23rd Edition Winners
Five newspapers named "World's Best-Designed" in SND competition
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sunday, March 3, 2002
Five newspapers
named “World’s Best-Designed” in SND competition. 942
other winners chosen from a field of 12,727 entries.
154 awards given for “9-11-01 Attack on the U.S.” entries.
North Kingstown,
R.I.
— Five
newspapers were named the “World’s Best-Designed” by
the Society for News Design during the judging of Category One at the
23rd Annual “Best of Newspaper Design” competition. The winners
were chosen from a field of 349 entries from 26 countries.
In the judging of the other categories, the “Best of Show”
was awarded to The New York Times for its body of work in publishing
information graphics in Category 21, a new category created for the
“9-11-01 Attack on the U.S.” coverage. There were also 22
Gold medals, 66 Silver medals, 848 Awards of Excellence, plus five Judges’
Special Recognition awards given in the general competition.
The competition, co-sponsored by SND and Syracuse University’s
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, recognizes excellence
in newspaper design, graphics and photography. The judging took place
over two long weekends in early February at the Newhouse School in Syracuse,
N.Y. A near-record 12,727 entries were received in all categories.
The five “World’s Best-Designed Newspapers” for the 23rd
Edition are:
• 175,000 circulation and above:
The Independent on Sunday, London, England (Non-daily category)
San Jose Mercury News, Calif. (Daily category)
The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. (Daily category)
Die Zeit, Hamburg, Germany (Non-daily category)
• 24,999 circulation and below:
Palabra, Saltillo, México (Daily category)
The five judges for the World’s Best-Designed category were Cindy
Eikamp, executive editor, American News, S.D.; Karin Nilsson, designer/journalist,
Göteborgs-Posten, Sweden; William W. Sutton Jr., deputy managing
editor, News & Observer, N.C.; Thomas Brackvogel, managing editor,
Die Zeit, Germany; and Sebby Wilson-Jacobson, AME special projects,
The Democrat & Chronicle, N.Y.
The top five winners for all categories were The New York Times and
its magazine as well as El Mundo, Madrid, Spain, and its magazines with
53 awards each, followed by The Boston Globe with 38, The Hartford Courant
with 36, Correio Braziliense, Brazil, with 35; and Público, Lisbon,
Portugal with 30. Of the 25 countries and 172 newspapers winning awards,
the U.S. led with 514, followed by 97 for Spain, 67 for México,
44 for Brazil, 34 for Argentina, and 32 for Portugal. Other winners
included papers from Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Dominican Republic,
El Salvador, Peru, Italy, China, Uruguay, Canada and the countries of
Scandinavia and Great Britain.
The 21 judges for the general competition were:
Steve Antley, The Ledger, Fla.; Celeste Bernard, Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
Wash.; Svenåke Boström, Sundsvalls Tidning, Sweden; Carmelo
G. Caderot, El Mundo, Spain; Patricia Cousins, Cape Cod Times, Mass.;
Steve Dorsey, Detroit Free Press, Mich.; Katrina Elazegui, O Magazine,
N.Y.; Heather A. Faulkner, The Prague Post, Czech Republic; Jennifer
George-Palilonis, Ball State University, Ind.; Kristin A. Goodfellow,
ESRI, Calif.; Rebecca C. Hall, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.; Stephen
O. Komives, Savannah Morning News, Ga.; Pat Mitchell, Tampa Tribune,
Fla.; Søren Nyeland, Politiken, Denmark; Terrence Oliver, Ohio
University, Ohio; Carlos Perez Diaz, Innovation, Spain; Bob Rose, St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, Mo.; John Sale, The Spokesman-Review, Wash.; Laura
Stanton, The Washington Post, D.C.; Pim Van Hemmen, Star-Ledger, N.J.;
and Javier Zarracina, El Correo, Spain.
The full results of the competition will be posted on SND’s Web
site at http://www.snd.org in the first week of March. Users will be
able to query the awards data base by category and/or publication to
find out in more detail about the winning entries. Images of the winning
entries will be posted to the web site about a month later. Entrants
will be notified by e-mail about the specifics of their winning entry.
The top award winners will be honored at the Society’s Annual Workshop
and Exhibition in the fall of 2002. A location is being sought after
SND had to regretfully cancel its annual Exhibition and Workshop originally
scheduled for Buenos Aires, Argentina. Winners will be showcased with
judges comments in the 23rd Edition book, The Best of Newspaper Design,
which is scheduled for release this fall.
The Society for News Design, founded in 1979, is a 2,600-plus member
organization with membership in more than 52 countries — including three
professional and 16 student affiliates — dedicated to improving
news presentation and design in all media.
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