CNA’s app revamp clinches gold at Digital Media Awards Asia 2026

CNA has won 85 awards in the last 12 months. It also previously won global gold for Best News Website or Mobile Service at the Digital Media Awards Worldwide in 2022.

The revamp of CNA’s app – launched together with a new website design – sought to better surface CNA’s rich and trusted brand of journalism across multiple genres and formats, while giving users more control.

Armed with data from user surveys and focus groups, CNA adjusted the layout of the front page and added more content types such as vertical videos, podcasts and Visual Stories. Deep-dive reporting and features in sections like CNA TODAY, Lifestyle and Luxury were also made more accessible.

Readers can reorganise sections on the front page to their own desire, allowing them to prioritise the order of what they see on the app.

A FAST button was added to the main menu bar to give users better access to the popular swipeable summaries of news stories, generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) but always approved by a human editor. 

Taken as a whole, the app revamp resulted in deeper, more meaningful engagement with CNA’s audience.