2017 results – Digital

The Society for News Design is proud to announce the results of the 39th edition of its Best of Digital Design competition. The 13 judges from across the United States and around the globe reviewed more than 1,000 entries during two days of judging at Northwestern University’s Medill News Service campus in Washington, D.C.

This is the sixth year of the digital competition, which uniquely honors journalistic, visual and technical excellence for work produced in 2017. Winners were celebrated at The Society’s annual workshop in New York in March. The World’s Best-Designed was also announced at the workshop. Nearly 60 publications received an award, including:

• 3 Gold Medals
• 42 Silver Medals
• 440 Awards of Excellence

[ Read the judges’ comments on medal winners here. ]

Awards are listed here by category:

• Breaking/Daily News: Single-subject project
• Breaking/Daily News: Planned coverage
• Breaking/Daily News: Non-planned coverage
• Features: Single-subject project
• Features: Coverage
• Graphics: Breaking news
• Graphics: Features and planned coverage
• Graphics: Motion graphics
• Graphics: Social media graphics
• Special event: Natural Disaster Coverage
• Portfolio: News Sites and Redesigns
• Portfolio: Individual
• Portfolio: Organization
• Product Design
• Experimental Design

 

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Breaking/Daily News: Single-subject project

Silver Medal

• The New York Times: Thousands Cried for Help as Houston Flooded
• The New York Times: Trail of Terror in the Manhattan Truck Attack
• The New York Times: Your Photos of A Solar Eclipse’s Journey Across America
• La Nacion: Poas volcano reborn in the eruption
• Washington Post: ‘Where are we supposed to go?’ Scenes from Harvey’s aftermath

Award of Excellence

• The New York Times: Northern California Fires Have Destroyed at Least 5,700 Buildings
• The New York Times: Before and After Photos: Fires Tear Through California’s Wine Country
• The New York Times: Seen From Above: California Fires Reduced Entire Communities to Ash
• The New York Times: Inside the Las Vegas Gunman’s Mandalay Bay Hotel Suite
• The New York Times: Nine Rounds a Second: How the Las Vegas Gunman Outfitted a Rifle to Fire Faster
• The New York Times: Las Vegas Shooting: Chaos at a Concert and a Frantic Search at Mandalay Bay
• The New York Times: Mexico City, Before and After the Earthquake
• The New York Times: Mexico City Was Built on an Ancient Lake Bed. That Makes Earthquakes Much Worse.
• The New York Times: Maps: Tracking Harvey’s Destructive Path Through Texas and Louisiana
• The New York Times: Escaping the Inferno
• Texas Tribune: Where Harvey’s effects were felt the most in Texas
• The New York Times: 10 Minutes. 12 Gunfire Bursts. 30 Videos. Mapping the Las Vegas Massacre.
• The New York Times: One Day in the Life of Battered Puerto Rico
• The New York Times: Inauguration, From Morning to Night
• ProPublica: Independent Monitors Found Benzene Levels After Harvey
• Boston Globe: A look at how far the Las Vegas shooter was from the concert
• Wall Street Journal: How Las Vegas Police Scrambled to Find the Gunman

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Breaking/Daily News: Planned coverage

Silver Medal

• ESPN.com: ESPN: NFL Rank
• The Washington Post: Inauguration
• Bloomberg: Europe’s Milestone Elections

Award of Excellence

• The New York Times: 2017 Election Coverage
• ESPN.com: NBA All-Star Weekend Sketchbook
• ESPN.com: From Tree to Tipoff
• ESPN.com: Mayweather – McGregor: Timeline
• ESPN.com: NBA Preview
• ESPN.com: NFL Preview
• The Straits Times: 7 reasons the world is watching China’s 19th Party Congress
• The Straits Times: Balance the Budget while adding and removing popular wish-list items
• Zhejiang News: World Internet Conference, Wuzhen Summit
• The Washington Post: 100 days of Trump claims
• Asahi Shimbun: Habu Becomes Qualified for 7 Lifetime Major Titles
• La Nación: Agonía sobre rieles

