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Post lifts five prizes at SOPA Editorial Awards

Paper's editorial and multimedia teams praised for journalistic excellence

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Post journalists celebrate the newspaper's successes at last night's Sopa awards dinner. Photo: Felix Wong
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The South China Morning Post and the Sunday Morning Post lifted five prizes and earned five honourable mentions in this year's Society of Publishers in Asia (Sopa) Editorial Awards.

The Post's coverage on US whistle-blower Edward Snowden by Lana Lam won an excellence award in the best scoop category. The Post also scored an excellence award in the best news reporting category for the series of stories on Snowden that followed.
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Harry Harrison won an honourable mention in editorial cartooning for his depiction of the NSA whistle-blower.
Harry Harrison won an honourable mention in editorial cartooning for his depiction of the NSA whistle-blower.
Harry Harrison won an honourable mention in editorial cartooning for his depiction of the NSA whistle-blower.
Another Post scoop, by the national team, on the criminal investigation into the retired security tsar Zhou Yongkang , won an honourable mention.
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The excellence in digital news award went to the Post's multimedia team, including Christy Choi, Silvio Carrillo, Robin Fall, Lau Ka-kuen, May Tse, Sarah Graham and others.

Their multimedia package, 21HK, tells of the water issues facing Hong Kong, from scarcity to cleaning up the chemicals that are flushed daily down the drain.
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