Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) flagship daily newspaper, NewsDay has won the prestigious Highway Africa Most Innovative Newsroom award in Grahamstown South Africa.
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NewsDay, which has a prominent mobile and web presence and is credited as a leader in accelerating the digital first strategy in line with world trends, had been nominated under the Telkom-Highway Africa New Media Awards Innovative Newsroom Category.
Group Editor-in-Chief of AMH, publishers of NewsDay, The Independent, Standard and Southern Eye, Vincent Kahiya said: “This recognition is ample evidence of our commitment to embrace the fast-changing technology in gathering, processing and presentation of our content,” said Kahiya. “The media industry is on an irreversible path towards change hence AMH’s adoption of the Digital First Strategy.”