Indian Express wins 2 awards for best use of AI and podcast at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards South Asia 2025

All Gold winners from WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards South Asia will automatically qualify for WAN-IFRA’s World Digital Media Awards, competing with top newsrooms from across the globe.

Express Shorts uses generative artificial intelligence to summarise news articles.

The Indian Express bagged two prizes at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards South Asia 2025 on Monday. Express Shorts, which offers bite-sized synopsis of news, won the Gold in the ‘Best Use of AI in Newsroom’ category. The product was launched last year and uses generative artificial intelligence to summarise news articles.

The Silver prize in the ‘Best Podcast’ category went to ‘Love Matters’, a podcast produced by The Indian Express and Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster. Hosted by sexual wellness advocate Leeza Mangaldas, the programme tackles varied subjects from ‘How do Love and Marriage operate in a Caste society’ to ‘Men’s Sexual Health’ and ‘The Importance of Adult Friendships’. The podcast was launched in 2021 and is currently in its fourth season.

For WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards South Asia, new entrants and legacy behemoths in the news field went head to head across 12 categories — Best Data Visualisation, Best in Audience Engagement, Best News Website, Best Use of Video, Best Digital Subscription/Reader Revenue Project, Best Podcast, Best Use of AI in Newsroom, Best Use of AI in Revenue Strategy, Best Fact-Checking Project, Best Newsletter, Best Native Advertising Campaign, Best Innovative Digital Product.

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The trophies will be handed over to the winners at the Digital Media India 2025 Conference on 18 June 2025 in Chennai. All Gold winners from WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards South Asia will automatically qualify for WAN-IFRA’s World Digital Media Awards, competing with top newsrooms from across the globe.

WAN-IFRA, or World Association of News Publishers, is the global organisation of the world’s press, comprising 3,000 news publishers and technology companies and 60 national publishers’ associations representing 18,000 publications in 120 countries.

WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards South Asia, which recognises “excellence in digital innovation, creativity, and audience engagement among South Asia’s leading publishers,” received 105 entries from media organisations across South Asia for the 2025 edition. The contest had a separate category for smaller news organisations, those with annual revenue below $5 million.

A panel of “experienced editors and industry experts” scrutinised the entries, and chose the winners based on “innovation, audience impact, and journalistic excellence”.

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