The first week of February (2019) the Society for News Design announced the results of the 40th edition of the Best of Digital News Design hosted in Washington DC. They granted 5 Gold Medals, 36 Silver Medals and an amazing number of 408 Bronze awards
If you are new in the field, this event is the equivalent of Olympics of news, Media from all across the globe picks and send entries of the best of the year (2018 in this case) and an international jury dig-in for a few days seen the best of the best
This year result was very good for the South China Morning Post ranking as 4th globally because a few years ago we didn’t do anything special for online, here is a little more of background here if you like. Below the table of medals for the 40th edition:
| MEDIA | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Total |
| The New York Times | 62 | 11 | 3 | 76 |
| The Washington Post + The Lily | 48 | 10 | 0 | 58 |
| Reuters | 53 | 2 | 0 | 55 |
| South China Morning Post | 23 | 1 | 0 | 24 |
| ProPublica | 19 | 3 | 0 | 22 |
| ESPN | 17 | 2 | 0 | 19 |
| The Globe and Mail | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| National Geographic | 11 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| Bloomberg News | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| The Los Angeles Times | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Globoesporte.com | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| The Guardian | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| ABC News (Australia) | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| FiveThirtyEight | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| La Nacion (Argentina) | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Quartz | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| TASS Russian News Agency | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
The complete table is available in the SND official website here. The following is a selection from among those 24 awards that the SCMP obtained that was part of my last year portfolio:
Why the world’s flight paths are such a mess
[ ACTIVE LINK HERE ]
2 Bronze medals: Individual portfolio, Features transportation
The stones in the road for China’s 2025 plan on electric vehicles
[ ACTIVE LINK HERE ]
1 Silver: Use of maps
2 Bronze: Individual portfolio, Features transportation, Line of coverage
How China aims to dominate the world of robotics
[ ACTIVE LINK HERE ]
1 Bronze: Line of coverage ( MIC2025 series )
If football coaches were Russian dolls, who would be the biggest?
[ ACTIVE LINK HERE ]
1 Bronze: Special events, Russia World Cup
The origins of Beijing’s Forbidden City
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2 Bronze: Individual Portfolio, Line of coverage ( The Forbidden City Series )
Ten signature dishes from around the world
[ ACTIVE LINK HERE ]
1 Bronze: Individual Portfolio
Thanks to the Hispanic gang and all the SCMP graphics team that also got a lot more awards and for their collaboration in the production process last year, looking forward to knowing the result in the print next week in Florida.
For further info, you can see more details in the awards section here.
Marco Hernandez 