PANPA print finalists take the long way home

Aug 01, 2017 at 08:04 pm by Staff


It's one of the most-travelled newspapers in Australia - trucked the 1500 km from Darwin to Alice Springs... but also one of the best-printed.

News Corp's Centralian Advocate is among single-width finalists in this year's PANPA Newspaper of the Year, while the team responsible for printing it - at News Corp's Darwin Print Centre - are one of three hoping to be named "print centre of the year".

Also vying for the print centre title are Fairfax Media's Canberra Print Centre and News Corp Australia's Townsville Print Centre.

While the journey to "The Alice" made by copies of the Centralian Advocate may be the longest, other entries reflect a trend towards remote printing: The Gladstone Observer, for example, is trucked a relatively-modest 410 kilometres from News Corp's APN Yandina print centre.

All of this year's entries come from Australia, with the exception of three usually-hard-to-beat titles from Apple Daily sites in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Technical excellence finalists are below; see this for the full list of Newspaper of the Year finalists.

TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE

SINGLE-WIDTH

Community Finalists

  • Centralian Advocate - Darwin Print Centre, News Corp Australia
  • Penrith Gazette - North Richmond Print Centre, Fairfax Media
  • Sharp Daily, Taiwan - Apple Daily Publication Development Limited, Taiwan Branch

Regional Finalists

  • Apple Daily, Taiwan - Apple Daily Publication Development Limited, Taiwan Branch
  • Gladstone Observer, APN Yandina Print Centre, News Corp Australia
  • NT News - Darwin Print Centre, News Corp Australia
  • The Newcastle Herald - Beresfield Print Centre, Fairfax Media

National / Metropolitan Finalists

  • Apple Daily Hong Kong - Apple Daily Printing Limited
  • The Weekend Australian, Darwin Print Centre, News Corp Australia

DOUBLE-WIDTH

Community Finalists

  • Brimbank Star Weekly, Border Mail Printing, Fairfax Media
  • Central, Chullora Print Centre, News Corp Australia
  • Manly Daily, Chullora Print Centre, News Corp Australia
  • The Yass Tribune, Canberra Print Centre, Fairfax Media

Regional Finalists

  • The Land, Fairfax Media
  • Townsville Bulletin, News Corp Australia

National / Metropolitan Finalists

  • Life and Leisure, Fairfax Media
  • Sunday Telegraph, News Corp Australia
  • The Australian, News Corp Australia
  • The Canberra Times, Fairfax Media
  • The Sun-Herald, Fairfax Media

PRE-PRINT OR SUPPLEMENT

  • Kids in our Community, Singleton Argus, Fairfax Media
  • Mildura Field Days, Mildura Weekly, Fairfax Media
  • My First Year 2017, Cairns Post, News Corp Australia
  • New House and Land, Shepparton Adviser, Fairfax Media
  • Off the Leash, Darwin Print Centre, News Corp Australia
  • Real Estate, Daily Telegraph, News Corp Australia
  • The Deal, The Australian, News Corp Australia

PRINT CENTRE OF THE YEAR

  • Canberra Print Centre, Fairfax Media
  • Darwin Print Centre, News Corp Australia
  • Townsville Print Centre, News Corp Australia

Pictured: Holiday destination Alice Springs, to which newspapers are now transported from Darwin (albeit not by camel)

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