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Read the paper, damn it! 3 FU2I0N14 4–5 You forgot it in print 6 The FUSION has started 8 Get ready for digital excellence 10–11 Wrong… ? 12–21 Designing news 22–23 SNDLOU: The Awesome Show 24–28 New faces on the SNDS board 29 The members 30–31 Challenging times 32

President, Chairman for the Competition Committee Flemming Hvidtfeldt Berlingske Media, Vesterbrogade 8, DK-8800 Viborg, Denmark +45 20 91 17 52 fhvidtfeldt@yahoo.dk Vice President Anne Laitinen Turun Sanomat Länsikaari 15, FIN-20240 Turku, Finland anne.laitinen@ts.fi Business Manager, Treasurer Frank Stjerne JP/Politikens Hus, Rådhuspladsen 37, DK-1785 Copenhagen V, Denmark +45 33 47 23 99 frank.stjerne@jppol.dk

Lill Mostad Fredriksstad Blad Stortorvet 3, N-1601 Fredrikstad Norway +47 932 09 367 lill.mostad@f-b.no Anders Tapola Smålandsposten, Linnégatan 2, S-351 70 Växjö, Sweden +46 470 770 686 anders.tapola@smp.se

SNDS Secretariat Lone Jürgensen Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, Grøndalsvej 3, DK-8260 Viby J, Denmark +45 87 38 38 38 / 31 08 lone.jurgensen@jp.dk Web-editor, snds.org Kartin Hansen Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, Grøndalsvej 3, DK-8260 Viby J, Denmark +45 87 38 38 38 / 31 07 kartin.hansen@jp.dk

Substitutes for the board Finn Egil Johanssen, Adresseavisen, Norway Søren Nyeland, Politiken, Denmark Pieta Forssell-Nieminen, Keskisuomalainen, Finland Petra Villani, Sydsvenskan, Sweden

Co-editor, Journalist DJ Lisbeth Tolstrup +45 51 32 89 62 mamamanus@mac.com

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Read the paper, damn it! I would feel unarmed attacking a day of creative thinking if I hadn’t read The New York Times early that morning. – George Lois, 2012* n Advertising

guru George Lois (born 1931, inventor of Big Idea advertising) may belong to a different time than the new breed of media workers, who grew up with twitter, blogs, and Facebook. But he sure has made his mark in the graphic design world, creating great art direction for Esquire Magazine, MTV, and Tommy Hilfiger to name a few. In his small book, Damn Good Advice (for people with talent) he gives some of his experience back to the next generation of creatives – in the form of short, inyour-face advice on how to be creative. His book includes the statement above – followed by this comment: “For you young generation of techies, reading in-depth journalism in a great newspaper beats the unedited, non-fact-checking bloggers every day of the week”. Perhaps his point is not so much related to the printed paper, but more to the kind of reading that the newspaper supplies you with. Lois describes this as the “visceral, informative, investigative, and analytical power of the world’s great newspapers”. Television or the internet can’t even come close to this, says Lois. Nevertheless, today’s media still seem to be focusing on the quick news rather than slow reading.

Javier Errea has also made his mark – on the editorial design of newspapers and websites all over the world – and he also has opinions about the way news travels across platforms today. In the final keynote presentation at the SNDS WRONG conference, one of Javier’s slides carried these few words: “Twitter? Participation? Customization? Forget it!” No, his message was, give me ugly newspapers. They are so much more fun. And they tell so many good stories – which, as you can see on the cover of this magazine, was his worthy salute in the very last slide of a great conference in Copenhagen. George Lois sums up his advice for the tweeting generation in this way: “Twitter less, think more”.

include several new initiatives – we present some of them on the next few pages (4–5). We’ll compete again The other major event under the auspices of SNDS, the Best of Scandinavian News Design competition, will also change substantially this year. The digital part of the competition has been given a complete overhaul and now includes categories such as “Data-project” and “TV-experience”. Read all about the competition on pages 8 and 10–11. Deadline for entering in the competition is 27 January 2014 – so start finding those great designs now. More info will be available on the snds.org website soon. …and more We also have the pleasure of bringing you Mario García’s review of a new book about news design; and Søren Nyeland, head of design at Danish Politiken brings us a report from the SND Louisville seminar and workshop. Oh, and if you haven’t noticed, SNDS now has a new President – Flemming Hvidtfeldt – and new board members. We present them on page 29. Enjoy it all – in between Christmas preparations which, we assume, will be your primary concern in the next few days. Have a great holiday, and see you next year! n

We’ll meet again Back to Copenhagen. In this issue, we bring you ten pages (p. 12–21) of photos from the Wrong conference days – in no way a complete view of speakers or events, but a glimpse of what you missed if you weren’t there. Many speakers gave great presen tations, and we can only show a few. Dagens Nyheter took home the big award as “Scandinavia’s Best Designed Newspaper”, and the pink theme was omnipresent, from the colour of Sami Valtere’s shirt to the welcome drinks. Next year’s event will also be in Copenhagen, same place, almost same time: 9–10 October 2014, and the title will be FU2ION14. The programme will

* Lois, George: Damn Good Advice (for people with talent!). How to Unleash Your Creative Potential. Phaidon, 2012.

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Exclusive workshops before the conference For those who arrive early on thursday and wants extra knowledge, we offer exclusive workshops with some of the speakers! Stay tuned for updates on the different topics that will be covered here. There will be several workshops that will teach you skills in both printed newsdesign, the latest technologies and best practices in digital cross-platform design!

Conference start-up with style As on the wrong 2013 conference we kickstart the conference with a welcome drink, worldknown keynote speakers and cosy networking in the breaks. And don’t worry: We’ll set up the nice buffet, just to get you fueled for the rest of the evening.

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Lighting the fuse with 20x20x10 In true Pecha Kucha spirit (google it!) we light the fuse thursday evening with 10 speakers presenting each an idea, concept or project with 20 slides each in 20 seconds! This is ensured to get your attention as each one races through their presentaion in about 6-7 minutes. Sharp, focused to-the-point presentations that will leave you inspired!

Night out in Copenhagen As the city lights has turned on, so do we. Thursday night the SNDS expedition will be heading out in the Copenhagen Nightlife in a guided tour to a fancy bar. That’s all we need to keep the fuse lit and the talk going.

Great line-up of speakers We are already talking to speakers that we want you to learn and get inspired from. To keep you focused and because we will have such great speakers from all around the world, we have only one track in the program friday. There will be ten speakers lined up, talking for 30 minutes each and you even get a break each hour to exchange ideas and network!

Morning yoga or running session On friday morning you can choose to go for a guided run around the lakes of Copenhagen (6.5km) with fellow newsdesigners – or you can energize your mind and body in a special yoga-session.

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SIGN UP FOR NEWS ON FUSION14.SNDS.ORG The award show No conference without the award show where winners are celebrated and a fancy dinner is shared with good friends. You will have a good look at the winning entries while enjoying an excellent DJ mix of nice vibes. And this year we even keep the bar open much longer – just to extend the joy and love!

Cultural saturday No better way to clear your head and round off some great days than visiting some of the big newsrooms in Copenhagen. We will offer an exclusive behind the scenes visit to two great media houses – more to come on that one too!

FU2i0N14 Michael Renaud will be a speaker in Copenhagen in Copenhagen in October 2014. Photo: PR

digital innovations P itchfork names the best music website and other awards. And people dance. Photo: PR

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Fire Still photo from a pyromaniac photo session with the French electronic music duo Daft Punk. Photo: PR

You forgot it in print The programme committee behind next year’s SNDS FU2I0N14 conference have already nailed some of the names on the speaker list. In this and the next issues of SNDS Magazine, we will be presenting them to you. Here is the first.

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Søren Nyeland soren.nyeland@pol.dk

n FU2I0N14 proudly presents Creative Director Michael Renaud from Pitchfork as a speaker. He conducted the famous pyromaniac photo session with Daft Punk in a parking lot in California... and he still joins court hearings as a result. But first of all he is a non-bullshit, humble and selftaught designer of a Hipster site. And soon Pitchfork will move to a new exclusive platform: A printed edition on December 14th! Join

FU2I0N14 in October next year and listen to the wise words of a lowkey but very inspiring speaker. Pitchfork, one of the most respected music news and review sites in the World, is immersed in Renaud’s visual brilliance and art direction. Beyond creating illustrations for the site, and poster artwork for Pitchfork’s festivals and shows, Renaud’s art direction of ”Cover Stories” has design circles buzzing, in addition to being honored as one of Ad Age’s Creativity 50. The longform, immersive design expertly blends words and visuals while creating

a unique story-consuming experience. Renaud most recently helped launch “Nothing Major”, Pitchfork’s visual culture website, and he’s currently working on the debut of “The Dissolve”, the site’s foray into all things cinema. Check out some of Pitchfork’s Cover Stories here: E pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/ bat-for-lashes/ E pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/ cat-power/ E pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/ savages/

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mags Three proud Norwegian magazine winners from this year’s competition: Aftenposten, Dagens Næringsliv, and Fædrelandsvennen. Next year, weekly and monthly magazines which are not published as part of a newspaper will also be allowed in the competition. Photo: Lars Aarø.

The FUSION has started Next year, SNDS will introduce two brand new print categories in the Best of Scandinavian News Design competition. Flemming Hvidtfeldt fhvidtfeldt@yahoo.dk

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print – as well as the online – part of the “Best of Scandinavian News Design” competition is constantly developing. This year we are introducing the prize “Honorable Mention” instead of the prize “Award of Excellence”. The change of name does not mean that the number of prizes to be handed out will become smaller than previous years. But the new name will reflect the value of the prize better. The first new category in the print competition also reflects the wish to expand the competition. The new category is only for Scandinavian and Finnish media houses that publish weekly and

monthly magazines. A special invitation will be sent out to the media houses which includes Aller Media, Sanomat Media and Egmont Media. The other new category that will be new for the upcoming competition is portfolio, which is known from SND’s competition. In this category the following rules: Submit six (6) pages by one designer. Entries with fewer than six pages, more than six pages or that name more than one individual will be disqualified. Team projects in this category should be entered as a staff portfolio. In the competition committee we believe that the new categories will appeal to designers and will raise the total numbers of entries to the competition. n

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Get ready for digital excellence The digital jury and the categories have been updated to reflect the current state of digital news in Scandinavia. Get ready to submit your awesome digital solutions! Kim Bjørn kim.bjoern@eb.dk n As

we do every year, the digital jury also evaluated the competition, process, and categories for 2013. And as every year new categories come – and some must go. For 2014 the digital categories reflect the evolution in the digital news business, and we have tried to align the categories more with the categories in the SND digital competition. Also, as always, we want the digital competition to be an inspiration and encouragement for the business. Among the new categories we especially hope that the TV experience, Data-project, Redesign, Storytelling and News coverage categories will inspire and give room for those certain kinds of projects to be visible in all their glory – and maybe even win a prize or two!

Categories for the Digital Competition The digital jury will choose “Scandinavia’s best designed digital newsmedia” among the entries. Prizes will be Gold, Silver and Honorable mention. The categories are:

submission to the contest. One or more URLs + screendumps. n Website (desktop and/or tablet)

The overall website whether it is tailored to desktop and/or tablet. One URL. n Mobile site

n Crossplatform digital experience

(mobile, tablets and desktop) The newsbrand presentation across multiple digital platforms. Entries can be a responsive site, adaptive or special solutions for the different platforms. One or more URLs. n Redesign

A digital redesign of a whole site or parts of a site. It should be documented in dated screendumps how the site looked before the redesign. The redesign should be live at the time of the

The overall mobile website - not only frontpage but also sections, articles, specials etc. One URL. n Front page (of a whole site or a section)

The frontpage of a whole website or the frontpage of a section/theme. Only one page is judged. One URL. n Article page

(generic article layout/template) The generic layout/template for articles – NOT specific articles. More than one URL.

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Meet the digital jury

Ulf Høgsberg (SE) Ulf Högberg is an awardwinning creative director who has worked for some of the world’s largest media companies including CNN, ITV, IDG and Schibsted. His work has received worldwide recognition and dozens of awards including several Webby Awards, a Peabody Award and a National Press Foundation Award.

Elisabeth Svendby (NO) Digital Designer at DB Medialab, where she is working on the redesign of their niche sites from Aller Media. She is the former chief designer of Dagbladet.no, and has the previous 3 years worked at many different media houses in Norway, as an advisor and consultant in their redesigns. She is trained in graphic and web design, as well as programming, from Østfold University College and The University of Bremen, Germany.

Winners SVT.se, VG Nett, and dr.dk were among last year’s winners in the digital categories of the ”Best of Scandinavian News Design” competition.

n Storytelling/feature (Planned coverage)

n TV-experience

Planned coverage of subjects/stories, longform, shortform, articles, series of articles, themes etc. One or more URLs.

Anything from a TV section frontpage, a TV subsite, TV clips integrated in articles, programs, whole series of programs, visual identity of programs(series) etc. One or more URLs.

or Breaking news) Non-planned coverage – presentation on site/frontpage and specific articles. One or more URLs.

n Apps (Tablet/mobile)

n Data-project

A detail can be anything from a technical feature to a different journalistic or presentational approach. The concept is: A small thing that makes a big difference. One or more URLs.

Data projects can be anything from infographics to database driven journalism in articles or themes. One or more URLs.

Kim Schou (DK) Kim Schou is a web journalist at Kristeligt Dagblad (k.dk) where he works with a full palette of text, video, sound and design tools. He is a classic news reporter and writes and designs interactive and long-form news stories. He also provides overview and thematises the newspaper’s major output of articles. Previously, Kim Schou worked as assistent editor for Egmont Serieforlaget, overseeing the production and design of Marvel and DC graphic novels for Scandinavia. His work for k.dk has been recognized by Best of Scandinavian News Design.

Any kind of news-related apps tailored to mobile and/or tablets. One URL.

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Björn Heselius (FI) Head of visual department at Hbl, the largest Swedish-language newspaper in Finland. Manages layout staff and infographic journalists and focuses on workflows in the newsroom. Art- and Creative Director for news presentation on paper and digital platforms and the brand development of Hbl. Has been part of major redesign projects with international consultants at Hbl.

