Press-Release


The Results of the Sixth European Newspaper Award


The European Newspaper Award is a European competition for newspaper design and newspaper concept, which was announced in 1999 for the first time. It is organized by the newspaper designer Norbert Küpper from Meerbusch (Germany) in co-operation with the journalistic magazines Medium Magazin (Frankfurt), Österreichischer Journalist (Salzburg), and Media Facts (Amsterdam).

The competition facilitates the exchange of information on newspaper design and conception throughout Europe and has been very successful so far as a great number of newspapers usually participate in it: The Sixth European Newspaper Award counted as many as 334 newspapers from 26 countries, The fifth competition counted 331 from 22 countries. The third competition was accepted by 185 papers.

The competition is also known as’ Oscar of the Newspaper Branch’. The presentation of the awards will take place in Vienna (Austria) on April 2005.

This year - as in the past years - the jury has decided to present four chief awards according to the four different categories: local papers, regional papers, national papers and weeklies.
The chief prizewinners are allowed to sport the title „Europe’s Best Designed Newspaper“ in their masthead for one year.

The chief prizewinners of the Sixth European Newspaper Award are:

Europe‘s Best Designed Newspaper
Category local newspaper
Diario de Noticias, Huarte-Pampona, Spain

Europe‘s Best Designed Newspaper
Category regional newspaper
Het Parool, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Europe‘s Best Designed Newspaper
Category nationwide newspaper
De Morgen, Brussels, Belgium

Europe‘s Best Designed Newspaper
Category weekly newspaper
Bergens Tidende Søndag, Bergen, Norway

Sentinel Sunday, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, GB

Judges’ Special Recognition
Village, Dublin, Ireland


Details about the winers:
Local newspaper:
Diario de Noticias, Huarte-Pamplona, Spanien
Circulation 2001: 13.900, circulation 2004: 17.000.
The newspaper is published in tabloid-format.
The newspaper has 40 journalists, 3 Photographers and 4 layouter.

Regional newspaper:
Het Parool, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
In march 2004, the newspaper changed to tavloid-format.

Nationwide newspaper:
De Morgen, Brüssel, Belgium
Circulation 48.000, saturday 60.000.
The newspaper has 60 journalists, 5 photographers and 10 layouter.

Weekly newspaper:
Bergens Tidende Søndag, Norway
The newspaper has a circulation of 90.000 and is published in the tabloid-format. It is the sunday-edition of Bergens Tidende, which is publised in the Nordic Format.


Sentinel Sunday, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, GB
Circulation 2001: 7708 Circulation 2004 13.160
The newspaper is published in broadsheet format.

Judges’Special Recognition:
Vilage is a brand-new weekly tabloid launched in Dublin in September
2004. Circulation: 20.000. The newspaper has 4 journalists, 1 photographer and 4 layouter.


Apart from the chief awards, 93 newspapers from 22 countries were given
Awards of Excellence according to different categories such as front pages, inside pages, info graphics, typography, photography, photo reportages, supplements and special pages.

Awards of Excellence by countries:

Belgium:
Gazet van Antwerpen, B
Het Belang van Limburg, B
Le Soir, B

Danmark
Morgenavisen Jyllands Posten, DK

Germany
Aachener Nachrichten, D
Aachener Zeitung, D
Berliner Zeitung, D
Bild am Sonntag, D
Bild-Zeitung, D
Boulevard Würzburg, D
Braunschweiger Zeitung, D
Das Grundblatt, D
Der Tagesspiegel, D
Die Tageszeitung, D
Die Welt, D
Die Zeit, D
dpa infocom, D
Financial Times Deutschland, D
Frankfurter Rundschau Magazin, D
Handelsblatt, D
Heilbronner Stimme, D
Leine-Zeitung, D
Märkische Allgemeine, D
Neue Presse Hannover, D
Offenburger Tageblatt, D
Reutlinger General-Anzeiger, D
Rheinischer Merkur, D
Schweriner Volkszeitung, D
Saarbrücker Zeitung, D
Stuttgarter Zeitung, D
Südkurier, D
Thüringer Allgemeine, D
Welt am Sonntag, D
20 Cent, D

Estonia
Äripäev, Estonia
Postimees, Estonia

Finland
Hufvudstadsbladet, FIN
Iltalehti, Fin
Karjalainen, Fin
Uutispäivä Demari, Fin

France
Ouest France, FR

Greece
To Bhma, GR

Great Britain
The Daily Telegraph, GB
The Guardian, GB
The Herald, GB
The Independent, GB
The Independent Review, GB
The Independent on Sunday, GB
The Observer, GB
Sunday Herald, GB

Hungary
Magyar Hírlap, Ungarn

Ireland
Waterford News & Star, IRL

Italy
Corriere della Sera, I

Litauen
Diena, Litauen

Netherlands
Brabants Dagblad, NL
Dagblad van het Noorden, NL
Eindhovens Dagblad, NL
NRC Handelsblad, NL
Tubantia, NL

Norway
Asker og Bærums Budstikke, N
Bergens Tidende, N
Dagens Næringsliv magasinet, N
Haugesunds Avis, N
Tønsbergs Blad, N

Austria
Die Furche, A
Die Presse, A
Kleine Zeitung, A
Kurier, A
Tiroler Tageszeitung, A
Vorarlberger Nachrichten, A
Wirtschafts Blatt, A

Poland
Puls Biznesu, Poland

Portugal
Jornal de Noticias, Porto, P
Diário de Notícias, Madeira, P
Diário de Notícias, P

Rumania
Viata liberá, Rumania

Sweden:
Aftonbladet, S
Helsingborgs Dagblad, S
Norra Västerbotten, S
Norrköpings Tidningar, S
Piteå Tidningen, S
VS Verdens Gang, S

Schwitzerland
Aargauer Zeitung, CH
NZZ am Sonntag, CH
St. Galler Tagblatt, CH
Spain
Diario Córdoba, ES
Diario de Mallorca, ES
Diario de Pontevedra, ES
El Correo, ES
El Periódico de Catalunya, ES
Goienkaria, ES
Heraldo de Aragón, ES
La Voz de Galicia, ES

Tschechia
The Prague Post, CZ


A complete list of the award winners can be checked on our home page:
www.newspaperaward.or.,
where the award logo and the front pages of the four chief prize winners
can also be downloaded.

Contact:
Norbert Küpper
Office for Newspaper Design
Gutenbergstr. 4
40670 Meerbusch
Tel. 0 21 59.91 16 15
Fax 0 21 59.91 16 16
E-Mail: nkuepper@zeitungsdesign.de
Homepage: www.newspaperaward.org

Medium Magazin
Chefredaktion Annette Milz
Im Uhrig 31
60433 Frankfurt am Main
Tel. 0 69.95 297 944
Fax 0 69.95 297 945
Homepage: www.mediummagazin.de

Der Österreichische Journalist
Herausgeber Hans Oberauer
Fliederweg 4
A-5301 Salzburg-Eugendorf
Tel. ++43 6225 27 00-0
Fax ++43 6225 27 00-11
Homepage: www.newsroom.de