Fairfax dominates PANPA Awards with The Age taking top title

Tim Burrowes

August 30, 2013 10:03

Fairfax Media dominated the major categories of last nights PANPA Newspaper of the Year Awards while News Corp titles picked up just one of the newspaper of the year trophies.

The Age won the newspaper of the year title for daily papers with circulation above 90,000. PANPA is the Pacific Area Newspaper Association and is run by industry body The Newspaper Works.

And two Fairfax titles – The Newcastle Herald and the Australian Financial Review – jointly won newspaper of the year for papers with a circulation of 25,000 to 90,000.

McPherson Media Group’s Shepparton News and APN NZ’s Rotorua Daily Post jointly won for daily papers up to 10,000 circulation.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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awards? 31 Aug 13

i guess the competition in the sub 90,000 circ categories is only going to get hotter! 2014 the winner is the age. 2017 the winner is the herald sun. unless they change to UVs or whatever!

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