SA online media dominate Wan-Ifra's African Digital Media Awards finalists' list

Source: © dolgachov 123rf The WAN-IFRA African Digital Media Awards 2022 finalists have been announced

This year saw also saw record number of entries submitted. Winners will be announced live at Wan-Ifra’s virtual Digital Media Africa Conference on Tuesday, 12 July.

African Digital Media Awards 2022 finalists

• Best News Website or Mobile Service

  Daily Maverick, South Africa
  Mangeons bien, Tunisia
  Nation Media Group, Kenya



• Best Use of Online Video
  The exclusive story of Lindani Myeni – Arena Holdings, South Africa
  No room to hide: Climate change in the Cape Winelands – Food For Mzansi, South Africa
  The killer cop, Rosemary Ndlovu – Tiso Blackstar, South Africa


• Best Data Visualisation
  Living on less than 5 dinars a day, mapping the poverty rate in Tunisia – inkyfada, Tunisia
  Getting to know: Vaccines – Media24, South Africa
  Out of Order – a data journalism project by News24 – Media24, South Africa


• Best in Audience Engagement
  TimesLIVE on TikTok – Arena Holdings, South Africa
  The shift to audience-centric journalism – Daily Maverick, South Africa
  Open Parly ZW – Open Parly ZW, Zimbabwe
  Pulse Instagram – Pulse, Nigeria


• Best Reader Revenue Initiative
  Maverick Insider – Daily Maverick, South Africa
  Propelling News24’s reader revenue product – Media24, South Africa
  Exclusive audiobooks in Afrikaans – Netwerk24, South Africa


• Best Newsletter
  First Thing by John Stupart – Daily Maverick, South Africa
  The Wrap – explain.co.za, South Africa
  MarkLives Premium – MarkLives.com, South Africa
  LIFE – a lifestyle newsletter – Media24, South Africa


• Best Trust Initiative
  El Kul – BBC Media Action, Tunisia
  African Fact Checking Alliance – Code for Africa, South Africa
  Our Burning Planet – Daily Maverick, South Africa


• Best Use of Audio
  What’s Crap on WhatsApp?” by Africa Check Volume and the International Fact-Checking Network – Africa Check, South Africa
  Don’t Shoot the Messenger Season 3 – Daily Maverick, South Africa
  My Only Story: Back to School – Media24, South Africa


• Best Gen Z Initiative
  Health For Mzansi – Food For Mzansi, South Africa
  DIB News – Maghreb Arabe Presse (Moroccan News Agency, MAP), Morocco
  Ask Yourself Podcasts – Mail & Guardian, South Africa


• Best Digital Advertising Project
  Pan-African Summit on Youth in Sustainable Agriculture – Food For Mzansi, South Africa
  Business Insider and Nedbank’s Behind the Business Headlines – Media24, South Africa
  News24 and SA Pork Home Cook Heroes – Media24, South Africa

You can register for the Digital Media Africa Conference here.