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Art Director, The Atlantic

Akshita Chandra is an Indian graphic designer and illustrator living in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently an art director at The Atlantic where she creates bespoke in-house illustrations, commissions and collaborates with illustrators, and designs special projects. Before joining the team, she was a design fellow at The New York Times, Opinion. Her work has been recognized by Adobe, Type Directors Club, Communication Arts, ASME, and AI-AP. Akshita holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Maryland Institute College of Art.

Creative Director and Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times

Amy King is a deputy managing editor and the creative director for The Los Angeles Times. She oversees a unified digital and print design group of art directors and layout editors. She also manages the teams covering Lifestyle, West Coast Experiences, Entertainment and Food.

Previously, she was at the Washington Post, where she was the founder, editor and creative director for the Lily, a digital publication focused on elevating stories about women. She also served as the design director for the Emerging News Products team.

King started her career at the Arizona Republic in 2008 as a news page designer. She studied journalism and visual communication at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. She grew up in North Canton, Ohio.

Independent Data Visualisation Expert, Visualising Data Ltd

Andy Kirk is an Independent Data Visualisation Expert from the UK but living in Dublin, Ireland. Since 2010 he’s been providing freelance data viz services as a design consultant, trainer, lecturer, speaker, and researcher. Kirk is the editor of visualisingdata.com and author of “Visualising Data: A Handbook for Data Driven Design” (3rd edition).

Founder, Brand Creative Director, Anna Thurfjell Design studio

Anna Thurfjell is a Brand Creative Director who loves type, news and brand design. She lives in Copenhagen with her family and black cat. She is passionate about biking, music and the writing of Haruki Murakami.

Thurfjell was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1975. She received an MA from Konstfack University in 2000. She served as the creative director of Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden) from 2003 to 2013, where she directed the custom typeface Sueca in collaboration with Feliciano Type in 2009.

Today she runs her award-winning design studio, which has helped some of Northern Europe‘s most loved news organizations adapt to the evolving media landscape. Her skill is in developing brand visual identities and news design for media brands by strengthening their graphic and visual design DNA on all touch points. Her clients include Aftonbladet (Sweden), Berlingske (Denmark), Aftenposten (Norway), and Helsingin Sanomat (Finland). Anna has + 20 years of exprience of newsroom and + 15 digital.

Thurfjell’s designs have won multiple awards, including Best in Show and World’s Best Designed by SND. She is honoured to serve as a judge at SND Creative Competition 47 at Berkeley.

Visuals Editor, POLITICO Europe

Arnau Busquets Guàrdia is the Visuals Editor at POLITICO Europe, where he oversees all-things visuals and led its print edition to being named World’s Best Designed Newspaper by the Society of News Design in 2025. Before joining POLITICO, he was a part of the team that launched 4YFN, the event for startups and entrepreneurs within Mobile World Congress. He previously worked in journalism in Barcelona and Mallorca, Spain. Arnau was born in the Catalan Pyrenees and is a graduate of Goldsmiths University of London, where he completed an M.A. in digital journalism with distinction. He previously studied journalism at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and at University of Technology Sydney, where he focused on digital and cross media production.

Art Director, ESPN / The Walt Disney Company

Beth Stojkov is an Art Director on ESPN’s Visual Storytelling team, which is part of ESPN Creative Studio.

She works on projects for ESPN.com, such as designing custom web pages for interactive stories; creating data visualizations; art directing custom illustrations and photo illustrations; developing graphics templates and automation process for non-designers to use; evangelization of team adoption of Figma; and occasional branding projects. She’s also the Product Lead of ESPN’s sub-site Andscape.com.

Art Director, Wall Street Journal

Caitlin Choi (she/her) is the art director for the Review section of the Wall Street Journal. She specializes in visual storytelling and design. With a passion for art and a keen eye for detail, Caitlin has commissioned award winning work and creates compelling digital and print visual experiences that engage and inform audiences.

