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‘Contests ‘n’ awards’ archive

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April 11: A fun fast-motion video look at a cartoon illustration in progress

My pal Robert Zavala — an editor and illustrator for the Victoria (Texas) Advocate — won a statewide award this week. But it wasn’t for his illustration work. It was for a fun illustration of his illustration work. Via a video. I’ll let him tell the story. Robert writes: I just won the Texas APME award for best video under [...]

July 11, 2012: Kudos for the NYT graphics department (1)

The University of Missouri School of Journalism today announced the recipients of its 2012 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism. Among the honorees: The New York Times graphics department. An online press release states the department consists… …of 25 visual journalists who explain, illustrate and contextualize the news. The staff members of this diverse group specialize in design, [...]

May 29, 2012: NPPA’s Photojournalist of the Year: Ross Taylor of the Virginian-Pilot

The Virginian-Pilot‘s Ross Taylor was named Photojournalist of the Year  — for “large-market” papers — today by the National Press Photographer’s Association. Ross always does amazing stuff. But among the best work I saw this year was this result of two weeks in Afghanistan, following the staff of a NATO hospital. Click for a much larger view of that 19-year-old [...]

April 28, 2012: A couple of wonderful days teaching in Tulsa

As I mentioned yesterday, I got up insanely early Thursday — my 50th birthday — and flew to Tulsa, Oklahoma for an appearance at the annual Great Plains Journalism awards and workshop. I couldn’t complain about the lack of sleep. I was treated to this delightful cloud formation as we descended into Houston. My old Virginian-Pilot colleague Kevin Armstrong — [...]

April 12, 2012: ACES honors the year’s ace headline writers (2)

While I’m here in Virginia Beach slaving away over a hot stove blog, my ACES colleagues are in New Orleans this week, attempting to create an acute beer shortage meeting and discussing the finer points of journalism. Naturally, I wish I could join them. Perhaps next year. In the meantime, though, ACES today announced the winners of its annual headline [...]

April 12, 2012: Join us in Tulsa, Okla., for the Great Plains Journalism Awards luncheon and workshop

The folks of the Tulsa Press Club are in the final stages of planning this year’s Great Plains Journalism Awards luncheon and workshop to be held April 27 in downtown Tulsa, Okla. I was a judge this year. In addition, I’ve been invited to speak at the day-long workshop. Other speakers include… Lane DeGregory, a features writer for the Tampa [...]

April 9, 2012: Help SND pick out the cover of its next annual award book, round two

Last week, the Society for News Design asked us to help it choose which of 46 proposed covers for year’s collected volume of award-winning visual journalism would become finalists. Now, the society is back again. From those 46 wonderful covers, only eight remain. And here they are:         There’s some very inventive thinking here. Rush over to [...]

April 3, 2012: Help SND pick out the cover of its next annual award book

The Society for News Design is neck-deep into editing and assembling this year’s collection of award-winning visual journalism. Problem is: The society asked members to illustrate possible covers for that book. And they got waaay too many fabulous cover ideas from which to choose. How about these?   Mmm. Nice and clean. Or how about these?   Ooooh. Classy! Or [...]

March 16, 2012: University of Missouri’s student SND chapter taking contest entries

The Society for News Design chapter at the University of Missouri is taking entries for this year’s annual student design contest. All work published between March 16 of last year and March 15 of this year — hey, that was yesterday! — is eligible, whether it was done for a student publication or for an internship. As long as it [...]

Feb. 15, 2012: ‘Don’t listen to folks who say newspapers can’t do photo stories these days’

Craig Walker of the Denver Post has been named Photographer of the Year in the annual Pictures of the Year International competition at the University of Missouri. The Post reported on Sunday: In honoring Walker’s portfolio, the judges noted a strong balance of powerful aesthetic with solid journalistic content that reflects news events and social issues. Walker’s portfolio presented a [...]

Feb. 8, 2012: SND judges honor first Best of Show winner in ten years (1)

The last time the Society for News Design’s annual competition resulted in a Best of Show winner was 2002: The New York Times won the honor for its coverage of the events and aftermath of 9/11. Meet this year’s Best of Show: Svenska Dagbladet — Stockholm, Sweeden’s third-largest daily. The story that produced this amazing edition was that tragic, two-pronged [...]

Feb. 7, 2012: An accusation of visual plagiarism from last year’s SND contest (1)

The graphic in the center of this double-page spread from La Stampa of Torino, Italy — reviewing how trapped miners in Chile were rescued in October of 2010 — won an Award of Excellence last year for breaking news graphics in the annual Society for News Design competition. You’ll find it at the bottom of page 205 of SND32, the [...]

Oct. 19, 2011: The world needs more copy editors

The problem, of course, is the the world doesn’t always realize this. But you have to keep hope alive that it will. The trick, of course, is to be prepared with copy-editing skills when opportunity knocks. In order to do that, why not study a year with an assist from a scholarship from the American Copy Editors Society? The ACES [...]

May 11, 2011: A little contest horn tootin’ here…

Tuesday night, the folks I’ve been working with in South Africa cleaned up at the 10th annual Mondi Shanduka awards. These are the nation’s highest newspaper industry awards, sponsored by Print Media South Africa, the Newspaper Association of South Africa and the namesake: Mondi Shanduka, a producer of newsprint. Winners were named last night at Turbine Hall in downtown Johannesburg. [...]

May 6, 2011: Michigan State announces student design winners (1)

The student chapter of the Society for News Design at Michigan State University has announced the winners of its annual student design contest. Unlike some contests, entries in the MSU/SND contest could be work done for a college class, a student publication, an internship or at a full-time job. All entries were electronically submitted. A few of the first-place winners… [...]

March 15, 2011: Former obit clerk now queen of S.C. news designers (3)

I don’t normally cover winners of state news design awards. Frankly, there are so many state contests that it just doesn’t make sense. I’m going to make an exception in this case, though, for reasons that will become obvious in just a moment. Last week, the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg, S.C., won 43 awards at the annual South Carolina Press Association [...]

March 10, 2011: Calling all college student news designers…

Cheryl Pell of Michigan State University writes this week to request a plug for the annual student contest sponsored by the student chapter of the Society for News Design at her school. Cheryl writes: Our MSUSND student affiliate is sponsoring its annual design contest. For the first year since we started the contest, we have made this year’s completely online. [...]

Feb. 16, 2011: Deadline extended for 2nd annual Newspaper Design contest

The deadline to enter the second annual Newspaper Design design competition has been extended, says Iam Sajeevkumar T.K., visual editor of Kaumudi of Kerala, India and founder of Newspaper Design. Newspaper Design — a networking site aimed at India-based newspaper designers but open to everyone — is celebrating its second year of existence by holding a news design competition. The [...]

Feb. 15, 2011: A Q&A with Nick Mrozowski, (former) art director of this year’s World’s Best-Designed Newspaper (2)

Was it a surprise — or just fate — when the tabloid newspaper i was named World’s Best-Designed Newspaper this weekend by the Society for News Design? Typically, the panel of judges picks perhaps three or four papers as World’ Best-Designed. Not this time. The tiny tab from Lisbon, Portugal was the only paper cited this year. The appeal i [...]

Feb. 10, 2011: What the hell is the Times of Oman? (1)

Did you see the preliminary tally of SND award winners, posted Monday at the Society for News Design web site? If you’re like most of us, you’re wondering: The Times of Oman? Who the hell is the Times of Oman? It’s actually two daily papers, both based in Muscat, the capital city of Oman. The Arabic version has a daily [...]

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