Winners booklet here – download here
ANNUAL AWARDS
Entries Close 31 March 2025
The Community Newspaper Awards are held annually, with winners presented at the Annual Conference. The Awards are keenly contested in the following categories:
- Best Idea/Innovation
- Best Feature/Supplement
- Best Community Involvement
- Best Graphic Designer
- Best Lifestyle/Feature Writer
- Best Sales Professional
- Best Headline Writer
- Best Sports Journalist
- Best News Journalist (Senior and Junior)
- Best Photographer
- Best Front Page Magazine
- Best Front Page Community Newspaper
- Best Magazine
- Best Community Newspaper
2025 ENTRY FORM AND CRITERIA
Please read the accompanying 2023 Awards Category and Criteria for full details and rules of entry. Please complete one entry form per entry.
Please download the Awards Entry Form and Criteria using the links above. Complete one entry form for each entry and attach this to the hard copy of your entry and send by courier to:
CNA Awards
c/- PrintNZ
60 Wilkinson Road
Ellerslie
Auckland 1060
If copies of the publication are not available, PDFs copies of entries are permitted for all categories except Magazine of the Year and Newspaper of the Year.
Any enquiries to ruth.cobb@printnz.co.nz
ANNUAL Conference
The Annual Conference and AGM is on 9 May 2025 at The Rydges Latimer Hotel, Christchurch. This conference is suitable for all staff members to attend. Speakers and workshops are held covering areas of interest to community newspapers. Click here to download a registration form.
Accommodation is available at the Rydges Hotel on a first-come-first-served basis. Rooms are $231.00 (incl GST and breakfast for one).
To book a room you can email reservations_rydgeslatimerchristchurch@evt.com
or phone +64 3 379 6760 and quote the code R-PINZ090525