Newsday honored by International News Media Association

Newsday was a winner and was named a finalist in two other categories at the International News Media Association Global Media competition held in Manhattan Tuesday night.

Newsday won the “best idea to grow digital readership” award for its Battle of the Bands project.

The Islandwide contest asked musicians to upload a video and talk about their bands. Long Islanders watched the videos and voted for their favorites, with the top 10 vote-getters advancing to a panel of judges, who then crowned the winner.

Newsday was a finalist in the categories of “best use of mobile” for its sports app and “best use of data analytics” for its use of predictive data analytics to retain subscribers.

According to its website, the INMA Global Media Awards competition received 655 entries from 196 media companies in 36 countries. Participants include newspapers, magazines, digital media, television and radio.