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Judging to take place at SU in February; later deadlines set
SND's 25th annual Competition took place at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, Feb. 6 - 16 for entries from 2003. For current Competition information go to SND's Web site at http://www.snd.org. "Live" coverage from the judging site began Feb. 14 for three days and can be found for the next few weeks at SND's Web site under "Contest" in the index at the left of the opening page.
It's not too early to plan for the 26th Edition Competition
It's not too soon to be planning for the 26th Edition competition, which will take place on the Syracuse University campus Feb. 11 through Feb. 21, 2005.
A major change in the dates entries are due in Syracuse has been announced for the 26th Edition competition.
U.S. Entries are due in Syracuse no later than Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2005.Non-U.S. Entries are due in Syracuse no later than Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2005.
The new dates give publications an extra two weeks to prepare entries, Matlock says. "It's going to be close for us to get the entries audited in the time allowed but I'm sure we can get the job done," he told the SND board in his report announcing the change. "We want to help publications as much as possible so we'll see how this works out in a one-year test. If it works well we plan to continue the practice."
Categories are expected to remain the same with minor changes and can be found in the 26th Edition Call for Entires which which will be available for downloading from http://www.snd.org by Dec. 1.
The Call for Entries will be mailed in November to SND members and others, according to Marshall Matlock, SND's Competition Committee director and SU's judging director.
"Those who have been entering the competition for years know how important it is to keep pages in a safe place as they are produced each week," Matlock says. He suggests keeping them in a light-tight box laying them flat for storage. "The more pages the better," he says, "since it's easier to edit out pages that will not be entered than to try to find that 'special page' when you want to enter it."
BLUE, RED, YELLOW: Those are the colors of the cups used
during the competition to allow judges to vote without everyone
knowing the vote until it is announced. Blue means "yes," red
means "no" and yellow means there is a conflict in which case
another judge is asked to vote on the entry.
