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2026 SND Challenge

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.

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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.

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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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Washington Post designers sweep top awards for individuals at SND47

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The jury selected Hailey Haymond of the Washington Post as the World’s Best Emerging Designer and Tyler Remmel, a senior product designer of the Washington Post and chair of the Competition Committee, as World’s Best Designer.

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The Pudding and The Washington Post win Best In Show at SND47

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In an unprecedented synchronized discussion spanning locations and time zones, 41 judges for the Society for New Design’s 47th edition of its Creative Competition, SND47, selected entries from The Pudding and The Washington Post for its prestigious Best In Show awards.

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SND47 Creative Competition awards announced after global judging of 4,200 entries

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Featuring dual-site judging in Berkeley and Singapore, SND47 convened 41 international judges to evaluate thousands of submissions and recognize the best in global news design and visual journalism.

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Results

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The Society for News Design is proud to announce results from the 47th edition of the Creative Competition. Winners are selected by visual journalists to assess the best work published in 2025. Organizations from around the world were represented in the makeup of the judging panel. For the first time,…

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From Berkeley to Singapore, SND Goes Global

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SND’s 47th Creative Competition launches dual-site judging and events, including a landmark Southeast Asia workshop.

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Q&A with Fernando Baptista, SND46 World’s Best Designer

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With SND47 on the way, members of the Creative Competition committee set out to ask SND46 portfolio winners to take us behind the scenes of their work in 2024. Fernando Baptista was the recipient of SND46’s World Best Designer for his Individual: Infographics portfolio with National Geographic magazine. He won…

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