Awards

News Digital Media has received numerous industry awards, recognising the company’s and its people’s outstanding achievements across the fields of journalism, sales, marketing and interactive product development.

2010

16th Annual Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) awards

2009

2009 News Awards

  • Winner - The Chairman's Award - The Punch
  • Winner - Website of the Year - taste.com.au

The 54th Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism

  • Finalist – Best Online Journalism – news.com.au and heraldsun.com.au team, “Victoria in Flames” 

The B&T Awards 2009

  • Finalist – Media Sales Team of the Year – News Digital Media
  • Finalist – Media Brand of the Year - News.com.au

2009  Australian Web Awards

  • Winner –  Best Virtual - truelocal.com.au

2009 AIMIA Amber Mobile Awards

2009 Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association (PANPA) - Newspaper of the Year Awards

  • Winner - News Site of the Year (metropolitan/national) - news.com.au
  • Winner - Specialist Site of the Year - The Punch
  • Winner - News Site of the Year(rural/regional/suburban) - Leadernews.com.au

2009 Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association (PANPA) -  Advertising Awards

  • Winner - Online Advertising Executive of the Year - Luke Donkin (Account Manger - Melbourne)
  • Winner - Best Online Campaign for a Client - News Digital Media for the Toyota Tarago "Driving with a Difference"

7th Annual Australia and New Zealand IT Journalism awards – "The Lizzie’s"

  • Winner - Best Media website – news.com.au/technology
  • Finalist - Best Technical Journalist – Andrew Ramadge

2009 LearnX eLearning and Training Awards

  • Platinum Winner – Best Compliance and Training Program - Learning Seat & HEINZ
  • Platinum Winner - Best Hosted Learning Management System - Learning Seat

2009 Hitwise Online Performance Awards

  • Winner - Most Popular Blogs and Personal website – news.com.au/blogs
  • Winner - Most Popular Food and Beverage, Lifestyle and Reference website - taste.com.au
  • Winner - Most Popular Fashion website  (Lifestyle category) - vogue.com.au
  • Winner - Most Popular Women's website (Lifestyle category) - vogue.com.au

2009 News Limited Creative Excellence Awards

  • Winner – People’s Choice Award (dual winners) – Nathalia Merino - News Digital Media and Hudd Williams - Nationwide News
  • Best Multi-Platform Concept (dual winners) Nathalia Merino - News Digital Media & Hudd Williams - Nationwide News
  • Finalist – Best Pitch (unsold) Concept for Project Funhouse "Pink Your Friends" - Rachel Bajada and Aurelie Perthuis

15th Annual Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) awards

  • Winner – Best Classifieds and eTrading site – truelocal.com.au
  • Finalist - Best Classifieds and eTrading site – CareeerOne /GPYR for “Tackle your Boss campaign”
  • Finalist - Best News, Media and Reference category - news.com.au

2008

The B&T Awards 2008

  • Winner – Media Sales Team of the Year – News Digital Media

2008 Australia Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Awards

  • Winner - Online General Advertising Market award – News Digital Media

2008 Mobile Marketing and Advertising Awards

  • Finalist – M-Commerce Category – moshtix iphone site
  • Finalist - Consumer Content Offering – TrueLocal iphone site
  • Finalist - Consumer Content Offering – news.com.au iphone site

2008 Pacific Area Newspapers’ Publisher Association (PANPA) Newspaper of the Year Awards

Young Australian Journalist of the Year Awards

AdNews Employer of the Year Awards

  • Finalist – Media Owner Category – News Digital Media

2008 Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Awards

  • Winner – People’s Choice Awards – Career Won – CareerOne.com.au online search campaign
  • Finalist - Search Marketing Category - Career Won – CareerOne.com.au online search campaign developed with 24/7 Real Media

6th Annual Australia and New Zealand IT Journalism awards – known as the Lizzie’s

  • Highly Commended - Best New Title – news.com.au/technology
  • Highly Commended - Best Media website – news.com.au/technology

14th Annual Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) awards

  • Winner - Best News, Media and Reference category – news.com.au – Culture in Crisis Multimedia presentation
  • Finalist - Best Cross-Platform Content or Content Integration category – news.com.au off-deck mobile site (m.news.com.au)
  • Finalist - Best Science, Health and Environment category 1degree.com.au
  • Finalist - Best News, Media and Reference category - news.com.au Election 2007 – The Vote-a-matic
  • Finalist - Best Financial Services category - news.com.au/money

2007

The B&T Awards 2007

  • Winner – Best Media Sales Team – News Digital Media

MediaWorks Awards 2007

  • Winner – Specialist Website of the Year– foxsports.com.au
  • Finalist – Specialist Website of the Year – australianit.com.au
  • Finalist – News Website of the Year– news.com.au
  • Finalist – News Website of the Year– australian.com.au

The 52nd Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism

  • Finalist – Investigate Journalism Category – News.com.au ( David Higgins, Will Temple and Mark Schliebs ) for their investigation into aTabcorp betting scandal

Asian Marketing Effectiveness awards

  • Silver Award - news.com.au’s for it’s Be Involved marketing campaign

2007 Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Awards

  • Finalists – Fusion category - Truelocal.com.au

2006

News Awards

  • Winner – Online journalist of the year – Paul Colgan, Fay Gould and the news.com.au for their coverage of the Beaconsfield mine disaster