SCMP wins gold and silver in Hang Seng University’s 6th Business Journalism Awards

Deputy Business Editor Peggy Sito won gold for her December 2021 feature story about a significant reform in China’s national pricing scheme for pharmaceuticals
Senior correspondents Chad Bray, Georgina Lee and Enoch Yiu won silver with their November 2021 feature about the progress in Hong Kong’s fintech industry

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Published: 4:59pm, 28 Apr 2022

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South China Morning Post won gold and silver in the Best Business News Reporting category of the 6th Business Journalism Awards organised by the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong’s School of Communications.

Deputy Business Editor Peggy Sito won gold for her December 2021 feature story about a significant reform in China’s national pricing scheme for pharmaceuticals. The same story was the winner this week of the 2022 Citi Journalistic Excellence Awards administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Senior correspondents Chad Bray, Georgina Lee and Enoch Yiu won silver with their November 2021 feature about the progress in Hong Kong’s fintech that is helping the city catch up with neighbours in the Greater Bay Area.

Ming Pao’s Chan Wai-yan shared silver with a November 2021 story about subsidies granted to the Baptist University’s kindergarten. Now TV and HK01 received the gold and silver awards respectively in the video and audio sections of the award category.

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“As the country’s financial, logistics and trade centre, Hong Kong’s markets and industries owe their vigorous development to the positive power of business journalism,” Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said in a statement announcing the awards. “By exploring new changes and opportunities, addressing weaknesses, or heralding risks, quality business reporting pushes the development of the economy and the markets.”

More than 400 journalists submitted entries to compete for awards in nine categories, now in their sixth annual edition. The panel of judges comprised more than 50 professionals from different fields, selecting the winning entries based on news value and impact, originality and exclusivity, reportorial quality, storytelling and writing skills.

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Lee Yun-yan of the Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly won gold in the Best Business Technology News Reporting category with a July 2021 report about the utopian aspirations of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a story that also garnered the Business Reporter of the Year award. The silver of the Business Technology category went to iMoney Magazine.

China Daily Hong Kong’s Zeng Xinlan was recognised as Young Business Reporter of the Year.

In the Business News Series Reporting category, Sing Tao Daily won gold and silver in text, while Now TV won gold for audiovisual, and HK01 received the silver award.

Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly received gold in the Best Property Market News category in text, while iMoney was awarded the silver award.

The gold award in the Best Business & Finance Profile Interview category went to Hong Kong Economic Journal, while the silver went to iMoney. In the Best Economic & Financial Policy News Reporting category, iMoney won gold while Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly received the silver.