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Head of the Digital Competition

Kim Bjørn (DK) Head of Digital Design at Ekstra Bladet. Graphic designer, writer and lecturer. Kim has been working with web design, newspaper- and magazine design for decades and has been the course leader of several training programmes within graphic design, digital design etc.

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On 10–11 October Copenhagen was hosting the SNDS WRONG conference. Over the next few pages, we show you a glimpse of what you missed, if you didn’t go. Next year, the SNDS seminar will be almost on the same dates – 9–10 October 2014, so put a big fat mark in your calendar now.

before the storm International get-together just before the first speaker sessions, left to right: Kyle Ellis, Susan Kordalski, David Kordalski, Anders Tapola, and Vanessa Wyse. Photo: Lars Pryds

App Søren S. Nielsen and Kim Bjørn show the Wrong application for the iPhone – where you can check the programme and stay up to date with what happens during the seminar. Photo: Lars Pryds

Pink The lobby of the Scandic Hotel featured designer chairs for relaxing between sessions (below), and pink drinks as a welcome to all attendees (left). Photo: Lars Pryds

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Pink The official colour of the WRONG conference, pink, comes in many shades and sizes. Below, program comittee chairman Sami Valtere opens the seminar wearing a pink shirt, placing his welcome drink on the table. In the photo to the right, the reception desk sports your humble magazine, the letters from the seminar logo (in a completely wrong typeface, of course), and the pink smile on Cathrine Sonne Beck-Hansenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lips. Photos: Lars Pryds

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Getting the story right D esigner Kyle Ellis from CNN Digital asked a very profound question as part of his presentation: ”So, how do we do that?” (above). In answering the question, he told us about the way the CNN staff try to develop stories with special focus on visuals, continuously having the ”GUCCI” model in mind (right). And this model has absolutely nothing to do with expensive plastic bags… Photos: Lars Pryds

to tablet or not to tablet Mark Porter stressed the importance of not just copying print content to other platforms, especially the tablets. Different platforms have different possibilities – use them wisely. Photo: Lars Pryds

twice Hugo Lindgren of the New York Times Magazine gave two presentations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one about the importance of being wrong (at least sometimes) and one with a more practical look into the way design comes to life at the famous magazine. Photo: Lars Pryds

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listen now Concentration in the audience (right). Below, SNDS Wrong sponsor Aptomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rikke Horn Berlin explain the advantages and technique of the software tools and solutions Aptoma can offer. Photos: Lars Pryds

covers Richard Turley, Bloomberg Businessweek, showed great examples of the magazine’s provocative visual cover designs. Photo: Lars Pryds type Paul Barnes, of Commercial Type, took us through the magic of designing great fonts for newspapers and celebbrities. Photo: Lars Pryds

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swinging Below: Lone Jürgensen and Anne-Louise Møller, both from the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, relax in between sessions in a swinging sofa. Below, right: Another set of pink drinks kicked off the Award Gala Dinner. Photo: Lars Pryds

fast & furious A few people joined Javier Errea, Errea Comunicacíon, early Friday morning for a quick run around the Copenhagen lakes. From left to right: Björn Heselius, Hufvudstadsbladet, Javier Errea, Stefani Urmas, Aamulehti, and Christian Erades from Mapcreator. Kim Bjørn, who took this photograph, also ran the 5.6 km in 35 minutes – and the group had a nice talk all the way around. Photo: Kim Bjørn

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food A good old Danish saying goes like this, ”Uden mad og drikke, duer helten ikke” – which translates into something like, ”Without food and drink, the hero is worth nothing”. At Scandic Copenhagen, the food scored high – which clearly shows in the anticipating smile on Anna Thurfjell’s face here. Photo: Lars Pryds

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Music DJ Katrine Ring created the musical backdrop of the Awards Gala evening â&#x20AC;&#x201C; building a special mood with her mixes. She made sure that the sound of the evening had the right colour. Photo: Lars Pryds

gold 1 Two happy winners from Stavanger Aftenblad, Tone Gilje and Kjersti Svalland. The gold award was given for an article about retro sun glasses, all worn by beautiful old ladies and men with nice wrinkles. Competition chairman Flemming Hvidtfeldt joins the celebration. Photo: SĂ¸ren S. Nielsen

gold 2 Flemming Hvidtfeldt, competition chairman, had a busy night handing out Silver and Gold Awards. Among the winners were Stefani Urmas, Aamulehti (above left); Jarle Elvesveen Stanes and Bjarne Tormodsgard, Hallingdølen (above right); and Elisabeth Svendby, Aller Media, picking up an award on behalf of Dagbladet (left). Photos: Søren S. Nielsen

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gold 3 Norwegian Verdens Gang won a Gold Award in the category Magazines for a powerful visual story of a boy who was heavily burnt in a fire, but fights his way back to life. From left to right: Art director Simen Grytøyr, journalist Jan Gundersen and vaktsjef Linn Marie Bratvold. Photo: Søren S. Nielsen

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Simply the best Dagens Nyheter in Stockholm won the big prize this year and can now use the title ”Scandinavia’s Best Designed Newspaper” for the next year. On stage here are Claes Sjödin and Jörgen Jonasson. Photo: Lars Pryds

Designing news Francesco Franchi’s new book, Designing News, is a complete and well-illustrated dissection of the state of the world of information circa 2013. This is why everyone working in media today should read it. Dr. Mario R. García mario@garciamedia.com

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is not easy to write a book about news, the news industry and all the transformations and reshufflings that our media industry is undergoing. Changes occur rapidly. New ways and habits for obtaining information change almost as quickly as the seasons, or perhaps faster. Recently, I have been discussing the need to update my own digital book The iPad Design Lab: Storytelling in the Age of the Tablet, merely one year in the market. This, of course, is exciting and challenging. (And the subject of another blog post for another day!). So I applaud a new entry into the library of news and news design books.

Francesco Franchi’s Designing News is a complete and up to the minute (well, almost!) dissection of the state of the world of information circa 2013. Francesco is Art director, Il Sole 24 ORE in Italy. I also respect very much that a busy art director had the time to devote to the researching and writing of this 240-page hardbound book, which abounds in illustrations, charts and rather lengthy texts. Designing News is divided into three main buckets of content: Transformations in the World of Information, Redesign and Rethink. Subheads guide the reader to topics that are timely and could be controversial for some: Making Sense of a Digital World, Change or Die, Redesign as Rethinking. Perhaps one of the highlights of Designing News is the use of case stud-

ies, among which the best are those for Feuilleton, Reuters, and The Guardian. I found the author’s references to historical landmarks of the past 20 years for our industry to be a helpful addition as he takes us from “the end of twentieth century ideology” to the “advent of twenty-first century technology, in all its forms and dimensions.“ Franchi delivers on his promise as his book is a complete “media quartet” review of the various platforms. He does not emphasize one platform over the other. In fact, print lovers will enjoy the Redesign/Rethinking portions of the book, with illustrations that could make one think he is flipping through the pages of those famous SND publications. This book is a celebration of print, and one can’t help but conclude that many innovative approaches are taking

