South China Morning Post recognised at 20th annual SOPA Editorial Awards

Staff win one award and receive three honourable mentions at ceremony in Hong Kong

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Staff from the South China Morning Post at the SOPA 2018 Awards. Photo: Dickson Lee

Published: 11:48pm, 13 Jun 2018Updated: 8:53am, 14 Jun 2018

The South China Morning Post earned one award and three honourable mentions at the annual Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Editorial Awards this year, the event’s most competitive race ever with a record 850 entries competing in 17 categories.

“What happens in the cage, stays in the cage”, a multimedia graphic, by infographic designers Marcelo Duhalde and Dennis Wong, that illustrated the rules and skills used in the combat sport of mixed martial arts, gained the nods of the judges and was chosen for the Excellence in Information Graphics award.

Marcelo Duhalde (left), Helena Phila (centre), New York Times SOPA board member, and Dennis Wong. Photo: Dickson Lee

Another entry from the Post’s infographic team in the same category, “What’s in a face”, by infographic designers Marco Hernandez and Marcelo Duhalde, that illustrated how the skull’s overall bone and flesh structure has shaped characteristics unique to the Asian face, also won an honourable mention.

A series of exclusive reports by the paper’s China desk last September about Xi Jinping’s thoughts to be enshrined in the Communist Party’s charter, and the new line-up of the country’s leadership, ahead of the all-important national party congress in Beijing in October, also won the honourable mention the Scoop awards category.

Also catching the eyes of the judges was the video news report, “Chinese roots”, by video producer Lea Li and culture desk senior writer Bernice Chan, that featured an African-American of New York who found her Chinese grandfather’s family in Shenzhen.

It won an honourable mention in Excellence in Video Reporting.