Welcome to CNAV

The Community Newspaper Association of Victoria (CNAV) is the peak body representing not-for-profit community newspapers across Victoria.

CNAV works actively with its members to enhance the capacity and standing of community newspapers, to enable them to fully realise their vital role in communities.

NEWS

2023 Conference

Saturday 21 October 2023

CNAV’s 2023 conference venue will be Mercure Hotel North Melbourne.

For more information and for award nominations and booking, see the Conference page

The Winners of the 2022 CNAV Awards

The Winners of the 2022 CNAV Awards

On Saturday, October 15 2022 the annual CNAV Awards were held at the VEMI conference centre in Macedon, celebrating a return to face to face networking.

Winners, Finalists and Special Mentions are listed  here with judges video comments and links (where possible) to the mentioned edition.

 

Archived news items are available here.

NOTICES

Managing government advertising

The Victorian State Government has recently appointed OmniMedia as their advertising agent. OmniMedia have asked the committee to let our members know that they are keen to work with community newspapers, but they have had some difficulty managing the timelines that some volunteer run papers work to. Here are a few steps that will facilitate the government advertising process.

  • Always keep your deadlines and advertising rates up to date at our broker portal cnav.in
  • When Bill Penrose from PAS sends you a booking order, please respond to it, either affirmatively or negatively.
  • Once the ad is available, if you are uncomfortable printing it, please let Bill know immediately that you won’t be running it.
  • Once the advertisement has been published, please make sure you get your invoice to PAS/Bill Penrose within 2 weeks. We appreciate that some papers invoice less frequently than others, but it is certainly possible to issue a single invoice to meet the government advertising timelines rather than waiting to send out a whole batch. Lack of prompt invoicing is a major headache for OmniMedia as they need to report back to government on placement of ads and costs within a tight timeline.
  • Always send a tear sheet with your invoice. Once upon a time, a tear sheet was the page of the news- paper on which the ad was placed torn out and posted with the hard copy invoice. If you invoice electronically, please send a pdf or jpg of the page. If you aren’t comfortable with converting the file, just take a photo of the page on your phone and send that through. At the very least, send a torn- out page of your newspaper by post and make a note of this on the email your invoice is attached to.
  • To make sure your invoice is found and processed in time, make sure your email header starts with ‘CNAV’ and your paper name.
  • Make sure your order number is included in your invoice.

Electoral advertisements

All electoral advertisements (not just at election time) at Federal, State and Local government levels must include the name and address of the person who authorised the advertisement.  The address must be a full street address and suburb or locality.

Note:      See sub-section 328 (1) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 and sub-section 83(1) of the Victorian Electoral Act 2002).  Under sub-section 328(5) of the Commonwealth Act, the address of a person means an address, including a full street address and suburb or locality, at which the person can usually be contacted during the day. It does not include a post office box.  Under section 3 of the Victorian Act, address does not include a post-office box.

Useful Links

Our Community

Our Community is Australia’s Centre for Excellence for the nation’s 600,000 not-for-profits & schools, providing advice, tools, resources and training.   https://www.ourcommunity.com.au/

The Citizen

The Citizen is an online publication of the Centre for Advancing Journalism