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Breaking/Daily News: Non-planned coverage

Silver Medal

• The New York Times Magazine: #MeToo
• The New York Times: Hurricane Harvey Coverage

Award of Excellence

• The New York Times: Las Vegas Massacre Coverage

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Features: Single-subject project

Silver Medal

• The New York Times: Miles of ice collapsing into the sea
• ESPN: The Body Issue
• O Globo: Touching Gloves

Award of Excellence

• thestar.com: ‘Emotions run deep in homelessness’
• thestar.com: The blue whale tale
• S-Town: S-Town Podcast
• Vox: Vox Borders
• USA Today: The Wall: Untold stories, Unintended consequences
• Seattle Times: Portraits of homelessness
• Seattle Times: Busted: Bringing down a prostitution network
• Seattle Times: Seattle Newcomers
• The New York Times: How the Rohingya Escaped
• The New York Times: Tax Bill Calculator: Will Your Taxes Go Up or Down?
• The New York Times: Rocket Men: The Team Building North Korea’s Nuclear Missile
• The New York Times: What the Tax Bill Would Look Like for 25,000 Middle-Class Families
• The New York Times: Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing
• The New York Times: President Trump, Please Read the Constitution
• The New York Times: Did the Turkish President’s Security Detail Attack Protesters in Washington? What the Video Shows
• The New York Times: Fleeing Boko Haram, Thousands Cling to a Road to Nowhere
• The New York Times: The Health Care Bill Has Failed. Let the Finger Pointing Begin.
• The New York Times: My Visit to the ISIS Front Line
• The San Francisco Chronicle: A Life on the Line: Cecilia Lam
• Texas Tribune: Five Texas voters talk about their first time at the ballot box
• The New York Times: How Well Do You Know the World?
• Texas Tribune: Puzzling Shapes
• The New York Times Magazine: Horror Show
• The New York Times: How to Do Broadway
• The New York Times: How to Make Thanksgiving Dinner in 8 Hours
• The New York Times: Boko Haram strapped suicide bombs to them.
• The New York Times: Women Are Making the Best Rock Music Today: Listen Now
• The New York Times: Through the Outback
• The New York Times: Take a Lap in the World’s Most Dangerous Race
• The New York Times: Welcome to Weimar
• The New York Times Magazine: 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going
• The New York Times: Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom
• Dagens Nyheter: Rohingyas in Bangladesh
• Helsingon Sanomat: What’s your role in polluting our ocean?
• ProPublica: How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico
• ProPublica: What Hospitals Waste
• ProPublica: Represent
• ProPublica: Nothin’ but Debt
• ProPublica: Vital Signs
• ProPublica: Buyouts Won’t Be the Answer for Many Frequent Flooding Victims
• ProPublica: Bombs in Your Backyard
• Center for Public Integrity: Nuclear Negligence
• Politico: All the President’s Guests: The Unauthorized White House Visitor Logs
• Politico: Drawing Trump
• The Intercept: “A Living Nightmare”
• The Marshall Project: We Are Witnesses
• Dallas News: The weight of a wall
• Dallas News: ‘It’s history now’
• ESPN: MLB Playoff Preview
• ESPN: College Football Preview
• ESPN: Lavar Ball Timeline
• ESPN: Baseball Experience
• ESPN: ESPNFC 100
• ESPN: We the Fans
• ESPN: NFL Quarterback Carousel
• ESPN: From Tree To Tipoff
• ESPN: NFL Rank
• ESPN: Anthem
• Star Tribune: Vikings 2017 NFL Draft strategy
• Metropoles: We’ve got to the fourth age. So, are we ready?
• Metropoles: Transbrasil, boarding crime on Brazilian highways
• Metropoles: All in a day’s work
• Metropoles: The faces of the slaughterers in prison
• Boston Globe: Could you run a marathon in these shoes?
• Boston Globe: Amazon headquarters in Boston?
• Boston Globe: Four stories tall, a million stories long
• Boston Globe: Super Bowl 51: What the Patriots do before Tom Brady gets the snap
• Boston Globe: Stephen King’s The Dark Tower — the worlds in his books connected
