Winners booklet here – download here

NZCNA

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

NZCNA

ANNUAL Conference

The Annual Conference and AGM is on 23 May 2024 at The Hilton Hotel Auckland. 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.