Qantas Awards

The awards are out but each media outlet tends to only report on the awards they got, so I have gone to the Qantas Awards website to find a list of all winners and finalists.

Even the website makes it bloody hard though, as you have to go to a dozen different pages to compile them all. However it is worth a visit just to get to see the photos that were considered for the photography awards.

This superb photo is from overall winner Simon Baker, a freelancer.

Now I may have missed one or two, but my rough count gives the following winners amongst the well-known publications:

NZ Herald 23
Sunday Star-Times 16
The Press 11
Dominion Post 9
North & South 6
The Listener 6
Metro 6
Herald on Sunday 5
Waikato Times 4
ODT 2
Sunday News 1
Southland Times 1

Now if we group them by type, we have:

Daily Newspapers

NZ Herald 23
The Press 11
Dominion Post 9
Waikato Times 4
ODT 2
Southland Times 1
BoP Times

So NZ Herald has done very well. Congrats.

Weekly Newspapers

Sunday Star-Times 17
Herald on Sunday 5
Sunday News 1

A knock-out win to the Sunday Star-Times.

Magazines

North & South 6
The Listener 6
Metro 6

A three-way tie.

Turning to some of the more major awards, the winners were:

Newspaper: THE PRESS
Daily Newspaper up to 25,000 circulation: BAY OF PLENTY TIMES
Weekly Newspaper: SUNDAY STAR-TIMES
Suburban or Community Newspaper: MOUNTAIN SCENE
Magazine: NORTH & SOUTH
Senior Reporter: TONY WALL, Sunday Star-Times
Junior Reporter: AMANDA SPRATT, Herald on Sunday
Senior Newspaper Feature Writer: TIM HUME, Sunday Star-Times
Junior Newspaper Feature Writer: TIM HUME, Sunday Star-Times
Senior Magazine Feature Writer: BEVAN RAPSON, Metro
Junior Magazine Feature Writer: AMANDA CAMERON, NZ Doctor
Columnist: FINLAY MACDONALD, Sunday Star-Times
Editorial Writer: ANTHONY HUBBARD, Sunday Star-Times
Cartoonist: ROD EMMERSON, The New Zealand Herald
Newspaper Investigation: THE PRESS – Transpower
Photographer: SIMON BAKER, Freelance
Single Picture: KENNY RODGER, The New Zealand Herald