The 2018 Newspaper Awards

National Newspaper Printer of the Year

The Agfa Premier Award

Winner

St Clements Press (Financial Times, FT Weekend)

Highly Commended

Trinity Mirror Printing Watford (Daily Mirror, The Guardian)

Commended

Harmsworth Printing (Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday)

Portsmouth Web (Daily Mail, Metro)

Agfa sales manager, newspapers, Nick Lazell (left) presents the award to Dean Baker (second left), operations director of St Clements Press and Peter Slaughter, chief operations officer, Financial Times

Regional Newspaper Printer of the Year

The Agfa Premier Award

Winner

Mortons Print (Cage & Aviary Birds,

Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, Teesdale Mercury)

Highly Commended

Webprint Ireland (The Southern Star, The Clare Champion)

Commended

Archant Print (East Anglian Daily Times, MCN, Eastern Daily Press)

Discovery Print (The Courier, The Press and Journal)

Iliffe Print Cambridge (Homes, China Daily, Nouvelles D’Europe)

Interpress NI (Ulster Herald, The Impartial Reporter, The Irish News)

Sheffield Web (Rotherham Advertiser, The Yorkshire Post, Yorkshire Reporter)

Agfa sales manager, newspapers Nick Lazell (left) with Mortons Print technical manager Gary Pickford (second left) and systems improvement technician Jimmy Rossington

National Newspaper of the Year

The manroland web systems Premier Award

Winner

The Times

Highly Commended

The Guardian

Commended

Evening Standard

Financial Times

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The Daily Telegraph

Andy Latham, sales manager at manroland web systems, with Liz Harris, associate managing editor of The Times

Regional Daily Newspaper of the Year

The Aktrion Premier Award

Winner

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

Highly Commended

East Anglian Daily Times

Commended

News & Star (West Cumbria)

The Courier (Dundee)

The Irish News

The Yorkshire Post

Aktrion director Lyndsey Scott presents the trophy to head of operations Guy Forester (left) and editor in chief Richard Neville

International Newspaper of the Year

The Resolute Forest Products Premier Award

Winner

Leeuwarder Courant (Holland)

Highly Commended

Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Germany)

Commended

China Daily

Financial Times

Kleine Zeitung (Austria)

The Guardian Weekly

Resolute Forest Products sales director Juanjo Sanz (second right) presents the trophy to Henk Pronk, production director of NDC Media Group (centre) and Vincent König

Young Achiever of the Year

The UPM Premier Award

Winner

Emma Mann – media sales consultant for Print Innovation – Isle of Man Newspapers

Highly Commended

Luke Campbell – senior production executive – Telegraph Media Group

Commended

Jason Johnson – production support teamleader – Sheffield Web

James Moore – print technician – Interpress N.I.

Ben Peet – business excellence lead – Newsprinters, Knowsley

Harry Ward – apprentice electro mechanical engineer –

Harmsworth Quays Printing

UPM’s sales director, newspaper publishing Peter Smith presents the award to Emma Mann, media sales consultant for print innovation at Isle of Man Newspapers

Sunday Newspaper of the Year

The Prinovis Premier Award

Winner

The Sunday Times

Highly Commended

The Observer

Commended

Sunday Sun (Newcastle)

The Mail on Sunday

The Sunday Telegraph

The Sun on Sunday

John Millward (centre), News UK’s head of publishing planning, receives the trophy from Mark Pfeiffer, Prinovis commercial director

International Printed Innovation of the Year

The Printing Charity Award

Winner

Trinity Mirror Data Unit

Highly Commended

Sächsische Zeitung (Germany) – EiSZeit multimedia project

Commended

Aftonbladet (Sweden) – Five Plus supplement

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany) – Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly premium magazine

iweekend – launch of weekend newspaper

The Telegraph (India) – Eight-page super panoramic advertisement

Neil Lovell, chief executive of The Printing Charity with data journalist Alice Cachia and graphic designer Marianna Longo

Weekly Newspaper of the Year

The WRH Global UK Award

Winner

Cambridge Independent

Highly Commended

New Milton Advertiser & Lymington Times

Commended

Ham & High

Isle of Man Examiner

Lynn News

Stratford-upon-Avon Herald

Steven Lawton, sales manager WRH Global UK, (centre) presents the award to Cambridge Independent editor Paul Brackley (left) and Ricky Allan, managing director Iliffe Media

National Supplement/Magazine of the Year – weekly

The Sun Chemical Award

Winner

Feast (The Guardian)

Highly Commended

You Magazine (The Mail on Sunday)

Commended

ES (Evening Standard)

Review (The Guardian)

Stella (The Sunday Telegraph)

The Observer Magazine

Sun Chemical sales director, publications division Colin Colverd, with Dave Kirwan, head of development- publishing

