Media Voices last week announced the winners of 2025’s Publisher Newsletter Awards, following a ceremony which took place on Tuesday 10th June at Vauxhall Arches, London.
The organisers say the awards are a celebration of the newsletter success of publishers and media organisations, whether they’ve been in the space a while, or have just launched.
From almost 200 entries and a strong shortlist of 150+ newsletters, a team of judges marked the newsletters on a range of factors, including editorial quality, how well the newsletter reflected the publisher’s brand, and strategies to grow the audience, Media Voices continued.
“We’ve been overwhelmed by the quality and quantity of newsletters submitted by publishers this year,” said The Publisher Summits & Awards Director Esther Kezia Thorpe. “We knew publishers saw newsletters as an area for growth and investment, but it’s been heartening to see them bringing in newsletter experts, upskilling teams, and putting talented editors front-and-centre to create truly valuable products.”
The Publisher Newsletter Awards 2025 winners are as follows:
BEST B2B NEWSLETTER 2025
Chris Giles on Central Banks, Financial Times
BEST DAILY NEWSLETTER 2025
Morning Report / Evening Review, The Week
BEST ENTERTAINMENT & CULTURE NEWSLETTER 2025
Theatre, The Times and Sunday Times
BEST FINANCIAL NEWSLETTER 2025
Couch to £5k, Times Money Mentor
BEST FOOD & DRINK NEWSLETTER 2025
Top Shelf, Bloomberg News
BEST HEALTH & LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER 2025
Health Fix, BBC Studios
BEST INDIVIDUAL-LED NEWSLETTER 2025
NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS: The Northern Agenda, Reach PLC
BEST INDIVIDUAL-LED NEWSLETTER 2025: SPECIALIST
Simon Calder’s Travel Week, The Independent
BEST LIMITED RUN NEWSLETTER 2025
Wimbledon, The Times and Sunday Times
BEST LOCAL & COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER 2025
AVLtoday, 6AM City
BEST NEWS & ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER 2025
The War Room, The Economist
BEST POLITICS NEWSLETTER 2025
The US in Brief, The Economist
BEST SCIENCE NEWSLETTER 2025
Nature Briefing, Springer Nature
BEST SPECIAL INTEREST NEWSLETTER 2025
Uncovered, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
BEST SPORT NEWSLETTER 2025
PinkUn+, Newsquest
BEST TECHNOLOGY NEWSLETTER 2025
The Download, MIT Technology Review
BEST NEWSLETTER LAUNCH 2025
India Business Briefing, Financial Times
PUBLISHER NEWSLETTER HERO OF THE YEAR 2025
Georgia Chambers, The i Paper
From these 17 category winners, the Media Voices team say they read them all and chose an overall winning newsletter. So many of the newsletters had exceptional elements which made them deserving of the title. However, one newsletter really stood out, maintaining quality on a frequent publishing schedule, keeping a close eye on reader engagement, and achieving consistently high scores from the judges.
PUBLISHER NEWSLETTER OF THE YEAR 2025 (sponsored by Syno)
Morning Report / Evening Review, The Week
To finish, Media Voices announced a surprise new category. They say they saw some consistently excellent work coming across verticals from some publishers that they wanted to celebrate. This particular publisher had pretty much all their entries placed in the top 3 of each category they entered, a testament to the consistent high quality they maintain across their whole portfolio, added Media Voices.
NEWSLETTER PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR 2025 (sponsored by Passendo)
The Economist
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