Global Media Awards finalists

Editor’s note: Finalists below are listed alphabetically. These entries are open to the public through May 10.

Category 1: Best Brand Awareness Campaign

Regional/Local Brand

• Fædrelandsvennen, Kristiansand, Norway, “Behind a Story”
• Manorama Online, Kottayam, India, “Chumma MO It!”
• Nieuwsblad, Antwerp, Belgium, “The Green Playground”
• Rheinische Post Mediengruppe, Düsseldorf, Germany, “Düsseldorf Geht Aus: An Innovative, Cross-Channel Project That Brings Local Gastronomy to Life”
• Toronto Star, Canada, “City of Stars: A Commemorative Masterpiece for the 50th Anniversary of TIFF”

National/International Brands

• Dainik Jagran, New Delhi, India, “The Hindi Operating System”
• Dow Jones, New York, United States, “WSJ+ Fortune Favors The Ambitious Brand Campaign”
• The Hindu, Chennai, India, “The Hindu Written By Journalists”
• Prothom Alo, Dhaka, Bangladesh, “HHH: Heads Held High”
• Sydney Morning Herald/The Age, North Sydney, Australia, “Good Food”

Category 2: Best Public Relations or Community Service Campaign

Regional/Local Brand

• Amar Ujala, Noida, India, “Tanav Mukt Pariksha (Stress Free Exams)”
• Nieuwsblad, Antwerp, Belgium, “The Green Playground”
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, United States, “Philly Gives”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “Vorarlberger Pflegeaward”
• Winnipeg Free Press, Canada, “Media Literacy and Learning Project ”

National/International Brands

• Beobachter, Zürich, Switzerland, “Prämienticker”
• Dainik Jagran, New Delhi, India, “The Architects of Tomorrow”
• News Corp, Brisbane, Australia, “Let Them Be Kids”
• Prothom Alo, Dhaka, Bangladesh, “Guiding Light: Rewriting Futures in Bangladesh’s Forgotten Regions”
• Stuff Group, Auckland, New Zealand, “Swimming Campaign”

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

Regional/Local Brand

• The Hindu, Chennai, India, “The Hindu: Made of Chennai”
• Media24, Cape Town, South Africa, “Saturday Night Fitness”
• El Nuevo Día, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, “Al Son de Aquí”
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, United States, “ Inquirer Food Fest”
• Stuff Group, Wellington, New Zealand, “The Post: The Power of Proximity”

National/International Brands

• BusinessDesk, Auckland, New Zealand, “BusinessDesk CEO Index Awards: Finding Leadership Among Our Leaders”
• Dainik Jagran, New Delhi, India, “Lights. Cities. Action”
• Prothom Alo, Dhaka, Bangladesh, “NextGen Achievers: Recognizing and Inspiring the Next Generation of Leaders”
• The Wall Street Journal, London, United Kingdom, “WSJ Tech Live in California & Qatar, 2025”
• Die Zeit, Hamburg, Germany, “Zeit Verbrechen Live Tour 2025: From Headphones to Arenas — Scaling Intimacy for 25,000 Fans”

Category 4: Best Idea to Encourage Reader Engagement

Regional/Local Brand

• Augsburger Allgemeine, Augsburg, Germany, “Future Week”
• Bonnier News Local & Gota Media, Stockholm, Sweden, “The Core Model”
• Dainik Jagran, New Delhi, India, “The People Without a Name”
• Newsday, Melville, United States, “Dangerous Roads: Driving Engagement Through Multi-Department Approach to Investigation”
• The Times of India, Kolkata, India, “I am Kolkata, Amar Para”

National/International Brands

• Blick, Zürich, Switzerland, “Spin to Win: Leveraging Loss Aversion and Gamification to Triple User Registration Rates”
• Dainik Jagran, New Delhi, India, “Lights. Cities. Action”
• HT Digital, New Delhi, India, “Intelligent Notification System with Reinforcement Learning”
• Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark, “Voter Poster Generator”
• Die Zeit, Berlin, Germany, “Plan D”

