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Meet TK Sajeev Kumar: SND Board of Directors

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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…

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Meet Tim Ball: SND Board of Directors candidate

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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…

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Meet Rebecca Pazos: SND Board of Directors

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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…

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Meet Alex Fong: SND Vice President candidate

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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…

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Meet Martina Ibáñez-Baldor: SND Board of Directors

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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…

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Meet Jon Wile: SND President

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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…

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Meet Allison Hong: SND Board of Directors

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Allison Hong, stands for a portrait on Thursday, July 12, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA. (Patrick T. Fallon/ For The Los Angeles Times) Allison Hong Current Title: Deputy Design Director Organization: Los Angeles TimesCountry: United States SND Vision As an outsider to SND, I’ve remained mostly just out of the…

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Taylor Swift’s electric touch (October Creative Conference Call)

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53 shows. 20 cities. 5 months. We’ve all heard about the economic impact of The Eras Tour in the U.S. — how the in-demand tour boosted tourism, contributed to local businesses and even how Swift herself donated to food banks at every stop. We know this because newsrooms in every…

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Call for candidates: You can help shape the future of SND

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This year’s election will see President, Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer return to the ballot, and two open board seats Our Society is growing once again. Over the past year, SND’s membership has grown by more than 50% (the first significant increase in over a decade), revenue is rising, and we…

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Creating innovative news design products in Latin America – in Spanish (Creative Conference Calls)

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We are thrilled to invite you to the First Spanish Creative Conference Call (CCC) on Wednesday, Aug 23 at 2 p.m. EST, which aims to explore the challenges and opportunities of creating innovative news design products in Latin America’s newsrooms. Discover featured stories, approaches to news design, and contribute with…

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