Call for entries closes 31 December 2025 at midnight CET.
Best Use of Video
This category honours powerful video journalism that makes strong use of the format to serve editorial goals, tell original stories, and engage audiences across digital platforms.
Entries should reflect purposeful editorial judgement, original storytelling, and technical innovation adapted to digital formats.
Eligibility
Projects must have been launched or evolved significantly during the eligibility period: 1 Jan-31 Dec 2025.
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Best Data Visualisation
This category recognises data visualisations that turn complex information into clear, engaging and accessible storytelling. Entries should demonstrate strong editorial purpose, thoughtful design, and effective use of data to inform, explain, or reveal something meaningful to the audience.
Special attention will be paid to the editorial clarity, technical quality, contextual innovation, and accessibility.
Eligibility
Projects must have been launched or evolved significantly during the eligibility period: 1 Jan–31 Dec 2025.
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Best in Countering Disinformation
This category rewards outstanding work that strengthens public understanding and trust by confronting disinformation with transparency, responsiveness, and innovation. This includes fact-checking, but also broader efforts that expose deception, resist manipulation, and promote resilience against false or misleading content.
Entries should demonstrate clear methodology, editorial transparency, and a strong commitment to building public trust.
Special attention will be paid to clarity across platforms, cultural and local relevance, and socially or technically innovative strategies that respond to the realities of low-trust or low-resource environments. Initiatives that involve communities, apply context-aware solutions, or uncover coordinated manipulation will also be highly valued.
Eligibility
Initiatives must have been launched or evolved significantly during the eligibility period: 1 Jan-31 Dec 2025.
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Best Use of Audio
This category rewards audio journalism that expands storytelling, deepens public understanding, and engages listeners through sound. Entries should reflect strong editorial intent, user-centred design, and format-appropriate storytelling. Special attention will be paid to technical quality, community relevance, accessibility, and innovation, whether creative, technological, or strategic.
Eligibility
Audio initiatives must have been launched, significantly rebranded, or evolved during the eligibility period: 1 Jan-31 Dec 2025.
Clarification for entrants:
Projects should demonstrate a strong journalistic foundation, audience value, and execution that is format-appropriate. Technological innovation is welcomed, but it should serve editorial goals and listener experience.
Clear metrics around listening, retention, or community engagement will strengthen submissions.
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Best News Website or App Relaunch
This category recognises outstanding redesigns or relaunches of digital news platforms, including websites and apps, that significantly improve user experience, editorial presentation, performance, and strategic value. Entries may include visual overhauls, CMS migrations, structural improvements, or platform innovations that enhance how users access, engage with, and understand journalistic content.
Winning projects will demonstrate a clear connection between editorial priorities and user needs, showing how the platform evolved to better serve its audience. Special attention will be paid to accessibility, speed, multilingual access, and adaptability to infrastructure challenges common in underserved regions. Both high-tech and low-tech solutions are welcome, as long as they are effective and user-centred.
Eligibility
Platforms must have been launched, significantly redesigned, rebranded, or evolved between 1 January and 31 December 2025. Both partial and full relaunches are eligible, including changes in front-end design, editorial navigation, or back-end publishing systems.
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Best Newsletter
This category honours newsletters as essential journalistic formats that combine voice, service, and strategy to deepen audience relationships and build long-term loyalty, regardless of business model or scale.
Entries should offer a distinctive voice, consistent delivery, and meaningful value to a clearly defined audience. Strong submissions will demonstrate originality, audience relevance, thoughtful design, and a clear contribution to editorial, strategic, or community goals, whether that means engagement, trust, retention, or public service.
Eligibility
Newsletters must have been launched, significantly rebranded, or evolved during the eligibility period. 1 Jan-31 Dec 2025 Both subscription-based and free formats are welcome.
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NEW: Best Emerging News Providers
This new category recognises independent news creators or early-stage news organisations that demonstrate credibility, originality, and clear public value. It celebrates creators who consistently produce factual, community-relevant information for digital platforms, particularly in underserved or low-trust information environments.
The focus is on the individual creators or organisations for a specific project or ongoing work. Their output may include reporting original information, explainers, investigations, or contextual analysis delivered through newsletters, video, audio, or platform-native formats. Judges will prioritise accuracy, audience connection, and service to community understanding.
Eligibility:
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Note: One-off videos or single campaigns will not be considered. Entries must represent sustained journalistic output.
Best in Audience Engagement
This category honours initiatives that build strong, sustained relationships with audiences through intentional, inclusive, and digitally relevant engagement. Projects should show how audience participation contributes to loyalty, trust, and growth, not only through
Most Innovative Digital Product
This category recognises a digital product that offers a compelling and effective solution to a specific audience or market need. The product must go beyond experimentation to deliver real value through innovation in technology, storytelling, design, or business model. It should be user-centred, strategically aligned with the organisation’s mission, and demonstrate measurable impact.
Entries may reflect advanced technology or simple, accessible innovation; what matters is the effectiveness of the solution, its potential for growth or replication, and its contribution to journalism’s long-term relevance, trust, or sustainability.
Eligibility:
Entries must be live products that were launched or significantly evolved during the eligibility period: 1 Jan-31 Dec 2025. They must serve a journalistic purpose, be created with audience needs in mind, and show evidence of performance or strategic value.
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Best AI-driven News Product, Format or Strategy
This category recognises innovative, ethical, and fully implemented uses of artificial intelligence in journalism. Eligible entries must show how AI has been adopted either to support internal processes, such as newsroom efficiency, editorial research, or investigative reporting, or to create audience-facing products, including new formats, personalised experiences, or engagement strategies.
Eligibility:
Entries may support one or more of the following goals:
Only fully implemented projects are eligible. Prototypes, pilots, or experimental tools without real deployment will not be considered. Submissions must clearly describe the problem the AI application addresses, the specific AI or technical approach used, and the success metrics achieved, including both quantitative and qualitative indicators.
Projects must show evidence of adoption, real-world usage, and meaningful impact during the eligibility period.
Initiatives or products should be launched, deployed, or significantly evolved within the eligibility period: 1 Jan-31 Dec 2025.
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Best Reader Revenue Strategy
This category recognises smart subscription and membership strategies that support journalism through long-term loyalty, especially those that are technically sound, editorially strong, and contextually adapted to different markets and audiences. The strongest entries will demonstrate long-term thinking, a clear and compelling value proposition, and sustainable monetisation that respects reader trust and promotes editorial integrity.
Strategies may involve innovative uses of technology, pricing, bundling, personalisation, or membership design. The approach should be tailored, intentional, and audience-first.
Eligibility
Entries must include verified subscriber or member numbers, with documentation signed off by a responsible executive such as a CFO, Head of Audience, or Subscription Lead. All submitted data will remain confidential and will be used solely for judging purposes.
The strategy must have been launched, significantly adapted, or grown during the eligibility period.
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Best Marketing Campaign for a News Brand
This category recognises the most impactful marketing campaigns led by news organisations to grow their audience, strengthen brand positioning, or reinforce trust and public value. Campaigns may focus on subscriptions, membership, public service, editorial values, brand awareness, or strategic audience segments. The emphasis is on creativity, clarity of message, consistency with brand values, and measurable results.
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