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Judges for each competition are selected from a "master list" of possible judges. One does not have to be a SND member to be a judge. A person may nominate himself if he or she wishes. Nominations should be sent to the Competition Committee Director who will keep the "master" list.
Judges are those individuals prominent and/or knowledgeable enough to sit in judgment of the competition. The Competition Committee will make the final selections based on need. Every effort is made to get a good cross-section of all possible judges for a given competition.
Twenty-six judges were used to decide winners from the two judgings that made up the 24th Edition competition. Judges were:
Charles "Chas" Brown is design director at The Dallas Morning News. He joined The News in 1996 after 13 years in page design and editing positions at newspapers in Texas, Alabama and Tennessee. During 2000 - 2001, he served as in-house project leader for the redesign of The News, the first in 20 years.
Olga Lamas, a designer and journalist at Cases i Associats in Barcelona, Spain, since 1999, designs and redesigns newspapers, magazines and Web sites. She has participated in redesign projects in Latin America and Europe. Previously, Lamas worked in the art department at Barcelona's La Vanguardia newspaper.
Greg Leeds is executive art director at The Wall Street Journal and currently oversees the domestic and international editions of The Wall Street Journal Reports, The Wall Street Journal Sunday and The Wall Street Journal Classroom and Campus editions. Leeds also develops graphics tools and technologies. He recently led a group that developed a Web-based to manage Journal graphics.
Rexanna Keller Lester has been the executive editor of the Savannah Morning News since 1995. Previously she was the Savannah Morning News managing editor, Morris News Service news editor, then managing editor. She was a Pulitzer judge in 1996 and 1997. She has been a news and feature designer for The Florida Times-Union.
Felix Soh, deputy editor of The Straits Times, Singapore, started his journalistic career as a copy editor. He has been metro editor, foreign editor and design editor before becoming the number two journalist at The Straits Times, Asia's largest circulation English-language newspaper. He was in charge of the team that redesigned the Straits Times in 1989.
Kim Germovsek Crow has been a reporter, copy editor, news designer, features designer, design team leader and deputy graphics editor during the past 12 years at several North American newspapers. She's currently the assistant features editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
James de Vries is director of de Luxe & Associates, Sydney, Australia. He has worked as a designer, illustrator and art director for magazines, books and corporate design until beginning at de Luxe & Associates in 1993. De Luxe & Associates has created or redesigned many of Australia's major newspapers.
Michelle Deal-Zimmerman is assistant managing editor for design and graphics at The Baltimore Sun. Prior to that, she spent four years as the paper's news design director. During this time, The Sun was named a World's Best-Designed Newspapes™ by SND. Before coming to Baltimore, she worked at The Palm Beach Post for eight years, holding a variety of positions.
Kate Roberts Edenborg is a Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is also an instructor teaching editing and page design. She has been an editor, reporter and designer at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Wausau Daily Herald.
Sergio Fernandez is art director at La Gaceta, Tucuman, Argentina. The team he leads received 145 awards from the SND between 1996 and 2002. During 1997 - 1998 he was a lecturer at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, Fla. He is a professor of editorial design at the University of Tucuman.
Ed Gabel is an associate graphics director at Time magazine, where he creates diagrams that explain the week's news for the magazine's five million readers. He won a Best of Show given at the 2000 Malofiej Infographics competition. His graphics have also appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated and Entertainment Weekly.
Bill Gugliotta is director of photography at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. Before coming to Cleveland five years ago, he directed the photography staffs at The State in Columbia, S.C., the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Pittsburgh Press. He is a former designer and has been recognized nationally for his picture editing.
Lorena Iniguez is a senior graphic artist at The Los Angeles Times where he has been for 10 years. He assists in editing graphics making sure the journalistic content is clear and the storytelling is organized logically and accurately. Prior to The Times, he was a graphic artist at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif. where he designed feature covers.
Dr. Lawrence Mason, Jr. is a photography professor at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a photographer currently working on book projects on Lockerbie, Scotland and London, England. He has been a picture editor and photographer at the Syracuse Newspapers and has worked for United Press International.
Jose Merino is the design director at the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Ariz., overseeing design and graphics. Before joining the Star two years ago he served as graphic editor for the newspaper Mural in Guadalajara, Mexico and art director for El Imparcial in Hermosillo, Mexico.
Ann McGettigan, deputy managing editor for design, joined the Daily News (New York City) staff in 1998 as editorial art director. She was promoted to DME for design in 1999. She has assisted with several redesigns, the launch of an afternoon newspaper called Express, the tabloid's Web page and the implementation of color into the newspaper
Christine McNeal is assistant managing editor for visuals at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her career has included work as a reporter, copy editor, entertainment editor and graphics editor. She is currently studying towards a master's degree in media management from the University of Missouri at Columbia. She is also a member of SND's Executive Committee.
Gert K. Nielsen has been graphics editor at Ekstra Bladet (Denmark) since 1995. He is best known for bringing together news graphic artists to discuss and explore the craft of visual journalism. He started in Denmark before he went global in 2001 with the launch of a website on visual journalism.
Tom Penix is assistant director of graphics for design at The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon). Before joining that paper, he served as infographic artist and illustrator for The Orange County Register, The Virginian Pilot and Los Angeles Times. His work has been recognized by many organizations.
Tom Peyton has been a visual editor at The South Florida Sun-Sentinel for two years. In his 15-year career in newspapers he has been an illustrator, art director, picture editor, infographic artist and designer winning numerous awards in many from SND and other organizations. He has worked at many publications in North America.
Mark Porter is creative director of The Guardian newspaper in London. He has been art director of Campaign, ES magazine, Wired (UK) and Colors. He has worked on newspaper and magazine projects in Belgium, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Before becoming an editorial designer he studied languages at Oxford.
Adriana Libreros Purcell, originally from Cali, Colombia, has been creative assistant since 2000 at the Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ). Before that she was a creative assistant at the publication. She has redesigned several sections at the paper including the Friday's Jersey Alive, The Sunday Entertainment and the Monday At Work sections. She has won many national and international.
Christopher Sloan is the art director of National Geographic Magazine. Aside from his contribution to the graphic look of National Geographic, he is a science editor. He writes for the magazine and has been a contributing author to books on the art and information graphics at National Geographic.
Mark Thompson-Kolar is editorial art director & design group leader at The Ann Arbor (Mich.) News. He had been a deputy graphics editor at the Detroit Free Press. He also has held design, editing and technology positions at The News-Sentinel and The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Juan Velasco is an infographics reporter, artist and consultant. He worked for El Mundo (Spain) from 1991 to 1996 and later as a graphic art director at The New York Times. In January 2002, Velasco established the infographics company, 5W Infographic. As a consultant, he has helped restructure graphics departments around the world. He is also an instructor at workshops.
Dan Zedek is the design director at the Boston Globe where he supervises designers and infographics artists. His regular assignments include the front page, the Weekend entertainment section and news projects. Before joining the Globe in 1995, he was art director or assistant art director on a number of national and regional magazines as designing alternative weeklies.
