EL PAÍS is honored at the ÑH Awards

EL PAÍS has won seven silver and three bronze medals at the twelfth edition of the ÑH 2016 Best News Design Awards: Spain, Portugal & Latin America. This is the most prestigious international news design competition for publications in Spanish.

The newspaper won silver in the categories of Innovation, Participation, Redesign, Infographics / Breaking news, News coverage / Multimedia coverage and 2K Newspaper magazines, Photographs and Digital publications. Meanwhile, the newspaper was awarded bronze medals for Sections in 2K Magazines, for Section or Channel Design and for News Coverage / Best Real-Time Coverage. 

EL PAÍS’s commitment to providing in multi-channel format was singled out for prizes. Coverage of the Spanish General Elections of 2016 and the US Elections on November 8 was lauded by the jury. Other experimental projects such as the EL PAÍS SEMANAL virtual reality report on Fukushima, written by Daniel Verdú, also received praise. 

The ÑH Awards are awarded by the Spanish-language branch of the Society for News Design (SND-E), an international organization of journalists with more than 2,500 members in more than 50 countries, divided into 21 regions. In this edition of the awards, the jury assessed more than 2,620 works from 120 media outlets from 15 different countries. The full list of winners is available at this link.

This year’s  jury included the following professionals: Chico Amaral (O Globo, Brasil), Diego Areso (EL PAÍS, Spain), Cristóbal Edwards (Faculty of Communications, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and SND, Chile), Miguel Ángel Jimeno (Faculty of Communication, University of Navarra, Spain), Sónia Matos (Público, Portugal), Norma Ramírez (El Diario de Hoy, El Salvador), Ricardo Ramírez (El Colombiano, Colombia), Fernando Rapa Carballo (Revista Mongolia, Spain), Carmen Riera (SDI Consultores, Venezuela), Soledad Soria (La Voz del Interior, Argentina), Kaitlin Yarnall (National Geographic Society, USA) y Javier Zarracina (Vox Media, USA).