18-06-2025
The Hindu named ‘The Champion of Digital Media Awards South Asia 2025'
The Hindu was named Champion of Digital Media Awards South Asia 2025, picking up 10 awards across various award categories, at the WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards 2025 South Asia, presented by the World Association of News Publishers on Wednesday.
Participating newsrooms from across South Asia competed in 12 categories, which included audience engagement, native ad campaign, podcasts, use of AI, video and data visualisation.
The Hindu took four gold trophies — 'Best Use of Video' and 'Best Native Advertising Campaign', both awarded for The Hindu Made of Chennai initiative; 'Best Use of AI in Revenue Strategy'; and 'Best Podcast'(In Focus: Why does the Election Commission need seven phases to conduct the General Election?).
Use of AI, data
In addition to the gold trophies, The Hindu also won three silver trophies in the categories 'Best Data Visualisation' (How India voted: A retrospective from 1952 - 2024), 'Best Use of AI in Revenue Strategy' and 'Best Digital Subscription'; and three bronze trophies for the categories 'Best in Audience Engagement', 'Best Data Visualisation' (on the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy) and 'Best Digital Subscription'.
The Champion of Digital Media Awards South Asia 2025 was presented to The Hindu by Magdoom Mohamed, Managing Director of South Asia at WAN-IFRA, and Mariam Mammen Mathew, Vice-President of WAN-IFRA and CEO of Manorama Online.
Suresh Nambath, Editor of The Hindu, and L.V. Navaneeth, CEO of The Hindu Group, received the prestigious award on behalf of the organisation.
'The overall champion publisher award means a lot because it reflects the work done by multiple departments and team members. Good work happens only when people come together,' said Mr. Navaneeth.
'These awards are designed to recognise excellence in digital publishing and to celebrate the outstanding work done by publishers across South Asia,' said Mr. Mohamed.
