In the April issue of the Society for News Design's Update newsletter (PDF), judges of the recent SND contest were asked to share what trends they saw in the entrants. One of the news and sports judges, Marcy Mangels of The (White Plains, N.Y.) Journal News, said:

The most annoying trend was the obvious copying of a technique or gimmick. There were several papers with GIANT fingerprints used as icons in cold case kind of stories.