• National Geographic: North: An Illustrated Travelogue by Christoph Niemann
• Politiken: The Shark
• Zhejiang News: Make the New Year pictures move.
• Zhejiang News: Take this magic boat and read through Millennium ancient port in one day.
• Zhejiang News: Journal of twenty-four·Winter solstice
• The Sydney Morning Herald: Year 12 with cancer: Gabbie’s story
• The Age: Shark Alert
• Publico: José Afonso morreu há 30 anos.
• ABC News (Australia): Blood on the hospital floor
• ABC News (Australia): On SSM, sharpest divisions often just down the road
• ABC News (Australia): Tell me a secret… and I’ll explain how encrypted messaging works.
• ABC News (Australia): You Decide: Would you remove these children from their families?
• ABC News (Australia): Where can North Korea’s missiles reach?
• Zero Hora: Video Games That Became Movies
• Zero Hora: Summer On Two Wheels
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Break Thru: A half-decade after Mac and Whiz …”
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Pittsburgh’s powerful nonprofits”
• O Globo: 10 facts about Chacrinha
• O Globo: Badminton – Bravo Zulu
• O Globo: Justice League
• Washington Post: ‘I could use my voice’: How these 10 activists found their calling
• Washington Post: She talks about working women. Her father says “buy American.” We go inside Ivanka Inc.
• Washington Post: Kim Jong Un’s North Korea: Life inside the totalitarian state
• Washington Post: Can you find all the Santas in this illustration?
• Washington Post: Drowning in garbage
• Washington Post: She thought she was Irish — until a DNA test opened a 100-year-old mystery
• Washington Post: Police chiefs are often forced to put officers fired for misconduct back on the streets
• Washington Post: This is your brain on art
• Washington Post: How Congress allied with drug company lobbyists to derail the DEA’s war on opioids
• Washington Post: Workplaces must give moms space to pump breast milk. The reality isn’t always pleasant.
• Washington Post: The race to save Florida’s devastated coral reef from global warming
• Washington Post: The slow death of the electric guitar
• The Globe and Mail: After decades of conflict, millions of women in Afghanistan are raising children on their own
• The Globe and Mail: Seeing Canada through the lens of Syrian refugees
• The Globe and Mail: What Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline will mean for B.C.’s coast
• The Globe and Mail: How condo flippers are making a killing in Toronto’s hot housing market
• The Globe and Mail: Sea Change: Canada’s deadliest industry
• The Globe and Mail: The modern touch of an old master: Inside the process behind Kent Monkman’s art
• The Globe and Mail: A tale of two Canadas: Where you grew up affects your income in adulthood
• The Globe and Mail: Eight seconds: Life and death of a cowboy
• The Globe and Mail: What it’s like to report a sexual assault: 36 people share their stories
• The Globe and Mail: Unfounded: Will the police believe you?
• The Globe and Mail: Persona
• Bloomberg: America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning
• La Nacion (Argentina): CandiChat
• La Nacion (Costa Rica): Así se transformó el volcán Poás en 14 días de actividad
• Thomson Reuters: A desperate escape
• People’s Daily Media Innovation (PDMI): AI Brief History
• Baltimore Sun: Keep the Beat
• South China Morning Post: The good wine
• South China Morning Post: Valentines Day
• South China Morning Post: The five main projects of the Belt and Road Initiative
• South China Morning Post: Getting to grips with North Korea in 15 graphics
• O Globo: Gatito’s jump
• O Globo: Arduous trophy to lift
• O Globo: Search for safety
• O Globo: Mayweather x McGregor
• O Globo: Unforgettable
• O Globo: Zagallo Forever
• O Globo: Neymar: the most expensive player in football history
• O Globo: Usain Bolt
• O Globo: Messi 30 years
• O Globo: Saint Petersburg Arena
• O Globo: The 100 goals race

