South China Morning Post takes top honours at Hong Kong News Awards
The Post won 10 prizes in the Newspaper Society’s 2016 Hong Kong News Awards
The South China Morning Post scooped 10 prizes in the Newspaper Society’s 2016 Hong Kong News Awards.
Editor-in-chief Tammy Tam said: “Our team has once again done the SCMP proud. The accolades are an encouraging endorsement of the editorial excellence that we have been striving towards. Credible, balanced and accurate reporting has become even more vital and valued at a time when events are sometimes shrouded in uninformed speculation and disinformation,” she said.
The Post’s design team was also acknowledged as head of layout and design Carl Jones and art director Emilio Rivera won top prize for Best Series News Page Design for a Focus piece on the G20 in Hangzhou. Graphic designer Brian Wang received second runner-up for Best Single News Page Design for the article “Hong Kong cabbies step up a gear”.
Photographers Sam Tsang and David Wong received awards for their work in the Best News Photographic and Best Sports Photographic categories.
“For me, the best part of our success this time is that several of the winners were part of larger multimedia packages,” Tam said. “This validates the efforts we have taken in embracing digital media even as we maintain quality of on all platforms.”