The Spokesman-Review Wins Awards Newspaper Cited For Design, Photography In Contests
The Spokesman-Review is one of the world’s best-looking newspapers, according to an international design contest.
Spokane’s only daily newspaper also garnered five awards recently from the national Pictures of the Year competition.
The Society of Newspaper Design in Reston, Va., named The Spokesman-Review as one of the 22 best-designed papers in six countries.
Other winners were The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph in London and the Toronto Star.
In addition to the overall design award, The Spokesman-Review won individual awards of excellence for a single-subject series - “The Ragged Edge,” published in December - and for overall redesign.
Specifically cited were design editor John K. Nelson; Scott Sines, managing editor/opinion and presentation; and photo editor John Sale.
The Spokesman-Review completely changed its look in late 1994.
The Spokane paper also fared well in the Pictures of the Year competition sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Sale won a second-place award for editing of a newspaper series while the paper took second place for best use of photos. The newspaper team of Sines, Sale, Dan Pelle, Bart Rayniak and Sandra Bancroft-Billings also took second for picture editing/ team portfolio.
Honored with awards of excellence were Sale for picture editing/individual portfolio and Colin Mulvany for spot news photography.
The Spokesman-Review won more photo awards than any other Pacific Northwest newspaper. The only papers to win more nationally were the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, the Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press Democrat and The Washington Post.
Sines said the work submitted by The Spokesman-Review in the design contest was picked at random by the judges.
“Our entries did not necessarily represent what we considered to be our best work,” he said. “So, winning these awards speaks to the quality and care of the editing we put into every section of the paper, everyday.”
, DataTimes