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SNDS16 in pictures 24–34 The Editor: The best part of the day 3 “That calls for a drawing” 4 Welcome to three new SNDS board members 6 Past President Anders Tapola: SNDS is the place to be 8 The Ten Commandments of Longform Storytelling on the Web 12 Behind the scenes in SNDS for more than 20 years 16 A redesign of the printed newspaper? Really? 21 Great diversity at SNDS16 24 The Norwegians take it all 28 SNDS members 2016–2017 35 Call for entries: Best of Scandinavian News Design 2017 38

SNDS MAGAZINE

SNDS BOARD

President & Chairman of the Competition Committee Flemming Hvidtfeldt Stentoften 72 DK-9520 Skørping 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

Annette Lysberg Gundersen Trønder-Avisa Postbox 2590 N-7738 Steinkjer, Norway +47 90 50 95 10 annette.gundersen@t-a.no

Linda Häggström Svenska Dagbladet SE-105 17 Stockholm, Sweden linda.haggstrom@svd.se

Tarmo Rajamets Ekspress Meedia AS Eesti Ekspress Narva mnt 13 EE-10151 Tallinn Estonia tarmo.rajamets@ ekspressmeedia.ee

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Co-editor, Journalist DJ Lisbeth Tolstrup +45 51 32 89 62 tolstrup@pryds.com SNDS Magazine editorial office Østerbrogade 158, 3. TH., DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark ISSN 1901-8088

WWW.SNDS.ORG Business Manager, Treasurer Frank Stjerne Suomisvej 1 st th DK-1927 Frederiksberg C Denmark +45 40 10 28 30 frank.stjerne@gmail.com

Editor, Art Director MD Lars Pryds +45 30 53 87 14 pryds@mac.com

SUBSTITUTES FOR THE BOARD Björn Heselius, Finland John Hällström, Sweden åvard Holten, Norway Kim Bjørn, Denmark

SNDS Magazine is set in Real Text and Museo Slab and designed in Adobe Indesign CC. SNDS Magazine is published in March, August and November.

Editorial and advertising deadlines: February 15, July 15, October 15.

Published by SNDS – the Society for News Design Scandinavia

Web-editor Kartin Hansen Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J, Denmark +45 87 38 38 38 / 31 07 kartin.hansen@jp.dk

www.snds.org

SNDS on Facebook: facebook.com/sndscandinavia

SNDS SECRETARIAT SNDS on twitter: @sndstwit

Lone Jürgensen Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J, Denmark +45 87 38 38 38 / 31 08 lone.jurgensen@jp.dk

ON THE COVER

SNDS Magazine: www.snds.org/magazine

October 2016, SNDS16, Malmö: Gunn Magni Galaaen, Culture and Magazine Editor, and Annette Lysberg Gundersen, Head of Design, of Trønder-Avisa (N) celebrate winning a Gold Award in the Best of Scandinavian News Design 2016 competition. The award was given in the Magazines category (print) for an article about refugees in the Mediterranean.

“Great photographic storytelling enhanced by a great layout”, the jury said.

Photo by Søren Stidsholt Nielsen.

See more p. 24–33.

THANKS A big thank you to our contributors in this issue: Stinne Andreasen stinne.andreasen@k.dk Kim Schou schou@k.dk Søren Stidsholt Nielsen sosn@faa.dk Anders Tapola anders.tapola@smp.se Lars Aarø la@fokus-foto.dk – & MORE THANKS goes to Linda Häggström and Anna W. Thurfjell for background info for the SvD article

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The best part of the day You’re my best friend you shared my crazy ways, Now we don’t want to miss out on the best part of the day – Elton John & Leon Russel 1

Are you ready for a big one? This issue of SNDS Magazine is the biggest ever: 40 pages packed with great stuff – from news about your organization and inspirational stuff for you to use in your daily life as a professional media worker. These are our basic aims – info and inspiration.

Size comes at a price, however, and the price is: no print version. Like the rest of the news business, SNDS is under pressure. For strictly economic reasons, the SNDS leadership has decided that this issue will be a digital-only magazine. We know that many of you will miss holding a physical mag in your hands (we will, too) but this is a necessary step.

But don’t worry – SNDS Magazine will be back in print in the new year. However, there will be only three issues each year from 2017 onwards – a decision made by the SNDS board at the meeting in October.

One of the main goals for the SNDS board will be to improve the economy. YOU can help – spread the word to get your friends and colleagues to sign up as members. If you’re not sure if he or she is already a member, check out the list of members on page 35–37. If you need arguments or proof that SNDS is alive and kicking, just forward this magazine so they can see for themselves.

IN THE MAG THIS TIME

1 From “The Best Part of the Day”, written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin.

Performed by Elton John and Leon Russel on the album The Union, Mercury Records 2010, produced by T Bone Burnett.

Because we do have a lot of proof of this. Our cover, for starters, shows the joy of winning a Gold Award, presented to Trønder-Avisa (N) at the Award Show and Gala Dinner in Malmö. The competition is organized by SNDS and the Scandinavian publishers’ organisations – and there are many more winners on page 28–34.

If you could not make it to Malmö this year, we give you a glimpse of what was in the SNDS16 programme – fourteen speakers from all over the world gave inspired presentations about topics like editorial design in the future, infographics, and how to find the “stairway to prize winning heaven”. See more on page 24–27.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

The reference to the Holy Bible in Kim Schou and Stinne Andreasen’s article (page 12–15) is no coincidence. They

create award-winning longform storytelling for k.dk, website of the Danish Christian daily Kristeligt Dagblad.

In November, Kim Schou received this year’s DONA Award – the ‘Oscar’ of online journalism in Denmark, presented by the Danish Online News Association – for exactly the kind of storytelling described in their Ten Commandments. So if you follow these guidelines, you should be on safe – if not exactly holy – grounds.

At Svenska Dagbladet (S) they have faith in the future of news – even in print. “The printed paper is one of our main products,” says CEO Gunilla Asker. So SvD is relaunching the paper in early 2017. Read more, including an outline of the recent redesigns of SvD, on page 21–23.

HELLOS AND GOODBYES

We say hello and welcome three new members of the board – Annette Lysberg Gundersen from Trønder-Avisa (N), Linda Häggström, SvD (S) – and Tarmo Rajamets from Eesti Ekpress, Estonia, the latter representing the Baltic countries, now officially part of SNDS after a change of the bylaws, carried through at the General Assembly, giving the Baltics a seat in the board (page 6–7).

We say goodbye to a couple of good ‘ambassadeurs’ of SNDS ideas and values: Anders Tapola (S) is leaving the board after an unbroken period of 13 years, of which six (2007–2013) have been as SNDS President. We thank Anders for his work for the organization by showing a very small glimpse of it, taken from previous articles in SNDS Magazine and from the archives (page 8–11).

For more than 20 years, Søren Stidsholt Nielsen (DK) has been a member of SNDS, continuously working behind the scenes. Jury member, competition committee member, ‘staff photographer’ at the SNDS conferences – and much more. Retiring from the competition committee, Søren looks back at great days in the service of the organization. Read our interview on page 16–20.

Finally, this will be the last issue with me as editor.

For exactly 11 years (44 issues) I have been part of producing this magazine – the first 18 issues with Jørgen Høg as the editor and for the remaining 26 as editor myself, with Lisbeth Tolstrup as my never failing co-editor. 44 issues, who could not have been possible without all you friends and colleagues out there, who unselfishly and in the name of exchange have shared your words, pictures, thoughts and ideas with our loyal readers. I cannot thank you enough for this. Building this network with people all over the world truely has been the best part of the day, and I hope we will meet again out there soon.