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Features: Coverage

Silver Medal

• The New York Times: Internetting with Amanda Hess
• The New York Times: Antarctica Coverage
• Boston Globe: Boston. Racism. Image. Reality. The Spotlight Team takes on our hardest question
• Wall Street Journal: The Quants: Meet The New Kings Of Wall Street
• ABC News (Australia): Hear Me Out
• Thomson Reuters: Rohingya coverage

Award of Excellence

• thestar.com: Motherisk
• thestar.com: Climate change and the global species shakeup
• The New York Times: Eight Little Things
• The New York Times: Climate Change and Five Cities
• The New York Times Magazine: The Food Issue
• The New York Times Magazine: The Culture Issue
• The New York Times: Climate Change Coverage
• The New York Times: ISIS Coverage
• The New York Times Magazine: New York Stories
• ProPublica: Documenting Hate
• ProPublica: Bombs In Your Backyard
• ProPublica: ProPublica: Facebook Portfolio
• ProPublica: ProPublica: Trump Portfolio
• The Intercept: The Teflon Toxin
• Dallas News: Hope for the rest of us
• Dallas News: Critical choices
• Dallas News: My Aryan Princess
• VICE News: Shot By Cops and Forgotten
• Star Tribune: The Future of Food
• Boston Globe: Boston Marathon preview
• The Straits Times: Tay Cheng Tian died without family by his side. But in his final moments, he was not alone
• Star Tribune: Left to Suffer series
• Politiken: Photo
• Reuters: Shock tactics
• Reuters: The body trade
• weather.com: United States of Climate Change
• The Age: Surviving IS – Stories from Mosul
• ABC News (Australia): Same-Sex Marriage coverage
• Radio-Canada: Paradise Papers | Radio-Canada.ca
• http://whatudontsee.com/: What U Don’t See
• O Globo: The Brazilian War
• Washington Post: North Korea coverage
• Washington Post: Las Vegas shooting
• Washington Post: Occupied series
• The Lily: The Lily In Travel Series
• Financial Times: FT Appeal for Alzheimer’s research
• Financial Times: Financial crisis anniversary
• Financial Times: The Europopulists
• Asahi Shimbun: A Home to Dwell In
• Washington Post: One illegal gun. 12 weeks. A dozen criminal acts. The rapid cycle of gun violence.
• Washington Post: Israeli occupation turns 50: A Palestinian’s commute through Checkpoint 300
• Washington Post: Scientists came to explore the fabled waters of the Arctic — but their work could also change its future.
• Washington Post: CDC scientists pursue deadly monkeypox virus in Africa
• Washington Post: After the carnage: For six Las Vegas teens, a homecoming haunted by a mass shooting
• Washington Post: Red century: The rise and decline of global communism
• Washington Post: How many MLB parks have you visited?
• The Globe and Mail: The Globe and Mail’s Unfounded series on how Canadian police handle sexual-assault cases
• The Globe and Mail: Canada 150 fiction project
• Bloomberg: How a Melting Arctic Changes Everything
• Journal Sentinel: What happened to us?
• Thomson Reuters: Venezuela coverage
• Thomson Reuters: The Trump Effect
• Thomson Reuters: Coverage of North Korea’s weapons program
• Thomson Reuters: Philippines drug war coverage

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Graphics: Breaking news

Silver Medal

• The New York Times: Nine Rounds a Second: How the Las Vegas Gunman Outfitted a Rifle to Fire Faster
• The New York Times: Maps: Tracking Harvey’s Destructive Path Through Texas and Louisiana
• Washington Post: Graphics portfolio of hurricane coverage

