Wow, another week, another big award win! We’re pleased to announce that Sophi has won the World Digital Media Award handed out by WAN-IFRA in the category of Best Digital News Start-up.“Effective, useful, and scalable! I particularly appreciate that it takes journalists back to journalism rather than SEO, layout and analytics,” said one judge.

We’re proud to announce that Sophi has won the Online Journalism Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism, handed out by the Online News Association (ONA). These are the only comprehensive set of journalism prizes honoring excellence in digital journalism around the world.“For the business and structure of journalism, crucial priorities for the industry at this moment, the winning entry is high-impact technical innovation. It’s especially useful for local newsrooms that are under-resourced,” one judge said.

How do you take a 175-year-old newsroom and successfully launch it into the digital era? This is the challenge that the Globe and Mail faced in 2012, when we set up our paywall so that we could continue to fund ambitious, nation-building journalism.We had many problems:

When any news organisation starts down the path of paywalled content, one big question that they face is the question of what to paywall.Part of the challenge there is the tension between the public’s right to know useful information and the media company’s desire to restrict content that can drive revenue.