SND47 Singapore

South-East Asia's First SND Workshop

Date: Friday April 24, 2026
Time: 10:00am-6:00pm SGT
Location: SPH Auditorium, 1000 Toa Payoh North
Ticket: $75.00 USD.
This event is free for members of SND

Join us for a landmark moment in journalism and design as we host South-East Asia's first SND (Society for News Design) workshop - a one-day inaugural event celebrating excellence, innovation, and the future of news design and visual storytelling.

This workshop comes at a significant time for the industry, following the first-ever SND Creative Competition to feature dual judging, including a regional judging session hosted at Reuters. This milestone reflects the growing influence and recognition of visual journalism and communications in South-East Asia and beyond.

Bringing together leading voices in media, design, and storytelling, the workshop will explore how visual journalism continues to evolve in a rapidly changing digital landscape.

Stephanie is a data and visual journalist at The Straits Times. Her work has received multiple awards, including the newsroom's first SND Gold Medal for a visual story on greenwashing in the fashion industry. She enjoys experimenting with visual metaphors and pushing the boundaries of data visualisation in journalism.

Charlene is a graphics journalist at The Straits Times, specialising in data-driven and visual storytelling. She has received multiple awards for her work, and was named Young Digital Journalist by the Singapore Press Club in 2025. She is passionate about data visualisation and using it to tell compelling, human-centric stories.

Xaquín G.V. is an award-winning Galician visual journalist and instructor with over two decades of experience in data visualization, visual explanations, and interactive storytelling. He currently mentors the Visuals team at The Straits Times in Singapore, teaches Information Visualization at the University of Girona, and co-leads the ViT Visualization for Transparency Foundation. He has collaborated with dozens of international companies and agencies, including UNEP, Google, Microsoft, and the IOM. He has worked at The New York Times and National Geographic, among other publications, and led the multi-awarded Visuals team at The Guardian-a cross-disciplinary, 40-person team comprising graphics, interactive, multimedia, and photo editors.

Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa is a data and graphics journalist with eight years of experience across national and international media organisations. He currently works with Reuters, covering major news events through data-driven reporting and visual storytelling. Based in India, his work focuses on the Asia-Pacific region and largely spans politics, conflict, health, environment and disasters. He is a gold medalist in Convergent Journalism from the Central University of Kashmir.

Hannah is a digital graphics journalist and project manager at The Straits Times with a background in design and video. With an appreciation for storytelling, she is keen to explore the best ways to weave together text and visuals into captivating narratives.

Rebecca Pazos is the Asia Graphics Editor at Reuters, based in Singapore. With over a decade of experience in data-driven storytelling, she leads a multidisciplinary team of data journalists, designers, and developers to produce compelling visual narratives. She is passionate about human-centred data visualisation and impactful visual storytelling for all.

Before joining Reuters in 2024, she spent nine years at The Straits Times, where she played a pivotal role in shaping the publication's visual and data journalism efforts.

Rebecca currently serves as a board member and secretary of the Society for News Design, and is a co-founder of the Singapore chapter of the Data Visualization Society, reflecting her commitment to advancing the field of visual journalism.

Senior infographic designer at South China Morning Post (SCMP) from 2023, after more than 10 years as an Infographics Editor in Spain at El Confidencial, La Vanguardia and freelancer. She holds a degree in Arts and Design, and Master's degrees in Digital Arts and Data Visualization. Her areas of expertise converge at the intersection of infographics, data visualization, graphic design, visual storytelling, cartography, illustration and creative coding. Additionally, she has been honored with several awards at the Society of News Design, Information is Beautiful and SIGMA awards.

Ben Spraggon is a senior designer at Story Lab, ABC News Digital (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), specialising in engaging visual storytelling, data visualisation, and accessible audience-focused product design.

Ben was a key member of the team behind Deep Time, a landmark interactive project that brings together 65,000 years of Australian Indigenous history through 130+ cultural stories from traditional knowledge holders across the country.

Their work has earned international recognition from The Society for News Design, Information is Beautiful, and numerous other visual journalism awards.

Jon Wile is VP/Design at American City Business Journals in Charlotte, North Carolina. Jon oversees design for 40 business journals across editorial, advertising, events, marketing, product, and UX. He created and manages the News Design Desk and Business Design Desk, a pair of centralized design teams that have more than 50 designers across the U.S. Previously at ACBJ, Jon served as VP/Content as well as Creative Director, a role in which he redesigned all 40 papers and web sites.

Before joining ACBJ in 2012, Jon worked in a variety of design and leadership roles at The Washington Post for seven years and helped with multiple redesigns at the paper. He's also worked at The Plain Dealer and Detroit Free Press. He's a graduate of Kent State University, with a degree in newspaper journalism.

Jon is the current President of the Society for News Design, an organization he has supported for more than two decades in a variety of roles. He hosted the annual workshop in Charlotte and was contest coordinator for its annual creative competition.

Jon resides in Charlotte, N.C., with his two sons, J.J. and Theo, and a rescue dog, Rocky. He enjoys drinking and collecting bourbon, playing golf, watching Ohio State football, traveling, and cooking.

Jin Wu is a senior graphics reporter for Bloomberg News, based in Singapore. She tells visual and data-driven stories about APAC and sometimes rest of the world. Previously, she was part of the graphics teams at The New York Times and Reuters. Her works have won multiple awards, including those from SND, Malofiej and SOPA.

Javier Zarracina is a visual storytelling leader with more than 30 years of experience in journalism. He has held senior graphics roles at The Washington Post, USA TODAY, Vox, the Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, where he has helped audiences understand complex stories through data visualization, design, motion, and explanatory graphics. He was part of the Boston Globe team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing.