The Rotorua Daily Post has been named a finalist in six categories at the prestigious PANPA international newspaper awards.
Your daily newspaper has been named a finalist in the Newspaper of the Year (Regional) category and our website has been named a finalist in News Site of the Year (Regional) category - the only New Zealand-based website to make the final.
Our photographers have again been acknowledged with Chief Photographer Stephen Parker being named a finalist in three regional categories - News, Sport and Portrait - while photographer Ben Fraser has also been named a finalist in the Features and Lifestyle regional category.
PANPA (the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association) covers Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand
The Rotorua Daily Post won the Newspaper of the Year award at last year's Panpa awards and Mr Parker took out the Portrait photography category.