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CNAV Conference 07
19-21 October 2007
at Lorne

CNAV's second annual conference was held in Lorne over the weekend of 19-21 October at the Grand Pacific Hotel. The conference continues to be our organisation's main process to actively involve its members and to bring them together.

Early arrivals met on Friday evening for an informal get together. The main sessions were held on Saturday, with 67 people representing 29 community newspapers attending.

CNAV president Mick Bourke commenced proceedings with a welcome for participants. He spoke briefly of the increasing importance of community newspapers in providing local news in a world in which national and international news is much more readily available. Surf Coast shire’s mayor, Cr Rose Hodge, then officially opened the conference.

The keynote speaker was Mr Eric Beecher, an owner of Crickey.com. He also has a long background in community newspapers. Eric spoke of the need for community newspapers to be viable. He commented that journalism is not public relations, that there must remain a wall between advertising and editorial.

The Executive Summary is available in PDF format here... (Acrobat reader needed).

A full report of the conference is available to CNAV members in the Members' section.