The Swedish newspaper, Sydsvenskan, was named The Best Designed Newspaper in Scandinavia at the SNDS conference hosted by Society of News Design Scandinavia, which took places in Den Sorte Diamant in Copenhagen Thursday. The best of Show Award for the best entry in all categories went to the Helsingin Sanomat from Finland.

73 media houses from all of the Nordic countries were represented in the contest. Apart from the overall designaward 5 gold medal, 19 silver diplomas, 33 bronze diplomas and 38 awards of excellence were handed out at the conference. Sweden became the big winner with a total of 35 diplomas, Norway got 26, Finland 23 and Denmark 16.

“It is obvious that the Scandinavian media houses still make a great effort to present news in a thrilling way. In spite of the economic crisis the printed papers are still developing . The contest shows a high standard among the printed papers in Scandinavia,” chairman of the competition committee, Flemming Hvidtfeldt, says.

“The media houses are developing their websites in a creative way both in presentation, solutions and in involving the user. The competition also shows, that the Scandinavian media houses has come far in the integration between online and print”, Flemming Hvidtfeldt says.

See examples of work from Sydsvenskan.

Below is the full winner list and links to examples of work from the winners.

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Online

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