The winners of Press Gazette’s Future of Media Awards 2026 were announced at a gala dinner at London’s Hilton Bankside on Thursday night last week.
The winners of the Future of Media Awards 2026 were announced as follows:
ADVERTISING TECHNOLOGY & COMMERCIAL EXCELLENCE
WINNER: The Guardian – Curation at Scale: How the Guardian turned signal loss into a 21% revenue uplift
APP OF THE YEAR sponsored by Pugpig
WINNER: Sky News
DIGITAL STORYTELLING (NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL)
WINNER: The Economist – The Iran war has entered a new phase
DIGITAL STORYTELLING (SPECIALIST/REGIONAL)
WINNER: MyLondon – Broken Homes
LIVE JOURNALISM (NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL)
WINNER: Politico – POLITICO Pub at Party Conferences
LIVE JOURNALISM (SPECIALIST/REGIONAL)
WINNER: Nottingham Post – Nottingham Inquiry
Highly commended: Birmingham Live – Ozzy Osbourne funeral
NEWSLETTER OF THE YEAR (NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL) sponsored by Letterhead
WINNER: The i Paper – Politics Unwrapped
NEWSLETTER OF THE YEAR (SPECIALIST/REGIONAL)
WINNER: Democracy for Sale
Highly commended: The Will Hayward Newsletter
ONLINE VIDEO (NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL)
WINNER: Daily Mail – ‘This runner WAS GIVEN MY IDENTITY then won Olympic gold!’
ONLINE VIDEO (SPECIALIST/REGIONAL)
WINNER: The Will Hayward Newsletter – Three things you need to know before voting in the Senedd election
PODCAST OF THE YEAR (NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL)
WINNER: BBC Radio 4 + BBC Sounds/Tempo+Talker – Everything Is Fake (And Nobody Cares)
PODCAST OF THE YEAR (SPECIALIST/REGIONAL)
WINNER: The Bristol Cable – We’ve Got Your Boy
READER REVENUE STRATEGY
WINNER: The Irish News
WEBSITE OF THE YEAR (SPECIALIST/B2B)
WINNER: Electrifying.com
WEBSITE OF THE YEAR (REGIONAL/LOCAL)
WINNER: Belfast Telegraph
WEBSITE OF THE YEAR (NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL)
WINNER: The Times
BEST USE OF AI
WINNER: Reach – Mantis Scribe
NEWS INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY PARTNER OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Tickaroo
MEDIA INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Harry Lewis-Irlam – Daily Mail
Highly commended: Kate Day – Politico
PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR sponsored by Admiral
WINNER: The Economist
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