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 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 WinnerTallangatta Herald...

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

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...