Competition Categories

1. World’s Best

The jury will evaluate not just the overall design or your site or app, but also how it performs in the categories of this competition: breaking news, features, section templates, data, use of multimedia. Please submit the URL of your website or app providing at five to eight examples on at least three publication days over 2012.

  • 1a. Large website
  • 1b. Small website
  • 1c. Tablet app
  • 1d. Mobile app
  • 1e. Student work

2. Breaking or Daily news

Work is considered breaking news when it is published within 24 hours of an event or over the course of a multi-day event. A single subject project represents work in a single news cycle. Work that spans multiple days or cycles should be entered in Non-planned coverage.

2.1 Single-subject project
Submit the URL of work based on a breaking news event.

  • 2.1.a Large website
  • 2.1.b Small website
  • 2.1.c Mobile (tablet and phone)
  • 2.1.d Student work

2.2 Planned coverage
Submit the URLs for coverage of a single topic including between five and eight individual pieces. Breaking News planned coverage includes topics that can be prepared in anticipation of an event, but the final data and information is not available until the news occurs. Examples are elections or sports events. (For mobile entries, please leave screenshots as well as a way for judges to download and find your entered work.)

  • 2.2.a Large website
  • 2.2.b Small website
  • 2.2.c Mobile (tablet and phone)
  • 2.2.d Student work

2.3 Non-planned coverage
Submit the URLs for continued coverage of a single topic, including at least five to eight individual pieces. Breaking News non-planned coverage include topics that cannot be prepared for ahead of time. The coverage can include work over consecutive days if the information continues to change. Examples: Terrorist attacks, natural disasters, accidents.

  • 2.3.a Large website
  • 2.3.b Small website
  • 2.3.c Mobile (tablet and phone)
  • 2.3.d Students work

2.4 Data project
Submit the URL of a project based on data. These entries can be one individual piece or continued coverage of a topic (five to eight individual pieces) of a breaking news event. Examples: Elections maps, sports.

  • 2.4.a Large website
  • 2.4.b Small website
  • 2.4.c Mobile (tablet-phone)
  • 2.4.d Student work

3. Features

3.1 Single-story project
Submit the URL of an individual piece of work.

  • 3.1.a Large website
  • 3.1.b Small website
  • 3.1.c Mobile (tablet and phone)
  • 3.1.d Student work

3.2 Coverage
Submit the URLs of continued coverage of a particular topic, including at least three to eight individual pieces. (An example of this might be an extended series.)

  • 3.2.a Large website
  • 3.2.b Small website
  • 3.2.c Mobile (tablet and phone)
  • 3.2.d Student work

3.3 Data project
Submit the URL of a project based on data. These entries can be one individual piece or continued coverage of a topic (three to eight individual pieces).

  • 3.3.a Large website
  • 3.2.b Small website
  • 3.3.c Mobile (tablet and phone)
  • 3.4.d Student work

3.4 E-book
Submit the URL to download the publication.

  • 3.4.a Large website
  • 3.4.b Small website
  • 3.4.c Student work

4. Continuous use

4.1 Section or topic
Submit the URL of a home, section or topic page, or anything that works with a template and is regularly updated. Example: homepage, weather page, movies section, tv grid.
Apps based on RSS-feeds should be also sent to this category.

  • 4.1.a Large website
  • 4.1.b Small website
  • 4.1.c Mobile (tablet and phone)
  • 4.1.d Student work

4.2 Redesign
Submit at least three before examples and three after examples. Please include examples of front, section and story pages as well as two to five other pages or examples. Examples of before design can be sent as whole-page JPGs, but working websites are desirable.

  • 4.2.a Large website
  • 4.2.b Small website
  • 4.2.c Mobile (tablet and phone)
  • 4.2.d Student work

5. Use of multimedia

Submit work that demonstrates the use of the video, audio or photo. The content of the multimedia as well as the container and the presentation will be considered.

  • 5.a Large website
  • 5.b Small website
  • 5.c Mobile (tablet and phone)
  • 5.d Student work

6. Special events

Submit a portfolio of work — three to eight individual pieces — related to a topic.

  • 6.1 Olympics portfolio
  • 6.1.a Large website
  • 6.1.b Small website
  • 6.1.c Mobile (tablet and phone)
  • 6.1.d Student work
  • 6.2 U.S. election portfolio
  • 6.2.a Large website
  • 6.2.b Small website
  • 6.2.c Mobile (tablet and phone)
  • 6.2.d Student work

7. Portfolios

Submit a portfolio of work — three to eight individual pieces.
7.1 Organization portfolio
This body of work can be designed by different people, staff efforts.

  • 7.1.a Large website
  • 7.1.b Small website
  • 7.1.c Mobile (tablet and phone)
  • 7.1.d Student work

7.2 Individual portfolio
This body of work should be designed or have significant contributions by an individual designer.