Nearly 11,000 entries in the 30th annual Society for New Design competition resulted in 971 awards. Winners were announced last Wednesday, including five newspapers that were name The World’s Best-Designed.
The World’s Best-Designed Newspapers are:
* Akzia, Russia, biweekly, circ. 200,000
* Eleftheros Tipos, Greece, daily, circ. 86,000
* Expresso, Portugal, weekly, circ. 120,000
* The News, Mexico, daily, circ. 10,000
* Welt am Sonntag, Germany, weekly, circ. 400,000
SND has posted a searchable database of all winners with fantastic video, comments from the judges and other details about the competition.
To learn more, read the archived chat below, which I led with Matt Mansfield, SND president and co-director of the Medill School of Journalism’s Washington program. Other panelists included SND Vice President Bonita Burton of the Orlando Sentinel, SND Treasurer/Secretary Steve Dorsey of the Detroit Free Press and SND Competition Coordinator Dennis Varney of the Lexington Herald-Leader.