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Change or Die Designing News is not all about a rosy and exciting present and future. In the aptly titled Change or Die segment, Franchi asks the question: Newspapers in crisis? For a few pages, he presents a bit of media necrology here with sample illustrations from some already gone print publications as Newsweek magazine and Financial Times Deutschland. His visit to the print cemetery is brief, then he picks up a sunny step: It is not that newspapers are dying, but that one way of making newspapers is coming to an end. The good news, says Franchi, is that we are reaching readers via Twitter and the other social networks. The result is “the greatest growth in the number of print copies sold in decent decades” for publications like the Spectator, a historic conservative American magazine. Franchi turns to his own backyard, Italy, and reports that new niche

Francesco Franchi: Designing News Changing the World of Editorial Design and Information Graphics 240 pages, full color, hardcover, 18,6 x 30 cm, English text. ISBN: 978-3-89955-468-7 Catalog Price: €49.90 / $78.00 / £45.00

products such as the Milan Review and Studio have been created recently, with much success. The Milan Review is a literary magazine,“ Franchi writes, “…it has no physical editorial offices or warehouses…” Conclusion Designing News is not just about design and that is another reason this book is such a valuable tool for the teaching of journalism, both in formal classrooms, as well as in newsroom seminars and workshops. The author understands clearly that today’s design discussion must be part of a larger landscape.

Franchi writes about the realities of producing content in a multi platform world and dives into the reasons, as when he writes: The age we live in seems to be the test bench not for individual thought but for collective thought. Media capable of effectively reflecting this transformation have perhaps not yet been invented. This book is a good guide to imagine what that media might be like, while learning to transform ourselves in the present to make sense of the digital world in which we work. Designing News will be required reading for my Columbia University students this spring. It should also be must read for everyone who works with n the media today. This review has previously been published on The Mario Blog, where you can also read Mario’s interview with Francesco Franchi. Mario García is CEO of Garcia Media and the Hearst Digital Media Professor in Residence at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. E www.garciamedia.com

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place in the design of printed newspapers and magazines. Franchi admires The Guardian, but he also includes such design innovators as Portugal’s “I”, The Independent (London), New York Magazine and Monocle, and the examples shown shine.

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The Awesome Show The two Scandinavian newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Politiken were two of this year’s five SND World’s Best Designed Newspapers, and both sent people to Louisville to pick up their awards at the SNDLOU seminar and workshop. Here’s some of the impressions Politiken’s Søren Nyeland took home from the event.

Søren Nyeland soren.nyeland@pol.dk Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. Cassius Clay 1964 Following up on his poetic imagery the young boxer from Louisville entered the ring and knocked out – TKO – the reigning world champion Sonny Liston. Shortly after that bout, Cassius Clay joined the Nation of Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths Muhammad Ali

Louisville is a jewel on the Ohio River, Kentucky. It is home of Muhammad Ali and it’s no wonder that the city created The Muhammad Ali Center to celebrate their own famous however controversial son. And it’s no wonder that the SND leadership chose this award-winning setting – much more than a museum – to celebrate SND’s 35th anniversary on November 7-9, 2013. This museum captures the inspiration derived from the story of Ali’s incredible life … you’re actually allowed to touch a pair of his gigantic boxing gloves and in the dark inner space of the building you get seated in comfortable sofas to enjoy the full length version of the probably best boxing match ever – The Rumble in the Jungle – featuring George Foreman against Muhammad Ali in Zaire.

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Happy hours Glimpses from the Louisville days – at the Muhammad Ali Center, at the race track and sneaky places off-programme. Photos: Søren Nyeland.

Is that all you got, George? Muhammad Ali, Zaire 1974 Yep ... that’s about it.” George Foreman, Zaire 1974 The SNDLOU 2013 program didn’t really feature any heavyweight speakers – except of course the seven times World Best Designed Newspaper winner Haika Hinze, Die Zeit, Germany. But it featured the next generation of news designers and set a fresh focus on today’s trends in digital media. A great representative of this direction was the well-dressed young gentleman Joye Marburger from The Washington. While young Marburger develops design strategy for mobile he build on the thinking of media guru Marshall McLuhan. This McLuhan approach has been seen before.

The winners The Design Editors Richard Franck from Dagens Nyheter, Vanessa Wyse from The Grid and Søren Nyeland from Politiken celebrate the price as World’s Best Designed Newspaper. Other winners of World’s Best Designed Newspaper 2012 were Welt am Sonntag and Die Zeit. Former SND-president Gayle Grin is behind the camera. Photo: Gayle Grin In another fine speech Design Director Vivian Selbo from Slate asked “What’s the difference between responsive and adaptive design anyway?” and followed up with The statement “Slate is liquid design”. Also Platform Designer David Wright from Twitter addressed responsive design by using a famous Jonathan

Ivy quote: “like trying to make one pair of shoes to fit everybody’s feet”. It almost felt like a coordinated speaker attack on ‘responsive design’. And it really would have been a refreshing experience to round up this attack with Jonathan Ivy himself from Apple as a speaker. This should be the ambition for future SND conferences.

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But Marburger argued convincingly that McLuhan’s book The Extensions of Man (1964) is more relevant than ever. In this pioneering study in media theory, it is proposed that the media, not the content that it carries, should be the focus of study. And in short Marburger concluded that “responsive design is not a mobile strategy”.

on screen A color TV set from the days of the young Muhammad Ali at his museum and the screen of the SND 2013 seminar, showing the controversial front page of the just as controversil king of satire ”The Onion”. Photos: Søren Nyeland, Albert Nyeland.

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. Muhammad Ali

The young new names dominated this conference. There was a lot of new faces among the audience. This also means that the voice has changed slightly. The f*ck word was used in so many variations and with such stamina that it was an inspiration in itself. This was only overshadowed by the use of the word “Awesome”! This is how it is my Scandinavian friends … ‘cool’ is totally out … and ‘awesome’ is in. Best practice in these wordgames showed Graphics Director Jennifer Daniel from Bloomsberg Businessweek (however recently headhunted by New York Times) in what was simply a modern tribute to wild creativity and a content-driven approach to illustration. Another fresh speaker on the program was Copy Editor Neil Holdway who focused on the art of hitting the right tone in headlines, captions and promos for digital platforms. In between the speeches a so-called International SND Hacktucky hackathon took place. This was a competition in designing a locally focused, digital product. Five teams participated in this intense 24 hour hackathon and

the proud winner was The YourMapper Team and the “Next Bus project”. The Next Bus uses TARC’s realtime bus data, merged with curated local events. Choose the event you like and the time you want to arrive, then get a text message five minutes before you need to walk out the door to make the first bus stop based on the bus’s actual location. That’s it – dead simple! This workshop really added to the SNDLOU spirit and served as inspiration for what we’ll do in Scandinavia in future conferences. The man who has no imagination has no wings Muhammad Ali The Onion, a king in the world of satire, was the internet’s first comedy site. Today the publication thrives behind sharp writing and smart development across multiple platforms. The playful Editorial Manager Ben Berkley and Web Producer Jordan David from “America’s Finest News Source” were insulting the SNDLOU audience for

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more than an hour ... and the audience loved it. The behind-the-scenes working process is mind-opening but it’s hard to tell if this process would be an inspiration for any ‘serious’ media brand. The recipe is simple: It always starts with working for hours with the headline. And the text will not be written until that headline is perfect. Here’s a fine example of a frontpage display headline: “Black Guy Asks Nation For Change” (from Obama’s First presidential campaign starting in Chicago, see illustration above). Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong. Muhammad Ali The finest key speaker at SNDLOU might have been Creative Director and self taught designer Michael Renaud from Pitchfork. One of Renaud’s design mantras goes like this: “Don’t let the fuckers get you down”. That mantra made Renaud survive while developing the Pitchfork design. Today Pitchfork is one of the most respected music news and review sites in the world. Michael Renaud explained that people get caught up in

for life Harris Siegel, here with his signature bandana look (” You can blame that on Bruce Springsteen and former Kings goaltender Kelly Hrudey”, was named Lifetime Achievement Award winner . Photo: SND.ORG.

