Meet your judges: The graphics team

CHARLES APPLE is graphics director of The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk. Previously, he worked for papers in Raleigh, N.C., and Des Moines, Iowa, and for the Chicago Tribune. The winner of several SND awards for graphics and graphics reporting, Apple has taught numerous workshops and contributes to SND’s Design magazine and various online forums.

VIVIAN KENT, a freelance graphic artist for the Daily Mail in London, is a qualified cartographer. She joined the Economist in 1969, later becoming department head. Kent was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1987. Following a year at the Sunday Correspondent, she joined The Daily Telegraph in 1990, subsequently becoming deputy graphics editor. She is the winner of many awards for animated news graphics.

KARL GUDE left a 27-year news career to teach information graphics at Michigan State University’s School of Journalism. For the past decade, he has worked at Newsweek magazine. He was director of information graphics for most of that time. During the 17 years prior, he worked in a similar capacity at United Press International and the Associated Press, and at the Daily News, in New York, and the now-defunct National Sports Daily.

CAROLYN "CARRIE" COCKBURN is graphic artist in the news section of The Globe and Mail, Toronto. She has won two awards from SND for graphics at the newspaper. Previously, she ran a photography business, as well as working for the Financial Post in Toronto as the assistant photo editor and then graphic artist.

LÉO TAVEJNHANSKY, art director for O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has designed and redesigned many newspapers across Brazil. He has been working as an art director and designer since 1970. He’s received SND awards, and he’s spoken at two SND Annual Workshops. He is the subcommittee coordinator on design/photography at Brazil’s Association of Newspapers.