Category 5: Best Initiative to Bolster Next-Generation Readership

Regional/Local Brand

• Augsburger Allgemeine/augsburg.tv, Augsburg, Germany, “Rocketeer Kids Reporter”
• Bergens Tidende, Norway, “The People’s Prejudices: Turning Audience Assumptions into Political Journalism”
• Fædrelandsvennen, Kristiansand, Norway, “FVN Young — Breaking the Feed”
• Funke Mediengruppe, Berlin, Germany, “Funke Future Audiences Lab”
• NTM, Norrköping, Sweden, “Winning the Young Ones”

National/International Brands

• Aftenposten, Oslo, Norway, “Aftenposten Education — From Zero to 35% Market Penetration in Five Months”
• Beobachter, Zürich, Switzerland, “From Taboo to Triumph: Beobachter’s Social-First Strategy Secures Next-Generation Readership”
• The Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh, “National Newspaper Olympiad: Turning Reading Into a National Youth Movement”
• Nexo Jornal, São Paulo, Brazil, “Nexo no Enem 2025”
• South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, “Young Post Club”

Category 6: Best Use of Video

Regional/Local Brand

• A Gazeta, Vitória, Brazil, “Morro do Macaco Tragedy”
• GZH, Porto Alegre, Brazil, “GZH YouTube Streaming: Building a Hyperlocal Video-First News Channel in Southern Brazil”
• The New Zealand Herald, Auckland, New Zealand, “Herald NOW — Moving From a Newspaper to a TV Channel”
• Onmanorama, Kottayam, India, “How Many of You Know?”
• San Antonio Express-News, United States, “In a Minute”

National/International Brands

• Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, “Mile 201: Patrolling the World’s Most Contested Maritime Frontier”
• The Quint, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, “Why Indian Cities Aren’t Walkable”
• The Straits Times, Singapore, “Vaping: The Invisible Crisis”
• The Times of India, New Delhi, India, “The Keeladi Story”
• VG, Oslo, Norway, “Reimagining Video for Premium Journalism”

Category 7: Best Use of Audio

Regional/Local Brand

• Bergens Tidende, Norway, “The Music Scene That Shocked the World: Beyond the Myth of Norwegian Black Metal”
• Dagblad van het Noorden, Groningen, Netherlands, “De Ware Jacob: How a Creative Small Team Created a Hit Podcast”
• Manorama Online, Kottayam, India, “MO Podcast: Audio Journalism Initiative”
• Nordwest Zeitung, Oldenburg, Germany, “The Local Botcast: AI-Powered, Fully Automated Botcast Workflow, Built for Regional Scalability”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “VOL.AT Playlist Feature”

National/International Brands

• Aller Media, Copenhagen, Denmark, “HULiGENNEM”
• O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “Caso Zero: Breaking 25 years of Silence in Brazil’s Most Controversial Medical Case”
• Irish Independent, Dublin, Ireland, “Just Between Us”
• News Corp, Sydney, Australia, “Dear Rachelle”
• Der Standard, Vienna, Austria, “Inside Austria: The Power of Far-Right Fraternities”

Category 8: Best Use of Print

Regional/Local Brand

• Dainik Jagran, New Delhi, India, “The People Without a Name”
• Hallandsposten, Halmstad, Sweden, “Reusing Print. Creating Something New”
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, United States, “Sunday Specials”
• The Times of India, New Delhi, India, “Thirukkural With The Times”
• Toronto Star, Canada, “City of Stars: A Commemorative Masterpiece for the 50th Anniversary of TIFF”

National/International Brands

• O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “The Centennial Edition: Brazil’s Largest Print Newspaper”
• News Corp, Brisbane, Australia, “Let Them Be Kids”
• South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, “From Ashes, Strength”
• The Straits Times, Singapore, “Inside the Confusing World of Women’s Clothing Sizes”
• Sydney Morning Herald/The Age, North Sydney, Australia, “Good Food”

Category 9: Best Use of Social Media

Regional/Local Brand

• Anandabazar.com, Kolkata, India, “Maruti Suzuki Arena Pujor First Look”
• GZH, Porto Alegre, Brazil, “Journalists as Creators: A Social Video Growth Strategy”
• Newsday, Melville, United States, “How Newsroom Personalities and Video Strategy Helped Newsday’s Facebook Following Increase by 194%”
• Reach, London, United Kingdom, “Why Substack is a Social Media — and How We Proved It”
• The Times of India, Kolkata, India, “I am Kolkata, Amar Para”

