This page lists all our previous news items.
Greetings from Canberra
Following my participation in the Australian Local News Resilience Project in 2024, I was invited, as the CNAV President, to the News Futures: Media Policy Roundtable at the University of Canberra.A project of the University of Canberra’s News and Media Research…
2025 CNAV Conference
Award results list 2025 Best feature story Finalists Tallangatta Herald Warrandyte Diary Ferntree Gully News Winner Gisborne Gazette Best editorial comment Finalists Ferntree Gully News Ballarat East Community Newsletter Manningham and Nillumbik Bulletin The…
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
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 Winners of the 2021 CNAV Awards
The 2021 CNAV Awards were held at a virtual conference on November 7, 2021. Below is a list of finalists, winners, and other commended entries. For the judges comments please see the 2021 Conference page here Best Sports Reporting Winner Tallangatta Herald Finalists…
CNAV supports all community media
Grassroots community media is vital if we are to maintain and enhance community identity, whether cultural or geographical. Community media cannot be siloed into print, radio and television, the combination of all three create a rich and texture media landscape where…
ELECTION SURVIVAL GUIDE: NEWSPAPERS and NEWSLETTERS
JAMES POYNER ROUNDABOUT EDITOR The 2020 Local Council Election will proceed, as planned, on October 24, 2020. For the first time in Victorian electoral history, the 2020 local election will be entirely conducted as a postal vote. In 2016, 72 of the 78 participating…
CNAV papers continue to support local communities
It is with sadness we witness the closure of so many local newspapers across the country today, however it is not the end of local news. The Community Newspaper Association of Victoria (CNAV) is the peak body for community-based print journalism in Victoria. President…
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
12 October 2019, 4.15 pm The York on Lilydale BUSINESS OF MEETING: ATTENDANCE/APOLOGIES ORDINARY BUSINESS To receive the President’s report To consider and receive the financial statements Election of ordinary members of the committee of management Nominations of…
2019 Conference
Saturday 12 October 2019 CNAV’s 2019 conference venue will be The York on Lilydale. The date is 12th October 2019, which is the 2nd Saturday of October. See the Conferences page for more info.
2018 Conference
13 October 2018 CNAV’s 2018 conference venue has been decided – RACV Goldfields Resort near Creswick. The date is 13th October 2018, which is the 2nd Saturday of October. See the Conferences page for more info.
2017 Conference
14 October 2017 CNAV’s 2017 conference was held at Traralgon on Saturday, 14 October See the Conferences page for more info, including photos of the day.
2016 Conference
CNAV’s 2016 conference was held at Bendigo on Saturday, 8 October See the Conferences page for more details.