Wins for Allied Press in community awards

Allied Press's Timaru community newspaper, The Courier, won the supreme award at last night's NZ Community Newspapers awards in Rotorua, taking the title of best all-round newspaper.

The paper was earlier named best all-round newspaper, 15,000-plus copies, from runner-up Mountain Scene, Allied Press's Queenstown paper.

The company's Gore newspaper, The Ensign, won best all-round newspaper in the up to 14,999 copies category.

Dunedin's The Star was the overall winner for community involvement.

Mountain Scene won the best front page, for 15,000-plus copies and its editor, David Williams, was named best senior news journalist.

One of the joint runners-up was the late Frank Marvin, a former Mountain Scene journalist and publisher.

 

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