45th annual creative competition

Winners judged in 2024 on work published in 2023

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The Society for News Design is proud to announce results from the 45th edition of the Best of News Design Creative Competition. Winners will be selected by 44 visual journalists who will gather in Minneapolis to assess the best work published in 2023. More than 35 organizations from around the world were represented in the makeup of the judging panel.

Results will be updated live starting May 8.

The Best of News Design Creative Competition honors excellence in visual storytelling, design and journalism produced in 2023. Winners will be announced live during the competition except for our highest honors, World’s Best Designed Newspaper, World’s Best Digital News Experience, World’s Best Digital Designer and Digital’s Best in Show, which will be announced the week following the competition. 

Learn more about this year’s competition.

Related: Categories and how to enter.

The annual Best of Newspaper Design Creative Competition started in 1979, and the contest was opened to magazines in 2009 as the name changed to the Best of News Design. Since 2002, SND has invited entries from all news sites published anywhere in the world (formerly known as the SNDies) to recognize skill, innovation and high-quality digital journalism.