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Building The Visual Storytelling Future

The Society has helped bring visual storytellers together for the sake of perfecting their craft, highlighting the best of our efforts, and helping spread the learnings and best practices to future generations. In this site we seek to connect with that tradition, and each other. We welcome all who care to participate and engage.

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The SND Challenge 2027

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The SND Challenge is a program offering students the opportunity to receive coaching from leaders in design, data and data visualization, information graphics, visual storytelling and development at organizations around the globe.

First SND Challenge empowers students with storytelling mentorship

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More than 70 students from American and international universities joined the Society for News Design’s inaugural digital narrative and visual storytelling apprenticeship, the SND Challenge, in the first half of 2026.

El SND Challenge 2027

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El SND Challenge es un programa gratuito que ofrece a los estudiantes la oportunidad de recibir orientación de líderes en diseño, periodismo, visualización de datos, infografía, narrativa visual y desarrollo web a través de profesionales en organizaciones internacionales.

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Weekendavisen, New York Times win World’s Best-Designed at SND47

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Citing experimentation and the skilled integration of visuals, judges selected Denmark’s Weekendavisen as World’s Best-Designed Print Newspaper and the New York Times as World’s Best-Designed Digital Presence.

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First SND Challenge empowers students with storytelling mentorship

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More than 70 students from American and international universities joined the Society for News Design’s inaugural digital narrative and visual storytelling apprenticeship, the SND Challenge, in the first half of 2026.

The SND Challenge 2027

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The SND Challenge is a program offering students the opportunity to receive coaching from leaders in design, data and data visualization, information graphics, visual storytelling and development at organizations around the globe.

El SND Challenge 2027

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El SND Challenge es un programa gratuito que ofrece a los estudiantes la oportunidad de recibir orientación de líderes en diseño, periodismo, visualización de datos, infografía, narrativa visual y desarrollo web a través de profesionales en organizaciones internacionales.