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‘Contests ‘n’ awards’ archive

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Feb. 8: 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: 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 [...]

Jan. 7, 2011: Newspaper Design site announces second annual international design competition

Iam Sajeevkumar T.K. — visual editor of Kaumudi, a 150,000-circulation Malayalam-language daily in Kerala, India, and founder of the Newspaper Design web site — has announced the launch of his site’s second annual design competition. And the best thing about this contest: There’s no entry fee. At all. Newspaper Design — a networking site aimed at India-based designers but open [...]

Jan. 4, 2011: World Cup page design contest winners announced

This week, the Newspaper Design web site announced the winners of its international contest for World Cup pages. First place for page one design went to Juan Carlos de Jesus Ramirez Gonzalez of La Razón de México of Mexico City for this front page focusing on a disappointed — but still proud — fan: That headline says: Goodbye, boys. Judge [...]

Sept. 28, 2010: Innovative Interactivity blog celebrating its birthday with contest, prizes

The Innovative Interactivity blog — devoted to multimedia journalism and run by UNC grad student Tracy Boyer — celebrates its third birthday this week with all sorts of prizes donated by notable… well, donors. The prizes are pretty cool. A sampling: Passes to a Webinar or Webinar replay at Poynter’s News University. One of these passes will be given away [...]

Aug. 20, 2010: Designs for a new dollar bill (10)

Do you think the dollar bill should be redesigned? Me neither. But there are folks who feel it should be, and they feel pretty strongly. And they’re working up samples to be talking points. They sure created a talking point with this one: Whoa! Can we see that larger and turned vertically, please? Very interesting. Very clean and modern. Other [...]

Aug. 11, 2010: International design competition for World Cup pages

The deadline for entering the contest has been extended until Aug. 30, says Iam Sajeevkumar T.K., visual editor of Kaumudi, a 150,000-circulation Malayalam-language daily in Kerala, India, and founder of the Newspaper Design web site. The contest is a design competition for World Cup pages and presentations. The categories: Page one presentation Sports page presentation Infographic For each category, there [...]