14,818 entries were submitted by 373 daily and nondaily newspapers from around the world for the 29th annual “The Best of Newspaper Design™ Creative Competition.” Of the 1,166 honors given — 684 of them (58.7% of total awards given) went to the 25 most awarded papers…
The Los Angeles Times and its magazine won 109 awards, while The New York Times and its magazines claimed 85.
Next up were Toronto’s National Post, 51; The Boston Globe and its magazine and the St. Petersburg Times, 37 each; Zaman of Istanbul, 28; the Chicago Tribune and its magazine 27; the Hartford Courant and The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, 25 each.
The Virginian-Pilot earned 24 awards, as did El Mundo Magazine and El Mundo Metropoli, combined. Twenty-one awards apiece went to the Dallas Morning News and San Jose Mercury News, while Politiken of Copenhagen and the San Francisco Chronicle each received 19.
The Toronto Star, Buffalo News and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette received 15 awards each and Today’s Zaman* of Istanbul earned 14.
The Rocky Mountain News won 13 awards, while 12 each went to Clarín of Buenos Aires, The Guardian in London, Prensa Grafica in San Salvador, Fort Lauderdale’s South Florida Sun-Sentinel and The Washington Post.
The Denver Post and Público of Lisbon each earned 11 awards, while The Seattle Times and Centro of Mexico City received 10 each.
Geographic diversity also reigned among the smallest-circulation newspapers, which together earned 144 awards.
Of the winning newspapers with circulations of less than 50,000:
23 papers were from the United States
23 from elsewhere..
10 from Mexico
3 from Spain
2 from Turkey
2 from Romania
And 1 each from Brazil, Canada, England, Estonia and Sweden.
* This year, Zaman submitted an English-language newspaper — Today’s Zaman — with a circulation smaller than Zaman. Think of it along the same lines as Link in Norfolk, or RedEye in Chicago.
** These results may differ from earlier reports that were based on initial, unaudited database results. The Blog regrets any confusion.
“Of the 1,166 honors given—718 of them (62%!) went to the 25 (or only 7%) most awarded papers...”
7% of total entries, or 7% of total newspapers that entered?
62% of the awards given when to 25 papers (7% of the total newspapers entered).
Looking at the numbers, 7.8% of SND29 entries got an award of some sort, compared to 12.6% from the 28th edition. Last year’s judges were obviously more giving than previous years (full disclosure, I was a judge last year.) Here are the numbers for the years prior: 27th edition, 7.8%; 26th, 6.6%; 25th, 6.4%.
They say designers not good with the numbers. The National Post only receive 51 awards. Why you say 85?
The Post won far more than other Canadian papers and 51 or 85 no difference when better papers exist.
UPDATE: Sorry, everyone. There was a database glitch—not an inability to do basic math—that resulted in faulty numbers in a previous version of this post (see comments above). It’s been repaired and this post has been updated to reflect correct, official, audited data. Apologies for the confusion.—HQ
“Geographic diversity also reigned among the smallest-circulation newspapers...” Also? The small-circ papers, yes, but surely not the 29 top winners, when 18 are from the U.S., 5 from the rest of the Americas, and 6 from the whole of the rest of the world. Geographic diversity? From whose point of view?
Here’s a jarring number for you:
72—Number of awards Excelsior won last year (28th edition), when their redesign rocked the design world.
8—Number of awards Excelsior won this in the 29th edition.
Somehow, I don’t think they’ve lost a step.
More fun with numbers:
12 of the top 50 (size) papers in the U.S. garnered a grand total of 10 awards according to the database.
Miami Herald: 0
Fort Wort Star-Telegram: 0
Orlando Sentinel: 2
Arizona Republic: 1
San Antonio Express-News: 0
Houston Chronicle: 1
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 1
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 1
Philadelphia Inquirer: 1
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 1
Tampa Tribune: 1
Des Moines Register:1