Tyler Remmel
Current Title: Senior News Designer
Organization: Washington Post
Country: United States
Candidate for: Director
Vision for SND
In my first few months as competition chair, my primary focus has been on the sustainability of the competition: finding ways to ease the time commitments for competition committee members throughout the year and by increasing the size of the competition committee to have more hands and more voices involved as well.
Already, we have added almost a dozen new faces to the committee, revamped the organization of teams within the committee and are all hard at work in preparing for SND47 next year.
If we succeed, you can expect to see a continuation of the trajectory we set forth along last year — expanding the competition’s call for entries to make it more accessible to a wider group of entrants than ever before, and active outreach to more people and organizations in the hopes of expanding the number of entries that are received.
SND is much more than just the annual creative competition, but I know that the success of the society at large depends on having a successful, robust and vibrant creative competition that continues to find ways to highlight the best work that is being produced across our industry. I’ve been actively involved in the competition since 2019 and I’m very passionate about it’s success. As a candidate for the SND board this year, I hope that I can have your vote!
About Tyler
In my day job, I am a senior news designer at The Washington Post where I work across multiple platforms as a designer, developer and art director. I have been a part of some of the newsroom’s biggest events and projects since arriving six years ago, including but not limited to: the Nationals’ World Series run in 2019; elections in 2020, 2022 and 2024; our Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of both the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and on America’s obsession with AR-15-style rifles; an award-winning investigation tracing the fentanyl crisis from Mexico to the U.S.; and a series of profiles that exposed the forces at play in the Sahel region of Africa. Previously, I worked at Gannett designing for the Detroit Free Press, USA Today and papers around the state of Florida.
I have been involved with SND since winning the SND Foundation’s scholarship in 2012. I attended my first workshop in Cleveland in 2013, and began began volunteering at the competition in 2020. I joined the competition committee later that year, and have since held roles as print competition coordinator and a team leader before taking over as the competition committee chair earlier this year.
I graduated from Ashland University in Ohio with degrees in journalism and sports communication.