Lebanon’s AnNahar newspaper wins Print Grand Prix at Cannes for second straight year

Impact BBDO Dubai has achieved the rare feat of repeating as the Print & Publishing Grand Prix winner at Cannes Lions—for a new campaign for the same client. AnNahar, a newspaper in Lebanon, worked with the agency to champion press freedom in the repressive country, by using its pages to resurrect other newspapers that had been forcefully shut down. The campaign was launched on the anniversary of the assassination of AnNahar editor and publisher Gebran Tueni, who was killed in 2005 at age 48. Cannes Lions coverage Follow our live blog here Sign up here for email updates See all of the Grand Prix winners here “Newspapers Inside the Newspaper” invited those defunct publications’ journalists to write again and publish the news for one day. “For AnNahar, it is not enough to just say that we support freedom of the press. We have to prove it,” Nayla Tueni, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, said at the campaign’s launch. “And what better way to do that than to bring back to life some of the publications that were silenced, and to give them one more chance to speak freely?” Impact BBDO and AnNahar won the Print Grand Prix in 2022 as well, for “The Elections Editions,” a campaign that highlighted the Lebanese government’s refusal to hold elections. One of the government’s excuses was a shortage of ink and paper for ballots, so for the first time in its 88-year history, AnNahar paused its print edition for one day and donated its ink and paper to polling stations. It put up empty news racks to highlight the action, and the non-existent newspaper went viral. Gold winners Four campaigns won Gold Lions in the category: • “Solar Impulse” for Prêt À Voter by Publicis Conseil Paris • “The Artois Probability” for Stella Artois by Gut Buenos Aires • “We Didn't Write This Campaign” for NotMilk by MRM Worldwide Santiago • “The Life Collection 2022” for Ikea by Try As Oslo

Lebanon’s AnNahar newspaper wins Print Grand Prix at Cannes for second straight year

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