BBC, The Quint, The Hindu bag Gold at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards South Asia
This year’s awards continue the tradition of recognising excellence in digital innovation, creativity, and audience engagement among South Asia’s leading publishers. With over 105 entries from media organisations across South Asia, the competition this year showcased the industry’s drive to push boundaries in storytelling, engagement, and technology-driven news experiences.
BBC bagged the gold award for the Best Data Visualisation project, The Quint for the coveted ‘Best News Website’, while The Hindu won top honours for Best Use of Video. Participating newsrooms competed in 12 categories including audience engagement, use of AI, video, data visualisation, digital product, amongst others. The top winner across all categories will be awarded “Champion Publisher of the year 2024”.
Acknowledging the significant role of small and medium publishers, WAN-IFRA continues to support and celebrate the success of news organisations with annual revenues below USD 5 million, ensuring broader recognition of impactful journalism in the region. Pluc (India) and The Current (Pakistan) bagged Gold across Video, Newsletter and Engagement categories.
A panel of experienced editors and industry experts evaluated the entries, selecting winners based on innovation, audience impact, and journalistic excellence. As a next step, all Gold winners from this year’s awards will automatically qualify for WAN-IFRA’s World Digital Media Awards, where they will compete with top digital projects from across the globe.
The winners will be presented their trophies at the Digital Media India 2025 Conference on 18 June 2025 at Chennai.
The winners are:
Best Data Visualisation
Best in Audience Engagement
Small Medium Category
Best News Website
Best Use of Video
Small Medium Category
Best Digital Subscription/Reader Revenue Project
Best Podcast
Best Use of AI in Newsroom
Best Use of AI in Revenue Strategy
Best Fact-Checking Project
Small Medium Category
Best Newsletter
Small Medium Category
Best Native Advertising Campaign
Best Innovative Digital Product
Bronze: NDTV Convergence, NDTV Mobile App
Contact and Inquiries
For more information, please contact Magdoom Mohamed, Director WAN-IFRA South Asia magdoom.mohamed@wan-ifra.org, Thai Anban Chokkalingam, thai.anban@wan-ifra.org
WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, is the global organisation of the world’s press, comprising 3,000 news publishers and technology companies and 60 national publishers’ associations representing 18,000 publications in 120 countries. With a mission to protect the rights of journalists and publishers around the world to operate independent media, WAN-IFRA provides its members with expertise and services to innovate and prosper in a digital world and perform their crucial role in society. The World Editors Forum is its network for editors.
