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The Society has helped bring visual storytellers together for the sake of perfecting their craft, highlighting the best of our efforts, and helping spread the learnings and best practices to future generations. In this site we seek to connect with that tradition, and each other. We welcome all who care to participate and engage.

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Apply for the 2027 Board of Directors The Society for News Design is evolving—and we invite you to help lead the way. This fall, SND members will elect four Directors-at-Large to serve two-year terms beginning January 1, 2027. Why serve on the Board? Board service is an opportunity to support SND’s members, help shape the…

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Student: SND Challenge mentor ‘taught us how to think as journalists, designers and developers’

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Leila Touati and her team at Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo worked on how to ‘tell stories in a non-traditional way and think outside the box of what was possible for illustrative storytelling’ with Lily Boyce of the New York Times

The SND Challenge 2027

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The SND Challenge is a program offering students the opportunity to receive coaching from leaders in design, data and data visualization, information graphics, visual storytelling and development at organizations around the globe.

First SND Challenge empowers students with storytelling mentorship

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More than 70 students from American and international universities joined the Society for News Design’s inaugural digital narrative and visual storytelling apprenticeship, the SND Challenge, in the first half of 2026.

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Help shape SND’s future

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Apply for the 2027 Board of Directors The Society for…

Student: SND Challenge mentor ‘taught us how to think as journalists, designers and developers’

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Leila Touati and her team at Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo worked on how to ‘tell stories in a non-traditional way and think outside the box of what was possible for illustrative storytelling’ with Lily Boyce of the New York Times

First SND Challenge empowers students with storytelling mentorship

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More than 70 students from American and international universities joined the Society for News Design’s inaugural digital narrative and visual storytelling apprenticeship, the SND Challenge, in the first half of 2026.