Award of Excellence

• The New York Times: How California’s Most Destructive Wildfire Spread, Hour by Hour
• The New York Times: Northern California Fires Have Destroyed at Least 5,700 Buildings
• The New York Times: Before and After Photos: Fires Tear Through California’s Wine Country
• The New York Times: Inside the Las Vegas Gunman’s Mandalay Bay Hotel Suite
• The New York Times: Mexico City, Before and After the Earthquake
• The New York Times: Mexico City Was Built on an Ancient Lake Bed. That Makes Earthquakes Much Worse.
• The New York Times: Hurricane Irma’s Vast Destruction in the Caribbean, Building by Building
• The New York Times: Watching Hurricanes Irma, Jose and Katia From 22,000 Miles Above Earth
• The New York Times: Hurricane Irma Is One of the Strongest Storms In History
• The New York Times: Thousands Cried for Help as Houston Flooded
• The New York Times: Escaping the Inferno
• The New York Times: The Trail of Terror Across Westminster Bridge
• Washington Post: Analysis | How Northam gained in a more polarized Virginia
• Washington Post: Analysis | How cable news networks reacted to Comey’s hearing
• La Nacion (Argentina): ARA SAN JUAN submarine missing
• La Nacion (Argentina): Live fact-checking president’s speech

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Graphics: Features and planned coverage

Gold Medal

• The Washington Post: Analysis | Here’s every total solar eclipse happening in your lifetime. Is this year your best chance?

Silver Medal

• Wall Street Journal: How Facial Recognition Works
• The Washington Post: Coverage of Eclipse
• The Washington Post: Incarceration by executive order
• The Washington Post: Analysis | Travel the path of the solar eclipse
• The Washington Post: What is North Korea trying to hit?
• National Geographic: Cassini’s Grand Tour

