PANPA: SMH is newspaper of the year while News Ltd wins digital prizes

Tim Burrowes

August 27, 2010 12:39

Fairfax dominated the major print categories at last night’s Newspaper of The Year Awards, while News Ltd did the same in the digital categories.

The Sydney Morning Herald was named PANPA (Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association) daily newspaper of the year in the 90,000+ circulation category for the second year running, while Sydney stablemate the Sun-Herald was the Sunday paper of the year.

Meanwhile, News Ltd won newspaper innovation of the year for its iPad app for The Australian, while the company’s adelaidenow.com.au won metro news website of the year with judges recognising its commitment to video content and its agenda-setting anti-censorship campaign.

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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.