27th Edition Winners
SND Honors 1,136 International Winners in the 2006 Creative Competition
Two Newspapers Named World’s Best-Designed™
In its 27th annual Best of Newspaper Design™ Creative Competition, the Society for News Design has named two “WorldÌs Best-Designed Newspapers™” and issued 1,134 other awards for work published in 2005. The winners came from 14,610 entries submitted by 415 daily and nondaily newspapers in 46 countries.
This year's “WorldÌs Best-Designed Newspapers™” are:
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• The Guardian, London,
U.K., daily, circulation 395,000
- • Rzeczpospolita, Warsaw, Poland, daily, circulation 180,000
In the 18 general competition categories, with nearly 200 subcategories, judges awarded 48 Silver Medals, 10 Judges’ Special Recognitions and 1,077 Awards of Excellence. Three of the Judges’ Special Recognition awards went to the Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald and the Times-Picayune of New Orleans for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina. No entries were honored with Gold Medals.
“While the five teams of judges at the general competition gave awards to a great deal of exceptional work, no single team found an entry that garnered unanimous selection as a Gold Medal—the stringent standard that SND follows,” said Matt Erickson, 27th edition coordinator and assistant sports editor for design at The Times in Munster, Ind.
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. Judges from around the globe met in two stages over two long weekends in February at the Newhouse School in Syracuse, N.Y.
The top winners in all 19 categories were The New York Times and its magazine, with 85 awards; Los Angeles Times, 71; El Mundo of Madrid, Spain, and its magazines, 43; Hartford (Conn.) Courant, 36; The Boston Globe and its magazine, 33; Plain Dealer in Cleveland and South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 26 each; Toronto Star, 25; Pôblico of Lisbon, Portugal, 24; San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, 23; and the Sun Journal in Lewiston, Maine, and Times-Picayune in New Orleans, 22 apiece.
Of the 212 newspapers from 35 countries that earned awards, the United States led with 686 awards, followed by 86 for Canada, 85 for Spain, 52 for Mexico, 36 for Portugal, 29 for Sweden, 26 for El Salvador, 22 for Argentina, 19 for Germany, 13 each for Scotland and England and 10 for Denmark.
Other award winners included newspapers from Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, England, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Japan, Panama, Peru, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. While the number of entries was down slightly from last year's high of 15,020 entries, and the number of “World's Best-Designed Newspapers™” dipped from five to two, judges in 2006 selected more winners overall, 1,135 versus 1,082 in 2005.
The five judges for the “WorldÌs Best-Designed Newspapers™” category, who made their choices Feb. 11-14, were:
• Nanette Bisher, creative director of the San Francisco Chronicle• Joe Dizney, design director of The Wall Street Journal in New York
• Lucie Lacava, design consultant with Lacava Design Inc., in Montreal
• Ingrid Lohne, assistant editor of DagensMedier in Oslo, Norway
• Chris Watson, executive editor of the National Post in Toronto.
The 27 judges for the general competition, who met Feb. 17-20, were:
• Cassie Armstrong, deputy design editor at the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel• Fernando G. Baptista, graphics director at El Correo in Vizcaya, Spain
• Joe Breen, managing editor for production, presentation & design at The Irish Times in Dublin, Ireland
• J. Damon Cain, managing editor for presentation and design for The Denver Post
• Susan Mango Curtis, assistant professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
• Brian Gross, sports design supervisor at The Boston Globe
• Kevin Hand, assistant art director of Newsweek magazine in New York
• Agnete Holk, graphics director at Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten in Denmark
• Amelia Kunhardt, staff photographer at The Quincy (Mass.) Patriot Ledger
• S€nia Matos, art director at Pôblico in Lisbon, Portugal
• Christine S. McNeal, deputy managing editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Val B. Mina, design director at the The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee
• Bruce Moyer, picture editor at the Hartford (Conn.) Courant
• Catherine Nichols, art director and features designer at the Chicago Tribune
• Catherine Pike, editorial art director at the Toronto Star
• Cory Powell, presentation director at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn.
• Phillip Ritzenberg, design consultant in Woodmere, N.Y.
• Piedad Rivadeneira, graphics designer and art director of Paula in Santiago, Chile
• Steve Salmon, art director of The Sydney Morning Herald in Australia
• Gabriela Schmidt, design consultant in Queretaro, Mexico
• Broc Sears, assistant managing editor for design & graphics at the Star-Telegram in Fort Worth, Texas
• Linda Shankweiler, design director of The Oregonian in Portland, Ore.
• John Telford, graphic artist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Katherine Topaz, consultant/designer in Portland, Ore.
• Lila Victoria, newsroom artist/designer at the Staten Island (N.Y.) Advance
• Don Wittekind, graphics director of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
• Susan Zavoina, chair of the Department of Journalism at the University of North Texas in Flower Mound, Texas.
Full competition results are posted on SND’s Web site at www.snd.org. The top award winners were honored at the Society’s Annual Workshop and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla., Sept. 2. Winners and the judges’ comments will be showcased in the 27th Edition book, “The Best of Newspaper Design™,” scheduled for release in October 2006.