Chief Creative Officer, The 19th

Clarice Bajkowski, Chief Creative Officer at The 19th, is passionate about the power of storytelling to inspire, connect, and drive meaningful change. Her journey began with a deep love for drawing, painting, and lettering, evolving into a design philosophy that fuses creativity with strategy. With over 20 years of experience in design, advertising, and brand development, she focuses on creating work that resonates with diverse communities. Bajkowski believes that representation and inclusivity are key to authentic storytelling, and is dedicated to elevating voices that reflect the richness of our world. For her, great storytelling is more than just visuals—it’s about building trust and elevating voices that deserve to be heard.

Deputy Visuals Editor, Data and Digital Storytelling, The Globe and Mail

Danielle Webb is an award-winning journalist and digital storytelling editor at The Globe and Mail, where she leads the newspaper’s data and digital storytelling team.

With a career rooted in both journalism and the web, she has built a reputation for bringing together rigorous enterprise reporting and inventive digital presentation to produce high-impact experiences for readers. She has also lead development of several visual storytelling tools for use by journalists across the newsroom. Her work focuses on a blend of editorial instinct, technical craft and creative experimentation that defines her approach to modern journalism.

Senior Graphics Reporter, Bloomberg

Elena is a senior graphics reporter at Bloomberg News, where she specializes in data analysis and visualization. She is also the project lead for Bloomberg’s US live election results pages.

Assistant Creative Director, San Francisco Chronicle

Erin Caughey is Assistant Creative Director for the San Francisco Chronicle, where she works with a team of designers and developers to strategize and create visual experiences across newsroom departments. Previously, she contributed data visualization and development work to investigations at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She’s been a part of several award winning teams in both newsrooms. She also sits on the student media board at her alma mater, Marquette University, as an industry advisor to student leaders.

Art Director, The New York Times

Fernanda Didini is an art director in the Styles Section at The New York Times. She was previously the senior designer at the NYT Kids section and the art director of Galileu Magazine in Brazil.

Deputy Creative Director, la Repubblica

Francesco Franchi (b. 1982) is an Italian journalist and graphic designer. Since 2016, he has served as Deputy Creative Director at la Repubblica, where he has led three major redesign projects and overseen the launch of the cultural supplement Robinson. He holds a degree in Industrial Design from the Politecnico di Milano and has previously worked at Leftloft and as Art Director for IL (Il Sole 24 Ore).

He is the author of Designing News (2013) and The Intelligent Lifestyle Magazine (2016). His work has been exhibited at London’s V&A Museum and is part of the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. He has received several international awards and recognitions, including two ADI Compasso d’Oro Awards and two D&AD Yellow Pencils. He is a member of AGI – Alliance Graphique Internationale.

Self employed

Spent 20 years of his career at The Washington Post in multiple roles. The latest was as the Head of Visuals in the newsroom where he directed and edited visual storytelling across all editorial touchpoints. He was responsible for 150 visual and audio journalists over seven departments (Design, Video, Photography, Audio, Graphics, front-end development, and visual storytelling editing).

Deputy Managing Editor, The Minnesota Star Tribune

Greg Mees is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and one of four senior editors on the newsroom’s masthead. He spearheads all visual journalism at the Minnesota Star Tribune, leading the award-winning design, graphics, photo, video, audio and multiplatform editing functions while also overseeing the company’s print strategy. He leads coordination of newsroom-wide planning, production and transformation efforts, with a focus on building digital-first and audience-centered workflows to support the journalism in the Midwest’s largest newsroom.

Infographic journalist, Otavamedia

Hannu Kyyriäinen is an infographic journalist and illustrator specializing in data-driven visual storytelling for editorial and journalistic contexts.

Interim Editorial Director / Journalist-Engineer, The Pudding

Jan Diehm is the Interim Editorial Director and a Journalist Engineer at The Pudding. She appreciates the finer things in life: LEGO, southern delicacies like pimento cheese and fried green tomatoes, women’s sports, and Britney Spears. She’s most “internet famous” for a story about women’s pockets.

