News

Beto Alvarez Current Title: Deputy News Editor Organization: Los Angeles TimesCountry: United States SND Vision For as long as I can remember, the Society for News Design has been the embodiment of excellent visual journalism to me. When I was a kid, I would spend hours poring over my father’s…

Yuri Victor Current Title: Senior EditorOrganization: The Atlantic Country: United States SND Vision Community is the heart of SND. Everyone I’ve ever talked to about why they stay with SND talks about the community. The community “got me my first job,” “helped me when I was struggling,” “helped me when…

TK Sajeev Kumar Current Title: Deputy/Visual EditorOrganization: Kerala KaumudiCountry: India SND Vision Presently, the focus of SND must be to enroll more members, especially from outside of the United States. For this, SND needs to offer them something special as an attraction. Here is my vision for this: Chat box…

Tim Ball Current Title: Europe’s Art Director/PrintOrganization: PoliticoCountry: United States SND Vision Put simply: SND should be an invaluable resource for visual journalists at every stage of their career. Right now, to an outsider, it seems like there are two enthusiastic groups of people in the Society: college students hungry…

Rebecca Pazos Current Title: Visualisation EditorOrganization: The Strait TimesCountry: Singapore SND Vision Long story short, SND has given so much to me over the years that it seems an obvious choice to want to give a little something back. I hope that through my connections with the local viz and…

Alex Fong Current Title: Deputy Creative DirectorOrganization: San Francisco Chronicle Country: United States SND Vision In the past year, the people and members committee and the board have been steadily making reforms. We have lowered the membership rate and developed a model for a cost-of-living-adjusted/hardship/young professional rate to make SND…

Martina Ibáñez-Baldor Current Title: Design Director for Latino InitiativesOrganization: The Los Angeles TimesCountry: United States SND Vision I am impressed and inspired by the efforts of SND in the last few years to diversify the organization and my vision for SND is to continue to support those efforts. I’d love…

Jon Wile Current Title: Vice President: Design Organization: American City Business Journals Country: United States SND Vision It’s time for SND to get a reboot. The media world has changed rapidly in the past decade, especially in the U.S. The Society needs to adapt to this changing reality before it…