Global winners announced!
🎉 Meet the global winners of the Digital Media Awards 2026
WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards is the news industry’s most prestigious global competition celebrating excellence in digital publishing. The awards honour publishers and media organisations that have delivered outstanding and original digital projects, products, or strategies.
The global winners of the Digital Media Awards 2026 honouring digital news publishers and innovators across 12 categories was announced at the 77th World News Media Congress in Marseille. The awards celebrate outstanding achievement in digital journalism, product innovation, audience engagement, and newsroom transformation –  recognising the trailblazers shaping the future of digital news publishing.
Drawing from 811 entries across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, and South Asia – the global competition once again showcased the remarkable breadth and vitality of global news innovation. This year’s cohort of winners reflects an industry in confident motion: excelling artificial intelligence, deepening reader relationships, elevating visual and audio storytelling, and fortifying the fight against disinformation.
2026 global winners
Best News Website or App Relaunch:  Crime World — Mediahuis Ireland — Ireland
Best in Countering Disinformation:  Indicator  — Indicator — Canada
Best Emerging News Provider:  Soiciety  — Soiciety — Thailand
Best Reader Revenue Strategy:  Winning the Young Ones — NTM — Sweden
Best AI-Driven News Product, Format, or Strategy:  AI LINK: Let News Flow — Seoul Economic Daily — Republic of Korea
Best Newsletter:  The AI Shift — Financial Times — United Kingdom
Best in Audience Engagement:  Dave Jorgenson Goes Independent — Local News International — USA
Most Innovative Digital Product:  Publish X — A Digital Product for Scalable Editorial Decision-Making — United Daily News Group — Taiwan
Best Use of Video:  Anatomy of BGB Shootings in Rampura — The Daily Star — Bangladesh
Best Use of Audio:  The Outlaw Ocean Podcast — The Outlaw Ocean Project / CBC Podcasts — USA
Best Data Visualisation:  Stranded at Sea: A Decade After the EU’s Migrant Crisis, Hundreds Still Dying in Mediterranean — Reuters — United Kingdom
Best Marketing Campaign for a News Brand:  O GLOBO 100 — O GLOBO — Brazil
The 2026 Categories
