Talented danish journalist Hans Henrik Lichtenberg just made me aware of the Society for News Design’s annual News Design contest. Hans Henrik mentions one of the winners, who also won in 2000. While I agree with him that it does make a design that stands out, wouldn’t it have been fun if they had named a famous blog the winner? That would atleast make those newspapers who haven’t realised the potential of blogs yet, re-think their strategy. The winner he mentions, Hartford Courant, is not the world’s largest newspaper though. It has a circulation of about 250000, for comparison danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende has a circulation of about 130000. Another innovative design, beside the blog, could be electronic paper, why haven’t someone done a prototype and showed it to the SND?