The Newspaper Association of America last month announced the winners of its North American Color Quality Award, an honor presented to the top newspapers that participated in the International Newspaper Color Quality Club.

“The INCQC and NAA recognize the effort and precise attention to detail that goes into producing a high-quality daily newspaper,” said Michael Brady, NAA’s director of production operations. “The caliber of this year’s recipients is remarkable, and is a testament to the growth of color advertising and the newspapers’ success in achieving exceptional color reproduction on newsprint.”

NAA divided the winners into two categories, as follows:

Over 100,000 circulation

•The Globe and Mail, National                  Edition, Boucherville, Canada

•The Globe and Mail, National                  Edition, Vancouver, Canada

•The Globe and Mail, Metro Edition, Toronto

•La Presse, Montreal

•The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press

•The Kansas City (Mo.) Star

• The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
 

Less than 100,000 circulation

•The Ann Arbor (Mich.) News.

•Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free Press

•The Patriot News, Harrisburg, Pa.

•Journal Star, Peoria, Ill.

•News Tribune, Jefferson City, Mo.

The NAA’s awards came as the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association, Ifra and NAA named the 50 international newspapers given membership to the 2008-2010 INCQC. Winners were chosen from among 198 papers in 39 countries.

The only U.S. paper to receive recognition during this year’s competition was the Grand Rapids Press. The New York Times, the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights, Ill., the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader, the Times Herald in Norristown, Pa.; and the Journal Star in Peoria were among U.S. papers that obtained membership in the 2006-2008 INCQC but either didn’t make the cut or didn’t participate in the 2008-2010 competition.

The list:

•24heures *                                             Bussigny, Switzerland

•AD/Haagsche Courant *              Den Haag, Netherlands

•Apple Daily (Hong Kong) **         New Territories, Hong Kong

•Badische Zeitung*                      Freiburg, Germany

•Berita Harian**                           Singapore, Singapore

•Blick******                                             Adligenswil, Switzerland

•COOP**                                                St. Gallen, Switzerland

•Cooperazione**                          Adligenswil, Switzerland

•Coopzeitung****                         Basle, Switzerland

•De Stentor**                              Apeldoorn, Netherlands

•Deister- und Weserzeitung**       Hameln, Germany

•Delftse Post*                             The Hague, Netherlands

•Die Rheinpfalz **                                    Ludwigshafen, Germany

•Die Zeit*                                                Ahrensburg, Germany

•DNA *                                       Navi Mumbai, India

•Dolomiten ****                Bozen, Italy

•d’Wort*                                     Luxembourg, Luxembourg

•El Comercio *****                                   Quito, Ecuador

•Frankfurter Allgemeine                Sonntagszeitung**                     Frankfurt am Main, Germany

•Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung*   Frankfurt am Main, Germany

•Gazeta Wyborcza*                                 Pila, Poland

•Gazeta Wyborcza**                               Warsaw

•Gazeta Wyborcza****                 Tychy, Poland

•Guang Ming Daily *                                Selangor, Malaysia

•Gulf News*                                            Dubai, United Arab Emirates

•Heilbronner Stimme***                Heilbronn, Germany

•Hindustan (Hindi)*                                  Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

•Hindustan Times*                       Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

•Kleine Zeitung**                         St. Veit, Austria

•Kleine Zeitung Steiermark****      Graz, Austria

•La Presse*                                            Montreal

•La Tercera**                              Santiago, Chile

•La Voix du Luxembourg*             Luxembourg, Luxembourg

•L’Arena***                                             San Martino Buon Albergo (VR), Italy

•Lianhe ZaoBao**                                    Singapore

•Metro, Agora, Tychy*                 Tychy, Poland

•Metro, Agora, Pila*                                 Pila, Poland

•Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung*             Schwarzach, Austria

•Nurnberger Nachrichten* Nuremberg, Germany

•Nurnberger Zeitung*        Nuremberg, Germany

•NZZ am Sonntag**                     Schlieren, Switzerland

•Saarbrucker Zeitung**                 Saarbrucken, Germany

•Schwabische Post*******            Aalen, Germany

•Sin Chew Daily*                         Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

•St. Galler Tagblatt********                        St. Gallen, Switzerland

•Suddeutsche Zeitung***              Munich, Germany

•Tages-Anzeiger***                                  Zurich, Switzerland

•The Asahi Shimbun*                   Tokyo

•The Business Times***               Singapore

•The Globe and Mail, National Edition, Boucherville**                      Toronto

•The Globe and Mail, National Edition, Vancouver***                       Toronto, Canada

•The Grand Rapids Press*                       Grand Rapids, Mich.

•The Maharashtra Herald*                        Pune, India

•The Straits Times***                   Singapore

•Westfalische Nachrichten***       Münster, Germany

•Yedioth Ahronoth (Yedioth Communication Press)*                            Park Bar-Lev, Israel

*The number of times paper has been an INCQC member