Newsletter March 2015 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DEADLINE AWARDS DEADLINE TUESDAY 31 MARCH 11 DAYS UNTIL ENTRIES CLOSE If you have not started the process, you have only 11 days left. All details are on the C N A Website at www.cna.org.nz FRIDAY 27 MARCH AWARDS ENTRY QUERIES: We have on hold a number of rooms at Rydges in Queenstown for the Conference to be held on Friday May 22, and May 23. COURIER ADDRESS: To secure your accommodation, you need to register using the CNA forms only by the end of next week. Details are on the C N A website. Do not go direct to the hotel. If you have any questions, contact: Contact Deb on 0800 466 793 debw@nsmm.co.nz For those categories which require Mounted Front Covers, or Complete Newspapers, please make sure these are couriered to: North South Multi Media, 107 River Road, Dargaville ATTN: DEB WRIGHT C N A Committee Member Karla Wairau on 09 271 8083 or karla@times.co.nz CONFERENCE DRAFT PROGRAMME For NEW attendees dress code is smart casual for the conference sessions, and for Friday night Awards Dinner, formal / jacket and tie. Friday May 22, 2015 Saturday May 23 2015 • 12.30pm Welcome • 12.45pm Graham Budd CEO Destination Queenstown. An overview of marketing a tourist Mecca. • 1.15pm Phil O’Reilly Chief Executive, Business NZ. An update on how NZ is performing, a forecaset for the next 18 months to 2 years and how that will effect your business. • 2.15pm Danny Trainor CEO PMP: Distribution trends, direct mail, relationship with C N A • 3.00pm Show’n’Tell. Come prepared with any great ideas you are prepared to share with the wider group, we will allow 5 minutes per presentation plus question and answer sessions. • 4.00pm Sales for C N A at a national/group level • 4.30pm Paul Taggart – Pre-press Outsourcing • Close 4.45pm • 6.00pm Dinner and Annual Awards Evening (Formal dress, suit/tie jacket) • 9.00am Welcome • Bruce Morris, Chief Judge for the Awards will provide an overview of the standard of entries • Bruce Morris is a former deputy editor of the New Zealand Herald, and editor of the Bay of Plenty Times and editor-in-chief of APN’s regional newspapers. His first association with community newspapers came in Britain as a young reporter and he later led APN training programmes in Australia and New Zealand, across all regional daily and community-free titles. • Split into two groups: • 9.15am - midday Editorial Workshop: Bruce Morris will be providing an in depth workshop for the Editorial teams over two and a half hours. You will find this a compelling session to attend, and if possible an opportunity to get as many of your journalists to attend as possible. • 9.15am - midday Advertising Workshop: • Peter Dickie (Marketing Manager Smiths City) will discuss what, as an advertiser they look for, buying trends, media mix for 2015 and beyond. What we can do to maximise our opportunities CONFERENCE SPONSORS Norske Skog • • • • • • • • • • in the is competitive space for large retail marketing dollars. 10am - Midday Advertising Presenter TBC Midday - 1pm Lunch Break 1.00pm Meet the new members. 1.30pm TBC 2.00pm Awards Category Review and discussion. 2.30pm Membership Criteria discussion Emerging trends, do we include web only publishers, is so under what basis, Associate Members? 2.45pm TBC 3.00pm Workshop on business issues we all face, open forum for discussion and how C N A can help. Bring along your issues Conference Close 4pm AGM NZ Community Newspapers Association. Dinner and entertainment on Saturday Night is at your own care and expense. We hope to have something arranged for those who may want to go out together as a group, this will be confirmed in the next few weeks. We thank our Sponsors to the Conference, without their support the costs of running such an event would be significantly higher to members HOW BIG ARE WE? $50 MILLION BIG In the industry survey you were asked to complete for CNA to report a cumulative revenue figure to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), our members returns indicate the 2014 calendar year saw over $50 million in Advertising Revenue from members. We will follow up with a request to update circulation numbers for all papers in the next month so we can build a clearer picture to market the strength and reach of the Independent Community Newspapers. NEW MEMBERS As noted in the October member newsletter last year, your committee approved a promotion where Inkwise (formerly Guardian Print) and Beacon Print Hawke’s Bay and Whakatane would pay first year subscriptions to C N A for papers who were not current members. As a result we welcome the following new members to C N A and will hopefully see some of them at Conference: New Associate Members: The Patea and Waverley Press Whitby Newsbrief Filipino Migrant News Auckland Today The Fishing Paper The Gay Express Kumeu Courier Nelson Farming Otaki Mail The Adventure Paper New Full Members: Waikato Weekly Chinese River City Press The Epoch Times Waimea Weekly Indian Weekender Wanaka Sun Your Cambridge News Other New Members (Outside the Inkwise/ Beacon Print Promotion) Associate Member: Spinc Media
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