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Best of News Design

    The competition invites entries from all magazines and newspapers---daily or nondaily---published anywhere in the world.

How to Enter

    Best of News Design TM Creative Competition is held each year. The Call for Entries is published in print and online in November of the competition year.

    Printed copies of the Call for Entries are mailed in November to anyone who needs a copy. Or, get a PDF copy of the Call for Entries in English here.

    Later this month Society of News Design (SND) will post copies of the Call for Entries in French, German, and Russian as well.

    Each entry requires a small entry fee, paid in U.S. dollars.

Entry Deadlines

    Entries from publications in the United States must be received at Syracuse (N.Y.) University no later than Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2015.

    Entries from publications outside the United States must be received at Syracuse (N.Y.) University no later than Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2015.

    SND will inform winners by e-mail or U.S. mail beginning Saturday, March 1, 2015.Also, SND will list the names of winners on this website in early mid-March.

    Don’t forget to check out our web coverage of judging beginning Saturday, Feb. 8, 2015. Be the first to know what’s happening in Syracuse.

Winners

    Newspapers that win Award of Excellence, Silver Medal, Gold Medal, Judges’ Special Recognition or Best in Show honors receive recognition in several ways:

-Each winner receives a certificate(证书).

-A picture of the winning newspaper and the names of winners are published in the book “The Best of News Design TM”.

-One picture of the winning entry, along with the names of winners and other information, is published on www.snd.org.

-SND publishes a piece of news showing the results of each year’s competition.

 你很感兴趣，给她写一封电子邮件，内容包括：

1   自我介绍；

2   询问相关事宜；

3   希望她能答应。

注意：1    词数100词左右；开头结尾已写好，不计入总词数。

          2 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Alice,

           I’m Li Hua, a 15-year-old boy loving bodybuilding very much.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

           Looking forward to your early reply!

                                                                                                                                                  Yours,

                                                                                                                                                Li Hua  

Language requirements for all programmes, except Creative Writing

    All teaching for the programmes is in English. We require all applicants whose first language is not English to have one of the following test results:

   Academic IELTS details can be obtained from local British Council offices. The minimum requirement is an overall band score of 6.5 with no less than 6.5 in each of the four elements.

   Applicants with Cambridge CAE require grade A or B. Those with Cambridge CPE require grade C or above. For the new Cambridge English Scale, a minimum of 193 points is required in either CAE or CPE.

   Applicant's Academic IELTS and Cambridge CAE/CPE test results will be directly accessed by our office. In order for us to do this, applicants should supply the following information on their application form:

Academic IELTS:

Test Report Form (TRF) number Cambridge CAE/CPE：

Candidate ID number (this is 3 letters and 6 numbers) and secret number (4 numbers)

   These results should have been achieved in the same sitting, and no more than 2 years before the date of application.

   Language requirements for Creative Writing

   The minimum requirement is an overall Academic IELTS band score of 7.0, with no less than 7.0 in each of the four elements. Applicants with Cambridge CAE require grade A. Those with Cambridge CPE require grade A, B or C. For the new Cambridge English Scale, a minimum of 200 points is required in cither CAE or CPE. These results should have been achieved in the same sitting, and no more than 2 years before the date of application.

   In addition to meeting the above language requirements for Creative Writing, all applicants are required to submit a 300-400 word written piece, explaining their reasons for applying.

   All programmes: notice concerning TOEFL test scores

   Please note： Due to UK Government restrictions, we are no longer able to accept TOEFL test scores.

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     Kara L. Miller writes a Washington Post advicecolumn (专栏) on finding your way around the modern workplace. Each week she will answer one or two questions from readers.

      Question:I’m Sam. I work part-time, paid hourly. There are only two employees: me and my boss. I receive no paid holidays or sick time, no health insurance, and one week’s paid vacation. For me, this job is just a job, and the salary I earn doesn’t guarantee a 24/7 on-call mentality.

     From almost the beginning, my boss has freely called me at home, called my personal cellphone, and emailed my personal account during my off-hours and vacation.

      Five years later, it’s still happening despite my having politely asked her several times not to contact me during my non-working hours.

     Each time I ask, she apologizes and stops for a while, but always goes back to the behavior. I never take her phone calls on my cell, but she hasn’t got my point.

     The point is, it is never anything that can’t wait until the next business day! I am ready to lose it!

      Answer:If it won’t cost you your job, call block and email filter (过滤器) are one easy path to inner peace.

     It puzzles me that your boss seems to agree she’s out of bounds, but then continues to contact you.

      Either she occasionally gets enough response from you to make it worth trying, or she can’t help firing off questions on impulse (一时冲动).

      You could ask her, once and for all, whether she’s OK with waiting for responses—in which case her after-hours calls and emails will be answered the next business day—or whether she wants instant answers—in which case, you will be tracking the time you spend responding so you can be paid for it.