Next year SND 2014 will move away from the American continent and take place in Frankfurt, Germany, hence the yellow, red, and black balloons. Photo: Andrea Levy (see: bit.ly/1kmsaMW )

trends and get lost in the point of what they’re actually trying to accomplish. “The glamour of technology is a trend people shouldn’t get caught up in,” he said. Michael Renaud will be a speaker at the SNDS FU2I0N14 conference in 2014 (see page 6).

convention) and partying SNDLOU guests. And the Starwars universe finds it’s reflections in nearby locations like the Louisville Slugger Museum with the world’s biggest baseball bat placed up against the building, the Hard Rock Café housing the machine gun guitar of Alice Cooper, Joe’s Crab Shack on the River with wild sharks flying in the air and food trucks serving French Indo-Canadian food which is eclectic in style and difficult to pronounce. But it’s easy to eat and tastes like candy from outer space.

The program offered many more fine speakers on old beaten subjects, such as Jonathon Berlin, Josh Crutchmer and Rob Schneider on “The State of A1”. During this session the sunset over the River Ohio invaded the beautiful ‘Viewpoint North Auditorium’ through the enormous panorama windows. It almost felt like the final count down for paper. But the three gentlemen still believe that something could be done to American front pages. In USA designing A1s has become just an everyday routine job which results in a redundant look even on days with breaking news. Berlin showed examples from papers around the globe that dare break the routines and create great front pages for the printed paper. Scandinavia was pointed out as a role model for creating daring front

pages and examples from Dagens Nyheter and Politiken were shown to emphasize this. I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark. Muhammad Ali The Muhammad Ali Center is only one of many sites in Louisville. The nearby Galt House hotel is another. In it’s gigantic halls with panorama lifts, rotating restaurant, kinky Christmas lightning and fairy dust you almost felt like caught in Jabba the Hutts Palace! Giant plastic dwarfs and fairies mixed up with tired bourbon drinking business men, extremely tanned brown body builders (joining a Midwest bodybuilder

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am. Muhammad Ali

The SNDLOU people know how to celebrate. The first night offered live horse race and bourbon in classic Louisville style at Churchill Downs, next evening offered Lebowski style bowling downtown – of course with some proud Scandinavians on the winning team: Pelle Asplund from Dagens Nyheter and Johannes Holmertz from di.se. And the final closing event took place in a beautiful space called The Icehouse. This final party was great fun and good food in spite of a poorly

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prepared Award Show. It’s always surprising that the nation that invented the Oscar celebrations and gave birth to Muhammad Ali makes such introvert award ceremonies. Proud news designers from Germany, Canada, Sweden and Denmark stood ready to receive their trophies on stage. But nothing really happened. This could and should be dramatically improved in upcoming events since SND founded the most important newspaper competition in the world. The winners should be presented in a decent manner in a golden moment of joy! In this respect the SND could learn from SNDS. Superman don’t need no seat belt. Muhammad Ali The presentation of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award was executed with much more style and glamour. Harris Siegel was the well deserved receiver of the prize. Over the years many Scandinavian judges in the Syracuse competitions have met this bandana-clad and charismatic superman who gave all he got at explaining, conducting and driving the judges through page after page

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and decision after decision. Besides that he is an excellent designer of enthusiastic sports pages and eventdriven city guide journalism. My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world. Muhammad Ali A final speech was made by Stefan Knapp – the German chairman of the next SND conference in Frankfurt, September 2014. Knapp proclaimed with fine self-irony that Germans are very funny – and he got his big laugh from the audience. Knapp finally handed over a handful of balloons in the national colors – yellow, red and black – to the newly elected SND Chairman David Kordalski. Since David is a heavyweight in thought but small in stature he floated away like a butterfly! Hopefully we’ll see him sting like a bee in Frankfurt. To stay in the rhetorics of the Greatest – Muhammad Ali. n

www.snd.org At the Society for News Design website you can: » Download the 2013 Call for Entries. » Learn about the Competition and how it is run. » Contact us with any questions you may have. Medal-winning publications in the 2012 competition include: Dagens Nyheter • Die Zeit • Politiken • The Grid • Welt am Sonntag • The Washington Post • Gulf News • The (London) Times • Los Angeles Times • El (Lima) Comercio • The Denver Post • The Toronto Star • The National Post • The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer • El Correo • Politiken • Dziennik Polski • The Omaha World-Herald • Las Vegas Sun • Hartford Courant • South China Morning Post • The New York Times • Nación • The Buffalo News

Ellen Collier @ellen_collier is a student at Ball State University, a 2013 SNDF travel grant recipient, interactive tablet designer, and an avid fan of pizza rolls and Spongebob. Enjoy her retrospective video of the 2013 SND annual conference, featuring appearances and cameos by Rob Schneider, David Kordalski, Larry Buchanan, Melissa Angle, Jennifer Daniel, Ryan Hildebrandt, Michael Renaud, Chris Courtney, Michael Whitley and lifetime achievement award winner Harris Siegel. Ebit.ly/1944CXY

Søren Nyeland is head of design at the Danish newspaper Politiken, a three time winner of the SND World’s Best Designed Newspaper (2008, 2011, 2012).

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Newcomers From left to right: Vice President Anne Laitinen (FIN), President Flemming Hvidtfeldt (DK), and Lill Mostad (NO) are new members of the SNDS board.

