S-R Wins Global Design Award

Wed., Feb. 25, 1998

The Society for News Design named The Spokesman-Review one of the world’s best-designed newspapers for the third consecutive year.

The award, the highest the journalism organization gives, went to 14 newspapers worldwide, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and London’s the European.

“It’s just a great honor to win for the third year,” Spokesman-Review design editor John Nelson said.

“People often tell me the paper is clean and easy to read. That’s great to hear. And when some of the best people in the business give you the award, it makes you feel pretty good.”

Judges evaluated 291 newspapers from 27 countries on writing, storytelling, use of resources, execution, photography, headlines and the newspaper’s voice, or tone, as well as the paper’s overall design.

“What is exciting about this honor is it is given for overall excellence, for how The Spokesman-Review delivers the news every day to its readers, not just how the paper looks,” graphics editor Vince Grippi said. “Every department of the paper had a hand in this.”

Of the 14 newspapers singled out, seven were from the United States, including the San Francisco Examiner, the Ball State Daily News, the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pa., and the Mirror in Seattle.

The competition is sponsored by the Society for News Design and Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

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