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The South China Morning Post won silver for best overall newspaper design for the September 1 edition that featured this picture. Photo: Sam Tsang
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South China Morning Post scoops six prizes at prestigious WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards

  • Top prizes were awarded for best newspaper infographics, best sport photography and to ‘This Week In Asia’ for best magazine cover design
  • Silver awards were also won in best overall newspaper design for coverage of last year’s protests and best overall magazine design
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The South China Morning Post has won six awards, including three golds, at this year’s prestigious WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards.

It won in a total of five categories, including a silver award for best overall newspaper design, for the September 1 edition with the headline “The night the city was set ablaze” on the previous day’s violent protests in which live rounds were shot, multiple fires lit and the MTR paralysed.
The front cover of This Week In Asia's 'The (not quite) white issue'. Photo: SCMP
The Post’s This Week In Asia magazine took gold for best magazine cover design, with the judges so impressed by senior designer Huy Truong’s layout for “The (not quite) white issue” that it also scooped silver for best overall magazine design. The cover story explored Asia’s fetishisation of mixed race celebrities and the internalised racism that results.
A gold for best newspaper infographics was awarded for “The first 100 days of protests”, on last year’s unrest, by designers Pablo Robles, Dennis Wong, and Darren Long, head of the Post’s graphics and magazine department. A bronze award, meanwhile, was awarded to the infographic on “How MMA’s roots are in Hong Kong” by Robles, Wong and their colleague Adolfo Arranz.
‘Hong Kong Sevens, short version’. Photo: Winson Wong
Judges also gave a gold for best in sport photography to “Hong Kong Sevens, short version”, a cheeky shot by Post photographer Winson Wong showing Aminiasi Tuimaba of Fiji pulling on Gabin Villiere of France’s clothes during the cup final match on the last day of last year’s tournament at Hong Kong Stadium.

Editor-in-Chief Tammy Tam welcomed the awards as encouraging acknowledgement of the newsroom’s “commitment to publishing and design excellence”.

“We are also proud of the wins in the infographics and sports photography categories that underline our focus to inform, educate and entertain our readers in innovative ways,” she said. “We will continue to strive to provide our readers with quality journalism and impactful coverage on mainland China, Hong Kong and the region.”

A gold for best newspaper infographics was awarded for ‘the first 100 days of protests’. Illustration: Adolfo Arranz

Long, the graphics and magazine department head, said he was “proud of how the team packs so much information into digestible visual stories”.

“Time is such a luxury in today's world that infographics are the ideal format for readers to absorb and remember data,” he said.

Organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, the awards recognise publishers who have adopted digital media and mobile strategies as part of their total product and met major changes in how people consume news and information today.

Prizes were awarded in 13 categories that also covered newspaper marketing and community service.

No in-person presentation was held this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, with the results being announced online instead.

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