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South China Morning Post section Young Post wins top international prize for Occupy coverage

Supplement's stories on Occupy movement hailed as an example for all media reporting

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, the 's supplement for young readers, has won the top prize in the editorial category at an international competition recognising publishers who excel in engaging youths in news.

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ThePost's winning section.
ThePost's winning section.
The World Young Reader Prize was awarded to the section for its coverage of last year's Occupy protest movement in the annual competition organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (Wan-Ifra).

The awards were sponsored by CCI Europe, a Denmark-based publisher of newspaper production software.

"This is a good example of not only giving youth a voice in a highly political situation but also of how all media today need to report major news events: multimedia and social," the jury said about 's coverage.

"It also, once again, bursts the myth that young people are not interested in serious news stories."

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The editorial team began their coverage of the Occupy protests when a week-long student rally started on September 28.

Deputy editor Karly Cox said: "We were there for the student protests. When we realised it wasn't just going to be a one-day event, we rethought our strategy."

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