The Courier-Mail named national/metro daily paper of the year
News Corp Australia’s The Courier-Mail was named the national/metro daily newspaper of the year at last night’s 2014 PANPA Newspaper of the Year Awards, while The Weekend Australian was named weekend newspaper of the year.
Fairfax Media The Newcastle Herald picked up the award for regional daily newspaper of the year, while The Gympie Times was recognised in the community newspaper of the year category.
News Corp was also recognised with the environment award for its 1 Degree’s environmental awareness campaign, while Fairfax’s North Richmond plant won print centre of the year.
The Newspaper Works CEO Mark Hollands said: “Newspapers from all over the Asia Pacific set an extremely high standard in their submissions and left our judges locked in debate over the major Newspaper of the Year winner.
“We have some of the best newspapers in the world and the Newspaper of the Year awards continue to attract great support despite the increasing commercial pressures on the industry and, therefore, newspaper colleagues. I’d like to thank everyone who took the time to enter, and in doing so, contributed to the sense of community of our industry.”
The Advertiser, Adelaide and Apple Daily in Taiwan were recognised for their news sites, with the Newcastle Herald’s news site named the best regional news site of the year.
mX’s app for smartphone was named the best mobile site.
The full list of winners:
NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
DAILY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
National / Metro The Courier-Mail
Regional Newcastle Herald
Community The Gympie Times
WEEKEND NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
The Weekend Australian
NON-DAILY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
Regional The Land
Community St George & Sutherland Shire Leader
TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE
PRINT CENTRE OF THE YEAR
Fairfax Media Print & Distribution, North Richmond, NSW
SINGLE-WIDTH
National / Metro Apple Daily Printing (Hong Kong)
Regional The Geraldton Guardian
Community Bairnsdale Advertiser
DOUBLE-WIDTH
National / Metro The West Australian
Regional Sunshine Coast Daily
Community New Zealand Chinese Herald
PRE-PRINT OR SUPPLEMENT
Northern Daily Leader Tamworth Regional Council Supplement
ENVIRONMENT
News Corp Australia 1 Degree’s FY2014 Environmental Awareness Campaign
PHOTOGRAPHY
PORTRAIT
National / Metro Chef Trois – Matt Turner, The Advertiser, Adelaide
Regional Brave Shaylene – Addison Hamilton, Daily Advertiser
Community Girl & Her Horse – Matt Bedford, Armidale Express
FEATURES AND LIFESTYLE
National / Metro From Victoria with Love – Jason Edwards, Sunday Herald Sun
Regional Making a Splash – Brendan Radke, Gold Coast Bulletin
Community King Rocco – Justin Brierty, The Centralian Advocate
SPORT
National / Metro Hair Apparent – Wayne Ludbey, The Courier-Mail
Regional (TIE) Cricket at the Speed of Fright – Jon Gellweiler, South Western Times
Heat Stroke – Jim Aldersey, Bendigo Advertiser
Community Jesse Rodgers – Jon Hewson, Mandurah Coastal Times
NEWS
National / Metro Haiyan Typhoon – Brendan Esposito, The Sydney Morning
Herald
Regional Fires – Phil Hearne, Newcastle Herald
Community Ugly Side of Footy – Geoff Jones, Hawkesbury Gazette
DIGITAL
BEST MOBILE SITE
mX – App for Smartphones
BEST NICHE / SPECIALITY APP OR MICROSITE
The Canberra Times The Silent War
DIGITAL INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
The Straits Times, Singapore Communities Platform
NEWS SITE OF THE YEAR
National / Metro (TIE) Apple Daily, Taiwan (appledaily.com.tw)
The Advertiser, Adelaide (advertiser.com.au)
Regional Newcastle Herald (theherald.com.au)
HEGARTY INDUSTRY SCHOLARSHIP
Mark Baker, Launceston Examiner, Fairfax Media
The PANPA Awards have long been a joke. They get shared around every year and every player gets to win a prize – it’s just a matter of waiting your turn. If the Courier-Mail is the best national/metro newspaper in the country god help us.
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Thanks for the laugh, PANPA. Are the judges illiterate, or simply stupid? How can a newspaper that is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Rupert Murdoch even be considered for an award, let alone win one? “…at a meeting of News Corp’s Australian editors in 2011, Rupert Murdoch opened the discussion by asking: “Now, how do we get rid of this Labor government?” – The Guardian, 29 Jul 2014. Does an award-winning newspaper publish covers like this? https://62e528761d0685343e1c-f3d1b99a743ffa4142d9d7f1978d9686.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/files/29712/width668/bgpqyb5r-1377127774.jpg Less than a month ago, they launched a full-on hatched job on Tony Fitzgerald because he dared to speak out against the Liberal government and even worse, criticised the Courier Mail. Enjoy your continued slide into irrelevance, PANPA.
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Living in Brisbane, I can assure you that the Courier is possibly the worst newspaper I’ve ever had the dishonour of reading.
It’s truly woeful and the journalists working there must cringe every day at the drivel they shovel out. It’s an absolute disgrace.
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Smarty Pants – I thought the same, then I moved to Sydney and discovered the Daily Telegraph.
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