Award of Excellence

• The New York Times: Among the Tax Bill’s Biggest Losers: High-Income, Blue State Taxpayers
• The New York Times: What the Tax Bill Would Look Like for 25,000 Middle-Class Families
• The New York Times: Virginia Election Results: Northam Defeats Gillespie in Governor Race
• The New York Times: Every Tax Cut and Tax Increase in the House G.O.P. Bill and What It Would Cost
• The New York Times: The Islamic State: From Insurgency to Rogue State and Back
• The New York Times: Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing
• The New York Times: Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart
• The New York Times: President Trump’s Lies, the Definitive List
• The New York Times: If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They’re More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy
• The New York Times: North Korea’s Nuclear Push Is Just One Piece of a Nationwide Building Boom
• The New York Times: Did the Turkish President’s Security Detail Attack Protesters in Washington? What the Video Shows
• The New York Times: You Draw It: What Got Better or Worse During Obama’s Presidency
• Everytownresearch.org: Gun Law Navigator
• TampaBay.com: Why Cops Shoot interactive graphic and database
• DallasNews.com: A broken trust
• DallasNews.com: Visualizing Adrian Beltre’s march to 3,000 hits
• ESPN: Quarterback Performance
• ESPN: NBA Draft Slots
• Google News Lab: Mapping America’s Taste in Oscar Films
• Google News Lab: How Diverse Are U.S. Newsrooms?
• Google News Lab: How To Fix a Toilet And Other Things We Couldn’t Do Without Search
• Google News Lab: The Year in Language
• Wall Street Journal: How to Make a Phone Call in 2017
• Wall Street Journal: How America’s Most Important Highway Fails
• The Straits Times: Singapore is more wild than you think
• The Straits Times: Cycling to a car-lite Singapore
• The Guardian: UK election coverage
• Thomson Reuters: Inflation
• Thomson Reuters: Star Wars character guide
• La Nacion (Costa Rica): The rise of evangelical deputies in Costa Rica
• La Nacion (Costa Rica): Routes and maneuvers of cocaine traffickers
• The Washington Post: How water damages a flooded house — and how parts can be saved
• The Washington Post: Graphics coverage of Hurricanes
• The Washington Post: Coverage of North Korea
• The Washington Post: The United States of oil and gas
• The Washington Post: 365 days of Trump’s claims
• The Washington Post: ‘This deal will make me look terrible’: Full transcripts of Trump’s calls with Mexico and Australia
• The Washington Post: Analysis | Some tax breaks are for the rich. Others for the poor. Which are for you?
• The Washington Post: Analysis | Oct. 26, the day women start working for free
• The Washington Post: Here’s where D.C. public transit can take you — and who gets left behind
• The Washington Post: Analysis | Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting: What we know and when we learned it
• The Washington Post: Analysis | See how deadly street opioids like ‘elephant tranquilizer’ have become
• The Washington Post: Analysis | How Virginia went from blue to red to back again
• The Washington Post: Analysis | Will your taxes go up or down in 2018 under the new tax bill?
• The Washington Post: Over 4 million Americans don’t have anyone to vote for them in Congress
• The Washington Post: 40 years of budgets show shifting national priorities
• The Washington Post: Analysis | How four recent launches signaled new leaps in North Korea’s missile capabilities
• The Washington Post: Analysis | What 500-year flooding could look like around five cities
• The Washington Post: Analysis | After Hurricane Maria, parts of Puerto Rico are still in the dark
• The Washington Post: Why MLB hitters are suddenly obsessed with launch angles
• The Washington Post: What ‘tech world’ did you grow up in?
• The Washington Post: A divided nation meets: Scenes from inauguration weekend
• Financial Times: The panda diaspora: where China shares its bears
• Financial Times: How China Rules the Waves
• Thomson Reuters: Battle for Marawi
• Thomson Reuters: A final farewell to Rama IX
• Thomson Reuters: Academy Awards for Best Picture
• The Paper (China): Typhoon Footprint in 68 years
• Thomson Reuters: Lights out
• Thomson Reuters: Mount Agung awakens
• La Nacion (Argentina): 2017 legislative elections. Comparative.
• National Geographic: Resurrecting a Dragon
• National Geographic: The Making of a Most Extraordinary Fossil
• ProPublica: Document Hate Coverage
• ProPublica: Environmental Coverage: Bombs in Your Backyard Series
• ProPublica: Coverage of Hurricane Harvey
• ProPublica: Chicago Area Disparities in Car Insurance Premiums
• ProPublica: How Harvey Hurt Houston, in 10 Maps
• ProPublica: This Is Where Hate Crimes Don’t Get Reported
• ProPublica: The Immigration Effect: There’s a Way for President Trump to Boost the Economy by Four Percent, But He Probably Won’t Like It
• ProPublica: Where Alternative School Enrollment May Signal Problems
• ProPublica: Buyouts Won’t Be the Answer for Many Frequent Flooding Victims
• ProPublica: One Year, One Facility, 1.7 Million Pounds of Hazardous Waste Burned in Open Air
• ProPublica: Bombs in Your Backyard
• Thomson Reuters: Murder at the airport
• Thomson Reuters: Venezuela uprising
• Thomson Reuters: The Trump Effect
• Thomson Reuters: Rocket science
• Thomson Reuters: A show of force
• Thomson Reuters: North Korea’s other threat
• Thomson Reuters: The boys from Davao
• Thomson Reuters: Death of a schoolboy
• Thomson Reuters: Dead on arrival
• Thomson Reuters: Life in the camps
• Thomson Reuters: A deadly crossing
• Thomson Reuters: Mass exodus
• Crain’s: Where to buy a home in Chicago
• South China Morning Post: Getting away from work in 2018
• South China Morning Post: Are we alone?
• South China Morning Post: The good wine
• South China Morning Post: Land of the giants
• South China Morning Post: The power of your passport
• South China Morning Post: Plugging China into Europe
• South China Morning Post: Getting to grips with North Korea in 15 graphics
• South China Morning Post: Mixed Martial Arts
• South China Morning Post: Russia 2018 World Cup
• South China Morning Post: They are very close… and you can’t escape them
• TASS Infographics: Nine years of waiting for St. Petersburg football arena: construction work, money and scandals
• TASS Infographics: Astronauts
• TASS Infographics: 1812: When Napoleon ventured East
• TASS Infographics: Satellite One. The story of the first man-made device in space

