Mark, This is really great to see all the inside pages. I feel like I'm getting a real tour of the winners. Keep up the good work. Of course, I find it amusing when judges snobbishly refer to the 'constraints of the compact format.'
As if it's the goal of every newspaper to aspire to 'flourish like a broadsheet.'

Pleas. Broadsheets do not flourish - expcept when readers have to gesticulate their entire upper body in order to turn the page . . .

Easy there, Tab Boy.

As long as I'm not on the L, me and my favorite broadsheet flourish just fine.

I'm curious: do judges have to be literate in the language of the newspaper they're judging?

Seems odd to let people rate a paper if they don't know what the words are saying.

Presumably the visual style would reflect the editorial philosophy, but how can you know that if you don't read the language?

Tom,

Judges are provided both translation and translators for publications they're not fluent in.

It occurred to me about five seconds after I posted that SND would've taken these concerns into account.

Doesn't every midsize American city have a weekly business tab that looks essentially like that?