Gary Cullum, director of Newspaper Awards, says: “We’ve had a record level of entries this year and our panel of judges have scrutinised well over 1,000 print and digital newspapers to reach their shortlist. Some of the most interesting and exciting entries have come from the Digital and Printed Innovation categories which proves that our industry is still very much at the vanguard of newspaper publishing.”
The six nominees battling to win National Newspaper of the Year are The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Independent’s ‘I’, the Irish Examiner, Metro and The Times. In the Weekend category the Yorkshire Post and Teesside’s Sunday Sun are up against huge national titles like The Sunday Times and FT Weekend.
In the Digital News Service of the Year category new, hyperlocal sites like the Exeter Daily and KentishTowner are fighting it out with traditional big hitters like The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
The Regional Newspaper of the Year category was particularly strong with some major regional titles nominated including the Yorkshire Evening Post, Hull Daily Mail, Dorset Echo, Ipswich Star and the Express & Star.
The Newspaper Awards features 18 categories designed to showcase the best in both printed and digital media. All the winners will be announced at a gala dinner on Wednesday 24 April at the London Hilton.
The 2013 Newspaper Awards nominations:
Newspaper Printer of the Year – sponsored by Agfa
Archant Print (Angling Times, MCN, Garden News)
Guardian Print Centre (The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian, The Observer)
Interpress NI - (i, The Irish News, The Impartial Reporter)
Mortons Print - Horncastle (Hull Daily Mail, Church Times, Home Extra)
Newsprinters (The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph)
St Clements Press (Financial Times)
Trinity Mirror Printing Watford (Independent 'i', The Independent on Sunday, The Daily Mirror)
West Ferry Printers (Daily Star, Daily Express)
International Newspaper of the Year – sponsored by Resolute Forest Products
Correio Braziliense (Brazil)
Donaukurier (Germany)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Germany)
Guardian Weekly
Heilbronner Stimme (Germany)
Rheinische Post (Germany)
Welt am Sonntag (Germany)
National Newspaper of the Year – sponsored by manroland web systems
The Daily Telegraph
Financial Times
i
Irish Examiner
Metro
The Times
Regional Newspaper of the Year – sponsored by Goss International
Over 25,000 circulation
Express & Star
Hull Daily Mail
The Irish News
London Evening Standard
The News (Portsmouth)
Yorkshire Evening Post
Yorkshire Post
Under 25,000 circulation
Cambridge News
News & Star (Carlisle)
Dorset Echo
Grimsby Telegraph
Ipswich Star
Oldham Evening Chronicle
North West Evening Mail
Weekend Newspaper of the Year – sponsored by Aktrion Group
The Daily Telegraph
FT Weekend
The Independent on Sunday
Sunday Sun (Teesside)
The Sunday Telegraph
The Sunday Times
Weekend Yorkshire Post
Printed Innovation of the Year– sponsored by UPM
The Daily Telegraph - MemoScent sticker
The Guardian - The Bookmark
Racing Pocket Post
Mortons of Horncastle/Hull Daily Mail - translucent wrap
Trinity Mirror Printing (Midlands) - XXL broadsheet posters
Webprint - double panoramic poster
Weekly Newspaper of the Year – sponsored by Ferag, WRH Marketing
The Cumberland News
Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
Hampshire Chronicle
Kent Messenger
The Scarborough News
West Sussex Gazette
The Wokingham Times
National Colour Supplement of the year – sponsored by Precision Colour Printing
How to Spend It (Financial Times)
The New Review (The Independent on Sunday)
Stella (The Sunday Telegraph)
Style (The Sunday Times)
Ultra Travel (The Daily Telegraph)
You Magazine (The Mail on Sunday)
Regional Supplement/Magazine of the Year – sponsored by Precision Colour Printing
The Canary (Archant Norfolk)
Cornwall Today (Cornwall & Devon Media/Local World)
ES Magazine (London Evening Standard)
Journal (Central Independent News & Media)
The Journal Lincolnshire (Lincolnshire Media)
Style (Cambridge Newspapers/Local World)
Swansea Life (SWW Media)
Coldset Colour Supplement of the Year – sponsored by Sun Chemical
Best of Liverpool (Liverpool Echo)
The Herald Magazine (The Herald)
Holidays and Getaways (Sunday Mirror)
Life (The Sunday Telegraph)
Travel (The Daily Telegraph)
TV Magazine (The Sun)
Niche Market Newspaper of the Year – sponsored by Newsprinters
Cage & Aviary Birds
Farmers Guardian
Fishing News
The Guardian Weekly
MCN
TMX
Digital Innovation of the Year – sponsored by Océ
The Guardian - Mobile website
Independent Voices - Newspaper comment for the digital era
Metro - Mobile first
Racing Post - App
The Sunday Times - Style Hotlist
Worldcrunch - Selecting, translating and editing content from foreign language news outlets
Digital News Service of the Year – sponsored by Press Ahead
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
theexeterdaily.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
huffingtonpost.co.uk
kentishtowner.co.uk
metro.co.uk
thesundaytimes.co.uk
Newspaper App of the Year – sponsored by PCS
First News+
The Guardian/Observer iPad edition
London 24 app
Metro tablet
Racing Post iPad app
The Scotsman tablet app
The Times iPad app
Digitally Printed Newspaper of the Year – sponsored by Kodak
The Daily Telegraph (Miller Newsprint, Tenerife)
Borsen (Stroma London)
Racing Pocket Post (Stroma London)
The Sunday Times (Miller Newsprint, Malta)
Svenska Dagbladet (Stroma London)
The Times (Miller Newsprint, Nicosia
News Photograph of the Year – sponsored by Getty Images
London Evening Standard - Jeremy Selwyn
The Guardian - Tom Jenkins
The Irish News - Hugh Russell
The Irish News - Cliff Donaldson
The Sunday Times - John Cantlie
South Wales Evening Post - Adrian White
The Environment Award – sponsored by KBA
Evening Times (Glasgow) - Streets Ahead campaign
Guardian News & Media - Volunteering week
Harmsworth Printing (Thurrock) - Rainwater harvesting
Newsprinters - Environmental Group
West Ferry Printers (London) - Press removal project