Last but not least: A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. See you in 2017.  Lars Pryds Editor, SNDS Magazine

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Metro, Brasil Libération, France

Hamburger Morgenpost, Germany

Tampa Bay Times, US

Der Spiegel, Germany Aftenposten, Norway

“That calls for a drawing”  In November, the American people

elected their new president, Donald Trump, who will move into the White House in January 2017. Most printed newspapers chose to show a large photo of the victorious Trump on their front pages – none, however, as elegantly as the French Libération, who showed a dark photo with only light on Trump’s hair and hand and the headline, “American Psycho”.

Quite a few editors turned to their art department (or freelance illustrators) for a more creative solution for the cover.

Here’s a few of the best we could find – from Aftenposten’s Trump as a Globe,

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obviously inspired by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch’s world famous painting “Skriket” (the Scream), to the Brazilian Metro’s illustration of “The Wall” – paraphrasing the design for the iconic –pryds 1979 Pink Floyd album.

More Trump cover pages Newseum – Today’s Front Pages Archives (November 9, 10, 11):  bit.ly/newseumarchives Mario García, on The Daily Blog:  bit.ly/garcia-trump The Guardian, Trump’s Victory in pictures:  bit.ly/guardian-trump

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Welcome to three new SNDS board members The annual General Assembly of SNDS, held in connection with the SNDS16 conference in Malmö, unanimously decided to change of the bylaws to include a board member from the Baltic countries, as announced in SNDS Magazine and on SNDS.org last year*. Members who attended the General Assembly also welcomed three new members on the board: Annette Lysberg Gundersen from Trønder-Avisa, Norway; Linda Häggström, Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden; and Tarmo Rajamets from Eesti Ekpress, Estonia. We asked the three new members to tell a bit about themselves.

Annette Lysberg Gundersen A few words about your background in the news business?

I have worked in the newspaper business as a graphic designer all my career. For ten years now I have worked for Trønder-Avisa and has been the Head of Design for the last six.

How do you see the role of SNDS as an organization in the future?

SNDS needs to keep promoting good news design. Especially now. We all know that the media industry are in a turbulent state, and we need to be on top of things. I have always believed that good design is important to get the message across on all platforms, it gives you identity and we owe it to our readers to deliver good products.

SNDS is a venue for the industry to meet and to monitor what is happening in newsrooms around Scandinavia and the Baltics. This is an import-

ant task SNDS continues to have in the feature.

What are you most looking forward to as member of the SNDS board?

I have been a member of SNDS for a long time, but now I get to learn how it works on the inside.

This will be inspiring, and I look forward to the meetings and next year’s SNDS conference.

Linda Häggström A few words about your background in the news business?

I’m currently Design and UX lead at Svenska Dagbladet.

Since 2004 I have had several different roles at Svenska Dagbladet: sub-editor, design editor, head of subeditors etc.

PHOTO BY LARS AARØ

What exciting projects are you working with at the moment?

Trønder-Avisa is in the middle of a big project, cooperating with the media companies Polaris Media Nord-Norge and Polaris Media Nordvestlandet. We are developing a common editorial system for

newspaper production, based on one database. 28 news­ papers will be using Newscycle Content and the same templates, choosing between two different designs. The project is to be completed in april 2017.

New SNDS board member Linda Häggström (with camera) also served as a jury member for this year’s Best of Scandinavian News Design competition. From the jury work in Billund, February 2016.

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I have spent most of my time on a range of development projects – three overall print redesigns, all the new supplements and the latest redesign of SvD.se to name a few. Since 2014, I’m also part of Business Development and the digital team, yet still engaged in print.

Jury member in the Best of Scandinavian News Design competition 2016.

What exciting projects are you working with at the moment?

As Project Manager I’m working on a redesign of Svenska Dagbladet. We’re having a lot of fun and besides great design from Ebba Bonde we’re making the production of it a lot smarter.

How do you see the role of SNDS as an organization in the future?

Most of my friends in and around SNDS are alone in their line of work at their workplaces. The organization gives me and us a rare chance to be with colleagues even though we’re in different companies.

I strongly believe we can help and improve creativity in the news rooms by showing how much of it we have among our members.

What are you most looking forward to as member of the SNDS board?

Same as the above – find and channel creativity in my own paper as well as in others.

PHOTO BY SØREN STIDSHOLT NIELSEN

 Tarmo Rajamets and Annette Lysberg Gundersen are new members of the SNDS board.

Tarmo Rajamets A few words about your background in the news business?

I started working as a layout designer for a small newspaper called Liivimaa Kroonika back in 1991. It was a wild time in the Estonian society and even more so in the news business. Working in a newspaper was a crazy rollercoaster ride back then. Among other things, it involved designing the paper in a winter coat and mittens (because the temporary office rooms were so cold in January) and constantly spending the whole weekly paper work cycle without any sleep. Yeah, it was plenty of fun.

In the following years I’ve been working as a layout designer for various Estonian newspapers and magazines, also spent a couple of years in a prepress office. In 2001, I joined Eesti Ekspress, one of the most influential Estonian newspapers, and have been leading the paper version design team since 2009.

Back in 2010, as soon as iPad became a thing, we launched our tailor-made iPad news­ paper version which I was also involved in.

What exciting projects are you working with at the moment?

My main focus right now is a thorough redesign of Eesti Ekspress paper version, a project that has been on hold for some time now for various reasons. I still get distracted

by many smaller side-projects, as it usually tends to happen with such things.

important to me. Maybe in some other form in addition to the yearly conference, too.

How do you see the role of SNDS as an organization in the future?

What fascinates me the most about SNDS is the amount of ideas, the quality and thoroughness of the work presented by its members in the yearly design competition and the SNDS magazine. The ability to share the experience, ideas and overall high quality of news design are the main assets of SNDS, in my opinion. Whatever the future of the organization might look like, sharing ideas and experience should remain one of its main functions. It’s still an excellent way to reach out and keep in touch. So, maintaining the network of the people in the business seems

What are you most looking forward to as member of the SNDS board?

I hope to help with finding solutions to the problems standing in front of SNDS right now and getting the people from the Baltics more involved in the organization. The members of the board are very experienced but perhaps a fresh view from someone new could also be of some help.

* See “A great opportunity”, SNDS Magazine 4, 2015 p.32 and “SNDS is expanding”, snds.org/snds-is-expanding/

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PHOTO BY SØREN STIDSHOLT NIELSEN

 Among the duties of an SNDS President is the task of opening the annual design conference. Here, Anders Tapola gives the welcoming speech in Oulu, Finland 2009 – in his usual quiet, humoristic approach. Quite a contrast to the loud entertainment that followed a few minutes later on the same stage: The famous “Screaming Men’s Choir” – or as they are called in Finnish: Mieskuoro Huutajat.

SNDS is the right place to be Anders Tapola, SNDS President 2006–2013, has left the building. Or, to be correct, he has withdrawn from the SNDS board, where he served for 13 years. We asked him to look back – and a bit ahead, too.

1. What have been the best experience(s) in your years on the SNDS board?

First of all I have got to know so many amazing and talented news designers, not only from Scandinavia, but from all over the world. Our parent organization SND has also during the time I sat on the board, increasingly evolved into an international organization.

Secondly, I have learned a

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lot in my professional role. Not least by participating in the annual conferences that SND Scandinavia has organized.

Because, frankly, I think that SND Scandinavia has arranged seminars with significantly higher quality compared to our parent organization.

SND Scandinavia cooperates with the Nordic publishing organizations in organizing the annual competition. The

annual jury work has, as long as I can remember, taken place in Billund, Denmark during the winter. Once I had the great pleasure to be join and see how a jury works. On this occasion I saw the extremely high demands they put on the entries that will be rewarded.

