The Society for News Design reinvented its Best of Digital Design competition in 2010, and received more than 500 entries under the new format.
Sixty-five awards were given: 1 Gold & Best of Show, 15 Silver Awards, 4 Judges’ Special Recognition, 40 Awards of Excellence, and 5 World’s Best-Designed™ awards. Categories were judged by divisions based on average monthly page views.
Awards are listed here by category:
Breaking/Daily News [Single-subject project]
Breaking/Daily News [Planned coverage]
Features [Single-subject project]
Features [Coverage]
Information graphics [Breaking news]
Information graphics [Planned coverage]
Use of Multimedia
Mobile Experience
Tablet Magazine
Redesign
World’s Best-Designed™
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Breaking/Daily News [Single-subject project]
Gold & Best in Show
1. The New York Times, Haiti Earthquake Coverage
Silver
2. The New York Times, Luge Crash at the Olympics
Award of Excellence
3. USA Today, Whistler officials move start to slow men’s luge
4. The New York Times, Southern California Wildfires
5. The New York Times, The Jobless Rate for People Like You
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Breaking/Daily News [Planned coverage]
Award of Excellence
6. The New York Times, Investigating the Cause of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout
7. USA Today, Follow the day-by-day aftermath of the Haitian earthquake
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Features [Single-subject project]
Silver
8. The Washington Post, Ian Shapira Facebook story
9. The New York Times, A Peek Into Netflix Queues
10. University of North Carolina, Powering a Nation
Award of Excellence
11. The New York Times, World Cup Facebook
12. The New York Times, World Cup Game Module
13. The New York Times, Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical
14. Tiziano | 360° Kurdistan, The Tiziano Project
15. Las Vegas Sun, Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas
16. Syracuse University, Apart from War
Judges’ Special Recognition
17. ProPublica, For defining the design language of data-driven news apps
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Features [Coverage]
Silver
18. Pictory, Pictory: New York City
19. The New York Times, Drawing Down, Moving Ahead
Award of Excellence
20. NPR, Black Hearts
21. The New York Times, New York Times: Lens
22. NPR, Residents, Church Vie For History-Rich Russian Isles
23. The New York Times, Scenes From A Ruined Boulevard
24. The Denver Post, Childhood poverty
Judges’ Special Recognition
25. Pictory, For its artful embrace of community-driven photo stories
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Information graphics [Breaking news]
Silver
26. The New York Times, Census Interactive Graphics
Award of Excellence
27. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Adults With College Degrees in the U.S., by County
28. ProPublica, Dialysis Facility Tracker
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Information graphics [Planned coverage]
Silver
29. The New York Times, Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget
30. The New York Times, World Trade Center, Ground Zero
Award of Excellence
31. Syracuse University, Apart from War: Jerry’s Cabin
32. Northwestern University, How the dorms dropped frat bids 2011
33. Las Vegas Sun, Do No Harm: The Human Cost
34. The New York Times, Turning a corner?
35. NPR, A Web of GOP Influence
Judges’ Special Recognition
36. The New York Times, For its explanatory motion graphics
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Use of Multimedia
Silver
37. The New York Times, Olympics Coverage
38. The New York Times, The Destruction in Port-au-Prince
39. The Globe and Mail, Behind the Veil
40. Los Angeles Times, Caught in the crossfire
41. The New York Times, Mariano Rivera Pitching
Award of Excellence
42. The Washington Post, Cost of War: Coming home a different person
43. NPR, Forgotten Ship: A lifesaving mission as Saigon Fell
44. The New York Times, Held by the Taliban
45. NPR, WASP: Women with Wings in WWII
46. The New York Times, Oil Spill: Escape from Deepwater Horizon
47. The New York Times, Inside the private equity game
48. San Jose Mercury News, Torn Apart
49. The Oregonian, How to buy a cowboy hat
50. Berliner Morgenpost, 20 Years after the Wall
51. Council on Foreign Relations, Crisis Guide: Pakistan
52. University of North Carolina, Powering a Nation
53. University of North Carolina, Living Galapagos: Battle for Balance
54. Syracuse University, Apart from War
Judges’ Special Recognition
55. NPR, For experimentation and eager embrace of new platforms
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Mobile Experience
Silver
56. NPR, NPR News for iPhone
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Tablet Magazine
Award of Excellence
57. NPR, NPR for iPad
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Redesign
Award of Excellence
58. The New York Times, The Opinion Pages
59. NPR, NPR Music
60. Chicago Tribune, TribLocal
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World’s Best-Designed™
61. CNN, News Web Site (CNN.com)
62. CNN, News App (CNN for iPad)
63. The Globe and Mail
64. The Guardian, Mobile App
65. NPR, NPR for iPad
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