Expresso, i, Heraldo de Soria, Magazine of El Mundo, as.com and lainformacion.com, the Best Publications of the Year

The sixth edition of the ÑH The Best in Journalistic Design of Spain & Portugal competition, organized by the Spanish Chapter of the Society News for Design (SNDE) has selected the winners. The jury, meeting in Pamplona on 1 and 2 October, has selected Expresso (Lisbon, Portugal), i (Lisbon, Portugal) and Heraldo de Soria (Soria, Spain) as the best designed newspapers of the year, the Magazine de El Mundo (Madrid, Spain) as the best designed magazine and as.com and lainformacion.com as the best designed on-line publication.

Roughly 2,300 works were entered in the competition from 62 media organizations from the two countries, a number equaling the record for participation set in the previous year. Of these entries, some 2,000 works were from 43 printed media organizations and 280 entries were made by on-line 19 publications.

In total the jury awarded 203 medals, of which 31 were gold, 72 silver plus 100 honorable mentions.

In addition, the jury selected El Periódico de Catalunya as having the best front page. The winning entry was that published in the special edition of 5 November 2008 on the Obama presidential victory in the US elections. (“A dream no longer”).

PRINTED MEDIA / DAILY NEWSPAPERS

In the various categories for to print newspapers, the jury awarded 143 medals, of which 24 were gold, 53 silver and 66 honorable mentions.

Expresso (Lisbon) was the winner in the category of newspapers with circulations of more than 60,000 units. The finalist in this same category was Público (Madrid).

In the category of newspapers with circulations of between 20,000 to 60,000 units, the winner was i (Lisbon) and the finalist was Público (Lisbon).

In the category of newspaper with circulations of less than 20,000 units, the winner was Heraldo de Soria (Soria) and the finalist was Diari de Girona (Girona).

PRINTED MEDIA/MAGAZINES

In the categories for magazines, 34 medals were awarded: 7 gold, 10 silver with 17 honorable mentions. Besides the main award, granted to the Magazine of El Mundo (Madrid), the jury designated as finalist the magazine Nós de Jornal i (Lisbon). The redesigns of the magazine Nuestro Tiempo (Pamplona) and Única of Expresso (Lisbon) were recognized with individual silver medals.

ON-LINE PUBLICATIONS

In on-line categories, the jury selected as.com the best publication of the year among those of than 12 million pagesviews per month; and lainformacion.com as the best among those with less than 12 million pagesviews.

The finalists in both categories were, respectively, elpais.com and ionline.pt. The redesign of the sports portal elsesports.cat of Televisió de Catalunya i Catalunya Ràdio won a silver medal and the redesigns of cuatro.com and cincodias.com obtained an honorable mention each.

In the categories for on-line publications, the jury gave out 26 medals, of which 9 were silver and 17 honorable mentions.