2. Why should people working in the news business join SNDS?

Because SND Scandinavia is the only organization which for decades has highlighted the importance of good news and functional design. There simply is no other organization that can compete with SND Scandinavia. So if you want to know what’s going on, and want to meet extremely talented designers, this is the organization to choose to  become a member of.

PHOTO BY LARS PRYDS

PHOTO BY SØREN STIDSHOLT NIELSEN

 President at work: Painting at the 2011 Stockholm conference. With Alexander Schindler from Klar Tale (N).

PHOTO BY LARS PRYDS

 Stockholm, 2007: Newly elected SNDS President Tapola with Anna Östlund, SNDS President 2003–2007.

 Waiting in the Oulu airport 2009, with Lasse Andersson (S), SNDS board member in Tapola’s Presidency 2007–2013.

PHOTO BY ALEXEY KONKOW

 In 2008, Anders Tapola attended the annual conference in SND Russia, and gave a presentation about how Scandinavian news design had developed in the previous ten years, with Tapola’s own newspaper Smålandsposten as a starting point.

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PHOTO BY ROBB MONTGOMERY

 Continuity is important. Tapola talking with Per H. Baugstø (N), one of SNDS’ founders, at the 2010 Oslo conference.

PHOTO BY ANDERS TAPOLA

 As SNDS President, in Las Vegas Tapola accepted the “SND President’s Award for Excellence in Volunteerism”, given for the 2008 SNDS Copenhagen Crash conference.

 Anders Tapola loves graphic T-shirts – and is the owner of one from every city he has visited. Here’s the Las Vegas version – the ace of spades in SNDVegas-design.

PHOTO BY LARS PRYDS

 Friends from the US – left to right: Kyle Ellis, Susan and David Kordalski, Tapola, and Vanessa Wyse at the 2014 SNDS conference.

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PHOTO BY SØREN STIDSHOLT NIELSEN

 At the 2007 conference in Stocholm, the winner of the “Complete Dala Horse Makeover” competition won a trip to that year’s SND Workshop in Boston, US. As SNDS board member and soon-to-be SNDS President, Anders Tapola presented the award to the winners from Tønsbergs Blad (N). Left to right: John Hällström from the organising committee, Tapola, Arne Lysne chief-sub-editor at Tønsbergs Blad, and Anna Östlund, SNDS President.

Our members must be sure to lead the development Anders Tapola

3. How do you see the role of SNDS in the future, compared to the time when you joined the board back in 2003?

When I joined, focus was very much on the paper product, although the word ‘paper’ had been removed from the organization’s name a few years earlier.*) Since then SNDS has tried to become an organization for those working with news and news design regardless of platform. And the

digital platforms are developing rapidly. So our members, meaning those who really work as professionals with form and function, must be sure to lead the development.

*) Founded in 1979 and originally called “Society of Newspaper Design”, SND changed its name to “Society for News Design” in 1998.

The Scandinavian chapter SNDS, founded in 1985, also removed the word ‘paper’ in its name in 1998.

Anders Tapola 1998–present Design Editor, Smålands­posten, Växjö, Sweden 2001 Joins SNDS as a member, attends his first SNDS conference in Tampere 2003–2007 SNDS Board member, responsible for conferences 2007–2013 SNDS President 2013–2016 SNDS Board member

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The Ten Commandment Longform  1.  The most popular category in the online part of SNDS’ design competition is – by far – the storytelling category. This is long articles or stories where publishers like to show off and tend to truly create new and exciting content through a mix of text, images, interactives, sound and video.

Kim Schou has twice been a member of the digital jury and is an experienced producer of longform journalism for the web.

Stinne Andreasen is his editor. Their works have received multiple design awards and they have taught at schools and conferences.

Here are their ten rules for creating great online storytelling Text by Kim Schou and Stinne Andreasen schou@k.dk stinne.andreasen@k.dk

Thou shalt have no other gods before The Story. I’m sorry, but your cool visuals, your nicely animated interactive graphics or even your superbly edited and scored little video

don’t mean much unless they are there to help tell

The Story. In fact, all that bling-bling can distract me from the flow of The Story and that makes for terrible Storytelling. The

Story

is Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. If The Story sucks, all your cool design and coding is for  “The Danish Song Turns 90” started as a normal news paper article and was turned in to a song text. A choir sang the article and that recording was played back as karaoke. Pretty unique digital story­ telling, right?

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naught.

 “A Banished Priest Became the People’s Pope”: Classic online story­ telling where animations, graphics and photos lifts a well written piece.

ts of Storytelling on the Web  2. 

 3. 

 4. 

 5. 

Thou shalt not Thou shalt not make a newspaper make me think article for the web. about navigation.

Thou shalt keep it elegant and clean.

Less is more and you know it.

Thou shalt not forget where the devil resides. Yeah,

A newspaper article can

Here’s your web page. Does

But how easy we forget

I’m sure you know this one

(traditionally) be shortened

the user press play to begin?

when we can mix text, video,

too: The bad boy with the

from the end. All the important

Should he or she just scroll?

images, animations, sound etc.

funny fork lives in the details.

stuff is stated in the beginning.

When it comes to nav-

Just because you can does not

Wow me with great images

Surprises along the way are

igation; be 100% clear

mean you should; sensory

and big headline, sure, but to

not a goal. But they are in long-

and precise. Don’t change

overload is not a virtue

truly impress: remember

form storytelling on the web.

direction along the way; don’t

(unless it serves The Story).

You want to keep your

go from a scroll to swipe or

like an inventive play-button,

users interested all the

some such €%&/! This is UX

a slight animation in a quote or

way to the end of The

design 101. And still, you’d

perhaps a handwritten byline.

Story. The best way to do

be surprised how often the

Details. They are important.

that is typically not classical

navigation is unclear in long-

news reporting standards but

form storytelling on the web.

the subtle details

more classical storytell-

ing: Use dramatic structure, character arcs, acts and, yes, surprises along the way - both in the writing and in the audio/ visual effects. Stick to the

truth – you are a journalist – but study film, fairy tales,

theater, video games and comic books to become a

The bad boy with the funny fork lives in the details

better storyteller.

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 “The Life of Esther was Dependent on the Loss of Another”: The story of a young girl with cancer who had a liver transplant. A mix of video, private and professional photos that would slowly fade in on scroll amplified the impact of this story without calling too much attention to the special effects.

 6. 

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 8. 

 9. 

Thou shalt know why it should be a longform multimedia and/ or interactive production. For one

Thou shalt steal.

Creatively. You can be

Thou shalt drama­ tize exposition.

Thou shalt keep it exciting. Every para-

creative by stealing creatively;

Sure, stating the facts is key

graph, every chapter, every

that’s a Jim Morrison quote,

in journalism. But as long

picture and stated fact, every

and so it must be true. Don’t

as it doesn’t distract from

caption, every ad and every

copy, but please honor,

The Story why not fight

interactive. We are dealing with

thing your editor sure is going

study, transform and

boredom and do it with a

long form storytelling. If you

to ask. If you have a great

remix everyone else’s good

cool graphic, a short music

are telling your readers

Story with awesome pictures,

work.

video or a quick quiz? In other

a long story and expect

words …

them to read it all the

that’s nice. But it doesn’t necessarily mean you have the

way to the end, you have

material for a special feature

better keep it exiting. All.

requiring extra coding and

The. Way. To. The. End.

planning. There has to be

more to it. Standard article templates are good for most journalism and storytelling (or they should be). These types of stories are a lot more work

and time consuming so they better have a good financial (there, I said it) and/ or public service reason to be. Also, you don’t want to

flatten the impact of this type of special productions.

