INMA recently announced 40 first-place recipients in its 2023 Global Media Awards competition, with Bergens Tidende’s ‘Journey Around the World’ taking the global ‘Best in Show.’
During the awards ceremony at New York’s Harvard Club, 40 first-place winners were unveiled across 20 categories aimed at surfacing innovation and best practices in news brands, optimizing the use of media features, subscriptions, advertising, data and insights, product, and newsroom innovation.
Winning the coveted ‘Best in Show’ was Schibsted-owned Bergens Tidende in Norway for Journey Around the World, an inventive storytelling format enabling users to travel around the world visually. Judges said this campaign was a world-class execution of an epic journey featuring total immersion in an adventure. The INMA competition, which has been rewarding media excellence since 1937, evaluates news media companies across two segments: national brands and regional brands.
Three companies won multiple first-place awards: Bennett, Coleman, and Co., as well as Schibsted across its brands in Norway, and Stampen Media. Four companies garnered two first places: Advance Local, Amedia, Jagran Prakashan, and Relevo from Vocento. The 2023 Global Media Awards competition attracted 775 entries from 239 market-leading news media brands in 40 countries. Participants included newspaper media, magazine media, digital media, television media, and radio media.
An international jury of 54 media executives from 19 countries selected 198 finalists earlier this year.
Judges also selected the best in six world regions from the finalists:
- Best in Africa: Media24 Group for Adspace24 — Swipe Cards and Catalogue
- Best in Asia/Pacific: The Straits Times for World Cup: A ‘Hat-Trick’ Special
- Best in Europe: Bergens Tidende in Norway for Journey Around the World
- Best in Latin America: Editora Globo for Um Só Planeta
- Best in North America: The Wall Street Journal for The Future of Everything Festival
- Best in South Asia: Bennett, Coleman, and Co. for The Times of a Better India
In the spirit of innovation, INMA judges decided to give out a special award based on overall excellence in experimentation, innovation, and execution across multiple categories. A ‘Special Jury Distinction’ was awarded to Aftenposten, Bergens Tidende, Schibsted, and VG for their use of technology paired with outstanding multimedia narratives and excellent journalism.
“We were honored to be able to celebrate these huge accomplishments in person for the first time in four years,” said Earl J. Wilkinson, executive director and CEO of INMA. “The brilliance of this 2023 class shined a light on the creativity and innovation taking root in the news media industry. We’re incredibly proud of all the entrants and especially of this year’s winners.”
