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Best of Digital Design

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The Society for News Design’s Best of Digital Design is a juried competition honoring visual and technical excellence in storytelling, graphics, social media and product design. We have released a comprehensive database of past winners, with entry links, through AirTable.  Use the filter and sort functions to view awards by year, publication or category.

SND is in the process of collating 40 years of the print competition database into a filterable Airtable file. We will post this file when it is available.

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The Society for News Design is proud to announce results from the 47th edition of the Creative Competition. Winners are selected by visual journalists to assess the best work published in 2025. Organizations from around the world were represented in the makeup of the judging panel. For the first time, judges are convening in-person in…

SND46 Results

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The Society for News Design is proud to announce results from the 46th edition of the Best of News Design Creative Competition. Winners were selected by 42 visual journalists who gathered April 15-17 at the Minnesota Star Tribune’s headquarters in Minneapolis to assess the best work published in 2024. More than 29 organizations from around…

de Volkskrant, Politico Europe, The Washington Post and The Pudding named World’s Best Designed

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The Society for News Design is proud to announce that four winners have been awarded the World’s Best Designed distinction in the SND46 Creative Competition. After three days of discussion, The Washington Post and The Pudding have been named World’s Best Designed Digital and de Volkskrant and Politico Europe have been named World’s Best Designed…

The Society for News Design announces finalists for World’s Best Designed

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The Society for News Design is proud to announce the finalists for World’s Best Designed Digital and World’s Best Designed Newspaper from the 46th annual  Creative Competition. The winners of World’s Best Designed will be announced Wednesday, April 30. Jump to section: World’s Best Digital Design | World’s Best Print Design Related: See all winners…

National Geographic’s Fernando Baptista, Washington Post’s Emma Kumer honored with World’s Best Designer awards from Society for News Design

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World’s Best Designer Fernando Baptista of National Geographic Magazine was selected by a panel of 42 judges as the World’s Best Designer for his Infographics portfolio in the Society for News Design’s 46th edition of the Creative Competition. Baptista was also awarded a gold medal for his portfolio in this year’s competition. The judges said…

New York Times’ Opinion staff wins Best in Show at Society for News Design’s 46th Creative Competition

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The Society for News Design is proud to announce The New York Times’ Opinion staff portfolio has been awarded as Best in Show at SND’s 46th annual Creative Competition. A group of 42 judges from around the world evaluated nearly 5,000 entries across print, digital, student and non-editorial categories and awarded the Times with the…

DIE ZEIT, Weekendavisen and The New York Times named World’s Best Designed

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SND is proud to announce the three winners of World’s Best Designed in its Digital and Print News Design Competitions: DIE ZEIT, Weekendavisen and The New York Times. DIE ZEIT and Weekendavisen named World’s Best Designed Newspapers After three days of discussion, judges in the Society for News Design’s 45th Best of Print News Design…

Best in show winners announced for SND45

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The Society for News Design is proud to announce the Best in Show winners for its Best of News Design Creative Competitions. This year, judges evaluated about 4,400 entries across both competitions and awarded five stories Best in Show honors across the Print and Digital Competitions. The winner for print is The Washington Post for…

SND45 results

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The Society for News Design is proud to announce results from the 45th edition of the Best of News Design Creative Competition. Winners will be selected by 44 visual journalists who will gather in Minneapolis to assess the best work published in 2023. More than 35 organizations from around the world were represented in the…

SND44 results

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44th annual creative competition Winners judged in 2023 on work published in 2022 Jump to print results | Jump to digital results | Previous years The Society for News Design is proud to announce results from the 44th edition of the Best of News Design Creative Competition. Winners were selected by 47 visual journalists who gathered…