National Supplement/Magazine of the Year – non-weekly

The Sun Chemical Award

Winner

Ultratravel (The Daily Telegraph)

Highly Commended

Luxx (The Times)

Commended

How To Spend It (Financial Times)

Luxury (The Daily Telegraph)

ST (Telegraph Media Group)

Sasha Slater, head of magazines, receives the award from Sun Chemical’s sales director, publications division, Colin Colverd

Regional Supplement/Magazine of the Year

The Precision Colour Printing Award

Joint Winners

Bury & West Suffolk Magazine (BBP Magazines)

Velvet Magazine (Iliffe Media)

Commended

Cornwall Today (Devon and Cornwall Media)

Swansea Life (Media Wales)

Uptown (Newsquest)

Yorkshire Living (Newsquest)

Yorkshire Living Harrogate Edition (Newsquest)

PCP managing director Alex Evans (right) with joint winners Ricky Allan. Samantha Nice and Alice Ryan of Velvet Magazine and Richard Bryson ( second right), editor of Bury and West Suffolk Magazine

Niche Market Newspaper of the Year

The PJ Award

Winner

Cage & Aviary Birds

Highly Commended

Fishing News

Commended

China Daily

Hackney Citizen

Photography News

The New European

TLS

Steve Wright (centre) owner of Kelsey media, publisher of Cage & Aviary Birds, receives the trophy from PJ editor and publisher Gary Cullum and Awards host Kate Silverton

Best Use of Advertising Technology

The Trintiy Mirror Award

Winner

AppNexus – Prebid Video

Joint Highly Commended

MNA Media – Pulse

Papermule – PADN (Publishers Advertising Data Network)

Commended

Newsquest Solutions – Audience Solutions

Rubicon Project

Teads – Outstream Video Advertising

David Higgerson, digital publishing director, Trinity Mirror Regionals (centre) hands the award to Laurence Black, senior account manager

Commercial Advertising Initiative of the Year

The Papermule Award

Winner

The Sunday Times/Skoda – The Alternative Rich List

Highly Commended

Trinity Mirror/Prostate Cancer UK – Game Over for Prostate Cancer

Commended

Newsquest Solutions – Reach Edge

The Sunday Times/Samsung Galaxy – gatefold

The Telegraph/Samsung Knox – Cyber security campaign

Trinity Mirror/Cadbury Roses – A Month of More Thank Yous

Trinity Mirror/UKTV – Commercial Content Partnership

Papermule director Mike Hoy (far left) with the winning Times team including director of News UK’s Bridge Studio Mark Field (second right)

Brand Partnership of the Year

The Newsprinters Award

Winner

Cornwall Live/Carrs Volkswagen – Cool Dogs

Highly Commended

The Sunday Times & The Sun/Movember – Giving Movember its Mojo Back

Commended

The Mail & Metro/MediaCom/TUI – Discover the “Un-Scene”

The Telegraph/IBM – What Makes Great?

The Telegraph/Specsavers – Rugby Ref Challenge

The Telegraph /Visit the USA – USA campaign

The Times/The Sunday Times/Kia – The Power to Surprise

Trinity Mirror/Prostate Cancer UK– Game Over for Prostate Cancer

Newsprinters managing director Andrew Hopkins hands the award to Jacqui Merrington, digital editor

News Website of the Year

The Google Award

Winner

FT

Highly Commended

The Guardian

Commended

Belfast Live

Express & Star

iNews

The Independent

The Times

Trinity Mirror – In your Area

Bénédicte Autret (left), head of news partnerships at Google, presents the award to Katie Martin, head of FastFT

International Digital Innovation of the Year

The Drag+drop Award

Winner

Reuters Connect – A single destination for all your content needs

Highly Commended

The Guardian – New business model

Commended

Aftonbladet (Sweden) – What’s on the Plate

Correio (Brazil) – WhatsApp

OtherWorld – Next generation news

Press Association – Digital transformation

Trinity Mirror In your Area – Redefining local news and information

Drag + drop managing director James Wright (centre) presents the trophy to Reuters Connect global head of sales excellence Evan Garricks

News App of the Year

The PCS Award

Winner

The Times & The Sunday Times

Highly Commended

The Telegraph

Commended

China Daily

Racing Post

The Guardian Virtual Reality Studio

The Independent Daily Edition

PCS marketing manager Hannah Lloyd (centre) presents the award to Liz Harris, associate managing editor

Outstanding use of Social Media

The newsawards trophy

Winner

FT

Highly Commended

The Telegraph

Commended

Chronicle Live

Mirror Online

The Independent

Warrington Guardian

Renee Kaplan, head of audience engagement at the FT (centre) receives the trophy from newswawards co-ordinator Helen Hargreaves (left)