THE Phillip Island and San Remo Advertiser has won one of the top national awards for country and regional newspapers in Australia and the Sentinel-Times a state award at a joint awards night for the Victorian and NSW Country Press Associations at Yarrawonga.
As the winner of the Victorian Country Press Association award for the best special publication for its Island magazine, Phillip Island and San Remo Advertiser went forward for the national award against entries from South Australia, NSW and Queensland and came out on top.
Phillip Island’s newspaper editor Eleanor McKay said the Advertiser launched the magazine after COVID to highlight the many positive stories about the Island, its surrounds and its people in a format that had been embraced by locals and visitors alike.
The Sentinel-Times also came out on top in the Best Opinion/Editorial section for the Victorian Country Press Association, an open entry award available to all eligible newspapers in country and regional Victoria, for a piece written by Michael Giles.
The category was judged by Patrick Elligett, Editor of The Age.
More details later.