You need to keep a very high standard.

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Why not fight boredom and do it with a cool graphic, a short music video or a quick quiz?

 10.  Thou shalt dare to break these 10 commandments and all other rules.

Experiment. Tell your story backwards, make it a handwritten letter or a list of poems, make it a quote machine or a sing-a-long article (we’ve done

all of these silly things). Make it fun to spend time on, keep on surprising. And sometimes that means … break

the

rules. 

 “12 Girls From All Over the World: These are our Dreams, Hopes and Struggles”. Young girls from all over the world told us about their daily lives and their dreams. Their widely different stories told by several different journalists were connected through a colorful but actually very strict use of visual elements and animations.

Kim Schou is a member of the digital jury of SNDS. He is the Digital Content Producer and Narration Designer for Kriste­ligt Dagblad. Winner of the DONA Award 2016. Kim has a background in film and comic book editing and has worked for several years as a journalist. In 2013 Kim and Stinne produced the very first longform multimedia journalism in Denmark. Check out their work at  k.dk/specialhistorier

Stinne Andreasen is the Digital Editor of Kristeligt Dagblad, k.dk, and responsible for the content of longform stories on the web. She has been an editor at Berlingske and has worked as a journalist for several years.

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Behind the scenes in SNDS for more than 20 years He has been in the news business since the days of lead type. He has been part of almost every technological change in the production of newspapers and news, from Linotype typesetters, paste-up photosetting, the early Macintosh computers and the arrival of the internet.

Alongside all this, Søren Stidsholt Nielsen has also been working behind the scenes in SNDS for more than 20 years 

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 Preparing the winning pages to be photographed is a time-consuming task – especially when the content is so interesting that you begin to actually read the articles. Photo by Lars Aarø

Behind the scenes …

Text by Lars Pryds pryds@mac.com  Søren Stidsholt Nielsen,

former Managing Editor at Fyns Amts Avis, Svendborg (DK) joined SNDS back in 1996, when he was asked to be a member of the “Best Nordic Newspapers” jury. The competition had launched the previous year under the leadership of Børge T. Skovsende, Managing Editor at Jyllands-Posten and former SNDS President (1989–91).

Also a juror in the two years that followed, Nielsen headed the Redesign category for 1998 and observed: “Well, who is the most farsighted in Scandinavia? In my opinion, the Swedes are – closely followed by the Norwegians and the Finns. I am afraid that I as a Dane have to admit that – so far – we are best at women’s team handball”. The

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Danish national women’s team had won the world Championship in 1997, as well as gold medals in the Olympic Games the year before.

IN THE COMMITTEE

In 1999 Nielsen became a member of the competition committee, since then involved in every competition until now, primarily for the print categories. This means working behind the scenes with practical tasks such as opening envelopes with submitted entries for registration; laying out the physical pages for the jury to look at; selecting pages to be photographed for the catalogue – in short: facilitating the jury process. All this has been in cooperation with Lone Jürgensen (in the competition committee since 1997) and the competition chairmen – Børge T. Skovsende (1995–2001) and

Flemming Hvidtfeldt (2002– present).

“One of the great advantages of being in the competition committee is that you get to see so many pages,” Nielsen says.

“You actually get a broad impression of what goes on – design-wise – in Scandinavia and now also in the Baltic countries. Not least when all the entries are on the table, before the final selection of winners are made. And of course, one does not always agree with the judges’ choices – sometimes it has been with tears in my eyes I have had to throw great pages out. There’s a lot of especially small newspapers out there that put a lot of effort into their work but never win awards.”

DESIGN FAVOURITES

A few of his own personal favourites from the twenty

years, however, were award winners: The round Sunday supplement, shaped like and the size of a football, published

by Sydsvenskan on occasion of the opening of the Allsvenskan season – the Premier League of Swedish soccer.

The design won both a Gold Award and the Best of Show in 2005 – Nielsen still has a copy!

Also several entries from Politiken come to his mind: pages that play with the semi-transparency of newspaper stock, so to get the full story, you need to hold the page up to the light.

“Both these examples really exploit the possibilities of the printed media,” Nielsen explains, “this is something that is impossible to do on the web. It did cause some problems when we had to show the effect in the catalogue, however …”

PHOTOS BY LARS AARØ / SYDSVENSKAN, POLITIKEN

Nielsen’s favourite print award winners

 Sydsvenska Dagbladet (S) Gold Award & Best of Show, Sports Pages, 2006 “Word is round! A truely unique solution and format, which was bound to be loved by all football fans. Despite the difficult shape the supplement is readable, even when it played with the round shape inside. The idea is brilliant,” the jury said.

“I hope that newspapers will keep creating solutions like these to support the indepth reading on paper.”

“I’d also love to see more great sports pages – there are so many good photo opportunities in sports – as well as some of the huge infographics we saw a lot in the early years of the competition. Pages in which a complex object like for instance the Battleship Vasa has been drawn in the smallest detail, for people to study for a long time and learn from.

These infographics take a long time to produce, so maybe that is the reason why we don’t see them very often anymore.”

THE CONFERENCES

Competition Committee work does not stop when the juries have finished finding the winners. In SNDS, winners of the smaller awards (Excellence/Honourable Mention) are announced immediately after the jury work, whereas media nominated for a Gold or a Silver Award must wait until the annual SNDS conference to know which kind of award they have won.

This year, the conference was held in Malmö and was

 Politiken (DK) Gold Award, Front Pages, 2015 “The jury found this to be the most beautiful and most perfectly executed entry in this category.

This could certainly not have been made in any other media than a printed one,” the jury said.

To announce next year’s event with a bit of ‘bells and whistles’ is a great gimmick in an organization of creative people, and it makes you look forward to attend again one year later Søren Stidsholt Nielsen

narrowed down to one day.

Søren Stidsholt Nielsen thinks back to the days when the conference was a two- or three-day event, and when the location of the conference took turns in the Nordic countries, hosted by different media companies.

“It is always very inspiring to see what people are working with in other countries,” he says. “Earlier, the conference programme usually included visits to the hosting newspaper, where we saw newsrooms, met journalists and editors or – as at the Finnish newspaper Kaleva in Oulu (2009) – were given a tour of the media house’s art collection.”

ANNOUNCING NEXT YEAR

“The conferences were a combination of professional meetings and exchange of ideas, good experiences, and a lot of fun. It was also great fun to see what the following year’s hosts had come up with when they presented the theme for the following year.”

As example of this tradition, which has been absent in recent years due to the fact that there has not been a local media hosting the conference,

Nielsen mentions how one year the Norwegian hosts for the following year handed out a box of sardines to each participant in the conference – and in one of the boxes was a key. Eat fish, find the key, and you have won a free ticket to next year’s conference.

DALA HORSE MAKEOVER

Nielsen also sees the ‘Complete Dala Horse Makeover’ competition staged by Anna Östlund at the 2006 conference in Trondheim – where every participant in the conference was asked to turn a raw, wooden Dala Horse into a new version of the Swedish national symbol for the following year – as another example: “These are some of the things that we remember afterwards. And I actually still have one of the original, unpainted Dala horses from that time,” Nielsen says. “The different ways to announce next year’s event with a bit of ‘bells and whistles’ is a great gimmick in an organization of creative people, and it makes you look forward to attend again one year later.”

