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SND 40th edition (digital)

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

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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鈥檚 flight paths are such a mess

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2 Bronze medals: Individual portfolio, Features transportation

The stones in the road for China鈥檚 2025 plan on electric vehicles

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[ 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

robots

[ ACTIVE LINK HERE ]
1 Bronze: Line of coverage ( MIC2025 series )

 

If football coaches were Russian dolls, who would be the biggest?

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[ ACTIVE LINK HERE ]
1 Bronze: Special events, Russia World Cup

 

The origins of Beijing鈥檚 Forbidden City

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2 Bronze: Individual Portfolio, Line of coverage ( The Forbidden City Series )

Ten signature dishes from around the world

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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聽here.

 

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SND harvest 2016-2017

Few days ago the Society for News Design release the final results of a new cycle of recognition of the best in digital and print design for News all over the world, newsrooms from the five continents celebrates the new year with the ceremony of selection to get the best of the latest year… how exciting months!

This is my harvest of awards at the SND edition 38, I guess reflects a year of changes between two newsrooms like a split of me:

The digital awards

The first results of the SND are the digital works.聽This time a Silver Medal was awarded to聽my project “Memoria Robada” from my former work-team聽at聽La Nacion -Costa Rica-, the story was planed to show a visual report of the stolen heritage聽of Costa Rica.

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SND38 Silver medal, La Nacion -Costa Rica-. Launch the feature here.

The next four projects are the result of my first months at聽the new home here in Hong Kong working in the South China Morning Post at the graphics team. There are The Global Rule of Law, The Hong Kong Aging Population, Bolts from the Blue and USAsian Vote. All four with awards of excellence.

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The Print results

Is nice to have some awarded graphics in this category because my work is not focused in print. On 2016聽I make about 6聽versions of my digital project in to a print version, “Moving out” was a breaking news project about the Brexit, that project collects two awards of excellence.

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Moving Out

Combination print-digital

I got two awards in this category, the first one for a project about an intense lightening night here in Hong Kong, and the second for the explanation of the China麓s Cities organization in which I made the digital version and Marcelo Duhalde the print one.

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Lightening project on print version

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Lightening project on digital version

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China City Tiers, digital version.

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SND Digital Awards

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Two of our digital works published at nacion.com wins an Award Of Excellence in the 2015 edition of the contest. The first one is the project in celebration of the “75th anniversary聽of the聽National Symphonic Orchestra”聽the design and development of this projects set a starting point to the聽trends of our unit.

The second project awarded this February in Washington D.C. was the “Birth of a Century“, I was invited to work in this project for聽the unit of Data from La Naci贸n, and I have the fortune of the collaboration of the development unit as the artist Augusto Ram铆rez.

I have to say that I’m very very happy to get this awards of the Society for News Design in his digital contest, but this is a team work, and I must say thanks to my partners in the infographics unit, the Data Team of LN, the Development area, my Editors, and many many people who supports me last year.

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News Data App of the Year

The web app lets citizens find out the average monthly salary someone with their profile can receive in Costa Rica鈥檚 job market.

The web app lets citizens find out the average monthly salary someone with their profile can receive in Costa Rica鈥檚 job market.

We were awarded last June 17, the recognition of the best news application data through the work of “Does school pay off? How much?”聽http://bit.ly/1FTtpjH recognition was given in the category of News Data App of the year for small newsroom here聽is聽the details.

Alejandro Fernandez from聽El Financiero was the project manager. In the area of specialized design of GN we welcomed the project in the design phase, and the development department GN concrete it. Today with them, we celebrated the triumph of this web app in the summit of GEN2015. Here the details published regarding:聽http://bit.ly/1L2U69p

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Malofiej 23, The Pulitzer awards of information graphics

Today the 23rd edition of Malofiej ended, the jury of the International Infographics Awards, organized by SND-E, gave聽medals for the best in graphics of the 2014. A great honor for us in GN Medios has been awarded with two silver medals, one for the special of the 75th Batman anniversary in print categories, and an other for the Market of Soccer players data visualisation of online graphics category. Congrats for all my visual team at GN Medios.

The Bat cave, Special information graphics in poster format.

The Bat cave, Special information graphics in poster format.

Soccer players transfers in Costa Rica

Special mini-site: Soccer players transfers in Costa Rica / La Naci贸n.

Visit the special awarded site here:聽

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SND 36th print awards

Yesterday the Society for News Design (SND) announces on his site the full list of winners of the 36th edition in print categories.聽The visual team of GN Medios gets 10 awards of excellence, 5 of these for the department of information graphics. Some of these works includes: the World Cup Brazil 2014 coverage, Special posters as the collection of the Human Body 聽and the Batman 75th anniversary.

Graphic coverage of FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014. La Naci贸n 2014. Staff / Infographics Dep.

Graphic coverage of FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014. La Naci贸n 2014. Marco Hern谩ndez and Manuel Canales.

Graphic coverage of FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014. La Naci贸n 2014. Staff / Infographics Dep.

Graphic coverage of FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014. La Naci贸n 2014. Daniel Solano and Johan Uma帽a.

Graphic coverage of FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014. La Naci贸n 2014. Staff / Infographics Dep.

Graphic coverage of FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014. La Naci贸n 2014. Staff / Infographics Dept.

The collection of posters of the Human Body.

The collection of posters of the Human Body. Staff / infographics Dept.

The Bat cave, Special information graphics in poster format.

The Bat cave, Special information graphics in poster format. Carlos Fonseca, Manuel Canales and Dan Mora.

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36th SND Digital Award

The Society for News Design announces an award of excellence for the dataviz project “Fichajes del torneo de invierno 2014 en Costa Rica” 聽聽The competition was held the weekend of February 20 at the Ball State University Indianapolis Center, and receive about 900 entries from all the news media in the world. It is really a pleasure share this news, this because in Latinamerica just two media has been recognized for digital works.

Here is the full list of SND Digital recognitions:

http://www.snd.org/2015/03/winners-list-2014-best-of-digital-design-competition/

Also, here’s聽the link of the awarded work:

http://www.nacion.com/LNCSPC20140829_0001/HTML/index.html

Also this work was featured here in mhinfographics as part of my digital portfolio late in 2014:

https://mhinfographics.com/2014/09/30/el-tejido-del-futbol-en-costa-rica/

Especial de fichajes del f煤tbol de primera divisi贸n de Costa Rica. // La Naci贸n, 2014.

Especial de fichajes del f煤tbol de primera divisi贸n de Costa Rica. // La Naci贸n, 2014.

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Bienal de Dise帽o Iberoamericano 2014

Nuestro trabajo ser谩 incluido en el cat谩logo de la Bienal de Dise帽o Iberoamericano http://www.bid-dimad.org muy feliz por recibir un nuevo premio internacional por nuestro trabajo en dise帽o interactivo, en este caso para el proyecto del X-Air Challenge Puntarenas 2013 http://bit.ly/1fxL7yg un honor representar a Costa Rica en el cat谩logo que se mostrar谩 en la siguiente edici贸n http://bit.ly/1uKwSKs esperamos que aqu铆 en GN Medios podamos seguir cosechando estos logros a nombre de nuestro pa铆s.

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SUE the T-Rex

The infographic of SUE was awarded for Malofiej 18 with silver medal. Print edition of ‘La Naci贸n’. Project credits: Marco Hern谩ndez, Manuel Canales and Daniel Solano.

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SUE the T-Rex

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