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The College News Design Contest is held annually by the Missouri Student Society of News Design and aims to honor the top student designers. This year's winners, chosen by a panel of jurists, will win more than $1,500 in prizes! More information about the contest can be found below, or you can view the information in our brochure (PDF). Entries had to be postmarked by April 7, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact the contest coordinator, Joy Mayer (phone: 573.882.8182 | fax: 573.882.5702 | email: mayerj@missouri.edu)

JUDGES

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REAGAN BRANHAM | Reagan has worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for the past seven years as a features and sports designer. Her work has been recognized in state-wide and international design competitions, including a Silver Medal from SND. She has been a facilitator for several years for SND, and was a news judge for the 2008 competition. Before moving to St. Louis, Reagan was a news designer for the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

GREG BRANSON | Greg Branson, deputy editor of art and design at the Kansas City Star, is former publisher of three weeklies in Miami County, Kansas, and former assistant graphics editor and A1 designer at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

GAYLE GRIN | Gayle Grin is President of SND. She's been involved in SND in virtually every possible way since becoming a regional director in 1998: serving on the Competition Committee and as a judge, as a frequent speaker on design topics, as a regular contributor to SND publications, a Quick Course host and speaker, a member of the SND Ethics committee, and now a SND blogger. She is the third Canadian to lead SND after the late Rob Austin, former Hamilton Spectator editor (1983-84) and design consultant Lucie Lacava (2000-01).
Grin is the managing editor of design and graphics at Canada's National Post in Toronto and the design consultant for the CanWest newspaper chain of which the Post is the flagship paper. She was part of the design team that launched the new national paper in 1998. Twice, the National Post has been named one of the World's Best-Designed Newspapers by SND.
On her own and in collaboration with her design team, Grin has won more than 250 design awards while at the National Post and the Montreal Gazette, where she worked as feature design director from 1990 to 1998. In 1998, Grin was the recipient of the prestigious Canadian National Newspaper Award, Canada's top newspaper honor. In the most recent SND design competition, the National Post was one of the top three winning newspapers in all categories, winning 51 awards.

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JARED NOVACK | Jared is newsroom developer at The Boston Globe where he works on graphics, databases, maps and other tools for boston.com. In 2006 he graduated from Syracuse University after 7 semesters at The Daily Orange. He previously worked/interned at the Houston Chronicle, Orange County Register and Cleveland Plain Dealer.

CHRIS SNIDER | Chris Snider is the assistant managing editor for digital at the Des Moines Register and an adjunct professor of journalism at Drake University. Prior to that, he was editor of Juice magazine and dmJuice.com. He's worked in design roles at the Baltimore Sun and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

RYAN THORNBURG | Ryan is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a special interest in online journalism and the future of news. He joined the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in July 2007.
Before going to UNC, Ryan spent his career in the newsroom, focusing on online journalism. Most recently, he was the managing editor of USNews.com, the online arm of U.S. News & World Report. He also served as a managing editor for Congressional Quarterly's Web site, www.cq.com, and was the national/international editor for The Washington Post's Web site, www.washingtonpost.com from 2003 to 2005. He started working in online news when he joined washingtonpost.com as a producer in 1997.

DIVISIONS

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AWork published in daily student newspapers published four or more times a week, whether operated by the university or as a separate corporation.

BWork published in nondaily student newspapers published three or fewer times a week, whether operated by the university or as a separate corporation.

CNondaily designer of the year category. Submit a portfolio with up to 10 examples of your work. The portfolio is one entry. Parts of the portfolio may be entered in other categories.

DDaily designer of the year category. Submit a portfolio with up to 10 examples of your work. The portfolio is one entry. Parts of the portfolio may be entered in other categories.

EOpen competition for best college newspaper online design.

Note: Work at a noncampus paper during an internship or job is not eligible. Magazine entries should enter same division – A or B – as the newspaper they're associated with.

CATEGORIES

  • DIVISIONS A & B

    1. News page design: cover
    2. News page design: inside
    3. Features page design: one page or one spread
    4. Sports news page design: one page or one spread
    5. Sports feature page design: one page or one spread
    6. Photo page design: one page or one spread
    7. Editorial or commentary page design
    8. Overall design of a magazine or special section. Magazines must be associated with a student newspaper. The division is determined by the distribution of the newspaper.
    9. Magazine spread design: Two or more pages devoted to a single subject
    10. Cover of magazine or special section
    11. Multi-page story package: News or sports topics
    12. Multi-page story package: Features topics
    13. Information graphics: Each graphic is considered an entry.
    14. Overall design of newspaper: Submit three entire issues of your choice (three issues constitute one entry).
    15. Illustrations: hand-drawn, computer-generated or photographic
    16. Redesigns: Submit one complete issue published prior to the redesign and two complete issues after the redesign (three issues constitute one entry).
    17. Overall use of photography: Enter one issue.
    18. Coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings: Submit page or spread from the week of April 17-23
    19. Coverage of campus elections: one page or one spread

  • DIVISION C

  •    Student Designer of the Year: Nondaily
    • Individual parts of your portfolio may be entered in other categories. However, you must have separate tearsheets or copies for each entry. No pages designed by more than one person may be included. (Portfolio with up to 10 examples constitutes one entry.)
    • Prize: $750 travel grant to SND workshop Sept. 7-9, 2008, in Las Vegas.

  • DIVISION D

  •    Student Designer of the Year: Daily
    • Individual parts of your portfolio may be entered in other categories. However, you must have separate tearsheets or copies for each entry. No pages designed by more than one person may be included. (Portfolio with up to 10 examples constitutes one entry).
    • Prize: $750 travel grant to SND workshop Sept. 7-9, 2008, in Las Vegas.

  • DIVISION E

  •    Online design
    • These categories combine daily and nondaily divisions. The URL must be connected to your publication.
      1. Best college newspaper Web site: Submit a URL
      2. Best interactive graphic: Submit a URL
      3. Best multimedia slideshow: Submit a URL

ELIGIBILITY

Entrants must currently be enrolled in, or have been enrolled in at the time of publication, a two- or four-year university. All entries must have been published on or after March 16, 2007, and before March 15, 2008.

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