Society for News Design (SND) – Best of Digital Design 40th Edition (2018) (24 wins)
Format – Use of Maps: Use of Maps
- Silver: South China Morning Post – The Stones in the Road for China’s 2025 Plan for Electric Vehicles
Format – Use of Maps: Use of Data
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – How Hong Kong’s weather is getting hotter and more extreme
Format – Use of Maps: Use of Multimedia
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – World Cup stars and the dark arts of the not-so-beautiful game
Story Page Design – Format: Use of Illustration
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – How silver changed the world Bronze: South China Morning Post – The discovery of the roundtrip and the beginning of globalisation
Information Graphics – Breaking News: International
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – Thai cave boys: what are the rescue options?
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – How the Thai cave rescue mission unfolded
Information Graphics – News Features or Planned Coverage: National
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – How an army of eunuchs ran the Forbidden City
Information Graphics – News Features or Planned Coverage: Business/Finance, Science, Technology, Transportation, Environment & Health
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – Why the world’s flight paths are such a mess
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – What is space junk and why is it a problem?
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – 2017: The safest skies record
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – China plans to be a world leader in Artificial Intelligence by 2030
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – The stones in the road for China’s 2025 plan on electric vehicles
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – Made In China 2025 series Line of Coverage
Information Graphics – News Features or Planned Coverage: Sports
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – World Cup stars and the dark arts of the not-so-beautiful game
Information Graphics – News Features or Planned Coverage: Arts, Entertainment, Food, Travel & Lifestyle
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – I am as tall as … Bronze: South China Morning Post – The Forbidden City, Series Line of Coverage
Information Graphics – News Features or Planned Coverage: Gender/Identity & Society
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – Life inside the Forbidden City: how women were selected for service
Special Events – World Cup
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – World Cup stars and the dark arts of the not-so-beautiful game
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – If football coaches were Russian dolls, who would be the biggest?
Portfoilo: Information Graphics – Individual
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – Marcelo Duhalde
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – Marco Hernandez
- Bronze: South China Morning Post – Adolfo Arranz
Portfoilo: Information Graphics – Organization
- Bronze: South China Morning Post
The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong – Hong Kong News Awards 2018 (6 wins)
Best News Writing (English)
- Winner: ‘Don’t treat us like trash!’ – Michelle Wong Man-ting, Rachel Leung Yuk-ming
Best Business News Writing (English)
- 1st Runner-up: How Anthony Tan of Grab seized his chance – Chua Kong-ho, Zen Soo
Best Photograph (News)
- Merit: Turn for the worse – Dickson Lee
Best Photograph (Features)
- 1st Runner-up: Fully loaded – Fung Chang
Best News Page Design (Single Page)
- Merit: The China Ship – Adolfo Arranz
Best News Page Design (Series)
- Winner: Forbidden City series – Marco Hernandez, Marcelo Duhalde
27th Malofiej International Infographics Awards 2018 (8 wins)
Features – Entertainment, Arts, Culture
- Silver Award: The China ship – Adolfo Arranz
- Bronze Award: The cricket cage – Marco Hernandez
Features – Nation/World/Business News
- Bronze Award: Safe skies – Darren Long, Adolfo Arranz, Marco Hernandez, Marcelo Duhalde, Pablo Robles, Dennis Wong, Kaliz Lee
Features – Sports
- Bronze Award: Winter thaws – Marco Hernandez
Portfolios – Features Portfolio
- Bronze Award: Coverage of the Forbidden City – Marcelo Duhalde
Digital
Breaking News – Breaking News Coverage
- Bronze Award: How the Thai cave rescue mission unfolded – Adolf Arranz, Marcelo Duhalde, Pablo Robles, Marco Hernandez, Darren Long
Features – Nation/World/Business News
- Bronze Award: Why the world’s flight paths are such a mess – Marco Hernandez
Features – Technology, Health, Science
- Bronze Award: The stones in the road for China’s 2025 plan on electric vehicles – Marco Hernandez
Citi Journalistic Excellence Award 2019 (1 win)
- Winner: Cockroaches spawn new ventures from ulcer drugs to food – Liu Yujing
