 18: Best Use of AI in Customer-Facing Products

Regional Brands

• KStA Digitale Medien, Cologne, Germany, “Going All In: AI Driven, Fully Automated and Personalized Frontpage Experience”
• Nine, North Sydney, Australia, “Nine Metros Offside Rule AI Project”
• Nordwest-Zeitung and Weser-Kurier, Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany, “How Can I Help You? How Our AI Voicebot Solves Complaints and Strengthens Customer Loyalty”
• Rede Gazeta, Vitória, Brazil, “ConfIA — Anuário”
• The Times of India, Kolkata, India, “I Am Kolkata”

National Brands

• BusinessDesk, Auckland, New Zealand, “Faster, Better, More: AI-Powered Markets Coverage”
• Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, “UalterAI, Clarín’s New Artificial Intelligence Reading Assistant”
• Ekstra Bladet, Copenhagen, Denmark, “Magna”
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany, “F.A.Z. Essentials Our First Feature”
• India Today, Noida, India, “Human Collaborative AI Anchors: AI-Led Newsroom Transformation”

Category 19: Best Innovation in Newsroom Transformation

Regional Brands

• Bergens Tidende, Bergen, Norway, “Breaking Good: How Bergens Tidende Transformed its Breaking News Machinery”
• Funke, Berlin, Germany, “Shaping the Future of Funke’s Regional Media by Transforming Our Newsrooms”
• Hearst Newspapers, San Francisco, United States, “The DevHub’s Click-2-Publish Program”
• OVB Media, Rosenheim, Germany, “Two Newsrooms, One Team”
• VK Media & Västerbottens-Kuriren, Umeå, Sweden, “How VK Media Used Predictive Analysis to Increase Ad Revenue and Digital Subscriptions from Articles Gone Viral”

National Brands

• Alma Media, Helsinki, Finland, “IL Palat”
• Infoglobo, São Paulo, Brazil, “Valor Growth Desk”
• Irish Independent, Wexford, Ireland, “Project Leap: Local News on a National Scale”
• Stuff, Auckland, New Zealand, “Consciously Uncoupling”
• The Times and The Sunday Times, London, United Kingdom, “The Times and The Sunday Newsroom Transformation”

Category 20: Best Use of Visual Journalism and Storytelling Tools

Regional Brands

• Bergens Tidende, Bergen, Norway, “Three Shots in Ibsens Gate”
• Bladet Nordlys, Tromsø, Norway, “The Avalanche (Skredet)”
• InfoAmazonia, São Paulo, Brazil, “Amazon Underworld”
• Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, Germany, “The Gun Mania and Us: European Weapons, American Victims”
• Vocento, Madrid, Spain, “Nobody Knows What It’s Like to Live on the Street: They Do and They Tell You About It”

National Brands

• The Economist, London, United Kingdom, “Inside A Month of America’s School Shootings ”
• Outriders/Wirtualna Polska, Warsaw, Poland, “Kramatorsk: The City Where the Front is Approaching”
• Quint Digital, New Delhi, India, “Generative AI Images Are Deceiving Everyone. We Made a Cheatsheet To Debunk Them”
• South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, “The Israel-Gaza war explained”
• The Straits Times, , Singapore, “Shanti Pereira: How Singapore’s Finest Sprinter Found Her Speed”

Winners in the INMA Global Media Awards competition will be announced during the World Congress of News Media in London on April 25.

Pictured: A detailed map from South China Morning Post’s Israel-Gaza war explainer, a national finalist in the ‘Best use of visual journalism and storytelling tools’ category