Five newspapers named “World’s Best-Designed”

Five newspapers were named the World’s Best-Designed by the Society for News Design during the judging of Category One of the 25th Annual “Best of Newspaper Design™” competition. The winners were chosen from a field of 384 newspapers from 37 countries.

We'll have to wait a little bit more before we can actually see the designs and react to them. Patience.

In the judging of the 20 other categories in the general competition, there were 12 Gold medals, 63 Silver medals and six Judges’ Special Recognition awards. Awards of Excellence were also awarded to 868 other winners.
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 mid-February at the Newhouse School in Syracuse, N.Y. Entries numbering 13,618, the third highest in the 25-year history of the competition, were received in all 21 categories.
After four days of judging, the five “World’s Best-Designed Newspapers™” for the 25th Edition are:

* The Herald, Glasgow, Scotland (Daily with circulation between 75,000 and 175,000 category)
* The Independent on Sunday, London, England (Non-daily Sunday paper with circulation over 175,000 category)
* Puls Biznesu, Warsaw, Poland (Daily paper with circulation under 25,000 category)
* Récord, México City, México (Daily with circulation between 25,000 and 75,000 category)
* Upsala Nya Tidning, Uppsala, Sweden (Daily with circulation between 75,000 and 175,000 category)

The top five winners in all 21 categories were the Los Angeles Times with 64 awards; The New York Times and its magazine with 48 awards; the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and El Mundo (Madrid, Spain), including their magazines, 26 awards each; and the San Jose Mercury News with 24 awards.
Of the 203 newspapers from 32 countries winning awards, the U.S. led with 565 awards, followed by 95 awards for Spain, 50 for Canada, 46 for México, 32 for Sweden, and 30 for Germany. Other award winners included newspapers from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Japan, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Republic of China, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, The Netherlands and Turkey.

The full results of the competition are now posted on SND’s Web site. Users are able to 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.

Press release from the Society for News Design