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SND42 judging has started

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The Society for News Design’s 42nd Best of Print News Design Creative Competition judging is underway, and will run through Sunday, April 18. This year the judges will be looking at more than 3,200 entries across newspapers, magazines, graphics, photography and illustration. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram throughout the…

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Weekendavisen and de Volkskrant named World’s Best Designed

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After three days of discussion, judges in the Society for News Design’s 42nd Best of Print News Design competition selected two winners as the World’s Best Designed.  From the judges Print is not legacy, but avant-garde: The newspapers who are the 2020 World’s Best recognize that the ubiquity of online…

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Get involved with SND by volunteering for a committee

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This is a regularly updating post of ongoing volunteer opportunities SND is an all volunteer-run organization. Our events, communications, competitions and trainings around the world are all a result of our volunteers efforts of busy people, who dedicate a portion of their time to SND. We have a range of…

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Happy birthday, Robert Lockwood!

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Please help us celebrate SND’s first president, Robert Lockwood, as he celebrates his 85th birthday.

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World’s Best-Designed™ Digital News Experience winners

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World’s Best-Designed™ Digital News Experience winners Each year, the World’s Best-Designed™ judges identify and recognize work that has fundamentally shifted or improved how news and information is delivered across digital platforms. Judges have awarded the World’s Best-Designed™ Digital News Experience distinction 20 times since 2010. The award has been given to websites,…

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Digital portfolio winners since 2010

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Portfolio winners from Best of Digital News Design since 2010 Individual Portfolio winners are listed in alphabetical order. Links are provided to one of the winning pieces.*Bronze medal winner. ** Silver medal winner. *** Gold medal winner. 2020 World’s Best Designer** Gabriel Gianordoli, The New York Times * Bárbara Abbês, QuartzMaría Alconada-Brooks,…

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Enjoy the 2020-2021 COVID-19 Cartoon Showcase

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On February 1, 2021 the Society for News Design and the Danish newspaper Politiken invited news cartoonists from all over the world to answer the following question: In the year since WHO declared the virus a global pandemic (March 11, 2020), how have you portrayed the pandemic with wit and…

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Remembering C. Marshall Matlock

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Veteran journalism educator and indefatigable SND volunteer C. Marshall Matlock died Nov. 28, 2020. As a professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University for the majority of his career, he taught and guided generations of journalists.

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New York Times World's Best

42nd World’s Best Designed – Digital

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0:20/ 0:28 A panel of 21 judges from the Society for News Design’s 42nd edition creative competition, the Best of Digital News Design, has selected The New York Times as the World’s Best-Designed™ Digital News Experience for ongoing trackers of the coronavirus pandemic. Judges noted that the trackers best covered the dominant story of the…

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42nd Digital Judges Q&A

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Every year, the Society of News Design invites professionals to Washington, D.C., to judge the best design work of the year. This year, due to the pandemic, we gathered via Zoom across timezones to discuss the best design work from 2020. This year, we have six judging groups, two news,…

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