National/International Brands

• BBC News/Collective Newsroom, New Delhi, India, “Optimised Utilisation of Social Media Storytelling by BBC Hindi”
• The Financial Times, London, United Kingdom, “A Taste of Appetites: Engaging New Audiences through Creator-Led Social Media”
• El Observador, Montevideo, Uruguay, “How to Battle the Algorithm with a Starfish”
• VD News, Milan, Italy, “VD News: Engaging Italy’s Youth Through Social-First Storytelling”
• VG, Oslo, Norway, “VG Promotes Quality Journalism Without Influencers”

Category 10: Best Newsletter

Regional/Local Brand

• Aschendorff Medien, Münster, Germany, “Ortsgepräch Newsletter”
• The Boston Globe, United States, “Starting Point Newsletter”
• The Edinburgh Minute, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, “The Edinburgh Minute”
• Newsday, Melville, United States, “Fostering Conversations Through a Newsletter Dedicated to the Dangers of Long Island Roads”
• Tiroler Tageszeitung, Innsbruck, Austria, “WhatsApp Channel Unterhaus”

National/International Brands

• The Economist, London, United Kingdom, “The Economist Insider Newsletter”
• The Guardian, London, United Kingdom, “Saturday Edition for The Guardian”
• The Kyiv Independent, Kyiv, Ukraine, “The Kyiv Independent Ukraine Weekly Newsletter”
• Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm, Sweden, “The Week With SvD”
• De Telegraaf, Amsterdam, Netherlands, “Don’t Just Get the News. Get Me”

Category 11: Best New Digital Product

Regional/Local Brand

• Bergens Tidende, Norway, “How Bergens Tidende Built the World’s Simplest Election Guide”
• Funke Mediengruppe, Hamburg, Germany, “IMTEST/Vertical Hub: from Print Niche to Digital Powerhouse”
• The Minnesota Star Tribune, Minneapolis, United States, “Strib Varsity”
• Münchener Merkur, Munich, Germany, “News Connect: Same journalism. New Interface. AI Native”
• Stavanger Aftenblad, Norway, “RUN: Covering Every Runner”

National/International Brands

• Bauer Media, Hamburg, Germany, “Toni OS & Eva AI”
• Bloomberg Media, New York, United States, “For You: Reimagining Personalization to Break the Algorithmic News Bubble”
• Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, “Clarín 80: Reimagining a News Archive as a Living Digital Product”
• The Guardian, London, United Kingdom, “Guardian Secure Messaging”
• The New Yorker, United States, “The New Yorker’s Shuffalo”

Category 12: Best Product Iteration

Regional/Local Brand

• ACM/Explore, Sydney, Australia, “From Destination Site to Network Product: How Explore Travel Scaled Across 60+ Mastheads”
• Amedia, Oslo, Norway, “Scaling Video Across Amedia”
• Funke Mediengruppe, Berlin, Germany, “Audience First”
• Manorama Online, Kottayam, India, “Manorama Online News App”
• Stampen Media, Gothenburg, Sweden, “The Edition Reborn”

National/International Brands

• Bloomberg Media, New York, United States, “Bloomberg Search — From Scroll to Solution: Search That Gets You There”
• CNA, Mediacorp, Singapore, “CNA App Revamp”
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, “Reinventing Der Tag — How F.A.Z. Turned a Freemium News Product Into a Premium News Experience”
• Kauppalehti, Helsinki, Finland, “Kauppalehti Stock Market Service”
• Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Germany, “From EU Bot to Germany Election Assistant: Iterating AI Election Tools”

Category 13: Best Use of Generative AI

Regional/Local Brand

• Hearst Newspapers, San Francisco, United States, “How Hearst Newspapers Uses Generative AI to Expand Civic Coverage”
• Münchener Merkur, Munich, Germany, “The.Lab Agent Space: Human-in-the-Loop in AI-Augmented Storytelling”
• OVB Media, Rosenheim, Germany, “Breaking the Language Barrier at the Speed of the Tour de France”
• Stampen Media, Gothenburg, Sweden, “When Generative AI Became Everyone’s Job”
• Stuff Group, Christchurch, New Zealand, “Who Owns Christchurch”