The results of the ‘Complete Dala Horse Makeover’ 

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were shown at an exhibition at the SNDS conference in 2007 – in Stockholm, of course – and the winner was found. 1) BEHIND THE CAMERA

If you have been to recent SNDS conferences as an award winner, chances are you have had your picture taken by Søren Stidsholt Nielsen. Another ‘duty’ of his as member of the competition committee has been to photograph the winners of Silver, Gold, and Best of Show Awards – to be published with the press release – also written by Nielsen.

So when happy winners celebrate and toast in champagne, Nielsen can be seen sitting at the gala dinner table editing images on his MacBook. (His photos from this year’s conference you will find on page 22–31, including a series from the speaker sessions).

LEAVING SHIP

This will, however, not be the case at future conferences.

Following his decision to retire after 25 years as Managing Editorand a total of 40 years a Fyns Amts Avis – which, by the way, this summer earned him “Dronningens Fortjenstmedal-

je med Krone” (Her Majesty the Queen’s decoration given for meritorious services) – he has also decided to retire from the competition committee.

“I no longer have a daily routine in a newsroom,” he says, “and therefore no daily contact with news design, although I still have a great interest in the area. I disembark with lots of great SNDS memories, both professional and social. When settling the score, I have enjoyed more than 20 years on end with competitions, conferences, magazines, books, press releases, photos, videos, jury work, General Assembly chairman duties, meetings with a lot of great people and much much more in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden.”

The maritime expression for leaving is no coincidence: Søren Stidsholt Nielsen’s other big love is – big ships. Although retired from his full time job, he keeps his journalistic reflexes warm by producing two weekly columns for Fyns Amts Avis – about the maritime world.

For “Søsiden” and “Koøjet” he writes, photographs, designs the pages, and shoots video and photos which are editied into small documentaries. 2)

He owns a boat, of course: a Bianca 27 named “Bianco”, registered in Rudkøbing Harbour, a stone’s throw from his home, but he has also taken several trips with the famous “STS Sedov” – the world’s largest sailing ship still in operation. On board “STS Sedov”, Nielsen has rounded Cape Horn twice – not forgetting to bring his trusted Leica camera to preserve the memory. 

Søren Stidsholt Nielsen Editor and maritime journalist at Fyns Amts Avis/ Jysk-Fynske Medier, Svendborg (DK).

Managing editor and responsible for design at Fyns Amts Avis 1987– 2012. During this period, Fyns Amts Avis won close to fifty national and international awards for design.

Writer’s note: Personally, I have had the great pleasure of Søren Stidsholt Nielsen’s company at jury sessions and SNDS conferences for more than ten years. I shall miss the many hours of hard work together, the fun dialogue, good wine, all our crude and inexplicable jokes. Thanks, Søren. Set your sails carefully for shifting winds out there.

Educated journalist, Danmarks Journalist­ højskole 1972.

Has been working with dailies since 1970 and has taken design courses at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Florida, the American Press Institute, Virginia, and the Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark in Copenhagen.

1) See Östlund, Anna: “31 nya Dalahäste til Sverige”. In: SNDS Magazine 1, 2007 (p.14–15).  bit.ly/sndsmag2007-1

Several lectures for students in Danish design-related educational institutes.

2) See e.g. Nielsen, Søren: “Med flyde-kæmpen Samson på job: 631 ton i 50 meters højde”(Fyns.dk)  bit.ly/631-ton

PHOTO BY SØREN S. NIELSEN

PHOTO BY LARS AARØ

Member of the SNDS Best of Scandinavian News Design competition jury from 1996 to 1998, and member of the competition committee 1999–2016.

Member of the jury of the Danish Newspaper Publishers’ Association’s (DDF) Newspaper Pages of the Year competition 2000–2016, chairman 2008–2012.

 Cape Horn on the starboard side of STS Sedov.

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PHOTO BY LARS PRYDS

 Playing around with spray mount –Søren Stids­ holt Nielsen and Lars Pryds in Billund, 2016.

 Covering the walls of Fyns Amts Avis are about 50 design awards won during the years Søren stidsholt Nielsen has been responsible design editor on the paper.

 Front page of the very first issue of Svenska Dagbladet – published on Saturday, 18 December 1884.

 Text is set tight and in large quantities on the cover of Svenska Dagbladet on Sunday, 2 May 1897, when a new nameplate is introduced – designed in Garamond.

A redesign of the printed newspaper, really?

Even though more and more choose to read Svenska Dagbladet digitally, the paper version is still a lot of readers’ first choice. Unlike many media corporations, SvD now takes the step to spend money and ressources to develop the “old” technology – the printed paper. The aim is to modernize the printed issue to meet the readers’ new media habits and coming needs Text by Lars Pryds pryds@mac.com Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) has a long tradition for great design.

In 2000, it was the first major daily newspaper in Sweden to switch from broadsheet to the tabloid format (“the most profound and daring change in 30 years of Scandinavian news design”, Ole Munk called it in Aviserat 1) and SvD’s history of winning multiple design awards in both Scandinavian and international competitions

includes the title of “World’s Best Designed Newspaper” by SND in 2004 as an all time high.

With this background there’s got to be high expectations to the new redesign, which the paper will launch in spring 2017.

“The printed paper is one of our main products. Together with the digital channels it fills an important function, both as a bearer of our journalism and as an important channel for our advertisers. It’s often the bridge into the digital world of

news,” says Gunilla Asker, CEO of SvD. It’s been nearly four years since SvD gave the printed issue a facelift, and a lot has happened since then, not least digitally, affecting how readers and advertisers use the product and how it is produced in the newsroom.

THE IDENTITY ISSUE

“With the new paper we want to create a packaged and pronounced feel, a higher contrast between the elements. We

also want to strengthen what’s unique for SvD – our colours, symbols and typography. And of course, connect the identity with the one on SvD.se and of our other digital products,” says editor-in-chief Fredric Karén.

Anna Thurfjell, Creative Director at SVD from 2003 to 2013, and responsible for major redesigns in 2004 and 2009, on both occasions stressed the fact that typography is key to a succesful newspaper  design. In an interview

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PHOTO BY STAFFAN LÖWSTEDT

 A new face at SvD: News designer and journalist Ebba Bonde from Ebba Bonde Grafisk Form, Stockholm, will design the new look for the print version of Svenska Dgbladet, expected to launch in the spring of 2017. Ebba Bonde was educated 1995–98 Beckmanns Designhögskola in Stockholm.

It is a challenge that is incredibly fun to take on together with the staff of Svenska Dagbladet Ebba Bonde

about the 2009 redesign, she described the new look as “a tribute to text” – because the readers really want to read: “It’s important that the design is not there for its own sake. Opening the SvD, the readers should not think, ‘Aha, what a lot of design’. They should be lured into reading,” she said. 2) A CHALLENGE, BUT FUN

Whether these thoughts will be a guideline also for the next incarnation of SvD remains to be seen when the design launch-

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es in 2017. Design should not be the end target in itself, but a means to carry the message, and the need to lure people into reading – especially on paper – is still there.

For the 2017 version of the paper, SvD has hired design consultant Ebba Bonde to work on the project. She is experienced from both daily news and magazines. For the last five years Ebba Bonde has worked as an AD at Fokus and has a unique knowledge and experience of packaging news in a high tempo.

“I see this as a very modern journalistic project. The demands are constantly higher to pack content in a more distinct and faster way. It is a challenge that is incredibly fun to take on together with the staff of Svenska Dagbladet,” says Ebba Bonde.

Svenska Dagbladet has for a long time had its focus on its successful site, relaunched in May 2015, built on a new CMS and with an algorithm based front page.

“It’s very valuable that we now can take all our digital

learnings to the paper. We know a lot more about our readers now in all channels and can create a product that is much more custom fitted for their needs and wishes,” says Linda Häggström, Design Lead on SvD. 

