We are delighted to announce that The Quint has won five awards across categories at the prestigious Digital Media Awards South Asia 2025 by World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), including the ‘Best News Website' third time in a row.
The award ceremony was held in Chennai on 18 June 2025.
Here’s a look at the accolades.
Best News Website
We’re proud to have won Gold in the ‘Best News Website’ category.
Launched in 2015, The Quint was built on the foundation of enterprise journalism — delivering news through multimedia, fact-checks, citizen reports, and more.
To support this, the website was designed for speed, SEO, accessibility, security, and a seamless user experience. With a clean, responsive design catering to all age groups, the platform has evolved to support multiple revenue streams — reader revenue, branded content, social collaborations, and more — while also piloting AI innovations to drive smarter news engagement.
Best Fact-Checking Project
Scamguard is a series of fact-checking guides aimed at equipping people with the critical thinking skills required to tackle online scams. The guides break down the modus operandi of scammers, provide testimonials of victims, and offer methods to safeguard against potential fraud. Scamguard covers three broad categories of popular online scams — job scams, UPI scams, and e-commerce scams.
Best in Audience Engagement
The Quint’s citizen journalism platform 'My Report' won Silver for 'Best in Audience Engagement', recognising the power of people-led storytelling.
Mainstream media often misses stories that lie beyond its reach. 'My Report' changes that — putting the power of journalism in the hands of citizens. From broken roads and missing amenities to stories of resilience and injustice, 'My Report' brings underrepresented voices to the forefront, ensuring no story is too small to be told.
Best Use of Video
The Quint’s hard-hitting video report — 'Those Who Die Are Called Martyrs': In Rajasthan's 'Mini Kota', Suicide is a Joke' — has won Silver under the 'Best Use of Video' category. You can watch it here:
Just 100 km from Jaipur, Sikar has emerged as Rajasthan’s ‘Mini Kota’ — a booming coaching hub drawing thousands of NEET and IIT-JEE aspirants each year. But behind the billboards and bright promises lies a darker reality: a rising tide of student suicides. In October 2023 alone, 26 such deaths were reported in Rajasthan.
Our video dives into the pressures of this competitive ecosystem — where harsh teachers, parental expectations, and toxic academic culture are pushing young lives to the edge.
Best Use of AI in the Newsroom
The Quint won the Bronze prize under the category 'Best Use of AI in the Newsroom' for The Quint Lab's immersive The Great Indian Paper Heist.
India saw more than 70 exam paper leaks in the last seven years, jeopardising the future of millions of young aspirants. The repeated incidents of paper leaks across states have undermined the abilities of government to conduct free and fair exams.
The paper leak crisis has become a boiling issue among the youth of the country, which boasts about having the largest youth population in the world. To break down these paper leaks, we examined the steps involved in the examination process — right from the setting of the question paper to the point where it reaches the examination hall — with the help of AI-generated graphics.