National/International Brands

• Mediafin, Brussels, Belgium, “From Brief to Booked in Minutes: TrustIQ’s Responsible GenAI for Data-Driven Campaign Proposals”
• La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina, “From Experimentation to Infrastructure: Generative AI at La Nación”
• The Nikkei Online Edition, Chiyoda-ku, Japan, “Ask! Nikkei: A Traceable AI Chatbot Driving Subscriber Engagement”
• The Telegraph, London, United Kingdom, “Segment-Aware Analytics”
• The Wall Street Journal, New York, United States, “Surfacing the Story: How WSJ’s ORCA Unlocks the Podcast Universe”

Category 14: Best Revenue Diversification Strategy

Regional/Local Brand

• Le Devoir, Montréal, Canada, “New Business Stream at Le Devoir”
• Funke Mediengruppe, Hamburg, Germany, “IMTEST/Vertical Hub: from Print Niche to Digital Powerhouse”
• News Corp, Melbourne, Australia, “Newscorp Price Harmonisation Program”
• NZME, Auckland, New Zealand, “Diversifying Solutions to Become Growth Partners”
• The Times of India Metro Supplements, Mumbai, India, “Bombay Times Lounge”

National/International Brands

• Australian Financial Review, North Sydney, Australia, “Financial Review for Business”
• Bild, Berlin, Germany, “Bild Kaufberater”
• Dainik Jagran, New Delhi, India, “Lights. Cities. Action”
• PolitiFact, St. Petersburg, United States, “Everyone Needs a Fact-Checker: PolitiFact’s Post-Meta Comeback”
• The Washington Post, United States, “Unlocking Growth with Flexible Access: Giving Customers More Ways to Pay for Journalism”

Category 15: Best Initiative to Grow Subscriptions

Regional/Local Brand

• Les Coops de l’information, Québec, Canada, “Pay What You Can Promotion”
• Funke Mediengruppe, Berlin, Germany, “Testing Monthly Pricing to Weekly Rates”
• Hearst Newspapers, New York, United States, “Next Best Action: How Hearst Newspapers Reimagined Subscription Growth”
• Stavanger Aftenblad, Norway, “Turning Runners Into Subscribers”
• Västerbottens-Kuriren (VK), Umea, Sweden, “Live for Locals: When You Don’t Have the Money to Buy the Game, You Change How the Game is Played”

National/International Brands

• The Kyiv Independent, Kyiv, Ukraine, “The Kyiv Independent Reader Revenue Growth Strategy”
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürich, Switzerland, “More Than an App: How NZZ Built a Scalable Revenue Engine on Mobile”
• Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark, “The Task Force”
• Der Spiegel, Hamburg, Germany, “Dynamic Pricing & Engagement Score: Personalizing the Subscription Journey”
• VG, Oslo, Norway, “730% Above Median: How One VG+ Journalist Scaled Subscription Journalism with AI — In One Day”

Category 16: Best Initiative to Engage and Retain Subscribers

Regional/Local Brand

• Funke Mediengruppe, Berlin, Germany, “Loyalty Score”
• Göteborgs-Posten, Gothenburg, Sweden, “Expanding Horizons to Increase Retention — From One Coastal City to Another”
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, United States, “Retaining Philadelphia Inquirer Subscribers Through Effective Engagement at High-Intent Cancellation Moments”
• Rheinische Post Mediengruppe, Düsseldorf, Germany, “RP DigitalFit Academy: Initiative for Sustainable Digital Competence over 60”
• Västerbottens-Kuriren (VK), Umea, Sweden, “Live for Locals: When You Don’t Have the Money to Buy the Game, You Change How the Game is Played”

National/International Brands

• Condé Nast, New York, United States, “Churn Deflection”
• The Guardian, London, United Kingdom, “Churn Risk Programme: Preventing Supporter Churn”
• Mediahuis, Antwerp, Belgium, “Mediahuis and RouteYou — a Strategic Win-Win”
• Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Germany, “User Needs at SZ”
• VG, Oslo, Norway, “Reimagining Video for Premium Journalism”

Category 17: Best Idea to Grow Advertising Sales or Revenue

Regional/Local Brand

• Funke Mediengruppe, Hamburg, Germany, “IMTEST/Vertical Hub: from Print Niche to Digital Powerhouse”
• News24, Cape Town, South Africa, “Lula and News24 Partnership”
• Newsday, Melville, United States, “Together Long Island: Brand360 Cause Marketing Initiative”
• Nordwest Mediengruppe, Oldenburg, Germany, “Unlocking Regional Potential: The HERO Transformation Journey”
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, United States, “Philly First + Changemaker Spotlight”

