Nation Group among digital elite honoured with Asian Digital Media awards
Some of Asia's leading news media companies, including Singapore Press Holdings, South China Morning Post, Kompas, and the Nation Group, were among the winners of the 4th annual Asian Digital Media Awards presented on Wednesday night in a ceremony in Kual
The awards, which recognise outstanding work in the fields of online media, online video, infographics, cross media, mobile publishing, tablet publishing, and social media, were presented to more than 20 companies, individuals and publications in Asia-Pacific, South Asia and the Middle East.
Gold medal prize winners in the Asian Digital Media Awards were:
- Newspaper Website, Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. For http://www.stomp.com.sg
- Magazine Website, Mongoose Publishing Sdn Bhd, for Time Out Kuala Lumpur, http://www.timeoutkl.com/
- Online Video, MINDEF Public Affairs, Singapore, for “Fat to Fit”, http://tinyurl.com/ocsleej
- Online Infographics, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, for “Kowloon Walled City: Life in the City of Darkness”, http://tinyurl.com/d7qvsr3
- Cross Media Editorial, Seven West Media, Australia, for “Syria’s Refugee Crisis”, http://tinyurl.com/no3ffd7
- Cross Media Advertising, Singapore Press Holdings, Tiger Beer, ‘Have you been good this year”
- Mobile Publishing, Thanh Nien Newspaper, Vietnam, for its Thanh Nien Mobile
- Tablet Publishing, PT Kompas Media Nusantara, Indonesia, for Kompas Archipelago Culinary Expedition
- Social Media, Nation Broadcasting Corporation Public Company Limited, Thailand, for the Nation Group
The selections were made by 29 international jury members from such compaies as Le soir (Belgium), Kurier (Austria), AIM (USA), Telegraaf (Netherlands), El Siglo de Torreon (Mexico), Dagbladet (Denmark), Polaris Media (Australia), Telegraph Media Group (UK), Society of News design (USA), Irish Times (Ireland), Ringier (Switzerland), Media 24 (South Africa), Dogan (Turkey), Verdens Gang (Norway), Asahi Shimbun (Japan), and others.
WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore and India, is the global organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers. It represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries. Its core mission is to defend and promote press freedom, quality journalism and editorial integrity and the development of prosperous businesses.