Notes: 1) Munk, Ole: “Is less more?”.

In: Aviserat nr. 4, 2000, p.7.

Viby J, Denmark: SNDS. 2) Thurfjell, Anna W: “SvD’s new look – a tribute to text”.

In: SNDS Magazine 2013|2, p.26-28. Viby J, Denmark: SNDS.

SVENSKA DAGBLADET TIMELINE

1884 – 18 Dec. First Issue of Svenska Dagbladet (see cover page on page 25, left) 1897 – 2 May New nameplate – set in Garamond (see page 25, right) 1959 Karl-Eric Forsberg, Sweden’s best known typeface designer designs a typeface for Svenska Dagbladets title-piece and page folio, the typeface is named Forsberg. This letterdesign is still used today 1997 Redesign by Roger Black. Poynter Old Style replaces Times SvD as body text font 2000 SvD changes format from broadsheet to tabloid – as the first of the major daily newspapers in Sweden.

The redesign was made by Michael Jones at Roger Black design studio, US 2001 Redesign by Rikard Frank, Creative Director at SvD and Anna Thurfjell (hired Graphic Designer) 2004 After one year of development work, SvD launches the three-sectioned newspaper: Nyheter, Näringsliv & Kultur (News, Business & Culture), designed by SvD Creative Director Anna W Thurfjell. The nameplate is adjusted for the tabloid format by Örjan Nordling  Front page of Svenska Dagbladet’s current design.

2004 SvD is named “World’s Best Designed News­ paper™” by SND, Society for News Design 2006 A new concept for Sundays is introduced: New supplements: N (Näringsliv) and K (Kultur) 2008 Print award: “European Newspaper of the year”, given by European Newspaper Award, Germany 2009 Redesign of the whole newspaper by Anna Thurfjell. A new typeface, Sueca, designed especially for SvD by Mário Feliciano is introduced *) 2011 SvD first in Europe with their own customized typeface ’Sueca’ at SvD.se. For this project Anna Thurfjell collaborates with Mark Porter, UK 2012 SvD winns the “Best in show” award, given by SND for a cover: “Terrorattack against Utøya, Norway” 2013 Redesign of the paper by Anna Thurfjell, with help from Mark Porter. SvD is now in two sections on weekdays (news and business) with a third section, KULTUR, on Sundays 2015 A new SvD.se is launched with a new CMS and with an algorithm based front page 2017 The new design by Ebba Bonde, presently in the works, will launch

Notes: *) See also: Thurfjell, Anna W: “Inte bara en redesign av Svenskan”.

 Front page of Svenska Dagbladet’s business section.

In: Snds Magazine 2009|3, p.6. Viby J, Denmark: SNDS.

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Cath Caldwell (UK), author of a.o. “Editorial Design : Digital and print, looked into the future of design.

Great diversity at SNDS16 The annual SNDS conference in Malmö was cut down to one intense day featuring 11 inspiring sessions and 14 speakers with different approaches to the field of news design Text by Lisbeth Tolstrup Photos by Søren S. Nielsen A tight program. A moderator with a steady eye on the watch. And an audience – not huge in numbers but with a great interest in the different subjects. Altogether a fine frame for the content of the 2016 program that covered input from photographers, digital journalists, educators and experts with more than one branch to jump from.

Two of the keywords to mentioned by more speakers were information and surprise. Combined or one by one. Digital or print – no problem. Check out the level

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of information and communicate on different levels, with humour, clearness – and surprise. Investigate how the readers read, how they click and how you can keep them curious through a long text, a huge illustration of data.

Cath Cadwell from Central Saint Martins in London set the framework of the day by asking these questions: Where have we been? Where are we now? Where are we going?

Alan Smith’s answer was his suggestion to involve art, technology and science in a future approach to develop a broader look at news design as a complex part of news media in general. 

Katinka Bukh, Zetland (DK), is wired up. Right, moderator Ole Munk.

Sami Valtere (F) lured Lea Korsgaard, Zetland (DK), up on the stage.

Lasse Lambrechts, Bergens Tidende (N) and his robot friend.

GĂśran Lundberg, Fleet Street AB (S).

Bengt Engwall, NTM News Corp, (S)

Lundberg and Engwall showed the way to better infographics.

The mood was great, and there were a lot of laughs all day – not least when the moderator, Ole Munk told jokes in between speakers.

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We’d all want to go there. From Lasse Lambrechts’ presentation.

SNDS President Flemming Hvidtfeldt opens the show.

Hildegunn Soldal and Kjelle Audun Aas, Dagbladet (N).

“Are you REALLY sure?” – a lot of questions were asked.

Tracy Ma, Matter Studio, showed examples of her work for the covers of Bloomberg Businessweek.

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“I’ve always wondered, what’s really inside this part of the graphic,” said Creative Director David Bailey, BBC/GEL.

Experiences from our new members in the Baltic countries.

Priit Höbemäki from Tallinn University, Estonia.

“Change is our only constant”, said David Bailey

Questions from the audience kept the dialogue going.

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Let the party begin! Tracy Ma, Ole Munk, Annette Lysberg Gundersen and Gunn Magni Galaaen are ready to rock and roll!

The Norwegians take it all – well, at least when it comes to Gold Awards in the digital categories of the Best of Scandinavian News Design competition: This year’s five gold winners were shared among three Norwegian media houses. In print, however, the other Nordic countries also shared in the celebration of gold Text by Lars Pryds pryds@mac.com Photos by Søren S. Nielsen sosn@mac.com

VG.no won the finest of all – the Best of Show Digital Award, as well as three Golds.

Dagbladet and Adresseavisen shared the remaining two.

Norway seems to almost completely rule the digital competition – winning also six out of nine Silver Awards.

The digital jury also found the first ever winner from our new members in the Baltics – giving an Honourable Mention award to Eesti Ekspress, Estonia, for a fun and attractive way to tell the story about the demolition of an old building.

Remarkably, Finland did not

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win anything at all in the digital categories. This is, probably, not because the Finns are crappy digital storytellers but more due to the fact that the proud design-savvy country only submitted a single entry for the digital competition.

Come on, Finns, show us more great work next year!

DENMARK RULES IN PRINT

In the print categories, Finland has a long tradition of winning top prizes and also scored high this year. The nine Gold Awards went to Denmark and Finland with three each, Norway got two, Sweden one.

The print jury did not give a Best of Show, but for the first time in the competition’s 21 year long history, it was decid-

ed to give the most prestigious print award – Scandinavia’s Best Designed Newspaper – to two newspapers – a small and a big one, based on circulation. This initiative was taken by the orga­nising committee to attract more small newspaper to enter in the competition.

Both winners were found in Denmark: Dagbladet Information was the first winner of the Best Designed award for newspapers with a circulation up to 20.000; Politiken won in the category for big newspapers (circulation above 20.000).

Dagens Nyheter (S), proud winner of Scandinavia’s Best Designed Newspaper three years in a row in 2013, 2014, and 2015, was not awarded at all in the category Overall

design (where the winners of Best Designed are found) – but did win a Gold Award in the Feature pages category.

It was great to see one of the smaller newspapers: Trønder-Avisa (N) – circulation in 2015: 19.078 – win a welldeserved Gold Award in the Magazines category (the happy winners are on the cover of this magazine). This is proof that not only big media com­ panies with large art departments (and big budgets) are able make it all the way to the top – so hopefully a lot of both small and big newspapers will enter the competition next year.  See all winners at  www.snds.org

SNDS President Flemming Hvidtfeldt says welcomes to all guests.

Björn Heselius as a very competent Gala Award Show host.