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general assembly for SNDS elected Flemming Hvidtfeldt (Denmark) as the new president of SNDS for the next two years. He takes over from Anders Tapola (Sweden) who has been president since 2007. Anders Tapola continues as the Swedish member of the SNDS board. Flemming is a well-known man for SNDS since he has and still is heading the committee of the Best of Scandinavian News Design competition that is co-hosted by SNDS. “Having the same person as president for SNDS and chairman for the competition will improve the synergy between the conference and the competition, which we feel is needed,” says Flemming Hvidtfeldt. Flemming Hvidtfeldt is very aware that it is a challenging task he has taken in the ever-growing diverse media landscape. “Our main purpose is to ensure the sharing and knowledge of good news design in Scandinavia. That is our main foundation. But we are also aware that SNDS is challenged and we need to increase the knowledge of SNDS in a broader media production than has been the case so far,“ says Flemming Hvidtfeldt. The future SNDS also has exciting projects coming up in the near future. The design competition will soon start to take

entries. Both the print and the digital part of the competition will see many exciting changes (see pages 8–11). Next year’s conference is set to take place in Copenhagen October 9-10, and will have the theme “FUSION”. New board members The general assembly in Copenhagen also elected Anne Laitinen (Finland) as a new member of the board. She replaces Stefani Urmas. Anne Laitinen is the Design editor at Turun Sanomat, and describes herself as a “journalist and a print-lover-anda-believer”. At the moment, she is

SNDS Presidents 1985–1986 Per H. Bagstø (N) (interim) 1986–1988 Ernst Dernehl (S) 1989–1991 Børge T. Skovsende (DK) 1991–1993 Norvall Skreien (N) 1993–1996 Svenåke Boström (S) 1996–1997 Ulf Stambej (FIN) 1997–1999 Ole Munk (DK) 1999–2003 Pål André Berg (N) 2003–2007 Anna Östlund (S) 2007–2013 Anders Tapola (S) 2013– Flemming Hvidtfeldt (DK)

working on a major redesign process at Turun Sanomat. Previously, she has worked at the Finnish newspapers Kaleva and Keskisuomalainen. Anne Laitinen was elected Vice President at the board meeting 23 November 2013. Why is it important to be a member of SNDS, we asked her: “SNDS is a family-like group of very gifted colleagues. That’s quite something, since design-orientated people are so few at one’s workplace. Also, the SNDS congresses are worldfamous: very inspirational and educative. And fun”, Anne Laitinen says. Another relatively new member of the board is Lill Mostad from Frederiksstad Blad, Norway, who joined the board in May, replacing the previous Norwegian member Kristian Nilsen, who has moved to South America. The general assembly also said goodbye to Lars Andersson (Sweden), who decided to leave the board after having represented Sweden since 2007. Treasurer and business manager for SNDS is still Frank Stjerne (Denmark). A warm welcome onboard to the new members – and a heartfelt thank you for years of work in the board to the members who are leaving. Find contact info for all board members and the SNDS secretariat on page 2 in this magazine, and don’t forget to read the new president’s visions for the future on the back of the mag. –pryds

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Erik Ambjørn Jyllands-Posten Rådhuspladsen 37 DK-1785 København V erik.ambjorn@jp.dk Knud Refsing Andersen Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J knud.andersen@jp.dk Marianne Bahl Dagbladet Børsen Møntergade 19 DK-1014 København K mbah@borsen.dk Henrik Birkvig Danmarks Medie- og Journalisthøjskole Emdrupvej 72 DK-2400 København NV hbi@dgh.dk Kim Bjørn EB Interactive Rådhuspladsen 37 DK-1785 København V kim.bjoern@eb.dk Jørn Broch JydskeVestkysten Banegårdspladsen DK-6700 Esbjerg jbr@jv.dk Børn og Unge Blegdamsvej 124 D K-2100 København Ø mk@bupl.dk Lars Grarup Politiken Rådhuspladsen 37 DK-1785 København V lars.grarup@pol.dk Steen Hansen Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J steen.hansen@jp.dk Eva Rymann Hansen TV 2 Nyhederne, Denmark Rugaardsvej 25 DK-5100 Odense C evry@tv2.dk Ida K. Hermansen Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J ida.hermansen@jp.dk Agnete Holk Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J agnete.holk@jp.dk Anette Hyllested Fynske Medier Banegårdspladsen DK-5100 Odense C ahy@fyens.dk Brian Jensen Felde Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J brian.felde@jp.dk Brian Karmark Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J jk.soegaard@jp.dk Rina Kjeldgaard Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J rina.kjeldgaard@jp.dk Anders Krab-Johansen Børsen Møntergade 19 DK-1140 København K krab@borsen.dk Søren Larsen Pedersen Ekstra Bladet Rådhuspladsen 37 DK-1785 København V slp@eb.dk Mikkel Lund Ekstra Bladet Rådhuspladsen 37 DK-1785 København V mikkel.lund@eb.dk Ole Munk Ribergaard & Munk Grafisk Design Postboks 47, Ved Stationen 1 A DK-3060 Espergærde ole@ribmunk.dk Anne-Louise Møller Jyllands-Posten Rådhuspladsen 37 DK-1785 København V alm@jp.dk Søren Stidsholt Nielsen Fyns Amts Avis Sankt Nicolai Gade 3 DK-5700 Svendborg stidsholt@faa.dk Jan Nielsen Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J jan.nielsen@jp.dk Anders Nielsen Ekstra Bladet Rådhuspladsen 37 DK-1785 København V abni@eb.dk Søren Nyeland Politiken Rådhuspladsen 37 DK-1785 København V soren.nyeland@pol.dk Claus Nørregaard Politiken Rådhuspladsen 37 DK-1785 København V claus.norregaard@pol.dk Lotte Overgaard Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J lotte.overgaard@jp.dk Torben Pedersen Ringkjøbing Amts Dagblad St. Blichersvej 5 DK-6950 Ringkjøbing torp@de-bergske.dk Annelise Ploug Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J annelise.ploug@jp.dk Lars Pryds Tolstrup Pryds Grafisk Tegnestue Østerbrogade 158, 3. th DK-2100 København Ø pryds@mac.com Viggo L. Ravn Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J viggo.ravn@jp.dk Lars Refn Ingeniøren Trekronergade 26 DK-2500 Valby lr@ing.dk Maj Ribergård Ribergaard & Munk Grafisk Design Postboks 47, Ved Stationen 1 A DK-3060 Espergærde maj@ribmunk.dk Søren Rødkjær JydskeVestkysten Banegårdspladsen DK-6700 Esbjerg sor@jv.dk Frank Stjerne JP/Politikens Hus Rådhuspladsen 37 DK-1785 København V frank.stjerne@pol.dk Lone Sørensen Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J lone.soerensen@jp.dk Lisbeth Tolstrup Tolstrup Pryds Grafisk Tegnestue Østerbrogade 158, 3. th DK-2100 København Ø mamamanus@mac.com Stine Vikman Jyllands-Posten Rådhuspladsen 37 DK-1785 København V stine.vikman@jp.dk

