Archive for the ‘SND30’ Category
Day 2: Your Top 10 winners heading into the final day
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
The sun is setting, the clouds moving in and temperatures dropping outside of Drumlins. The Best of Newspaper Design™ judging is also winding down. The judges continue to make good progress today with more than 9,000 entries judged at this point. The top winners (by number of awards) so far in the competition, in no
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Who’s Who: Mapping the judges, facilitators
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Take a look at our interactive map showing the location of judges and judging assistants at this year’s competition. Each marker contains the person’s name, title and location. You can find it here…
Start-up paper: The National
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
The National, the new English language newspaper published in Abu Dhabi that launched in 2008, was being seen on judging tables for the first time in Syracuse. Consultant Lucie Lacava worked on the project. The SND International Web Desk gathered some pages in this quick slideshow so more people can check out the paper, but
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More random winners—Sunday afternoon
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
We’ve got less than 2,000 entries left to judge. Things have slowed a bit as we get into the redesign and portfolio entries, but the judges are having a great second day. The dinner break is about an hour-and-a-half away. Pre-break we’d like to offer up a couple more winners taken from the top of
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Random winners—Sunday afternoon
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
All the “News Design/Pages” categories have been judged now. All of the photography category is gone, too. All the “Information Graphics” categories except portfolios are finished. We still have the huge illustration category to be judged. At 836 entries, it’s nearly a third of what we have left. We’re looking forward to the portfolio and
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700 down
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Judges have gotten through more than 700 additional entries this morning. And things have tightened up a bit. The judging teams in the main hall (News, Long Form, Features) have gone through seven categories including special section inside pages, medium-size front pages, inside feature pages and broadsheet travel. But they didn’t see as much that
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Random winners—Sunday morning
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
As judging gets rolling on this second day, here are a couple winners plucked off the top of the pile waiting to be entered into the database. The first, above, is from Expresso in Lisbon. The story about a threatened fish population, the spread won in the “News Design, Inside Pages” category. The second is
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Early wake-up call
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Judges and facilitators on the 5th and 6th floors of the Sheraton got an early wake-up call thanks to a fire alarm. While some slept through the 4:40 a.m. alarm, many were unhappily evacuated to the lobby as evidenced by their tweets: “Fire alarm? Really? The hotel better ****-ing be on fire,” wrote long form
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Day 1: The wrap
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
We’ve finished the first day of The Best of Newspaper Design™ judging here in Syracuse. The judges have given a little more than 500 awards, making their way through more than 5,000 entries so far. The top 10 winners in the competition so far, ranked in no particular order are Zaman, Excelsior, The National Post,
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First two gold medals
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
The very first winner of the competition — the National Post’s Toronto section — was held back for a discussion by the judges and, in a nice piece of serendipity, also won the competition’s first gold medal. The category was Local Section/Compact and the entry headline was: “100 ways to enjoy an artier, healthier, techier,
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Asia’s expanding influence — pages from the Olympics
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Many newspapers from China and other parts of Asia entered the categories for the Olympics. We photographed several to show the variety of work judges were seeing. We talked with Lily Lu, the director of SND Chinese, to get her perspective on the increasing influence of Asia and how papers in that region are embracing
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Random winners—Saturday afternoon
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
The judges are back at it after lunch. We have judged just under 20% of our entries (not counting Category 1 — World’s Best Designed — which will be judged next weekend). We just plucked a couple of winners being delivered to the SND International Web Desk area. The first is from the Features Design
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Random winner—Saturday morning
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Each of the judging groups are trying to squeeze in another category before lunch. The winners are flowing into the SND International Web Desk area, and we can announce a random winner that just got carted up from the Features group. The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina captures an Award of Excellence for
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First winner in the books
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
The first categories to be “uncupped” this morning were in the News Design/Pages, Local Section category. The first winner of the competition was the National Post for it’s local news compact section (category 3Bd). We’ll announce random winners throughout the day. We’ll also announce any gold medals as they are awarded.
The 30th Edition: Introducing the judges
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
The 27 judges for the general competition of The Best of Newspaper Design™ have been announced by Dennis Varney of the Lexington Herald-Leader, the coordinator for the judging. Here’s a listing of the judges, by teams and categories. From left, Diego Zúñiga García-Falces, Santiago Carlos Ayulo, Gun Råberg-Kjellerstrand, Epha Riche, Jonathon Berlin NEWS Santiago Carlos
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Day 1: Judges arrive, and work officially begins
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
The Society for News Design’s 30th Annual Best of Newspaper Design™ judging has just gotten under way at Syracuse University. We’re coming to you live from Drumlins Country Club, the site for all the action. The first day involves judges getting their instructions from Dennis Varney, the 30th Edition coordinator. Varney will break the judges
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