Post wins big at prestigious WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards, scooping six awards including two golds

The 115 year-old newspaper won in a total of four categories, including a silver award for the Hong Kong desk’s best breaking news coverage, for updating readers with the latest during and after Typhoon Mangkhut, the most intense storm in Hong Kong’s history that lasted for 10 hours, uprooted about 1,500 trees, left hundreds of windows smashed and brought the city’s transport network to a standstill.

The Post took three prizes in the best newspaper infographics category, with the top honour going to deputy creative director Adolfo Arranz who won a gold for “The China Ship”, which illustrated a map of sailing routes across the Pacific, by Spanish merchant galleons as they shipped and traded exotic goods during the beginning of modern-day globalisation in the mid 16th century.

Infographic designer Pablo Robles’ “Highs and Lows” won silver for visualising how energy consumption corresponds to the weather. Robles’ artistic annotations showed an exquisite overview of the past 47 years, explaining how the two relate to each other.

Judges also recognised senior designer Marcelo Duhalde with a bronze award for his infographic feature “Life inside the Forbidden City”, which successfully provided colourful and detailed illustrations of how women were selected as concubines, the hierarchy of the women’s ranking and what their lives were like inside the imperial palace.

SCMP’s print design team led by Carl Jones struck gold in the best newspaper overall design category, while a bronze in best breaking news article was awarded to two reporters, Laurie Chen and Catherine Wong, for their hard work in an exclusive report on the arrest of the 64 year-old Interpol president Meng Hongwei who the Post revealed had gone missing in late 2018.