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Graphics: Motion graphics

Silver Medal

• The New York Times: ‘Shape of You’ Was 2017’s Biggest Track. Here’s How Ed Sheeran Made It.
• The New York Times: Did the Turkish President’s Security Detail Attack Protesters in Washington? What the Video Shows
• National Geographic: The Science of Hummingbirds

Award of Excellence

• Vox: A solar eclipse is coming to America. Here’s what you’ll see where you live.
• The New York Times: 10 Minutes. 12 Gunfire Bursts. 30 Videos. Mapping the Las Vegas Massacre.
• ProPublica: How this military explosive is poisoning American soil
• ProPublica: 911 Calls Document Disturbing Encounter with Off-Duty Chicago Police Officer
• ProPublica: Fact Checking the Supreme Court
• VICE News: Beat Break series
• VICE News: Obama’s Legacy
• Washington Post: Which hangover remedies work the best?
• Washington Post: The race to save coffee
• Washington Post: Decoding Internet Security: Spear phishing
• Lifehacker: The State of Affairs
• National Geographic: What Makes Mako Sharks the Fastest Sharks in the Ocean?
• National Geographic: A Fearsome Fleet: Secrets of the Vikings
• The Paper: Birds
• The Globe and Mail: Weigh Anchor
• National Geographic: The melting of Antarctica
• South China Morning Post: Mixed Martial Arts: What happens in the cage… stays in the cage

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Graphics: Social media graphics

Silver Medal

• ESPN: ESPN Snapchat – The Body Issue
• The Washington Post: MS13 12.22 | Snapchat
• The Washington Post: GAME OF THRONES 07.16 | Snapchat

Award of Excellence

• ProPublica: Bombs In Our Backyard
• ProPublica: Brain Drain at the EPA
• Wall Street Journal: Business News on Snapchat
• Dallas News: Kennedy Assassination Anniversary
• The Washington Post: Post Graphics on Twitter | Hundreds of aircraft flocked to the moon’s shadow during Monday’s eclipse.
• The Washington Post: Post Graphics on Twitter | Watch five hurricanes churn through the Atlantic in one month
• The Washington Post: Gen Z 12.26 | Snapchat
• The Washington Post: VEGAS TEENS 12.02 | Snapchat
• The Washington Post: NK Defense 12.01 | Snapchat
• The Washington Post: ACTIVE SHOOTER 11.10 | Snapchat
• The Washington Post: STRANGER THINGS 10.27 | Snapchat
• The Washington Post: SEXTING 10.25 | Snapchat
• The Washington Post: GUN MYTHS 10.20 | Snapchat
• The Washington Post: MURDER HOUSES 10.19 | Snapchat
• The Washington Post: DEA 10.16 | Snapchat
• The Washington Post: VEGAS SHOOTING folo 10.06 | Snapchat
• The Washington Post: Staff Get to Know You Series Slideshows / Instagram
• The Washington Post: Instagram / The Lily / Launch Day Countdown
• The Washington Post: “The Post” Poster slideshow / Instagram
• The Washington Post: Women’s Equality Day Mural: Instagram
• The Washington Post: Katie Wheeler Comics Series / Instagram
• The Washington Post: Instagram post by The Lily • Dec 20, 2017 at 5:38pm UTC
• The Washington Post: Instagram post by The Lily • Jul 8, 2017 at 1:38pm UTC
• The Washington Post: The Lily Instagram feed
• Financial Times: Uber journeys mapped
• Financial Times: How the UK election night unfolded

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Special event: Natural Disaster Coverage

Silver Medal

• The New York Times: Natural Disaster Coverage
• The Washington Post: Washington Post Hurricane coverage

Award of Excellence

• ProPublica/Texas Tribune: ProPublica/Texas Tribune: Harvey Portfolio
• Tampa Bay.com: A matter of miles: How the slightest shift kept Hurricane Irma from turning into an even worse disaster

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Portfolio: News Sites and Redesigns

