The judges of the recent SND Best of Newspaper Design competition have unanimously awarded Judges' Special Recognition to the staffs of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and the Sun Herald of Biloxi, Miss., for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

"People talk about making a newspaper a vital party of the community and these newspapers fulfilled that function stunningly after this devastating hurricane leveled the towns they serve," judge Cory Powell said. "That they managed to make such great work in the middle of it all humbles us.”