2018 Awards

WAN-IFRA 17th Asian Media Awards 2018 (5 wins)

Best in Design

  • Gold Award: Sunday Morning Post (5 Mar 2017)

Magazine Overall Design

  • Gold Award: Post Magazine (17 Sep 2017)

Magazine Cover Design

  • Silver Award: How to lose friends and alienate people (This Week in Asia 12 Mar 2017)

Best in Infographics

  • Gold Award: Getting to grips with North Korea
  • Silver Award: What’s in a face?

INMA Global Media Awards 2018 (3 wins)

  • Best in Asia/Pacific, Global/National Brands: South China Morning Post (Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund JumpStarter)
  • First Place – Best Marketing Solution for an Advertising Client (Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund Jumpstarter 2017)
  • Honourable Mention – Best Use of Mobile (HK Racing)

SOPA Awards 2018 (4 wins)

Excellence in Information Graphics

  • Award for Excellence: What happens in the cage, stays in the cage – Marcelo Duhalde and Dennis Wong
  • Honorable Mention: What’s in a face? – Marco Hernandez and Marcelo Duhalde

Excellence in Video Reporting

  • Honorable Mention: Chinese roots – Lea Li and Bernice Chan

The Scoop Award

  • Honorable Mention: Party promotions – SCMP Staff Reporters

Global BIGGIES Awards 2018 (6 wins)

Excellence in Data Analytics, Group A

  • Second Place: Implementation of Data Management Platform 

Excellence in Data-driven Advertising Campaign

  • First Place: Retargeting Campaign Roll-out with Data to Maximize Reach and Conversion

Excellence in Data-driven Business Process Efficiency

  • Award of Excellence: Strengthening Data Culture at SCMP 

Excellence in Data-Driven Product Development, Group A

  • Second Place: Leveraging Data for A/B Testing 

Excellence for Creativity in a Data-Driven Project

  • Second Place: ETL without a data engineer 

Excellence in Data-driven Technology

  • Award of Excellence: Implementation of GCS to increase reliance on data across the organization

Society for News Design (SND) – Best of Digital Design 2017 Edition (18 wins)

Features: Single-subject project

  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – The good wine
  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Valentines Day
  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – The five main projects of the Belt and Road Initiative
  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Getting to grips with North Korea in 15 graphics

Graphics: Features and planned coverage

  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Getting away from work in 2018
  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Are we alone?
  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – The good wine
  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Land of the giants
  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – The power of your passport
  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Plugging China into Europe
  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Getting to grips with North Korea in 15 graphics
  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Mixed Martial Arts
  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Russia 2018 World Cup
  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – They are very close… and you can’t escape them

Graphics: Motion graphics

  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Mixed Martial Arts: What happens in the cage… stays in the cage

Portfolio: Individual

  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Marco Hernandez Portfolio
  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Marcelo Duhalde Portfolio

Portfolio: Organization

  • Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – The South China Morning Post Graphics Team

Society for News Design (SND) Award 39th Edition (2017) (31 wins)

Information Graphics [Single] Features

  • Award of Excellence: What’s in a face – Macro Hernandez, Marcelo Duhalde
  • Award of Excellence: A dog’s life – Marcelo Duhalde
  • Award of Excellence: Divine Creations – Marco Hernandez
  • Award of Excellence: Away from work – Marco Hernandez
  • Award of Excellence: On the road – Marco Hernandez, Marcelo Duhalde, Adolfo Arranz
  • Award of Excellence: Trump’s global empire – Marcelo Duhalde
  • Award of Excellence: A world of graft – Dennis Wong
  • Award of Excellence: The power of your passport – Marco Hernandez

Information Graphics [Single] Local

  • Award of Excellence: Endless duty – Marcelo Duhalde

Information Graphics [Single] Other

  • Award of Excellence: They are very close – Adolfo Arranz

Information Graphics [Single] Nation & World

  • Award of Excellence: China’s rain dance – Adolfo Arranz
  • Award of Excellence: How China Invests in America – Adolfo Arranz
  • Award of Excellence: Iphone 10 years – Adolfo Arranz

Information Graphics [Single] Nation & World

  • Award of Excellence: Money in Your Pocket – Marcelo Duhalde

Information Graphics [Single] Sports

  • Award of Excellence: What happens in the cage stays in the cage – Marcelo Duhalde, Dennis Wong
  • Award of Excellence: How they score – Marco Hernandez

News Design [Pages] A-Section/Broadsheet

  • Award of Excellence : The rise of Islamic State in Southeast Asia – Adolfo Arranz
  • Award of Excellence: China’s rain dance – Adolfo Arranz
  • Award of Excellence: Deportations from the U.S. – Marcelo Duhalde
  • Award of Excellence: What’s in a face – Macro Hernandez, Marcelo Duhalde

News Design [Pages] Business/Broadsheet

  • Award of Excellence: Iphone 10 years – Adolfo Arranz
  • Award of Excellence: How China Invests in America – Adolfo Arranz

News Design [Pages] Sports/Broadsheet

  • Award of Excellence: What happens in the cage stays in the cage – Marcelo Duhalde, Dennis Wong

News Design [Pages] Inside page/Broadsheet

  • Award of Excellence : The rise of Islamic State in Southeast Asia – Adolfo Arranz

