Douglas Okasaki is senior designer at Gulf News, and is on the team judging the News category for the 35th Best of News Design™ competition. To get to know him better, we posed three questions: What was your takeaway from being a judge? I felt a certain sense of responsibility of…
read morePeter Nguyen is design director at U-T San Diego, and is judging the World’s Best-Designed™ Newspaper for the 35th Best of News Design™ competition. To get to know him better, we posed three questions: What was your takeaway from being a judge? That there’s an amazing amount of intelligent, beautiful work…
read moreDomenic Macri is art director of Report on Business Magazine and the Globe and Mail, and is a Features judge for the 35th Best of News Design™ competition. To get to know him better, we posed three questions: What are your observations about the entries this year? Some have great ideas…
read moreSND President David Kordalski is Visual Editor at The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, and is on the team judging the News category for SND35. To get to know him better, we posed three questions: What are your impressions of this year’s contest? I think there’s a tremendous amount of really good…
read moreHeather Hopp-Bruce is op-ed design supervisor at the Boston Globe, and is a Features judge for the 35th Best of News Design™ competition. To get to know her better, we posed three questions: Have you noticed any design trends? Giant random floating drop caps, but the actual first letter of the…
read moreJørgen Høg is editor in chief at Søfart in Denmark and is a judge on the long-form team for the 35th Best of News Design™ competition. To get to know him better, we asked three questions: What do you think of the entries you’ve seen as a judge? It’s good sometimes…
read moreNaedine Hazell is special projects and publications editor at the Hartford Courant, and is a World’s Best-Designed™ Newspaper judge at SND35. To get to know her better, we posed three questions: What have you noticed about the entries? In news, photography has gotten much weaker, but feature and sports photography…
read moreGayle Grin is managing editor/design and graphics at PostMedia and design consultant, National Post in Toronto, a former SND president, and is on the team judging the World’s Best-Designed™ Newspaper for the 35th Best of News Design™ competition. We asked her three questions: How did your first day of judging go?…
read morePaul Gonzales is deputy design director/features at the Los Angeles Times and is on the team judging Visuals for the 35th Best of News Design™ competition. To get to know him better, we posed three questions: Do you have any advice for people entering next year? Make sure you enter only…
read moreRose Engelland is photo editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education and is judging the Visuals category for the 35th Best of News Design™ competition. To get to know her better, we posed three questions: You’re judging a lot of entries from other countries. How is that? There is a lot…
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