PHOTO BY LARS PRYDS

SNDS staff photographer Søren Stidsholt Nielsen with all the winners of Silver Awards on stage.

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The Dagbladet (N) crew celebrate a great win in both print and digital: Four Silver Awards – and a beautiful Gold Award in Data Projects.

Sami Valtere received a Gold Award for Helsingin Sanomat’s (FIN) HS Teema magazine. Flemming Hvidtfeld and Stefani Urmas applaud.

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Simen Grytøyr, Hüvard Holten and Tom Byermoen from Verdens Gang (N) celebrate the harvest of multiple awards.

Expectations were high at the Gala Dinner tables, increasingly so as the evening came closer to giving out the Gold Awards.

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Information won the award for Scandinavia’s Best Designed Newspaper (circulation up to 20.000) and took home champagne and the S-shaped

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trophy, designed by Sami Valtere. Left to right: Jesse Jacob Lindkvist, Mia Mottelson, Sofie Holm Larsen and Rasmus Fly Filbert.

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All Silver Award winners on stage.

Anne Laitinen and Henri Hallman celebrate a Gold Award in the Redesign (print) category.

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SNDS members 2016–2017

Denmark (38) Børn og Unge Blegdamsvej 124 DK-2100 København Ø mk@bupl.dk Marianne Bahl Dagbladet Børsen Møntergade 19 DK-1014 København K mbah@borsen.dk Lisbeth From Birkholm Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3, DK-8260 Viby J lisbeth.f.birkholm@jp.dk Henrik Birkvig Danmarks Medie- og Journalist­højskole Emdrupvej 72 DK-2400 København NV hbi@dgh.dk Kim Bjørn Nørrebrogade 5C 2. sal DK-2200 København N kp@eb.dk Rasmus Fly Filbert Dagbladet Information Store Kongensgade 40 C DK-1264 København K raff@information.dk Carsten Gregersen Henriksparken 13 DK-3070 Snekkersten carsten.greg@gmail.com Steen Hansen Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J steen.hansen@jp.dk Agnete Holk Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J agnete.holk@jp.dk Flemming Hvidtfeldt Aabybækgaardsvej 11 DK-8230 Aabyhøj fhvidtfeldt@yahoo.dk Brian Jensen Felde Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3 DK-8260 Viby J brian.felde@jp.dk Marie Jung Fyens Stiftstidende Banegaardspladsen 1 DK-5100 Odense C mju@fyens.dk Brian Karmark Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3, DK-8260 Viby J brian.karmark@jp.dk

Rina Kjeldgaard Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3, DK-8260 Viby J rina.kjeldgaard@jp.dk Claus Overgaard Knudsen Dagbladet Information Store Kongnsgade 40C DK-1264 København K cok@information.dk Sofie Holm Larsen Dagbladet Information Store Kongensgade 40C DK-1264 København K sofie_holm_larsen@information.dk Jesse Jacob Lindkvist Dagbladet Information Store Kongensgade 40C DK-1264 København jesse_jacob@information.dk Helle Madsen Nordjyske Medier A/S Langagervej 1, DK-9220 Aalborg Ø helle.madsen@nordjyske.dk Mia Mottelson Dagbladet Information Store Kongensgade 40C DK-1264 København K mimo@information.dk Torben Møldrup Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3, DK-8260 Viby J torben.moldrup@jp.dk Søren Stidsholt Nielsen Fyns Amts Avis Sankt Nicolai Gade 3 DK-5700 Svendborg sosn@faa.dk Esben Niklasson Journalisten, Gammel Strand 45 DK-1202 København K esn@journalisten.dk Gwyn Nissen Der Nordschleswiger Skibbroen 4, DK-6200 Aabenraa g n@nordschleswiger.dk Søren Nyeland Politiken Rådhuspladsen 37 DK-1785 København V soren.nyeland@pol.dk Lotte Overgaard Jyllands-Posten Grøndalsvej 3, DK-8260 Viby J lotte.overgaard@jp.dk Ulrik Pedersen JydskeVestkysten Skibbroen 4, DK-6200 Aabenraa upe@jv.dk Mie Petersen Kristeligt Dagblad Vimmelskaftet 47 DK-1161 København K mie@k.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 Jonas Kuld Rathje Metroxpress Lygten 39 DK-2400 København NV jrethje@mx.dk Lisa Reschefski DANVA, Godthåbsvej 83 DK-8600 Skanderborg lr@danva.dk Søren Rødkjær JydskeVestkysten Banegårdspladsen DK-6700 Esbjerg sor@jv.dk Kim Schou Kristeligt Dagblad Vimmelskaftet 47 DK-1161 København K schou@k.dk Ida Simmelholt Fyens Stiftstidende Banegaardspladsen 1 DK-5100 Odense C idsi@fyens.dk Frank Stjerne Suomisvej 1, st.th.

DK-1927 Frederiksberg C 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

Estonia (9) Väino Koorberg Õhtuleht Narva mnt 13 EE-10151 Tallinn vaino.koorberg@gmail.com Toivo Luht Õhtuleht Narva mnt 13 EE-10151 Tallinn toivo.luht@ohtuleht.ee Risto Mandre Õhtuleht Narva mnt 13 EE-10151 Tallinn risto.mandre@ohtuleht.ee Mari Peterson Maaleth mari.peterson@ekspressmeedia.ee Rain Pruul Ekspress Meedia Narva mnt 13 EE-10151 Tallinn rain.pruul@ekspress.ee Tarmo Rajamets Eesti Ekspress Narva mnt 13 EE-10151 Tallinn tarmo.rajamets@ekspress.ee Siim Saidla Fookus Meedia siim.saidla@fookusmeedia.ee Martin Šmutov Õhtuleht Narva mnt 13 EE-10151 Tallinn martin.smutov@ohtuleht.ee Liivi Tantaal Õhtuleht Narva mnt 13 EE-10151 Tallinn liivi.tantaal@gmail.com

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Finland (24) Pete Aarre-Ahtio Ilta-Sanomat PB 45, FI-00089 Sanoma pete.aarre-ahtio@iltasanomat.fi Maria Björkqvist KSF Media Ab Linnankoskigatan 28 FI-06100 Borgå maria.bjorkqvist@ksfmedia.fi Petteri Bülow Yle Uutiskatu 5 FI-00024 Yleisradio petteri.bulow@yle.fi Marita Granroth Hufvudstadsbladet Pb 217, FI-00101 Helsingfors marita.granroth@hbl.fi Henri Hallman Turun Sanomat PL 95, FI-20101 Turku henri.hallman@ts.fi Tuomo Heiti Sanoma News / Ilta-Sanomat PL 45, FI-00089 Sanoma tuomo.heiti@iltasanomat.fi Björn Heselius Freelance, Helsingfors bjorn.heselius@gmail.com Juha Hirvaskero Savon Sanomat PL 68, FI-70101 Kuopio liisa.huovinen@savonsanomat.fi Lars Holm Kauppalehti P.O.Box 189, FI-00101 Helsinki lars.holm@kauppalehti.fi Hilppa Hyrkäs Yle Uutiskatu 5, FI-00024 Yleisradio hilppa.hyrkas@yle.fi Samuli Häkkilä A-lehdet/Apu Risto Rytin tie 33 FI-00081 Helsinki samuli.hakkila@alehdet.fi Maria Jauho Lapin Kansa/Alma Media Sairaalakatu 2 FI-94100 KEMI maria.jauho@pohjolansanomat.fi Ari Kinnari Helsingin Sanomat PL 102, FI-00089 Sanoma Helsinki ari.kinnari@a-lehdet.fi

