Finalists in the technical categories of this year’s PANPA ‘newspaper of the year’ awards are: Double-width press – Illawarra Mercury; Progress Leader; Queensland Times; South China Morning Post; Sunday Times; Sunshine Coast Daily; Sydney Morning Herald; The Canberra Times. Single-width press – Apple Daily (Taiwan); Australian Jewish News; Fraser Coast Chronicle; Otago Daily Times; The Chronicle (Toowoomba); The Herald (Newcastle); The Observer (Gladstone); The Southland Times Pre-print or supplement – Apple Daily; The Age; The Business Times; The Canberra Times Innovation in pre-production processes or technology – Busselton Dunsborough Times; Kiama Independent; Port Macquarie News Environment health and safety award – Fairfax Regional Printers Beresfield; Leader Community Newspapers; The Age. The awards will be announced at the ‘newspaper of the year’ dinner at the end of this year’s PANPA 08 conference, on September 10.