The Courier-Mail named national/metro daily paper of the year
News Corp Australia’s The Courier-Mail was named the national/metro daily newspaper of the year at last night’s 2014 PANPA Newspaper of the Year Awards, while The Weekend Australian was named weekend newspaper of the year.
Fairfax Media The Newcastle Herald picked up the award for regional daily newspaper of the year, while The Gympie Times was recognised in the community newspaper of the year category.
News Corp was also recognised with the environment award for its 1 Degree’s environmental awareness campaign, while Fairfax’s North Richmond plant won print centre of the year.
The Newspaper Works CEO Mark Hollands said: “Newspapers from all over the Asia Pacific set an extremely high standard in their submissions and left our judges locked in debate over the major Newspaper of the Year winner.
The PANPA Awards have long been a joke. They get shared around every year and every player gets to win a prize – it’s just a matter of waiting your turn. If the Courier-Mail is the best national/metro newspaper in the country god help us.
Thanks for the laugh, PANPA. Are the judges illiterate, or simply stupid? How can a newspaper that is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Rupert Murdoch even be considered for an award, let alone win one? “…at a meeting of News Corp’s Australian editors in 2011, Rupert Murdoch opened the discussion by asking: “Now, how do we get rid of this Labor government?” – The Guardian, 29 Jul 2014. Does an award-winning newspaper publish covers like this? https://62e528761d0685343e1c-f3d1b99a743ffa4142d9d7f1978d9686.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/files/29712/width668/bgpqyb5r-1377127774.jpg Less than a month ago, they launched a full-on hatched job on Tony Fitzgerald because he dared to speak out against the Liberal government and even worse, criticised the Courier Mail. Enjoy your continued slide into irrelevance, PANPA.
Living in Brisbane, I can assure you that the Courier is possibly the worst newspaper I’ve ever had the dishonour of reading.
It’s truly woeful and the journalists working there must cringe every day at the drivel they shovel out. It’s an absolute disgrace.
Smarty Pants – I thought the same, then I moved to Sydney and discovered the Daily Telegraph.