24th Edition Winners

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, February 25, 2003

North Kingstown, R.I. — Four newspapers were named the “World’s Best-Designed™” by the Society for News Design during the judging of Category One of the 24th Annual “Best of Newspaper Design™” competition. The winners were chosen from a field of 351 newspapers from 37 countries.

In the judging of the 20 other categories in the general competition, there were 11 Gold medals, 77 Silver medals and seven Judges’ Special Recognition awards.

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 12,760 entries were received in all categories.

After four days of judging, the four “World’s Best-Designed Newspapers™” for the 24th Edition are:
* Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Frankfort, Germany
(Non-daily Sunday paper with circulation over 175,000 category)
* The Independent on Sunday, London, England
(Non-daily Sunday paper with circulation over 175,000 category)
* Récord, a new newspaper in México City, México
(Daily with circulation over 25,000 and under 75,000 category)
* Die Zeit, Hamburg, Germany
(Non-daily, circulation over 175,000 category)

The five judges for the World’s Best-Designed Newspaper™ category were:
Charles Brown, design director, The Dallas Morning News, Texas
Olga Lamas, designer, Cases i Associats, S.A., Barcelona, Spain
Greg Leeds, executive art director, The Wall Street Journal
Rexanna Lester, executive editor, Savannah Morning News, Ga.
Felix Soh, deputy editor, The Straits Times Press, Singapore

The top five winners in all 21 categories were El Mundo, Madrid, Spain, and its magazines, with 57 total awards and The New York Times and its magazine with 48 awards, followed by The Boston Globe and The Hartford Courant with 35 each, and Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with 31. Of the 30 countries and 200 newspapers winning awards, the U.S. led with 653, followed by 126 for Spain, 77 for México, 62 for Canada, 51 for Sweden, and 47 for Portugal. Other winners included papers from Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Costa Rica, The Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, the Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, The Philippines, Australia, Italy, Turkey, Greece and countries in Scandinavia and Great Britain.

The 21 judges for the general competition were:
James De Vries, De Luxe & Associates, Australia; Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, The Sun, Baltimore, Md.; Sergio Fernández, La Gaceta, Argentina; Ed Gabel, Time Magazine; Kim Germovsek Crow, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pa.; William J. Gugliotta, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio; Lorena Iñiguez, Los Angeles Times, Calif.; Adriana Libreros-Purcell, Asbury Park Press, N.J.; Dr. Lawrence Mason, Jr., Syracuse University, N.Y.; Ann McGettigan, Daily News, N.Y.; Christine S. McNeal, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wis.; José Merino, Arizona Daily Star; Gert Keil Nielsen, Ekstrabladet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Tom Penix, The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.; Tom Peyton, South Florida Sun-Sentinel; Mark Porter, The Guardian, London, England; Katherine Roberts Edenborg, University of Minnesota; Chris Sloan, National Geographic Magazine; Mark Thompson-Kolar, Ann Arbor News, Mich.; Juan Velasco, 5W Infographic USA, N.Y.; and Dan Zedek, The Boston Globe, Mass.

The full results of the competition are posted on SND’s Web site at http://www.snd.org/contests/contest24.lasso. Users can query the awards database by category and/or publication to find more details 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 Washington, D.C. Sept. 6, 2003. Winners will be showcased with judges’ comments in the 24th Edition book, "The Best of Newspaper Design™", which is scheduled for release this fall.

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