Director, Errea Comunicación

Javier Errea is a former reporter, editor, AME News and Art Director for different regional dailies in Spain. He founded his own news design studio in 2006. Based in Pamplona, his team have designed or redesigned almost a hundred dailies and magazines, both print and digital, including some SND World Best such as Expresso and Jornal i in Portugal, El Economista in Spain, Eleftheros tipos in Greece, Dagens Nyheter in Sweden or La Nación in Argentina. Among other newspapers redesigned by Errea, you can find The Independent and The Scotsman in the UK, Libération and Les Echos in France, Bergens Tidende in Norway, Barometern and Gota Group dailes in Sweden, Aamulehti, HBL and Turun Sanomat in Finland, Público and Jornal de Notícias in Portugal, El Universal in México, El Nuevo Día in Puerto Rico, El Diario de Hoy in El Salvador. La Tercera in Santiago de Chile, etc. Javier has been the Director of SND Spain and Mediterranean Europe for twenty years. As SND representative, during that term, he was the chairman of the Malofiej Infographics Summit and Competition and ÑH Best of Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Javier was given a Life Achievement Award for his contribution to SND.

Associate Dean, UC Berkeley Journalism

Jeremy Sanchez Rue is the Associate Dean and an Associate Professor of Practice in Journalism at the UC Berkeley Journalism School. He is an Emmy-nominated multimedia producer and co-author of the bestselling book Principles of Multimedia Journalism. Rue formerly worked as a multimedia instructor for the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley; as a multimedia producer for the Oakland Tribune; as a multimedia producer and instructor for a Carnegie-Knight funded reporting fellowship; and as a print reporter for Pulitzer newspapers in California Central Valley, where he covered city government, courts and crime. He has also worked as a photojournalist throughout the California Central Valley.

Graphics Director, National Geographic

John Tomanio is the Graphics Director of National Geographic magazine. He joined Nat Geo in 2009 as a Senior Graphic Editor before moving into the Director’s role eight years later. Before Nat Geo, he spent a decade at Fortune magazine as a graphic editor. His work has been recognized by SND, SNDe, CaGIS, and SPD.

Art Director, de Volkskrant

Koos has worked for several media companies and has always felt at home in organizations where journalism and news design come together. Currently, he is the art director of Dutch daily de Volkskrant and leads the team of designers, creating the daily news pages and weekly supplements. He is closely involved in the digital ambitions of de Volkskrant. He has a passion for illustrations and through his work he regularly guides illustrators — from briefing to final result. He is always looking for the best match both nationally and internationally. Industry recognition of his team’s work includes the design award “European Newspaper of the Year.” In 2021 and 2025, de Volkskrant was named “World’s Best Designed Newspaper” by the Society for News Design.

Senior Design Editor, USA Today Co.

Krista Volenski Wilcox is a Senior Design Editor and Sunday news designer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, part of the USA TODAY Network. She is an award‑winning art director and designer whose career spans more than two decades in editorial and print media.

She began her career in New York, working on magazines for Hearst, Condé Nast, Rodale, and Time Inc., and has since built a career focused on front pages, news and feature design, and visual storytelling.

She is drawn to design that brings clarity to complex stories, where every image and layout choice carries meaning and guides the reader through the narrative, and where strong visuals serve the story, not just decorate it. She is based in Costa Mesa, California. KristaVW.com

Visual Director, ZEIT Verlag Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG

Malin Schulz has been an art director at Die ZEIT since 2013 and a member of the senior editorial team since 2016. In her editorial role, she is responsible for embedding and implementing new ideas and innovationprocesses in the newspaper’s printed output.

A trained photographer, she enjoys writing about political photography and how it is perceived.

Multimedia Editor, The Marshall Project

Marci Suela is a multimedia editor for The Marshall Project. She joined the team in 2021, and works on the presentation of special projects and coordinates with incarcerated artists. Her work has been recognized by the Society for News Design, American Illustration, and the Society of Publication Designers.

Head of Data Journalism, Süddeustche Zeitung

Marie-Louise Timcke is a german journalist and heads the data journalism department of Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Independent Contractor

Micah Fluellen is an Emmy Award-winning Art Director and Multiplatform Designer with over 6 years of experience. He leverages his creative versatility to produce compelling visual storytelling across print, digital, television and social media. Currently serving as a committee member for The National Association of Black Journalism’s Los Angeles Chapter.

