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Category:
Printed Materials: Advertising |
| Rank: Gold Award |
Details:
MiD DAY was short-listed in the Printed Materials: Advertising
category for the Sunday MiD DAY 25th Anniversary Sales
Brochure |
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| Category: Diary/Notebook |
| Rank: Silver Awrad |
Details:
Newspaper Premiums/Incentives category for the MiD DAY
Diary, and won asilver.
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Winners: (Right)Ross McPherson, president, INMA, presents the
award to MiD DAY Chief Operating Officer Cyriac Mathew in Chicago
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| The INMA competition
received 1,045 entries from 164 newspapers in 29 countries,
and this is the first time that an Indian newspaper has won
an INMA, and that too in both the categories it was short-listed
in.
INMA annually recognises excellence in newspaper marketing
with the INMA Newspaper Marketing Awards Competition. Now
in its 71st year, the competition provides a platform to show
case the finest professional talent in all disciplines of
newspaper marketing.
Thirty top executives from diverse fields as media companies,
product marketers, and advertising agencies had judged the
entries for the 2006 competition on February 16 in Dallas,
Texas.
MiD DAY was competing with newspaper biggies from across
the globe. The New York Times (New York), The Times-Tribune
(Pennsylvania), South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), The
Cairns Post (Australia), The Boston Globe (Boston), National
Post (Toronto), Público (Lisbon), The Straits Times
(Singapore) and Het Nieuwsblad (Brussels) amongst others.
Currently, INMA has 12 members in India, including The Times
of India, Hindustan Times, MiD DAY, The Hindu, The Indian
Express, Rajasthan Patrika, Malayala Manorama, and ABP Pvt
Ltd among others.
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The
hugely-talented Satish Acharya, MiD DAY’s Graphics Editor,
has won the first prize at the national level cartoon contest
held by the Government of India’s Department of Science
and Technology, New Delhi. 
