2007 WINNERS

JUDGES

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SCOTT GOLDMAN | Scott is Assistant Managing Editor for Visuals at The Indianapolis Star, supervising a staff of 45 visual journalists in the graphics, design and photography departments. The Star has won several design and photo awards since his arrival in May 2004, and Goldman led a redesign that launched in 2005. He previously spent five years at The Washington Post as Assistant Sports Editor/Design, and four years in the same role at The Charlotte Observer. Scott is also a partner in MG Redesign, a consulting firm he co-founded in 2000 with Matt Mansfield from the San Jose Mercury News. Scott is the current president of the Society for News Design, and has won more than 30 SND awards in his career including two Gold Medals. Scott is a 1990 graduate of Syracuse University, and lives just outside Indianapolis with his wife and three children.

KRISTIN LENZ | Though her roots can be found in the hills of southeastern Alabama, Kristin Lenz has ventured through the newspaper landscape with unapologetic fervor. Since graduating from Auburn University with a degree in journalism, design has lead her to one conclusion: she should have majored in graphic design. At The Tuscaloosa News in Alabama, Kristin became responsible for the look of the paper's features section. From there she headed south to the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune, then went wide left to sunny-and-70 southern California to work as a business designer for the Orange County Register. While enjoying the warm weather, the surf and Trader Joe's, she found time to be an extra in a video for the band "Yellowcard." No longer able to withstand the harsh southern California winter's, Kristin took a job with The Hartford Courant in Connecticut. Still designing for them today, she works primairily in business and A1 design, picking up other Courant design goodies here and there. When not editing with photo or asking business for numbers, she can be found in New York City, usually eating a hot dog.

MARK FRIESEN | Mark graduated from MU in 1987, and it was all downhill from there. At least as far as the amount of Shakespeare's Pizza in his life. He's been a copy editor and designer at the Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times, a feature page designer and design editor at The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla., and a news page designer at The Oregonian in Portland. In 2003, on a whim, he launched NewsDesigner.com, the first weblog about newspaper design. It now receives more than 35,000 visits a month, an embarrassing number of which come from Google Image searches for John Holmes (which are NSFW, by the way). In March of 2007, he became a web editor at The Oregonian, and after nearly 15 years of working nights, must now figure out how to become a morning person. He lives in Portland, Ore., with his wife, 8-year-old daughter, 3-month-old son and a black cat that barely tolerates his presence.

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NICK JUNGMAN | Nick is senior editor/interactive for The Wichita Eagle and Kansas.com. He joined The Eagle in 1996. He previously worked at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock. In his spare time, he is an adjunct instructor in journalism at Newman University in Wichita and adviser to the student newspaper there. He is a native of Texas, grew up in Alva, Okla., and has a degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. He has appeared as a contestant on both "Jeopardy!" and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." He's married to Eagle columnist Denise Neil, and they have a 2-year-old daughter, Alexis.

DON WITTEKIND | Don is an assistant professor in the visual communication sequence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before making the move to teaching last July, he spent 10 years as informational graphics director at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, where he led the creation of the first newspaper-based multimedia graphics department. Under his direction, the Sun-Sentinel created its first interactive project in December of 1996 and continued as an industry leader throughout his tenure. Wittekindıs work has been honored with top honors by the Newspaper Association of America, Editor & Publisher, the Online News Association and the SND.ies.

BRIAN STORM | Brian is president of MediaStorm (http://mediastorm.org), a multimedia production studio whose principal aim is to usher in the next generation of multimedia storytelling by publishing social documentary projects incorporating photojournalism and audio reporting across multiple media. Storm's professional experience includes two years as vice president of News, Multimedia and Assignment Services for Corbis, where he developed a global strategy for production, packaging and distribution as well as assignment services emphasizing in-depth multimedia reporting. From 1995 to 2002 Storm was director of multimedia at MSNBC.com, a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC News, where he was responsible for the audio, photography and video elements of the site. Storm received his master's degree in photojournalism in 1995 from the University of Missouri where he ran the School of Journalism's New Media Lab, taught Electronic Photojournalism and produced CD-ROMs for the Pictures of the Year competition and the Missouri Photo Workshop.

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