The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) will honour the newspapers that are creating the best local cross-media projects with the WAN-IFRA Cross Media Awards 2010. Now in its fourth year, the awards offer recognition to newspaper companies that have excelled in expanding their unique content and advertising across all publishing platforms.

Call for entries is now open for projects which are content-related, business-related or contain both elements. Details of the awards, sponsored by dpa infocom, can be found at www.wan-ifra.org/xma. The deadline for entries is 15 June 2010.

Though local markets differ in size, the challenge is the same for every news publisher: to be the number one resource for news, information and advertising opportunities in local markets. The WAN-IFRA Cross Media Awards is open to all projects, whether they serve a market of more than 1 million, fewer than 1,000, or anything in between.

The best 10 entries will be invited to attend the award ceremony, which will take place on 4 October 2010 at the IFRA Expo 2010 in Hamburg. For more information on the Expo, please visit www.ifraexpo.com.

WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore, India, Spain, France and Sweden, is the global organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers. It represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries. The organisation was created by the merger of the World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, the research and service organisation for the news publishing industry.

Learn more about WAN-IFRA at www.wan-ifra.org or through the WAN-IFRA Magazine.

Inquiries to: Larry Kilman, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, WAN-IFRA, 7 rue Geoffroy St Hilaire, 75005 Paris France. Tel: +33 1 47 42 85 00. Fax: +33 1 47 42 49 48. Mobile: +33 6 10 28 97 36. E-mail: larry.kilman@wan-ifra.org.