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Judges Select 10 Finalists for World’s Best-Designed™ Newspaper

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Five judges of the Worlds Best Designed™ Newspaper competition narrowed down more than 100 entries to 10 finalists over three days of deliberations in St. Petersburg. Steve Dorsey, Javier Errea, Bill Gaspard, Suzette Moyer and Shazna Nessa first defined a shared vision and framework before paging through multiple sections from…

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SND40 Best of News Design: Day Two Recap

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The Best of News Design Creative Competition judges have awarded 12 gold medals, 28 silver medals, one judges’ special recognition, and 595 awards of excellence in the first two days (or 19 hours) of judging at the Coliseum in St. Petersburg. As we close in on the last rounds of…

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Steve Dorsey Joins SND Executive Committee

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I am happy to announce the appointment of Steve Dorsey to the Society for News Design’s Executive Committee. Steve is the VP of News Performance and Partnerships at GateHouse Media, Center for News & Design. As a former president of SND and winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award, Steve is…

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SND40 Best of News Design: Day One Recap

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Judges reviewed more than 3,000 entries on the first day of the Best of News Design Creative Competition. The judges awarded eight gold medals, 13 silver medals, and 255 awards of excellence in the first 12 hours at the Coliseum in St. Petersburg. The New York Times leads the medal…

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2018 World’s Best-Designed™ – Digital

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Reuters was announced as the World’s Best-Designed™ winner at The Society’s annual workshop in Chicago in April. Finalists: The Globe and Mail (Canada), The Lily (United States), The Marshall Project (United States), The New York Times (United States), The Pudding (United States).

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2018 silver and gold medals – digital

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Unanimous winning entries were eligible for recognition beyond a bronze medal, with silver or gold medals awarded for outstanding work that pushes the boundaries of design and technology and helping define the state of the art for the industry. Gold: Overall Portfolio, Organization  The Pudding https://pudding.cool/2018/01/chyrons/ https://pudding.cool/2018/02/stand-up/ https://pudding.cool/2018/04/birthday-paradox/ https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/ https://pudding.cool/2018/09/jordans/…

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2018 results by publication – digital

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Nearly 70 different publications received 449 awards from almost 1,300 entries. Here’s the breakdown: Bronze Silver Gold Total ABC News (Australia) 6 0 0 6 Adresseavisen 0 1 0 1 The Age / The Sydney Morning Herald 2 0 0 2 The Asahi Shimbun 1 0 0 1 The Ball…

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Six finalists for World’s Best-Designed in Digital

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The World’s Best-Designed™ winner will be announced at The Society’s annual workshop in Chicago in April. Here are the six finalists: SND40 | Best of Digital Design Judges’ remarks This year we saw more publications employ audience-first thinking and narrow their coverage and presentation approach to serve the reader/user first. These…

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In an uncertain time, SND is here to help you

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The Society for News Design was created 40 years ago to support its members. More than 19,000 people with an interest in visual journalism have shared in the organization over these four decades, benefiting from and advancing our community.  We remain steadfast in our mission to serve you.  If you…

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2018 judges Q&A

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Sohail Al-Jamea, McClatchy “ If you want to read more, if you want to dive in more — usually, at least for me, it puts entries in silver contention.” What have you found to be new, novel or different about this year’s entries? The trends I am noticing are the vertical, full…

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