National/International Brands

• DPG Media, Amsterdam/Antwerp/Brussels, Netherlands/Belgium, “Ad Manager by DPG Media, a Local Alternative to Big Tech”
• Irish Independent, Dublin, Ireland, “In-Market: A First-Party Intent Strategy Built to Drive Real Business Outcomes”
• News Corp, Surry Hills, Australia, “Back Australia”
• Ozone, London, United Kingdom, “Premium World from Ozone”
• Stuff Group, Auckland, New Zealand, “HOW — Radio Show”

Category 18: Best Client Advertising Campaign

Regional/Local Brand

• ABP, Kolkata, India, “Trends Saj Parbon”
• GZH/Grupo RBS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, “Porto Alegre Marathon”
• New Zealand Media & Entertainment (NZME), Auckland, New Zealand, “TAB NZ | Owning the Moment with NZME and The ACC”
• NTM, Uppsala, Sweden, “Welcome to Gotland: When Stories Become Bookings”
• Russmedia, Schwarzach, Austria, “Story Premium — The Bodylight Campaign as Proof of Effective Client Advertising”

National/International Brands

• Amedia Innholdsbyrå, Oslo, Norway, “Norwegian Championship in Recycling — When Competition Becomes Learning”
• HT Media Labs, Delhi, India, “Best Client Advertising Campaign by Slurrp for USHA”
• The Irish Times Group, Dublin, Ireland, “The Irish Times and Ireland’s Greenest Places: Balancing Purpose and Commercial Partnership”
• SPH Content Lab, Singapore, “SG60 Past, Present, Future”
• Der Standard, Vienna, Austria, “KlimaTicket — One for All”

Category 19: Best Innovation in Newsroom Transformation

Regional/Local Brand

• Amedia, Oslo, Norway, “Scaling Video Across Amedia”
• Association of Independent Regional Press Publishers, Kyiv, Ukraine, “When Local Journalism Becomes Infrastructure: Building a Newsroom Operating System for Anti-Corruption Investigations During Wartime”
• Göteborgs-Posten, Gothenburg, Sweden, “The Sign”
• Houston Chronicle, United States, “Houston Chronicle Property Tax Guide: Converting Users by Saving Them Money”
• The New Zealand Herald, Auckland, New Zealand, “The NZ Herald’s Reinvented News Model: Our Newsroom Transformation”

National/International Brands

• Amedia, Oslo, Norway, “Trusting the Machine: How Amedia’s Front Editors Let Algorithms Rule — and Loved It”
• The Business Times, Singapore, “Leveraging Data to Drive a 20% YOY Increase in Views”
• Maldita.es, Madrid, Spain, “La Buloteca: Transforming Newsroom Operations Through Collaborative Verification and Data-Driven Workflows”
• Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm, Sweden, “How Svenska Dagbladet Reinvented Its Newsroom”
• United Daily News Group, New Taipei City, Taiwan, “Publish X, Institutionalising Editorial Judgment”

Category 20: Best Use of Visual Journalism and Storytelling Tools

Regional/Local Brand

• Le Devoir, Montréal, Canada, “Are Songs Getting Shorter These Days?”
• Diario Sur/Agencia Colpisa (Vocento), Madrid, Spain, “The Difficult Task of Buying a House, Even If You Win El Gordo”
• A Gazeta, Vitória, Brazil, “River of Mud and Struggle”
• Göteborgs-Posten, Gothenburg, Sweden, “Chats of Power”
• Oxpeckers Center for Investigative Environmental Journalism, Mbombela, South Africa, “The Oxpeckers Geojournalism Initiative: Powering Investigative Transparency in Resource Transition and Global Environmental Crime”

National/International Brands

• La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina, “How a Weapons Factory Was Blown Up in Argentina”
• Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark, “The Iterative Storytelling Model”
• Reuters, Singapore, “The Lives Lost in Gaza”
• South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, “Tai Po inferno: Hong Kong’s Deadliest Fire in Decades”
• The Straits Times, Singapore, “Singapore’s Landscape is Constantly Evolving. Here Are Some Changes to Come”