2026 Shortlist

Advertising Technology & Commercial Excellence

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App of the Year

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➤ Belfast Telegraph
➤ Sky News
➤ The Guardian
➤ The i Paper
➤ The Times

Digital Storytelling (National/International)

➤ Daily Mail: Epstein's worldwide web

➤ Financial Times: Inside the 'kill zone'

➤ Financial Times: The dark truth behind supermarket tuna

➤ Sky News: Whites Only

➤ The Economist: The Iran war has entered a new phase
➤The Guardian: #ToddlerSkincare: the 'dark and exploitative' world of children's beauty videos on TikTok

4. Digital Storytelling (Specialist/Regional)

➤ Birmingham Live/Mail: Deep Cuts

➤ MyLondon: Broken Homes

➤ Newsday: Dangerous Roads

➤The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Why aren’t we listening to Indigenous people about the climate crisis?

➤ The Will Hayward Newsletter: Senedd election
➤ What's Happening in Wigan

Live Journalism (National/International)

➤ Bloomberg: Markets Today

➤ Daily Mail: Hurricane Melissa

➤ Financial Times: Middle East war

➤ Politico: POLITICO Pub at Party Conferences
➤ Sky News: Birth Experiences: Your Stories
➤ The Times/Times Radio: Afghan data leak

Live Journalism (Specialist/Regional)

➤ Belfast Telegraph: The Open Championship

➤ BirminghamLive: Ozzy Osbourne funeral

➤ Live Science: Artemis II launch
➤ Nottingham Post: Nottingham Inquiry

➤ Reach Visual Journalism Team: 2026 local elections

➤ The Yorkshire Post: Doncaster Sheffield Airport loan

Newsletter of the Year (National/International)

➤ Financial Times: The AI Shift

➤ Politico: London Playbook

➤ The Economist: The Insider

➤ The i Paper: Politics Unwrapped

➤ The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine Weekly

Newsletter of the Year (Specialist/Regional)

➤ Carbon Brief: DeBriefed

➤ Cheapskate London

➤ Democracy for Sale

➤ Don't Miss Margate

➤ High Life North

➤ The Will Hayward Newsletter

Online Video (National/International)

➤ Daily Mail: 'This runner WAS GIVEN MY IDENTITY then won Olympic gold!'

➤ Financial Times: Scammers, spies and triads: inside cyber-crime’s $15tn global empire

➤ The Economist: Visual investigations

➤ The Guardian: Along the Green Line

➤ Sky News: Fatal shooting of Alex Pretti

➤ The Times: Why This Guerrilla Army Is Winning Colombia's Latest War

Online Video (Specialist/Regional)

➤ Cybernews: The Biggest Hacking Mystery of Our Time: Shadow Brokers

➤ Manchester Evening News: Gorton and Denton by-election

➤ Mongabay: Conservation Entangled

➤ Openly: This LGBTQ+ activist is now an 'extremist' in Russia

➤ Platts, S&P Global Energy: Shadow Fleet: How illicit shipping networks broke global oil trade

➤ The Will Hayward Newsletter: Three things you need to know before voting in the Senedd election

Podcast of the Year (National/International)

➤ BBC Radio 4 + BBC Sounds/Tempo+Talker: Everything Is Fake (And Nobody Cares)

➤ Sky News: Electoral Dysfunction

➤ Sky News/Tortoise Media: The Wargame

➤ The Guardian: The Birth Keepers

➤ The Times and The Sunday Times: The Poppy Day Bomb

➤ The Times and The Sunday Times: The Story

Podcast of the Year (Specialist/Regional)

➤ Clyde 1/Bauer Media: Beware Book

➤ Electrifying.com: Kilowatt Half Hour

➤ Radio Kingston/WKNY: abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast

➤ The Belfast Telegraph: The BelTel

➤ The Bristol Cable: We've Got Your Boy

➤ The Currency: Belfry: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Loss

Reader Revenue Strategy

➤ Don't Miss Media Group

➤ The Belfast Telegraph

➤ The i Paper

➤ The Irish News

➤ The Kyiv Independent

Website of the Year (Specialist/B2B)

➤ Carbon Brief

➤ Electrifying.com

➤ Opta Analyst

➤ Racing Post

➤ Rail

➤ Schools Week and FE Week

Website of the Year (Regional/Local)

➤ Andover Advertiser

➤ Belfast Telegraph

➤ Birmingham Live

➤ Kent Online

➤ SoGlos

➤ The Chelsea Citizen

Website of the Year (National/International)

➤ Bloomberg UK

➤ Financial Times

➤ Sky News

➤ The Guardian

➤ The i Paper

➤ The Times

Best Use of AI

➤ BBC World Service: Inside Russia’s new pro-Kremlin vigilantes

➤ El Vocero de Puerto Rico: noticIA

➤ Nikkei: Ask! NIKKEI

➤ Reach: Mantis Scribe

➤ Reuters: Super Summaries

➤ The Sun: AI live blogs

News Industry Technology Partner of the Year

➤ CounterPress

➤ Mather

➤ Tickaroo

Publisher of the Year

➤ DMG New Media

➤ Politico

➤ SoPublishing

➤ The Daily Beast

➤ The Economist

➤ The i Paper

➤ Times Media

Media Innovator of the Year

➤ Alfredo Triviño: ABC
➤ Harry Lewis-Irlam: Daily Mail

➤ Kate Day: Politico

➤ Nick Moar: DMG New Media