LA NACION receives world's best-crafted newspaper award

The printed edition of

THE NATION

was chosen as the world's best-designed newspaper by the
Society for News Design (SND), considered the editorial design of "Pulitzer". The distinction was announced as part of the opening ceremony of the annual Journalistic Design Congress.

The category "The World's Best Designed Newspaper" is a podium of three media, in which LA NACION was chosen with the New York Times, USA, and the Sunday Times, from Britain.

The SND is the institution that brings together visual journalism professionals from around the world whose mission is to promote constant innovation in accordance with the high ethical standards of the profession. This year, 4831 entries from around the world from over a hundred different newspapers were received.

The jury that rated the Best of the World category said: "We agreed to look for consistency, surprise, good journalism and, most importantly, to consider how much a publication focused on the needs of its readers and the audience. community".

This is the third time that LA NACION is selected as a finalist of this World Cup, to which no other Argentine newspaper has gone: the previous two were in 2018 and in 2016. The ten finalists of this edition , the 40th of the institution, were The New York Times, Memphis Business Journal and The Sun Village, United States; The Guardian and The Sunday Times, Great Britain; Politico, of Belgium; Die Zeit, from Germany; La Repubblica, from Italy, and El Comercio, from Peru.

LA NACION also received a silver medal for the multiplatform production of "Los Cuadernos de las Coimas" (see separate page), eight exclusive digital indentations and two mentions of excellence for the Sunday Magazine. Thus, a way of structuring and telling visually the news of the day on all available media is consolidated.

To this distinction are added the ÑH Awards, which elected LA NACION for two consecutive years, in 2016 and in 2017, the national newspaper with the best design in Latin America.

The LA NACION design team, led by Ana Gueller, is comprised of professionals in design, visualization, computer graphics, photography and illustration. Among them, Pablo Loscri, Jesica Rizzo, Fernando Gutierrez, Alejandra Bliffeld, Maria Rodriguez Alcobendas, Andrea Platon, Giselle Ferro, Maria Helena Garcia, Florencia Abd and Florencia Fernandez Blanco.

Silver medal for multiplatform coverage

The multiplatform coverage of Diego Cabot's investigation into the most important corruption plot of Argentine political history received a silver medal. It consisted of paper and digital editions, a flipbook
"Browse the notebooks as if you had them in your hands", a development that allows you to search by terms in the digitized and standardized database.
LN Data and a special supplement of 24 pages that summarizes the whole case through texts, computer graphics and photographs.

Digital History Award

As part of the Anviersario del
sinking of the submarine ARA San Juan was chosen to say
the case through the largest number of digital formats. Unpublished messages were published among the crew members and their families sent by WhatsApp, the parts shipped before contact with the ship was lost, the 3D reconstruction of the submarine and its flaws, a visualization of the course of research vessels, audio of the Armada spokesperson and a video with relatives of the Mar del Plata military base.

Bronze medal for recognition of the public's place

In entertaining, informative or service formats, the idea was to give the user tools to choose how to broadcast the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
choose your choice and compare it with the official, another approached the places with
3D reconstructions of stadiums and services rendered to visitors in Russia. A
Interactive prode invited to share the World Cup with friends throughout the championship. And, once the tournament has started, the
Real-time match statistics add depth and badysis.

Award of Excellence

Two photographic works have been awarded: the clbadicism of Sara Facio's portrait and the innovative visual proposal of the actress group Flor de Lava. Both productions were published in Sunday's magazine.

Editorial Secretary José Del Rio, after defining LA NACION as the world's best design newspaper, said:
"It's a recognition that honors the work, the trajectory and especially the future of a team based on a unique formula: the pursuit of journalism excellence on all its platforms."

A journalistic team that makes the difference, by José Del Rio.

Ana Gueller, artistic director of LA NACION, said after the award: "The design of LA NACION wants to have the head of an engineer, the soul of a journalist and the heart of an artist."

What is it about designing a story, by Ana Gueller.

This is the opinion of experts on LA NACION

"There are times when the brilliance of a pearl is irresistible: essential story and pride put on the page make 'Los Cuadernos de las Coimas' one of the most great journalistic works of the year in the world. –
Javier Errea, director of Errea Comunicación and jury member of SND 2019

"The great honesty of its uncompromising design is summed up in a call to attention: journalism Creating a functional and consistent design is not a simple thing, but the most difficult is the daily execution, and LA NACION is implacable." –
Jaime Serra, journalist and artist, recognized as one of the most influential professionals of visual journalism.

"It's one of the most beautiful and coherent journals we've ever seen, we're usually looking for surprises, and while LA NACION does not always have them, the persistence of its elegance takes it to the next level, he has many smart ways to tell stories and all. " its presentation is pure and therefore comforting with a lot of details, LA NACION knows its place and its public –
2016 SND Jury

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