Best of Scandinavian News Design 2011 brings many new features.

Categories are changed, best designed newspaper and digital service in Scandinavia will be selected and the online part has it’s own competition now.

SNDS wants to highlight good news design even more. We have wanted to mark this in the competition. This has lead to an evaluation of our categories both in print and online.

We have skipped a few categories to give room for new ones. Among the changes are that we have introduced a theme category in print for one specific event. This year it will be the tradegy in Norway with the Utøya massacre and the bomb in Oslo.

In the online part we have introduced a mobile app category to give room for smartphones and tablet applications.

For both online and print every media, participating in one of the below categories, can free enter the competition to become Scandinavia’s best designed newspaper or online news service.

The categories and prices are as follow:

Print – price based on circulation below 25.000 / above 25.000

• Scandinavia’s best designed – free
• Redesign – DKK 2.000 / 3.000
• Front pages – DKK 300 / 500
• News pages – DKK 300 / 500
• Feature single pages – DKK 300 / 500
• Feature multiple pages – DKK 400 / 600
• Local pages – DKK 300 / 500
• Theme: Utøya, single pages – DKK 300 / 5000
• Theme: Utøya, multiple pages – DKK 400 / 600
• Section front pages – DKK 300 / 500
• Visual communication single pages – DKK 300 / 500
• Visual communication multiple pages – DKK 400 / 600
• Magazine front pages – DKK 300 / 500
• Magazine article pages – DKK 400 / 600

Online

• Front page – 600 DKK
• Section page – 600 DKK
• Article page – 600 DKK
• Feature/Newscoverage (theme, subsite) – 800 DKK
• Webapplication (tv/maps/interactive) – 600 DKK
• Mobile app – 600 DKK
• Mobile website – 1500 DKK
• Overall website design (based on mediabrand) – 2500 DKK
• Overall cross-platform design (media brand on online cross-platforms (mobile/tablet/web) – 3500 DKK

The online jury will also choose Scandinavia’s best designed online media based on the entries.

We hope this will give the best framework for you to participate in our competition along colleagues from the rest of Scandinavia.