Freelance Collage Artist

Najeebah Al-Ghadban is a designer, art director, and collage-artist from Kuwait, based in San Francisco. She received a BFA and MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Currently, she is an art director for Apple and previously worked for The New York Times Magazine and Abrams. Her work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Platform in Kuwait and has been published in Bloomberg Markets, The Atlantic, The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine, amongst other publications.

Graphics Director, The Mercury News

Pai (aka Paiching Wei) has surprisingly been Graphics Director for The Mercury News and East Bay Times in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2003. A dinosaur for his field, he’s witnessed the evolution of graphics from Xacto blades, floppy disks, cloud computing to A.I. He has previously worked at Knight-Ridder Tribune, Star Tribune, The Virginian-Pilot, San Francisco Chronicle and Sacramento Bee.

Head of Infographics and New Digital Narratives at RTVE.es

Pedro Jiménez has been an infographics professional since 2004, when he began working continuously at El Mundo (Spain) for 16 years. Since 2023, he has been the head of the Infographics and Digital Narratives team at RTVE.es (Spain), creating infographics and all types of visual narratives for the news section of the RTVE website.

He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). He also holds a PhD in Art: Production and Research, with a dissertation entitled “Impact of technological advances on the way infographics are represented in the media / Spanish Press.” He obtained a Professional Master’s Degree in Creative Design (2007).

He has also collaborated with and published in magazines such as National Geographic, Muy Historia, and Jot Down Kids. He has worked for various clients and companies, including The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal Magazine (China), ABC, Marca, El Español, Expansión, Valencia Plaza, the Valencia Provincial Council, and numerous national and international companies.

He has received numerous international awards from the Society for News Design (SND), Malofiej, ÑH, and Ortega y Gasset in the categories of infographics and data visualization.

Since 2017, he has also been an associate professor in the Drawing Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the UPV (Polytechnic University of Valencia), teaching subjects such as infographics, illustration, design, video editing, and stop-motion animation.

Visual Journalist

Shazna Nessa is an award-winning visual journalist and former masthead editor and global head of visuals at The Wall Street Journal. Prior roles include positions at The Knight Foundation, The Associated Press, and Condé Nast. Born in London, Nessa was awarded a degree in linguistics, literature, and history from the Sorbonne, Paris. She was a 2008 Sulzberger fellow at Columbia University and a 2014 John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University. Most recently she was awarded residencies at MacDowell, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and was a finalist for a “Courage to Write” award from The De Groot Foundation.

Emeritus Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University

Professor Emeritus, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, A creative visionary, strategic thinker, and dynamic motivator, coaching young journalists exploring the intersection of storytelling and creativity. —a champion of visual thinking throughout her design career. An early adapter of digital publishing on mobile and tablets scrutinizing new possibilities for storytelling. An Adobe Education Leader, A former president of the Society of News Design and the driving force behind developing the first SND Design Code of Ethics, used by visual journalists worldwide. Recipient of the 2019 SND Lifetime Achievement Award. Formerly an assistant managing editor for the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal newspaper, redesigning the paper in 1991 and a part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for a series titled “The Question of Color.” A founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists Visual Task Force and NABJ Journalism Educator of the Year 2020 and Visual Task Force 2021 Legacy Award recognizing her visual communication career and continued support of young journalists.

Creative director, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Suzette Moyer is the Creative Director at The Philadelphia Inquirer, helping lead a team responsible for the visual presentation of digital and social platforms, plus the newspaper. She also oversee graphics, data, interactives, and illustrations.

Creative Director, The San Francisco Standard

Taylor Le is the current Creative Director at The San Francisco Standard, where she leads cross-functional visual teams across editorial, product, and partnerships. Since joining, she has restructured departments, scaled talent, and evolved the publication’s existing brand into a more cohesive and recognizable visual system—all while driving meaningful changes in newsroom workflow and culture. As a change agent, she’s known for breaking silos, improving collaboration, and building systems that support high-impact storytelling.

