From these finalists, 40 first-place winners, regional winners and the international ‘Best In Show’ will be announced at the Global Media Awards Dinner Tuesday, May 23, at the Harvard Club of New York. INMA has run an annual competition rewarding excellence in media since 1937.
The INMA Global Media Awards competition received 655 entries from 196 media companies in 36 countries. Participants included newspaper media, magazine media, digital media, television media and radio media.
Competition entries were judged in February by an international panel of 44 executives from 17 countries. Judges represented a wide range of media-related companies.
This year’s Global Media Awards competition focused on six activities crucial to success:
• Creating new products
• Growing, engaging and monetising audiences
• Growing advertising revenue
• Developing customer insights
“Across the media community internationally, creativity abounds,” said Earl J. Wilkinson, executive director and CEO of INMA. “Notable this year was the diversity of media companies, including television and digital, along with strong performances from the South Pacific and Scandinavia. The news media industry gets smarter as that diversity expands.”
Finalists below are listed alphabetically. Group 1 represents regional/local brands. Group 2 represents global/national brands.
• Toronto Star, Canada, “Toronto Star Touch”
• Winnipeg Free Press, Canada, “The Value of Local Journalism”• Singapore Press Holdings, Singapore, “A Micro Film entitled Pa's Expressions”
• WeltN24, Berlin, Germany, “WELT Campaign”• DMNmedia/The Dallas Morning News, US, “The Dallas Morning News Charities Campaign 2016-2017”
• Kasturi & Sons, Chennai, India, “The Hindu Tamil – Tamil Nadu Election Campaign 2016”• Independent Media, Cape Town, South Africa, “Racism Stops with Me”
• KSF Media, Helsingfors, Finland, “HBL Launching the Mobile Service Recommend a Refugee – A Small Step for a Greater Good”• HT Media, Mumbai, India, “HT No TV Day”
• Leader Community News, Melbourne, Australia, “Snap Melbourne”• Jagran Prakashan, New Delhi, India, “The Road to India’s ‘Epic’ Issue”
• NBC News Digital, New York, US, “Virtual Democracy Plaza”• LNP Media Group, Lancaster, US, “Sunday Magazine: For People Who Love Lancaster County”
• News Corp, Surry Hills, Australia, “Summer Time Magazine”• The Economist, London, United Kingdom, “The Economist’s 1843 Magazine”
• South China Morning Post, New Territories – Hong Kong, “This Week in Asia”• Newsday, Melville, US, “Newsday Sports App”
• Toronto Star, Canada, “thestar.com, Toronto Star, SMG Digital”• Grupa Onet-RAS Polska, Warsaw, Poland, “Onet 4.0”
• Wall Street Journal, New York, US, “WSJ VR for Daydream”• Domain, Pyrmont, Australia, “Domain Satirical Video Series: Avalon Now”
• KIT, Stockholm, Sweden, “Doing Something Different – How KIT Video Changed Social Video in Sweden”• Hürriyet, Istanbul, Turkey, “Hürriyet – Kilis 360”
• Independent Media MOJO, Cape Town, South Africa, “Don't Look Away: 16 Days of Activism”Click here to view the rest of the finalists.
