SNDS has investigated the statistic for the SNDS Best of News Design for the last decade – since 1999. Here we can give you the total winner overview.

Based on this statistic we done some simple calculations of the data. We have taken no regards to the number of entries contributed by media, neither which country they are from. From this we have compiled an overview of the SNDS winners since 1999.

If you dig a little bit into the statistic it can tell some interesting stories. Based on the data Sweden is by far the most winning country with 325 prices, followed by Norway 267 prices, Finland 182 and Denmark 155.

The media that has won most prices the last decade is not Swedish though. It is Politiken from Denmark with 67 prices with Dagbladet at second place with 56 and Dagens Nyheter third with 53 awards. The below table shows top 10 price winners the last decade.

Table: Top 10 winners 1999-2011

Politiken is the media that has won most gold prices the last decade – 5 in total.

The media that has won most metal in total – that is gold, silver and bronze in all – is Dagens Nyheter from Sweden. It has won 34 metal awards, 2 gold, 15 silver and 17 bronzes. This is only 2 more medals than Politiken that also looks to take over this throne.

2011 was the metal rain year for the award. 54 metal awards were given – including 5 gold medals, the most gold medals given in the statistic we have. 2011 is the record award winning year of the contest.

2002 was a poor metal year as well as 2010. In 2002 there were given only 22 metal awards. In 2010 there were given 26 – and no gold medal.

Table: Total number of metal winners from 1999-2011

Below is the full winner list. Click on the column headings to sort the table

Table: Full winner list 1999-2011