Society for News Design (SND) – Best of Digital Design 42th Edition (2020)(23 wins)
Format: Use of Video
- Silver: China’s Rebel City – The Hong Kong Protests
Format: Use of Original/Commissioned Illustration (single)
- Award of Excellence: How Disease X, the epidemic-in-waiting, erupted in China
- Award of Excellence: Coconut harvesters or slaves?
Infographics: Environment & Science
- Bronze: Coconut harvesters or slaves?
Infographics: International
- Award of Excellence: The slave trade
Infographics: National
- Award of Excellence: China’s worst floods in decades
- Award of Excellence: China’s wildlife trade
Infographics: Environment & Science
- Award of Excellence: Australian fires: Understanding the intensity and global impact
Infographics: Health/Coronavirus
- Award of Excellence: Decoding Covid-19
- Award of Excellence: Coronavirus cruise ship: stuck on board the quarantined Diamond Princess
Story Page Design: Politics
- Award of Excellence: Where is Carrie Lam?
Story Page Design: International
- Award of Excellence: How the coronavirus disrupts food supply chain
- Award of Excellence: Who has the upper hand in the China-India border dispute?
Story Page Design: Local Issues
- Award of Excellence: Where is Carrie Lam?
- Award of Excellence: Was a mass Covid-19 test a success for Hong Kong?
- Award of Excellence: How a Hong Kong protest evolved into an anti-government movement
Story Page Design: Environment & Science
- Award of Excellence: Coconut harvesters or slaves?
- Award of Excellence: Australian fires: Understanding the intensity and global impact
Story Page Design: Health/Coronavirus
- Award of Excellence: Decoding Covid-19
- Award of Excellence: How the coronavirus disrupts food supply chains
Story Page Design: Protests
- Award of Excellence: Arrested Hong Kong protesters: How the numbers look one year on
Portfolio: Infographics (Individual)
- Award of Excellence: Adolfo Arranz
Portfolio: Infographics (Staff)
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post: Portfolio 1
Digiday Video and TV Awards 2021
Best Facebook Watch Show
- Winner: Goldthread’s ‘Eat China’ Season 2
The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong – Hong Kong News Awards 2020 (12 wins)
Best Scoop
- 2nd Runner-up: First case of Covid-19 traced back to mid-Novermber fatality in Hubei – Josephine Ma, Linda Lew, Lee Jeong-ho
Best News Reporting
- Merit: 8-part rebel city/protests 1 year – Zuraidah Ibrahim, Jeffie Lam, Christy Leung, Chris Lau, Cannix Yau, Kanix Leung, Denise Tsang
Best Business News Reporting
- Winner: HK unemployment woes- a 5-part series – Cannix Yau, Kanis Leung, Kathleen Magramo, Denise Tsang
Best News Writing (English)
- 2nd Runner-up: Husband devoted to looking after wife with dementia – Fiona Sun
Best Business News Writing (English)
- Winner: A ‘Wild West’ mask fight – Finbarr Bermingham, Cissy Zhou
- 2nd Runner-up: HSBC’s rock and a hard place moment – Chad Bray
Best Headline (English)
- 2nd Runner-up: From pier to eternity
Best Photograph (Features)
- Winner: Right angles – Felix Wong
Best Photograph (Sports)
- Winner: Geared up – Felix Wong
- 2nd Runner-up: Right on cue – Jonathan Wong
Best News Page Design (Single Page)
- Winner: Arrested development – Adolfo Arranz
Best News Page Design (Series)
- Winner: Covid-19 – Adolfo Arranz, Dennis Wong, Darren Long, Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee
Hong Kong Press Photographers Association – Focus at the Frontline 2020
Spot News
- Winner: Edmond So
- Merit: Sam Tsang
25th Human Rights Press Awards
Commentary Writing (English)
- Winner: Coronavirus lockdown: if India treats its migrant workers like dirt, blame it on caste – Debasish Roy Chowdhury
- Merit: With national security law, Hong Kong has fallen victim to the tyranny of the rule of law – Phil C.W. Chan
Society for News Design (SND) – Best of News Design 42th Edition (2020) (28 wins)
Inside Pages (News)
- Silver: Arrested Development – Adolfo Arranz
- Silver: How the coronavirus spread in Hong Kong – Dennis Wong, Adolfo Arranz, Darren Long
- Award of Excellence: Himalayan showdown – Marcelo Duhalde
- Award of Excellence: To the moon and back – Dennis Wong
- Award of Excellence: Decoding Covid-19 – Pablo Robles
Inside Pages (Features)
- Award of Excellence: Tradition or exploitation? – Adolfo Arranz
- Award of Excellence: China’s wildlife market – Adolfo Arranz
- Award of Excellence: China’s five-year plans – Adolfo Arranz
Single Graphic (News)
- Award of Excellence: Himalayan showdown – Marcelo Duhalde
- Award of Excellence: To the moon and back – Dennis Wong
- Award of Excellence: Testing for Covid-19 – Marcelo Duhalde
- Award of Excellence: How the coronavirus spread in Hong Kong – Dennis Wong, Adolfo Arranz, Darren Long
Single Graphic (Business)
- Award of Excellence: A big deal – Marcelo Duhalde and Kaliz Lee
- Award of Excellence: Explosive growth – Marcelo Duhalde
- Award of Excellence: China’s wildlife market – Adolfo Arranz
Single Graphic (Features)
- Award of Excellence: Tradition or exploitation? – Adolfo Arranz
- Award of Excellence: The slave trade – Marcelo Duhalde
- Award of Excellence: The toxic truth – Dennis Wong
Single Graphic (Politics/Elections)
- Award of Excellence: Stuck in limbo – Marcelo Duhalde