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Norway Hildegunn Soldal DB Medialab AS PB 1184 sentrum N-0107 Oslo tor.kristian.flage@dagbladet.no Nina Kristin Abrahamsen Budstikka Billingstadsletta 17 N-1377 Billingstad nina.kristin.abrahamsen@budstikka.no Stine Andreassen Lokalavisa Hammerfestingen Strandgata 22 N-9600 Hammerfest stine@hammerfestingen.no Karl-Martin Bakke Frøyasgt. 16 N-1608 Fredrikstad karl-martin.bakke@ij.no Pål A. Berg Berg Media Hovlia 5 N-3490 Klokkarstua palanberg@mac.com Kjell Erik Berg Dagbladet PB 1184 sentrum N-0107 Oslo keberg@online.no Tom Helge Berglie Berglie A/S Arne Stangebyes Gate 18 N-1607 Frederikstad tom@berglie.no Sissel Bigset Sunnmørsposten Postboks 123 N-6001 Ålesund sissel.bigset@smp.no Arne Blix Adresseavisen Box 6070 N-7003 Trondhjem arne.blix@adresseavisen.no Kristin Bratlie Klar Tale Kongensgate 22, Pb.1180, sentrun N-0107 Oslo kristin@klartale.no Linn Marie Bratvold Verdens Gang P.O.Box 1185 Sentrum N-0107 Drammen linnmb@vg.no Rune Breiby Aftenposten Postboks 1, sentrum N-0051 Oslo rune.breiby@aftenposten.no Anne Brun Teft Design AS Akersgata 30, 0158 Oslo N-0158 Oslo brun.anne@gmail.com Tom Byermoen Verdens Gang/ Multimedia Postboks 1185, Sentrum N-0107 Oslo tom.byermoen@vg.no Trygve Ditmansen Dagens Næringsliv Oslo trygve.ditmansen@dn.no Arne Edvardsen Bergens Tidende Postboks 7240 N-5020 Bergen arne.edvardsen@bt.no Kjell Petter Eidsten Dagens Næringsliv Oslo kpe@dn.no Svendby Elisabeth Toftes gate 47 A N-0552 Oslo svendby@gmail.com Elisabeth Hamre Elliott Fiskeribladet FIskaren Bontelabo 2, 2. Etg. N-5003 Bergen elisabeth.elliott@fbfi.no Bjarne Dramdal Erichsen Dagens Næringsliv Grev Wedels Plass 9 N-0107 Oslo bjarne.erichsen@dn.no Claes Frisk VG Nett Postboks 1185, Sentrum N-0107 Oslo claes.frisk@vg.no Erlend Fristad Vårt Land Postbox 1180, sentrum N-0107 Oslo erlendfri@vl.no Signe Fæø Vårt Land Postbox 1180, sentrum N-0107 Oslo signef@vartland.no Tone Gilje Stavanger Aftenblad Postboks 229 N-4001 Stavanger tone.gilje@aftenbladet.no Heidi Grotle Bergens Tidende Postboks 7240 N-5013 Bergen heidi.grotle@bt.no Annette Lysberg Gundersen Trønder-Avisa AS P.B. 2590 N-7738 Steinkjer annette.gundersen@t-a.no Jan Gundersen Verdens Gang P.O.Box 1185 Sentrum N-0107 Oslo jan.gundersen@vg.no Øystein Hage Fiskaren Bontelabo 2, 2. Etg. N-5003 Bergen oystein.hage@fbfi.no Per Chr. Helme Nyhetsgrafikk.no Postboks 7108, St. Olavs Plass N-0130 Oslo pch@nyhetsgrafikk.no Knut Hjortland Bergens Tidende Postboks 7240 N-5020 Bergen knut.hjortland@bt.no Kari Hovde Adresseavisen ASA Trondheim Kari.hovde@adresseavisen.no Walter Jensen Bergens Tidende Postboks 7240 N-5020 Bergen walter.jensen@bt.no Britt E. Johansen Adresseavisen Box 6070 N-7003 Trondhjem britt.eirin.johansen@adresseavisen.no Connie Johnsen Agderposten Østregate 5, boks 8 N-4801 Arendal connie@agderposten.no Rebekka Joswig Vårt Land Postbox 1180, sentrum N-0107 Oslo rebekka@vl.no Tone Jørstad Aftenposten Postboks 1, sentrum N-0051 Oslo tone.jorstad@aftenposten.no Kristin Knudsen Sunnmørsposten Boks 123 N-6001 Ålesund kik@smp.no Reidar Kristiansen Vårt Land Postbox 1180, sentrum N-0107 Oslo reidark@vl.no Njaal Kværnes Østerdølen PB 125 N-2480 Koppang nkvaerne@online.no

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Michael Ahlberg Hallandsposten Fiskaregatan 21 S-30181 Halmstad michael.ahlberg@hallandsposten.se Magnus Alselind Expressen Gjörwellsgatan 30 S-10516 Stockholm magnus.alselind@expressen.se Pelle Anderson A4 Bondegatan 21 S-116 33 Stockholm pelle@a4.se Lars Andersson Upsala Nya Tidning Box 36 S-75651 Uppsala lars.andersson@unt.se John Bark Bark Design AB Vildkattsvägen 10 S-133 36 Saltsjöbaden jbarkdesign@gmail.com Petter Bjerregaard Sydsvenskan S-20505 Malmö petter.bjerregaard@sydsvenskan.se Svenåke Boström Boström Design & Utveckling AB Ankdammsgatan 9 S-171 43 Solna svenake.bostrom@gmail.com Knut Brunnberg Svenska Dagbladet Västra Järnvägsgatan 21 S-10517 Stockholm Knut.Brunnberg@SvD.se Dan Edström Expressen Gjörwellsgatan 30 S-10516 Stockholm dan.edstrom@expressen.se Mikael Eklund Barometern Södra Långgatan 33 S-391 88 Kalmar mikael.eklund@barometern.se Eva Engwall Helsingborgs Dagblad S-251 83 Helsingborg eva.engwall@hd.se Elisabeth Eriksson Södermanlands Nyheter S-61179 Nyköping elisabeth.eriksson@sn.se Göran Forsberg Expressen Gjörwellsgatan 30 S-10516 Stockholm goran.forsberg@expressen.se Harry Gerd Stampen Polhemsplatsen 5 S-405 02 Göteborg harry.gerd@mbvk.se Philip Gunnari Expressen Gjörwellsgatan 30 S-10516 Stockholm philip.gunnari@expressen.se Lasse Hansson Barometern Södra Långgatan 33 S-391 88 Kalmar lars.hansson@barometern.se Linda Häggström Svenska Dagbladet S-105 17 Stockholm linda.haggstrom@svd.se John Hällström Upsala Nya Tidning Box 36 S-751 03 Uppsala john.hallstrom@unt.se Gun Britt Iderheim Smålandsposten/Sydostpress S-351 70 Växjö gun-britt.iderheim@smp.se Jörgen Jonasson Dagens Nyheter S-105 15 Stockholm jorgen.jonasson@dn.se Niclas Lagerstedt Dagens Nyheter S-105 15 Stockholm lena.goransson@dn.se Mikael Larsson Ek Barometern-OT Södra Långgatan 33 S-391 88 Kalmar mikael.larsson-ek@barometern.se Lena Lilliehorn Östgöta Correspondenten S-58 189 Linköping lena.lillehorn@corren.se Kicki Linna Norrbottens-Kuriren Robertsviksgatan 5 S-971 81 Luleå Maria Nilsson Kristianstad Bladet Box 537 S-29135 Kristianstad maria.nilson@kristianstadsbladet.se Cilla Nilsson Helsingborgs Dagblad Vasatorpsvägen 1 S-25183 Helsingborg cilla.nilsson@hd.se Alexander Odelius Odelius New Media AB Svartmangatan 9 S-111 29 Stockholm alex@odelius.se Jesper Odelius Odelius New Media AB Svartmangatan 9 S-111 29 Stockholm jesper@odelius.se

