For Immediate Release
Paris - 19 August 2011
The Jawa Pos newspaper of Indonesia has been awarded the
World Young Reader Newspaper of the Year prize in the annual
competition organized by the World Association of Newspapers and
News Publishing (WAN-IFRA).
The newspaper also won top prize for enduring excellence in the
awards, which are part of WAN-IFRA’s annual World Young
Reader Prize competition honoring innovative newspapers that
have devised the best project or activity to attract young readers.
“Jawa Pos has done an outstanding job with an enduring,
substantial, successful commitment to engaging young people on
and off the printed page,” the jury said. “Its daily three-page
DetEksi effort is more than a standard newspaper youth section. It’s a complete strategy for finding,
engaging, and retaining young readers. Most importantly, it has worked”
The jury of previous prize winners and young readership experts selected winners for excellent projects
within the last 24 months related to brand, editorial, making the news, newspapers in education and
public service. In addition, they chose winners in three special categories in 2011: connecting with
mobile phones, the Natasa Prize for connecting via printing plant activities and strategies that have
shown “enduring excellence” by continuing to benefit newspapers and the young for more than two
years. The Natasa Prize is named after the late Natasa Vuckovic Lesendric of Serbia who led work to
create the country’s first printing plant for the independent press during the reign of Slodoban Milosevic
and also assured that the plant fund a national newspapers in education project.
Awards will be presented 12 October in Vienna during the World Newspaper Congress and World
Editors Forum. Details of the events can be found at:
http://tinyurl.com/6x223jy
Support for the prizes comes from Norske Skog, the Norway-based global paper producer, as part of its
partnership in WAN-IFRA’s Newspapers in Education Development Project.
• OTHER TOP WINNERS WERE :
BRAND –
The Hindu (India) for “Aviva book wall” campaign
EDITORIAL –
Wall Street Journal (USA) for its investigation into how companies secretly track children online
MAKING THE NEWS –
Diário de Notícas & Jornal de Notícas (Portugal) for Media Lab journlaism learning center
NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION –
Gazeta do Povo (Brazil) for research supporting “Read & Think (Ler e Pensar)”
NATASA PRIZE FOR PRINTING PLANTS –
Sinag Publishing and Printing Services (Philippines) its journalism
training seminars.
PUBLIC SERVICE –
Glåmdalen (Norway) for its Politisk Pepper election project
• JURY COMMENDATIONS:
BRAND –
Mid Day Infomedia (India) for its Smoke Free City campaign
EDITORIAL–
Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan) for Yomiuri Kodomo Shimbun,
Kleine Zeitung (Austrai) for Kleine
Kinderzeitung, and
Delovoy Peterburg (Russia) for Dpvkontakte
MAKING THE NEWS –
Heilbronner Stimme (Germany) for Universal Children’s Day front page and Diario Hoy de
Extramadura (Spain) for My Online Newspaper.
NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION –
A Gazeta (Brazil) for the Home Sweet Home historic presevation effort.
PUBLIC SERVICE –
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong, China) for Heritage Detectives,
Mathrubhumi Daily
(India) for its Seed project and
Kompas Daily (Indonesia) for Muda in Action Library.
• SPECIAL MENTION:
BRAND –
I-Next (India) for Bikeathon.
CONNECTING WITH MOBILE –
Jornal de Manha (Brazil) for photojournalism workshops
EDITORIAL –
United Daily News (Taiwan) for Student Weekly
ENDURING EXCELLENCE –
Chicago Tribune (USA)
for The Mash and
Südkurier (German) for Klasse! and
Klasse! for kids
MAKING THE NEWS –
Kurjer. Sreda. Bersdsk (Russia) for Pobednije 65 and Polskapresse Publishing (Poland) for
Junior Media
Previous World Young Reader Prize winners on the jury included: Lynne Cahill of The West Australian(Australia), Altair Nobre of Zero Hora (Brazil), Wendy Tribaldos of La Prensa (Panama), GrzgorzPiechota of Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland) and Lisa Blakeway of EISH (South Africa). They were joined byAralynn McMane, WAN-IFRA executive director of young readership development, and four guestjudges: Christopher K. Sopher, founder of Younger Thinking (USA); Cristiane Parente, executive NIEcoordiantor for ANJ, the Brazilian Newspaper Association, and two youth specialists from Zero Horanewspaper, Ângela Ravazzolo and Mariana Müller. Zero Hora hosted deliberations at itsheadquarters in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Vote totals discounted those of judges for entries from their owncountries.
WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore, India,Spain, France and Sweden, is the global organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers. Itrepresents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than120 countries. Its core mission is to defend and promote press freedom, quality journalism and editorialintegrity and the development of prosperous businesses.
Inquiries to: Aralynn McMane, Executive Director of Young Readership Development WAN-IFRA, 96 bisrue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris France. Tel: +33 1 47 42 85 00 (8518 direct). aralynn.mcmane@wanifra.org
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