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Leena Marita Kosonen Kaleva PL 170, FI-90401 Oulu leena.kosonen@kaleva.fi Rasmus Kyllönen KSF Media Pb 217, FI-00101 Helsingfors Janne Laakkonen Etelä-Soumen Sanomat PL 80, FIN-15200 Lahti janne.laakkonen@ess.fi Anne Laitinen Turun Sanomat P.O.Box 95, FI-20101 Turku anne.laitinen@ts.fi Elina Paasonen Aamulehti Itäinenkatu 11 FI33100 Tampere elina.paasonen@ aamulehti.fi Elina Saarikoski Aamulehti Itäinenkatu 11, FI-33101 Tampere elina.saarikoski@aamulehti.fi Sari Torvinen Alma Media / Aamulehti Itäinenkatu 11, FI-33100 Tampere sari.torvinen@aamulehti.fi Jussi Tuulensuu Aamulehti P.O. Box 327, FI-33101 Tampere jussi.tuulensuu@aamulehti.fi Taru Ukkola Kauppalehti Alvar Aallon katu 3 C FI-00100 Helsinki taru.ukkola@kauppalehti.fi Stefani Urmas Aamulehti Itäinenkatu 11, FI-33100 Tampere stefani.urmas@aamulehti.fi Sami Valtere Helsingin Sanomat PL 102, FI-00089 Sanoma Helsinki sami.valtere@hs.fi

Norway (33) Rino Andersen Nationen Postboks 9390, N-0135 Oslo rino.andersen@nationen.no Kari Anne Andersen NRK Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons Plass 1 N-0340 Oslo Kristin.Breivik@nrk.no Rune Breiby Aftenposten Postboks 1, sentrum N-0051 Oslo rune.breiby@aftenposten.no Kristin Breivik NRK Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons plass 1 N-0340 Oslo Kristin.Breivik@nrk.no Jan-Erik Bråthen NRK Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons plass 1 N-0340 Oslo jan-erik.brathen@nrk.no Tom Byermoen Verdens Gang AS Postboks 1185, Sentrum N-0107 Oslo tom.byermoen@vg.no Bjarne Dramdal Erichsen Dagens Næringsliv Postboks 1182, Sentrum N-0107 Oslo bjarne.erichsen@dn.no Gunn Maagni Galaaen Trønder-Avisa Hamnegata 20 N-7720 Steinkjer gmg@t-a.no Christina Gonzalez Ulriksen Morgenbladet Karl Johans gate 25 N-0159 Oslo cu@morgenbladet.no Mari Grafsrønningen NRK Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons plass 1 N-0340 Oslo mari.grafsronningen@nrk.no Simen Grytøyr Verdens Gang Postboks 1185, Sentrum N-0107 Oslo simen.grytoyr@vg.no Annette Lysberg Gundersen Trønder-Avisa AS Havnegata 20 N-7738 Steinkjer annette.gundersen@t-a.no

Per Christian Helme Nyhetsgrafikk.no Havnelageret 1, Postboks 6 N-0130 Oslo pch@nyg.no Vidar Herre Hordaland Boks 38 N-5700 Voss vh@avisa-hordaland.no Håvard Holten VG Postboks 1185, Sentrum N-0107 Oslo havard.holten@vg.no Gørli Huse Klar Tale Kongensgate 22 Pb.1180, sentrum N-0107 Oslo gorli@klartale.no Glen Imrie NRK Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons plass 1 N-0340 Oslo glen.imrie@nrk.no Walter Jensen Bergens Tidende Postboks 7240, N-5020 Bergen walter.jensen@bt.no Helge Kaasin NRK Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons Plass 1 N-0340 Oslo helge.kaasin@nrk.no Vidar Kvien NRK Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons plass 1 N-0340 Oslo vidar.kvien@nrk.no Njaal Kværnes Østerdølen PB 125, N-2480 Koppang nkvaerne@online.no Magne Kydland Sunnhordland AS Postbox 100, N-5401 Stord magne@sunnhordland.no Lasse Lambrechts Bergens Tidende Postboks 7240, N-5020 Bergen lasse.lambrechts@bt.no Endre Maurstad Lilletvedt Bergens Tidende Postboks 7240, N-5020 Bergen endre.lilletvedt@bt.no Stian Lund Johansen NRK Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons plass 1 N-0340 Oslo stian.lund.johansen@nrk.no

SNDS is a forum for you who know that graphics and images help the readers to understand the news

SNDS is a forum for you who know that good design helps the operation of media companies All quotes from snds.org/about-snds Illustrations by Lars Pryds

Marius Lundgård NRK Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons plass 1 N-0340 Oslo Kristin.Breivik@nrk.no Elin Madsen Hordaland Evangervegen 32 N-5700 Voss em@avisa-hordaland@no Sigmund Nordal Dagbladet PB 1184, sentrum N-0107 Oslo sno@dagbladet.no Torry Pedersen Verdens Gang AS Postboks 1185, Sentrum N-0107 Oslo torry.pedersen@vg.no Ronny Ruud Aftenposten Postboks 1, sentrum N-0051 Oslo ronny.ruud@aftenposten.no Bjarne Tormodsgard Hallingdølen Hovesvingen N-3570 Ål bt@hallingdolen.no Marco Vaglieri NRK Enebakkveien 74 N-0196 Oslo marco.vaglieri@nrk.no Erik Vestgård Nationen Postboks 9390, Grønland N-0135 Oslo erik.vestgard@nationen.no

Sweden (17) Lars Andersson Norran Box 58 S-931 21 Skellefteå carina.ungh@norran.se Svenåke Boström Boström Design & Utveckling AB Ankdammsgatan 9, S-171 43 Solna svenake.bostrom@gmail.com Mikael Eklund Barometern Södra Långgatan 33 S-391 88 Kalmar mikael.eklund@barometern.se Charlott Friman Norrköpings Tidningar S-60183 Norrköping lotta.friman@nt.se Linda Häggström Svenska Dagbladet S-105 17 Stockholm linda.haggstrom@svd.se John Hällström Upsala Nya Tidning Box 36, S-75651 Uppsala john.hallstrom@unt.se Lena Lilliehorn Gate 1 Valhallagatan 27 S-582 44 Linköping lena.lilliehorn@corren.se Sven Mårdh NTM Stohagsgatan 2 S-60183 Norrköping sven.mardh@ntm.eu Maria Nilsson Kristianstad Bladet Box 537, S-29135 Kristianstad maria.nilson@kristianstadsbladet.se Martin Olsson Värmlands Folkblad Box 67, S-651 03 Karlstad martin.olsson@vf.se

Herman Omstedt Norrköpings Tidningars Media Östra Promenaden 44 A S-602 30 Norrköping herman.omstedt@gmail.com Emma Persson Hennig HD-Sydsvenskan Sydsvenskan S-205050 Malmö emma.persson.hennig@ sydsvenskan.se Nils Kr. Reppen Nyhetsgrafikk.no/NTB Esplanadgatan 22 S-28138 Hässleholm nkr@nyg.no Jenny Rydqvist Sydsvenskan S-20505 Malmö jenny.rydqvist@sydsvenskan.se Johan Strömbeck HD-Sydsvenskan Sydsvenskan S-20505 Malmö johan.strombeck@sydsvenskan.se Anders Tapola Smålandsposten/Sydostpress S-351 70 Växjö anders.tapola@smp.se Jens Tärning Norrköpings Tidningar Stohagsgatan 2 S-60183 Norrköping jens.tarning@nt.se

United Kingdom (1) Ginko Kobayashi Journalist 7 Oakenshaw Close, Surbiton KT6 6EA, SURREY ginkokoba@googlemail.com

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