Award of Excellence

• Upstatement: Yale E360
• Northeastern: News at Northeastern
• ProPublica: 2017 ProPublica.org Redesign
• WAMU: WAMU.org Redesign
• The Washington Post: The Lily: SND – The Lily News – Medium

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Portfolio: Individual

Silver Medal

• ESPN: Heather Donahue: Individual Portfolio
• The New York Times: Adam Pearce Portfolio
• The New York Times: Umi Syam Portfolio

Award of Excellence

• ESPN: Joseph Maese: Individual Portfolio
• ESPN: Sarah Pezzullo: Individual Portfolio
• The Washington Post: Kathy Lee / Snapchat Portfolio
• The New York Times: Alicia DeSantis Portfolio
• The New York Times: Jeremy White Portfolio
• The New York Times: Stuart Thompson Portfolio
• ProPublica: David Sleight Portfolio
• ProPublica: Rob Weychert Portfolio
• The New York Times: Rumsey Taylor Portfolio
• ProPublica: Lucas Waldron Portfolio
• The Washington Post: Wapo Snapchat Chris Barber
• The Marshall Project: Marshall Project, Alex Tatusian Portfolio
• The Washington Post: Mathew Callahan Portfolio
• Boston Globe: Michael Workman Portfolio
• Wall Street Journal: Youjin Shin’s Portfolio
• Boston Globe: Amanda Erickson Portfolio
• The Straits Times: Rodolfo Pazos Portfolio
• ABC News (Australia): Ben Spraggon Portfolio
• The Washington Post: Danielle Rindler Portfolio
• Bloomberg News: Christopher Cannon Portfolio
• The Globe and Mail: Jeremy Agius Portfolio
• La Nacion (Costa Rica): Pablo Robles Portfolio
• South China Morning Post: Marco Hernandez Portfolio
• South China Morning Post: Marcelo Duhalde Portfolio

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Portfolio: Organization

Gold Medal

• Reuters: Reuters information graphics portfolio
• The New York Times: Infographics Staff

Silver Medal

• National Geographic: Portfolio; organization (National Geographic)
• Reuters: Reuters visual storytelling portfolio
• Globe and Mail: Portfolio: Globe and Mail Presentation team

Award of Excellence

• ESPN: ESPN Portfolio
• The New York Times: nytimes.com/magazine
• ProPublica: ProPublica: Design Team Portfolio
• ProPublica: ProPublica: News Apps Portfolio
• VICE: VICE News portfolio
• La Nacion: PORTFOLIO 2017 BY LA NACION
• Boston Globe: Boston Globe portfolio
• Wall Street Journal: Wall Street Journal Graphics 2017
• The Straits Times: The Straits Times
• Star Tribune: Star Tribune Digital Design
• Politiken: POLITIKEN – NEWS SITE
• Reuters: Reuters data visualisation portfolio
• The Washington Post: Washington Post Visualization Org Portfolio
• The Washington Post: Organization portfolio of work from The Washington Post
• The Washington Post: The Lily: SND Entry – The Lily News – Medium
• South China Morning Post: The South China Morning Post Graphics Team

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Product Design

Award of Excellence

• Texas Tribune: Higher Ed Outcomes
• Politico: POLITICO 50 – Our annual list for 2017.
• Dallas News: The 85th
• WAMU: WAMU.org – Product Design
• The Globe and Mail: The Pattern Library: Digital design resource
• Wall Street Journal: iPhone App
• ABC News (Australia): ABC News (Australia) on Facebook Messenger
• The Lily: The Lily News – Medium
• TASS: Astronauts
• TASS: 1812: When Napoleon ventured East

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Experimental Design

Award of Excellence

• The New York Times: The Antarctica Series
• The New York Times Magazine: My Trip to the DMZ: A 360-Degree Sketchbook
• Metroploes: Rap-trospective 2017
• Wall Street Journal: WSJ Augmented Reality: Market Data Experience and Cassini
• The Straits Times: Fly the ST drone around Smart Nation Singapore
• The Lily: The Lily News – Medium
• Financial Times: The Uber Game