Previously, Taylor served as Design Director at the Los Angeles Times, where she led a 30-person team of art directors and managers across print, digital, events, and social platforms. Her scope spanned features, entertainment, news, sports, food, Latino initiatives, and immersive visual storytelling.

Before joining the Times, Taylor brought sharp editorial instincts and creative systems thinking to organizations like Medium, AFAR Media, and San Francisco Magazine, guiding rebrands and leading process improvements across departments.

As Creative Director at Pacific Standard, she transformed a small academic journal into a nationally recognized media brand, winning a National Magazine Award for Feature Photography and forging partnerships with the Pulitzer Center, NOOR, and Magnum Photos.

With more than two decades of experience across Los Angeles and New York, Taylor has held senior creative roles at Runner’s World, People, Entertainment Weekly, and Fortune, and played a key role in building Source Interlink Media’s photo department from the ground up.

Taylor’s passion for people and process helped her develop an expertise in problem solving, resilience, and adaptability — a skillset that proves to be extremely valuable.

Director of Visual Design, American City Business Journals

Vincent Chiaramonte is the Director of Visual Design for American City Business Journals, where he leads a team of 24 designers and 3 creative directors producing 40 publications nationwide. Previously, he spent 20+ years at the Buffalo News, where his award-winning design leadership helped establish the paper as an industry leader in visual journalism.

Freelance Frontend Engineer

Yoli is a freelance frontend engineer, building newsroom products for national and local outlets. She was most recently at The Washington Post, building AI-based tools for reporters. She has worked at Hearst Newspapers, the Wall Street Journal and The Marshall Project and has taught coding at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Data editor, Boston Globe

Yoohyun Jung is the data editor at the Boston Globe, leading a team of computational journalists focused on delivering compelling data- and graphics-driven journalism. She was part of the Globe Spotlight team that was honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its investigation of a major hospital chain’s financial mismanagement and corporate greed. Prior to joining the Globe, she was the deputy data editor at the San Francisco Chronicle where she worked with a team of data journalists and developers on the organization’s most ambitious storytelling projects.

Digital designer and visual storyteller, Story Lab, ABC News Digital (Australian Broadcasting Corporations)

Ben Spraggon is a Designer and visual storyteller with Story Lab, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Senior Infographics Designer, South China Morning Post

Rocio Marquez Salguero has been a senior infographic designer at South China Morning Post (SCMP) starting in 2023, after more than 10 years as an Infographics Editor in Spain at El Confidencial, La Vanguardia and freelancer. She holds a degree in Arts and Design, and Master’s degrees in Digital Arts and Data Visualization. Her areas of expertise converge at the intersection of infographics, data visualization, graphic design, visual storytelling, cartography, illustration and creative coding. Additionally, she has been honored with several awards at the Society of News Design, Information is Beautiful and SIGMA awards.

Digital Graphics Correspondent, The Straits Times

Stephanie is a data and visual journalist at The Straits Times. Her work has received multiple awards, including the newsroom’s first SND Gold Medal for a visual story on greenwashing in the fashion industry. She enjoys experimenting with visual metaphors and pushing the boundaries of data visualisation in journalism.

Editorial Director, NewspaperDesign.org

Founder and Editorial Director of NewspaperDesign.org, a nonprofit global platform established in 2009 to advance excellence in news design worldwide.

With over three decades of experience in print and digital media, I bring strategic newsroom insight, design leadership, and editorial clarity to the evolving media landscape. I have served as a design and concept consultant to some print publications, shaping their visual identity and editorial direction.

Author of five books, including one on newspaper design. Board Member of the Society for News Design and long-standing Jury Member for the WAN-IFRA Asia Media Awards, contributing to global standards and best practices in journalism and media design.

Data and Graphics Journalist, Reuters

Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa is a data and graphics journalist with eight years of experience across national and international media organisations. He currently works with Reuters, covering major news events through data-driven reporting and visual storytelling. Based in India, his work focuses on the Asia-Pacific region and largely spans politics, conflict, health, environment and disasters. He is a gold medalist in Convergent Journalism from the Central University of Kashmir.