Posts tagged ‘Multimedia’
Help pick the web’s best sites, apps and widgets: Enter SND’s best of Digital News Design
Monday, January 30th, 2012
The deadline for SND’s Best of Digital Design competition is coming right up. You have until Feb. 15 to get your entries up against the best sites, apps and digital work from around the world. Our team of judges from around the world will pick the best data-driven projects, photography and video, overall site design and usability and mobile and tablet apps. This year we will also let users give input via our competition site. Stay tuned for more details.
Nominate a site or app as for world’s best designed: http://digital.snd.org/worlds-best-nominations/
If you’d like to see the winners of our 2011 Digital Design Competition: http://digital.snd.org/2012/01/04/2011-winners/
Enter SND’s Best of Digital Design competition: http://digital.snd.org/submit-entry/
Deadline to enter: Feb. 15, 2012 (midnight PST).
SND’s Best of Digital Design competition 2.0
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to get your entries ready for SND’s annual competitions for the best work online and in print. The site for SND’s digital competition is now open for business, with revisions aimed at further improving the contest and make it easier for you to showcase your work, while SND’s creative competition deadline is right around the corner.
How to enter the print competition here. Deadline for U.S. entries is Wednesday, Jan. 11 and for international entries is Wednesday, Jan. 18.
How to enter the digital competition here. The deadline for entries is Wednesday, Feb. 15.
Meet 2011 College Designer of the Year Jason Willis
Friday, October 7th, 2011
Jason Willis, a senior at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., was named SND’s College Designer of the Year on October 1, 2011, during the awards banquet in St. Louis. The judges cited his rich portfolio of print and multimedia work. We caught up with Jason for a Q&A this week.
Dynamo professor, innovative newsroom and social media leader, Jen Reeves, will turbo-charge your skillset at SND STL
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Our next dynamic speaker is a powerhouse of journalism education and runs one of the most innovative newsrooms in the nation regularly recognized by industry publications including the PBS Media Shift blog. She’s going to compress a semester of training with her turbo-charged Mizzou classes into 50 minutes for folks looking to get up to
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Michigan State University’s Karl Gude returns to SND STL for more free and fabulous visualization tools
Monday, June 20th, 2011
You all spoke in the SND conference surveys, and we listened. We’re pleased to welcome Karl Gude back for an update to his popular and practical session: Free (and fabulous) visualization software online If you missed Karl in Denver, we’ve brought him back to expand on his ever-growing list of free online software for generating
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Creating effective interactive graphics with Kat Downs
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Interactive graphics, no matter how interesting or cool, should always hit home on the most important feature: the storytelling.
Free (and fabulous) software online with Karl Gude
Friday, September 24th, 2010
You don’t have to have a lot of money to make fabulous visuals in print or online. Karl Gude discusses the wiki he created that combines dozens of free pieces of software online to make your storytelling as dynamic as possible.
Web Boot Camp: Miami, June 12-13
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
SND’s Web training program is coming to Florida! Translate your design skills to the Web by understanding the essential building blocks. In this two-day course we’ll demystify the Web 2.0 toolbox and help you build a compelling, news-driven package from scratch. SND held three Web Boot Camps last year and one earlier this year, and
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Two words about the new Apple tablet: Think different
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Steve Jobs will unveil something big on Wednesday morning. Early word — and there’s been much of it — is that Apple will reinvent the idea of portable computing with a new tablet that just might revolutionize publishing.
But if you’re worried about the tech specs and the price and the size of the thing and who will win the coveted phone contract (if there is one) and how the wireless will work and the millions of other rumors out there, you’re missing the point.
Apple thinks bigger.
It traffics in ideas.
Five questions: Amanda Zamora, multimedia editor
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Amanda Zamora left The Washington Post last year to be part of the start-up team that would launch The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. The independent nonprofit journalism venture, funded by various donors (including, of course, The Huffington Post, but also the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Knight Foundation) and based in Washington, D.C., is part of
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The making of the NYT’s Netflix graphic
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
A look behind the scenes of The New York Times’ visualization of movie rental patterns, neighborhood by neighborhood, in a dozen cities.
Screen gems: Roger Fidler talks about e-readers and tablets
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Fifteen years ago, Roger Fidler had a somewhat-prophetic vision for a thin electronic tablet. Now, as the publishing world scrambles to embrace e-readers and looks ahead to new devices and interaction models, we checked in with Fidler to reflect on missed opportunities and his predictions for what comes next.
Kalish visual editing workshop accepting 2010 applications
Monday, January 11th, 2010
Scott Sines, managing editor at The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal and Kalish Director reminds us that the 2010 Kalish Workshop “is accepting applications for the 21st edition of the best visual editing workshop on the planet.” The announcement continues: “Learn cross-platform/multimedia skills from a faculty of Emmy and Pulitzer Prize winning visual editors including Brian Storm,
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The Best of Multimedia Design winners
Friday, September 25th, 2009
The Best of Multimedia Design winners were awarded at the 2009 Society for News Design annual workshop and exhibition in Buenos Aires on Sept. 24. The competition recognizes skill, innovation and high-quality visual journalism in Web and other new-media design with quarterly and annual awards. Out of 170 quarterly award winners, nytimes.com won the two
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Wide-ranging category Non-Breaking Features finalized
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
Thirteen multimedia packages were judged as finalists in the 2009 Best of Multimedia Design competition in the category Non-Breaking Features. The finalists: Common Ground from mediastorm.org Cambio Climático from eitb.com Brewed in Nashville from tennessean.com Sacred Ground: The Building of the Pentagon Memorial from washingtonpost.com Intended Consequences from mediastorm.org Please Touch Museum from philly.com Pogue-O-Matic
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Non-Breaking Sports finalists decided
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
Among the Non-Breaking Sports category, five packages from indystar.com were recognized by judges today. The finalists: Lucas Oil Stadium Debuts from indystar.com The race for Mr. October from usatoday.com Cortes de Troncos (Log Cutters) from hiru.com Architectural Monuments in a Reshaped Beijing from nytimes.com A Map of Olympic Medals from nytimes.com The Diver’s View from
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