Izvestia Media Center became the "Media Holding of the Year" at the National Zen Award

Izvestia News Center became the winner of the National Zen Award — "People of the Word" in the nomination "Media Holding of the Year". The award ceremony was held at the Moscow cinema "Khudozhestvenny" on December 12.

RIA Novosti won in the nomination "The most operational and popular agency", and TASS received the title of the most quoted. Russia Today became the winner in the International Agenda nomination. RBC received the title of "Economic Media of the Year", and the newspaper "Kommersant" became the analytical media of the year.

In addition, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Lenta.ru , Krasnodar TV channel, <url>, Championship and Super.ru . Alexander Yunashev received the "Journalist of the Year" award.

The award was presented by Maria Zakharova, Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Tolokolnikov, Managing Director of the Zen platform, figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva and other famous people.

Izvestia News Center is an information factory for the production of news for newspapers, TV channels, and Internet portals. In 2025, the total audience of visitors to all online resources of the Izvestia News Center amounted to more than 795 million people. The number of subscribers of the Izvestia holding's resources on the Zen platform is more than 3.5 million people.

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Earlier, on December 3, Izvestia TV channel became the winner of the Golden Ray 2025 award in the nomination "TV Channels: information and journalism". Izvestia received the award for the fifth time, a significant achievement was the result of many years of work by a team of professionals and recognition of the high quality of the content produced.

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