Single Graphic (Coronavirus Pandemic)
- Award of Excellence: Hong Kong’s free Covid-19 mass test in context – Kaliz Lee
Combination Print & Digital (News)
- Award of Excellence: Apocalypse now – Australian fires: Understanding the intensity and global impact – Pablo Robles
- Award of Excellence: Himalayan showdown – Marcelo Duhalde
- Award of Excellence: Arrested development – Adolfo Arranz
Staff portfolio: Information Graphics
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post staff – Adolfo Arranz, Marcelo Duhalde, Pablo Robles, Dennis Wong, Darren Long
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post staff – Marcelo Duhalde, Dennis Wong, Kaliz Lee, Han Huang, Pablo Robles
Individual portfolio: Information Graphics
- Award of Excellence: Marcelo Duhalde Portfolio
Photo page design
- Award of Excellence: Silent spotlight
Special Coverage: Coronavirus Pandemic
- Award of Excellence: Coronavirus Pandemic crisis – Infographics pages
The Webby Awards 2021
Video – News & Politics (Video Series & Channels)
- Winner: China’s Rebel City – The Hong Kong Protests
D&AD Awards 2021
For Creative Excellence: Magazine & Newspaper Design / Newspaper Spreads & Sections
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- Wood Pencil: Arrested Development
INMA Global Media Awards 2021
Best Brand Awareness Campaign
- Third Place: South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, “Your Hong Kong — Your SCMP Campaign”
Best Execution of Native Advertising
- Honourable Mention: South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, “Holiday at Home: Hong Kong Tourism Board”
Best Use of Data to Drive Advertising
- Second Place: South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, “SCMP Signal, the First Publisher-Built Brand Suitability Tool”
Best Use of Data to Automate or Personalise
- Second Place: South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, “SCMP’s Audience Contact Strategy”
Best Data Dashboard
- First Place: South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, “C3PO Dashboard: Fostering Cross-Department Collaboration with Data”
Sigma Delta Chi Awards 2020
COVID-19: Informational Graphics (All Circulation Sizes)
- Winner: COVID-19: Our explanatory graphics collection, The infographics team of the South China Morning Post
29th Edition Malofiej International Infographics Awards
Breaking News (PRINT)
- Gold: Apocalypse now
- Silver: Arrested development
Features (PRINT)
- Gold: Arrested development
- Silver: Apocalypse now
- Silver: Tradition or exploitation?
- Bronze: Testing for Covid-19
- Bronze: Big drop in US visas for mainland Chinese students
- Bronze: Hong Kong’s free Covid-19 mass test in context
Features (DIGITAL)
- Bronze: Coconut harvesters or slaves?
Portfolios (PRINT)
- Silver: South China Morning Post staff 01
- Bronze: South China Morning Post staff 02
- Bronze: Portfolio individual Marcelo Duhalde
SOPA Awards 2021
Excellence in Information Graphics
- Honorable Mention: Coronavirus: the disease Covid-19 explained – Darren Long, Adolfo Arranz, Marcelo Duhalde, Pablo Robles, Dennis Wong, Han Huang, Yaser Ibrahim
Excellence in Magazine Design
- Honorable Mention: Tourism Wakes Up – Quoc Huy Truong (This Week In Asia)
WAN-IFRA 20th Asian Media Awards 2021 (9 wins)
Best in Magazine Cover Design
- Gold: Tourism Wakes Up – This Week In Asia (24 May 2020)
- Silver: Adrift: The world is listening to Hong Kong’s exiled dissidents, but for how long? – This Week In Asia (11 Oct 2020)
Best in Breaking News Article (Non Covid-19-related)
- Gold: Hong Kong government unveils national security law details – South China Morning Post reporters
- Silver: July 1 protests – Tony Cheung, Lilian Cheng, Joyce Ng
Best in Feature Article (Non Covid-19-related)
- Silver: Bride trafficking a problem on China’s belt and road – Raquel Carvalho
Best in Covid-19 Reporting
- Silver: Disease X – South China Morning Post reporters
Best in Newspaper Infographics
- Gold: Hong Kong’s free Covid-19 mass test in context – Kaliz Lee
- Silver: Arrested development – Adolfo Arranz
- Bronze: How the coronavirus spread in Hong Kong – Dennis Wong, Adolfo Arranz, Darren Long
Best in Magazine Cover Design
- Gold: Tourism Wakes Up – This Week In Asia (24 May 2020)
- Silver: Adrift: The world is listening to Hong Kong’s exiled dissidents, but for how long? – This Week In Asia (11 Oct 2020)
Best in Breaking News Article (Non Covid-19-related)
- Gold: Hong Kong government unveils national security law details – South China Morning Post reporters
- Silver: July 1 protests – Tony Cheung, Lilian Cheng, Joyce Ng
Best in Feature Article (Non Covid-19-related)
- Silver: Bride trafficking a problem on China’s belt and road – Raquel Carvalho
Best in Covid-19 Reporting
- Silver: Disease X – South China Morning Post reporters
Best in Newspaper Infographics
- Gold: Hong Kong’s free Covid-19 mass test in context – Kaliz Lee
- Silver: Arrested development – Adolfo Arranz
- Bronze: How the coronavirus spread in Hong Kong – Dennis Wong, Adolfo Arranz, Darren Long
Campaign Asia-Pacific Tech MVP 2021
Most Valuable Products
- Top 10 Winner: SCMP Signal
Campaign’s Digital Media Awards China 2021
Media Awards – Best Use of Data
- Silver: Unlock the Power of Data – SCMP, The Trade Desk and Matterkind