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Best of Digital: Silver to Seattle Times for leading a discussion on race

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The Seattle Times has won Silver for a holding a community conversation on issues of race, policing and equality. Category: Features: Single-subject project Title: Under our skin: Talk about race Link: https://projects.seattletimes.com/2016/under-our-skin/ Comments: “You have the video — but you have a way to curate through the tags the kind…

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Best of Digital: Silver to New York Times for Philippines photo story

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The New York Times won Silver for a photojournalist’s look at the brutal antidrug campaign in the Philippines. Category: Features: Single-subject project Title: “They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals” Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/07/world/asia/rodrigo-duterte-philippines-drugs-killings.html Comments: “For one, it’s great that they pull in Google Maps. I was kind of surprised by that choice…

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Best of Digital: Silver to the N.Y.T. Magazine its New York Issue

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The New York Times Magazine earned Silver for its New York Issue, an exploration of a city constantly on the rise. Category: Features: Single-subject project Title: The New York Issue Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/05/magazine/new-york-life.html Comments: “The way that they parsed out a single-topic issue was interesting. The mobile presentation is really thoughtful.…

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Best of Digital: Silver to National Geographic for a Bears-Eye View

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National Geographic has won Silver for offering a bear-eye view at Yellowstone. Category: Features: Single-subject project Title: A bear’s-eye view Link: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/05/yellowstone-national-parks-bears-video/ Comments: “What sets this piece apart from being just a graphics entry is its entry point to the story. It’s really consistent in style and links together many…

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Best of Digital: Silver to Wall Street Journal for ‘Hamilton’

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The Wall Street Journal has won Silver for its musical algorithm breaking down the score from “Hamilton.” Category: Graphics: Features and planned coverage Title: Hamilton Link: http://graphics.wsj.com/hamilton/ Comments: “Visualizing sound is tricky but they did it “enormously well.” It’s current, fun, both think-y and quirky. Often audio is ‘listen to…

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Best of Digital: Silver to NYT for The Two Americas

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The New York Times has won Silver for its mapping of the 2016 Election. Category: Graphics: Features and planned coverage Title: The Two Americas of 2016 Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/16/us/politics/the-two-americas-of-2016.html Comments: “It’s a creative way of doing the thing everyone was talking about. It was a form unseen before in order to…

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Best of Digital: Silver to Berliner Morgenpost for marathon

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Berliner Morgenpost has won Silver for its innovative coverage of the Berlin marathon. Category: Breaking/Daily News: Planned coverage Title: Berlin city marathon 2016 Link: http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/berlin-marathon-2016/ Comments: “The simplicity of the graphic’s execution is its hallmark. It would have been easy to go over the top with annotation and explanation. The…

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Best of Digital: First Silver medal announced

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Jurors have awarded The New York Times the first Silver medal of the SND Best of Digital Design competition for 2017. Judging of more than 1,000 entries began this morning and will continue through tomorrow. Category: Breaking/Daily News: Single-subject project Title: A Trail of Terror in Nice, Block by Block…

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