Martin Olsson Värmlands Folkblad Box 67 S-651 03 Karlstad martin.olsson@vf.se Åsa Pallarp Beckman Upsala Nya Tidning Box 36 S-751 03 Uppsala asa.pallarp-beckman@unt.se Markus Pedersson Barometern Södra Långgatan 33 S-391 88 Kalmar anders.enstrom@barometern.se Lotta Petersson Berling Press AB Box 22543 S-10422 Stockholm lotta.petersson@kyrkanstidning.se Jenny Rydqvist Sydsvenskan S-20505 Malmö jenny.rydqvist@sydsvenskan.se Lena Samuelson Svenska Dagbladet S-105 17 Stockholm lenak.samuelsson@svd.se Coralic Sanjin Stampen Polhemsplatsen 5 S-405 02 Göteborg sanjin.coralic@mbvk.se Claes Sjödin Dagens Nyheter S-105 15 Stockholm claes.sjodin@dn.se Anders Tapola Smålandsposten/Sydostpress S-351 70 Växjö anders.tapola@smp.se Lisa Thanner Göteborgs-Posten Polhemsplatsen 5 S-40502 Göteborg lisa.thanner@gp.se Clas Thorensson Upsala Nya Tidning Box 36 S-75103 Uppsala clas.thorensson@unt.se Anna W. Thurfjell Anna Thurfjell Design AB Torsvägen 28 B, S-137 70 Dalarö / Vordingborggade 6 F. 41, DK- 2100 København Ø, Danmark anna@annathurfjelldesign.se

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Endre Maurstad Lilletvedt Bergens Tidende Postboks 7240 N-5020 Bergen endre.lilletvedt@bt.no Ingrid Meisingset Adresseavisen Box 6070 N-7003 Trondhjem ingrid.meisingset@adresseavisen.no Lill Mostad Mediehuset Østfold Boks 4458, Vika N-8606 MO RANA lill.mostad@f-b.no Kristoffer Nilsen Etterstadsletta 55b N-0660 Oslo kristoffer@saftogvann.com Sigmund Nordal Dagbladet PB 1184 sentrum N-0107 Oslo sno@ dagbladet.no Torry Pedersen VG Multimedia Postboks 1185, Sentrum N-0107 Oslo torry.pedersen@vg.no Alf Roar Rasmussen Aftenposten Postboks 1 51 Oslo alfroar@aftenposten.no Nils Kr. Reppen Nyhetsgrafikk.no postboks 7108 St. Olavs Plass N-0130 Oslo nkr@nyg.no Kristin Rosnes Holte Vårt Land Postboks 1180, sentrum N-0107 Oslo kristinr@dn.no Tore Sevheim Dagens Næringsliv Oslo tore.sevheim@gmail.com Grytøyr Simen Verdens Gang P.O.Box 1185 Sentrum N-0107 Oslo simeng@vg.no Lars Inge Skrede Sunnmørsposten Pb 123 N-6007 Ålesund lars.inge.skrede@smp.no Øystein Skribeland Stavanger Aftenblad Postboks 229 N-4001 Stavanger oystein.skribeland@aftenbladet.no Anneli Solberg Bergens Tidende Postboks 7240 N-5020 Bergen anneli.solberg@bt.no Audun Solberg Verdens Gang P.O.Box 1185 Sentrum N-0107 Oslo audun.solberg@vg.no Torfinn Solbrekke Teft Design AS Akersgata 30, N-0158 Oslo torfsolb@gmail.com Christian Fr. Stabell Os og Fusa-Posten Postboks 272 N-5201 Os christian.stabell@ogogfusa.no Jarle Stanes Hallingdölen N-3570 Ål bjarne.tormodsgard@hallingdolen.no Yngve Steensæth Bergens Tidende Postboks 7240 N-5020 Bergen yngve.steensaeth@bt.no Mads Størdal Vegstein Vårt Land Postbox 1180, sentrum N-0107 Oslo mads@vl.no Kjersti Svalland Stavanger Aftenblad Postboks 229 N-4001 Stavanger kjersti.svalland@aftenbladet.no Ole Sylte Dagbladet Postboks 1184, sentrum N-0107 Oslo osy@dagbladet.no Caroline Teinum Vårt Land Radarveien 61 N-1152 Oslo carolinetei@vl.no Bjarne Tormodsgard Hallingdølen Hovesvingen N-3570 ÅL bt@hallingdolen.no Henrik Ulrichsen Tønsbergs Blad Postboks 33 N-3101 Tønsberg henrik.ulrichsen@tb.no Bjørnar Valdal Dagens Næringsliv/D2 Postboks 1182 Sentrum N-0107 Oslo bjornar.valdal@dn.no Nils Vik D2 Chr. Kroghsgate 16, PB. 1182 Sentrum 102 Oslo nils.vik@dn.no Anne Vinding NRK PB 8500, Majorstuen N-0340 Oslo anne.vinding@nrk.no Øyvind Winding-Stavseth Tønsbergs Blad Postboks 2003 N-3103 Tønsberg oyvind.winding-stavseth@tb.no

SNDS Magazine 2013|4 The President

Challenging times SNDS President Flemming Hvidtfeldt fhvidtfeldt@yahoo.dk n How do we develop an organization like Society for News Design Scandinavia in an ever developing world and media landscape, where more and more mediahouses are changing from print to web in different formats? In fact, I shouldn’t write media houses. It is the customers who are changing their behaviors. What the traditional media houses are doing is trying to keep up with the pace of change among people. And until now they haven’t succeeded very well. This is the same challenge that SNDS is facing. We have been facing it for quite a while. Now’s the time to do something about it.

As an organization who wants to exist for the benefit of good design and in fact also for good and relevant journalism we are challenged. The foundation we have been building on since our start more than 25 years ago is erupting. We will not exist a decade from now if we do not develop. If we do not think of new ways of how we can be relevant, interesting and inspirational for the members. The profile of a member in the coming years is not the same as it was ten or twenty years ago. In fact it will be different people. It will be very – in the traditional eyes – different people with different skills. It will not only be journalists, copy editors, editors and print designers. We should have information architects, web developers, web designers and magazine designers among our members as well. And maybe even other people with other skills. On top of this we have to bear in mind, that we will not survive without new ideas, new ways of thinking and new ways of offering deals relevant

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and inspirational to the members. Not only the members today, but to the members to come. We have started our journey into the future in order to secure the future of Society for News Design Scandinavia. We are developing the competition. The web part of the competition has been growing in the last three years, and we have now included the national broadcasting companies in the web competition. I hope that even more media companies will participate in the digital competition in the years to come. We also have made quite a few major changes in the digital categories in order to get more entries to the competition. But it is up to us – all of us – to secure that. Furthermore, this year we are inviting Scandinavian and Finnish media houses, who publish weekly and monthly magazines, to participate in the print competition. A special category is developed for these entries. At this point, ten months before the annual conference is to be held, we are ready with parts of the program which – hopefully – will attract new visitors. So the members of the board are working on getting a new start. But it’s not enough. We have to broaden our perspective even more. And for that I and the whole board need your help. We need your inspiration, your ideas, your input to the work of becoming more modern and more relevant to as many people as possible, so we all have an organization that’s relevant to the members. Feel free to e-mail any suggestions to me or one of the members of board. It will be highly appreciated.