Entries for a simplified Newspaper of the Year awards contest opened today for Asia-Pacific members of The Newspaper Works.
Criteria abandon newspaper circulations in favour of readership as defined by the group’s EMMA metric and segments split instead into national/metro, regional and community.
The Sunday category has been replaced by a new Weekend Newspaper of the Year, and a Print Centre of the Year will also be named. Another new category honours the Young Rural Journalist of the Year.
Entries close on June 20, with the awards to be announced at a dinner on August 21 following the Future Forum in Sydney.
Technical excellence entries are categorised for single-width and double-width presses and for preprints and supplements, with the same audience criteria – community/local, regional, and national/metropolitan – set.
Judges in the new Print Centre of the Year award will consider a 300-500-word summary of operations, including details of the press configuration, staff numbers, key responsibilities/outputs, outstanding achievements, innovation in the past 12 months, new/ongoing expansion and/or efficiencies – including new and/or refurbished presses – health and safety record and initiatives, and commitment to environment… and three copies of work are to be submitted.
Criteria are designed to cover key facets of print operations and highlight important work undertaken in stressful, time-constrained situations every day, organisers say.
Entry in all categories is limited to paid-up members of The Newspaper Works.
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