South China Morning Post wins big at Asian Digital Media Awards

Post recognised for number of online features, taking several gold, silver and bronze awards

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Members of the South China Morning Post's editorial team Chow Chung-yan, Darren Long, Malcolm Ong and Ben Abbotts at the Asian Digital Media Awards 2017. Photo: Benson Chao

Published: 9:45pm, 1 Nov 2017Updated: 1:17pm, 2 Nov 2017

The South China Morning Post was a big winner at this year’s prestigious Asian Digital Media Awards, bagging four golds, two silvers, and a bronze in four categories at a prize ceremony in Singapore on Wednesday.

The Post took gold, silver, and bronze prizes in the data visualisation category, with the top honour going to a comprehensive explainer on five major projects featured in China’s Belt and Road Initiative to open up foreign trade along a new Silk Route.

Infographic feature “The Power of Your Passport”, visualising international relations by showing how easy, or difficult, it is for each country’s citizens to travel abroad won silver; and the bronze went to multimedia graphic “Bolts from the Blue”, illustrating some of Hong Kong’s biggest storms in 2016.

Popular Post magazine This Week in Asia struck gold in the best news website category, while the silver was awarded to the main online platform, scmp.com .

This Week in Asia won gold in the ‘best news website’ category.

The newspaper’s mobile app was awarded the gold prize in the best news mobile service category, while the HK Racing site also won gold in the best in lifestyle, sports or entertainment website category.