President’s Message

Another spring has arrived, along with it April showers, May flowers and the Ontario Community Newspapers Association’s Better Newspapers Competition Results. This year, along with so many others, it has given our members the opportunity to display their finest work. It is competitions like these that allow us to strive to be the best and give us the opportunity to shine.

Our review of last year’s program resulted in a few changes to the Award’s program. A few of the categories were combined and new ones added. Best Broadsheet Front Page was combined with the two Best Tabloid categories to become Best Front Page – circulation over & under 10,000. Cartoonist of the year & Best Creative Advertisement were each made into one category regardless of circulation. The web portal and website categories were combined into Best Community Website/Webportal. The College & University Student Categories now include a new Best Newspaper Website category.

A special thank you goes out to our volunteer judges! As usual, they are to be commended for their hard work and dedication to making the Community Newspaper Industry the best it can be. Each one has spent countless hours dedicating their attention and expertise to the many entries received.

Many thanks to all members who sent us entries for the competition – we received over 1,600 of them! It won’t be long before Community Newspaper personnel across Ontario are once again going through a year’s worth of newspapers to provide their best work for the 2011 Better Newspapers Competition. Your participation and contributions allow the Ontario Community Newspaper Industry to thrive!

Don MacLeod OCNA President 2010/11