WAN-IFRA 18th Asian Media Awards 2019 (6 wins)
Best in Design – Newspaper Overall Design
- Gold: South China Morning Post (13 Aug 2018)
Best in Editorial Content – Newspaper Breaking News Article
- Silver: Typhoon Mangkhut
- Bronze: Arrest of Interpol’s Meng Hongwei
Best in Infographics – Newspaper Inforgraphics
- Gold: The China Ship
- Silver: Highs and lows
- Bronze: Life inside the Forbidden City
23rd Human Rights Press Awards (1 win)
Multimedia – English
- Merit: Sichuan Earthquake, 10 Years On: How a Tragedy Changed China – Sarah Zheng, Choi Chi-yuk and Magdalene Fung
SOPA Awards 2019 (5 wins)
Excellence in Video Reporting
- Award for Excellence: A family portrait of the Ice Boy – Tom Wang
Excellence in Arts & Culture Reporting
- Award for Excellence: China’s online publishing industry – Rachel Cheung
Excellence in Information Graphics
- Award for Excellence: The Forbidden City – Marco Hernandez, Marcelo Duhalde, Adolfo Arranz
Excellence in Reporting Breaking News
- Honorable Mention: Typhoon Mangkhut: as it happened – SCMP reporters
The Scoop Award
- Honorable Mention: Near collision in flashpoint sea – John Power, Catherine Wong
Hong Kong Press Photographers Association – Focus on the Frontline 2018 (4 wins)
General News
- Honorable Mentions: Winson Wong
Nature & Environment
- 1st Runner-up: Winson Wong
- Honorable Mentions: Sam Tsang
- Honorable Mentions: Winson Wong
19th Consumer Rights Reporting Awards (1 win)
Press Photo
- Bronze Award: Felix Wong
Society for News Design’s Best of Ibero-American Journalistic Design, NH19 (Spanish-language version) (4 wins)
Digital Publications – Home Landing Page
- Silver: Cómo la plata cambió el mundo – Adolfo Arranz
Digital Publications – Data Projects and Infographics
- Silver: El Galeón de China: barco insignia por más de dos siglos – Adolfo Arranz
- Bronze: El Galeon de China – Adolfo Arranz
- Bronze: Una odisea en el Pacífico – Adolfo Arranz
WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards 2019 (11 wins)
Best News Website or Mobile Service
- Gold Award: China Tech City
Best in Lifestyle, Sports, Entertainment Website or Mobile Services
- Gold Award: China Tech City
- Silver Award: scmp.com
Best Use of Online Video (including VR)
- Gold Award: Fighting fentanyl – The drug from China destroying American lives
- Silver Award: Homeless in Hong Kong : Life on a footbridge
- Bronze Award: I sold my Son to ISIS
Best Data Visualisation
- Gold Award: How Beijing’s Forbidden City became one of the largest world museums
Best Native Advertising / Branded Content Campaign
- Gold Award: Hong Kong Tourism Board – Building Connections
- Silver Award: Hong Kong Tourism Board – Local Vision: Hong Kong
- Bronze Award: Qantas – Flying High, Linking Lives
Best Digital Project to Engage Younger and/or Millenial Audiences
- Gold Award: China Tech City
Asia Podcast Awards 2019 (2 wins)
Best Technology Podcast
- Winner: Inside China Tech
Best Entertainment Podcast
- Winner: Eat Drink Asia
Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards 2019 (1 win)
Arts, Entertainment & Culture
- Silver: The History Of The Forbidden City: A Visual Explainer
ASTRID Awards 2019 (1 win)
Magazines – Luxury/Lifestyle
- Silver: Style, South China Morning Post
INMA Global Media Awards 2019 (1 win)
Best Use of Mobile (Global/National Brands)
- First Place – Abacus (abacusnews.com)
Marketing Magazine’s The Spark Awards 2019 (12 wins)
Best Launch/Rebranding
- Gold: Morning Studio Launch – Morning Studio (South China Morning Post)
Best Promotion Strategy
- Silver: Good Morning, Hong Kong – Morning Studio (South China Morning Post)
Best Original Content
- Bronze: Good Morning, Hong Kong – Morning Studio (South China Morning Post)
Best Sponsorship Campaign
- Gold: ELLE Girl Program x Guerlain – ELLE (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)
Best Entertainment Platform
- Silver: ELLE Girl Program – ELLE (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)
- Bronze: Driver and Bossss – Esquire HK (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)
Best Social Media Strategy
- Silver: ELLE Girl Program – ELLE (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)
- Bronze: ELLEMEN Presents “Road To Love” – ELLE Men (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)
Best Use of Multi-Channels
- Silver: BAZAAR 30th Anniversary Celebrations – Harper’s BAZAAR Hong Kong (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)
Best Media Campaign – Print
- Silver: Sands Macao Fashion Week 2018 – SCMP Hearst Hong Kong (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)
Best Media Campaign – Creative
- Bronze: Sands Macao Fashion Week 2018 – SCMP Hearst Hong Kong (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)
Best Media Campaign – Experiental
- Bronze: Project Campus 2019 x Levi’s – Cosmopolitan HK (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)