News Design [Pages] Other/Broadsheet

  • Award of Excellence: They are very close – Adolfo Arranz

Features Design [Pages] Other/Broadsheet

  • Award of Excellence: What happens in the cage stays in the cage – Marcelo Duhalde, Dennis Wong

Combination Print & Digital Features

  • Award of Excellence: Getting to Grips with North Korea – Marcelo Duhalde, Macro Hernandez, Adolfo Arranz
  • Award of Excellence: The power of your passport – Marco Hernandez

Illustration Features/Color

  • Award of Excellence: Beyond the Great Divide – Kaliz Lee

Information Graphics [Multiple] Staff Portfolio

  • Award of Excellence: On the Road – Marco Hernandez, Marcelo Duhalde, Adolfo Arranz

Photography [Multiple Photos] Photo Page Design

  • Award of Excellence: Faces caught in the crowd – Emilio Rivera, Yves Sieur

The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong – Hong Kong News Awards 2017 (9 wins)

Best News Reporting

  • Merit: Party Congress – Choi Chi-yuk, Viola Zhou, Nectar Gan, Jun Mai

Best News Writing (English)

  • Winner: Rags among the riches – Phila Siu

Best Business News Writing (English)

  • Winner: The winner techs it all – Coco Liu
  • 2nd Runner-up: Last brokers to turn off lights on 126 years of floor trading – Enoch Yiu

Best Headline (English)

  • 2nd Runner-up: He said, Xi said – Debasish Roy Chowdhury

Best News Page Design (Single Page)

  • Winner: A dog’s life – Marcelo Duhalde
  • Merit: Get smart, Hong Kong – Dennis Wong

Best Photograph (News)

  • Merit: Activist Joshua Wong’s political career by jail term for his role in an illegal protest that triggered the 2014 Occupy sit-ins – K.Y. Cheng

Best Photograph (Features)

  • 1st Runner-up: Congealed lumps of palm oil prove white terror of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour after leak from ship collision – Nora Tam

Hong Kong Press Photographers Association – Focus on the Frontline 2017 (3 wins)

Sport News

  • 2nd Prize: Sam Tsang

Portrait

  • 3rd Prize: Nora Tam

Nature & Environment

  • 3rd Prize: Sam Tsang

26th Malofiej International Infographics Awards 2017 (7 wins)

Printed Graphics

Features – Sports

  • Silver Award: What happens in the cage, stays in the cage
  • Bronze Award: How they score

Features – Science, Technology, Medical and Health issues

  • Silver Award: They are very close…

Features – World and Nation

  • Bronze Award: What’s in a face

Features – Travel, Transportation, Cars and Environment

  • Bronze Award: Divine Creations

Portfolios – Features Portfolio

  • Bronze Award: Features portfolio South China Morning Post

Online Graphics

Features – Travel, Transportation, Cars and Environment

  • Bronze Award: The tallest statues in the world

18th Consumer Rights Reporting Awards (2 wins)

Text (News/Features/Commentaries)

  • Bronze Award: The cost of service – Sandy Li

Press Photo

  • Silver Award: Dickson Lee

6th HKAIM Media Convergence Awards (13 wins)

  • Top 10 Media: South China Morning Post
  • Gold Award – Overall Excellence: South China Morning Post
  • Gold Award: Newspaper Category (Overall) – South China Morning Post
  • Gold Award: Newspaper Category (Website) – South China Morning Post
  • Gold Award: Newspaper Category (Mobile) – South China Morning Post
  • Gold Award: Newspaper Category (Social Media) – South China Morning Post
  • Gold Award: Overall Media (Website) – South China Morning Post
  • Gold Award: Overall Media (Mobile) – South China Morning Post
  • Silver Award: Overall Media (Social Media) – South China Morning Post
  • Gold Award: Monthly Magazine Category (Social Media) – Elle
  • Bronze Award: Monthly Magazine Category (Social Media) – Harper’s Bazaar
  • Bronze Award: Monthly Magazine Category (Website) – Elle
  • Bronze Award: Monthly Magazine Category (Website) – Harper’s Bazaar

Marketing Magazine’s The Spark Awards 2018 (8 wins)

Best Social Media Event

  • Gold: ELLE Girl – ELLE Hong Kong (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)

Best Use of Content

  • Gold: ELLE Girl – ELLE Hong Kong (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)

Best Media Campaign – Experiential

  • Gold: LANDMARK Christmas 2017 – South China Moring Post (South China Morning Post Publishers – Marketing Solutions)

Best Partnership Strategy

  • Silver: Esquire x ELLE MEN Sands Macau Project – Esquire / ELLE MEN (SCMP Hearst)

Best Use of Small Budget

  • Silver: Why don’t you… – Harper’s Bazaar HK (Harper’s BAZAAR HK)

Best Function Activation

  • Bronze: Cosmo x PLAN Run for Girls 2018 – Cosmopolitan HK (Cosmopolitan HK)

Best Media Campaign – Print

  • Bronze: LANDMARK “A Year of Wisdom” Campaign – South China Morning Post (South China Morning Post Publishers – Marketing Solutions)

Best Media Campaign – Social

  • Bronze: Celine x ELLE Campaign – ELLE Hong Kong (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)