2022 Awards

Society for News Design (SND) – Best of News Design 43th Edition (2021) (29 wins)

Staff Portfolio

  • Silver: Infographics South China Morning Post Portfolio 01
  • Award of Excellence: Infographics, South China Morning Post portfolio 02

Inside Pages (News)

  • Award of Excellence: Penned in: the state of Hong Kong’s opposition

Inside Pages (Sports)

  • Award of Excellence: Cashing in on gold
  • Award of Excellence: Olympic defectors

Inside Pages (Features)

  • Award of Excellence: Darren Long at the Post
  • Award of Excellence: Raining cats and dogs
  • Award of Excellence: Coming to the light

Magazine Design

  • Award of Excellence: To Catch a Killer

Illustration

  • Award of Excellence: Penned in: the state of Hong Kong’s opposition

Photography

  • Award of Excellence: 9/11 Anniversary

Information Graphics

  • Award of Excellence: On the move
  • Award of Excellence: Lost to posterity
  • Award of Excellence: Why buildings wobble
  • Award of Excellence: A world of debt
  • Award of Excellence: Cashing in on gold
  • Award of Excellence: Raining cats and dogs
  • Award of Excellence: How the coronavirus is changing cities
  • Award of Excellence: Coming to the light
  • Award of Excellence: Strong as an ox
  • Award of Excellence: Darren Long at the Post
  • Award of Excellence: Penned in: the state of Hong Kong’s opposition
  • Award of Excellence: Sixteen years of Angela
  • Award of Excellence: Entering Hong Kong
  • Award of Excellence: How the coronavirus is changing cities
  • Award of Excellence: Calling the shots

Combination Print & Digital

  • Award of Excellence: The mass arrest of Hong Kong’s opposition figures
  • Award of Excellence: Coming to the light
  • Award of Excellence: Architecture post-coronavirus

Society for News Design (SND) – Best of Digital Design 43th Edition (2021) (10 wins)

Format: Use of Animation

  • Bronze: Tianwen-1 mission visually explained: China’s journey to Mars

Portfolio: Information Graphics (Staff or team)

  • Bronze: Portfolio SCMP infographics 01

Format: Use of In-House Illustration

  • Award of Excellence: Architecture post-coronavirus
  • Award of Excellence: The mass arrest of Hong Kong’s opposition figures

Infographics: Breaking (unplanned)

  • Award of Excellence: China floods: how Henan province was inundated by historic rainfall

Infographics: Environment & Science

  • Award of Excellence: Tianwen-1 mission visually explained: China’s journey to Mars

Infographics: Health

  • Award of Excellence: Travel diary: 14 days in quarantine in mainland China

Infographics: Regional/Local

  • Award of Excellence: Visualising Hong Kong’s biggest Covid-19 super-spreader event

Portfolio: Combination (Staff or team)

  • Award of Excellence: SCMP Infographics Portfolio 02
  • Award of Excellence: SCMP Infographics Portfolio 04

Digiday Video and TV Awards 2022 (5 wins)

Best Facebook Watch Show

  • Winner: South China Morning Post – SCMP Films

Best Original Programming

  • Winner: Goldthread – Mean Street Gourmet

Best Production Strategy

  • Winner: South China Morning Post

Best Use of YouTube

  • Winner: South China Morning Post

Video Executive of the Year

  • Winner: Mat Booth

The Webby Awards 2022 (2 wins)

Podcasts (General Series) – News & Politics

  • Honoree: China Geopolitics

Websites and Mobile Sites (Features & Design) – Best Data Visualization

  • Honoree: SCMP’s visual data and infographics landing page

Citi Journalistic Excellence Award 2022 (2 wins)

  • Winner: Big Pharma pays to play – Peggy Sito
  • 2nd Runner-up: The burning out of Wuhan’s chip challenge – Jane Zhang

6th Business Journalism Awards of HSUHK (2 wins)

Best Business News Reporting

  • Gold: Peggy Sito
  • Silver: Enoch Yiu, Georgina Lee, Chad Bray

Taiwan Press Photo Contest 2022 (1 win)

Nature and Technology

  • Honorable Mention: Winson Wong

The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong – Hong Kong News Awards 2021 (9 wins)

Best News Reporting

  • Merit: Series: National security law – one year on – Natalie Wong, Gary Cheung, Lilian Cheng, Chris Lau, Laura Westbrook, Denise Tsang

Best Business News Reporting

  • Winner: Series: Is Evergrande too big to fail? – Peggy Sito, Pearl Liu, Chad Bray, Sandy Li

Best Science News Reporting

  • Merit: Climate change series – Eric Ng, Zoe Low

Best News Writing

  • 2nd Runner-up: So near, yet so far away – Fiona Sun

Best Business News Writing

  • 1st Runner-up: City quietly catches up in race for fintech innovation – Chad Bray, Georgina Lee, Enoch Yiu

Best Photograph (Features)

  • Merit: In perspective – Dickson Lee

Best News Page Design (Single Page)

  • Winner: Penned in: the state of Hong Kong’s opposition – Adolfo Arranz
  • 1st Runner-up: 20th Anniversary of 11/9 – Carl Jones, Emilio Rivera, Louie Almalvez, Lee Wing-yam, Tom Tsang

Best News Page Design (Series)

  • Winner: Series about 9/11 Anniversary – Brian Wang, Perry Tse, Lau Ka-kuen

WAN-IFRA 21st Asian Media Awards 2022 (4 wins)

Best in Newspaper Infographics

  • Overall Gold: Why buildings wobble
  • Overall Silver: Raining cats and dogs

Best in Breaking News Article (Non Covid-19-related)

  • Overall Silver: Hero’s welcome for Meng Wanzhou

Best Revenue Diversification Project/Product/Service

  • Overall Gold: Young Post 2.0

Hong Kong Press Photographers Association – Focus on the Frontline 2021 (2 wins)

General News

  • Honorable Mention: Sam Tsang

Nature & Environment

  • Third Prize: Winson Wong

INMA Global Media Awards 2022 (1 win)

Best Use of Visual Journalism and Storytelling Tools

  • Honourable Mention: The Mass Arrest of Hong Kong’s Opposition Figures

SOPA Awards 2022 (2 wins)

Excellence in Magazine Design

  • Honorable Mention: Dangerous target (This Week In Asia) – Marcelo Duhalde

Excellence in Arts & Culture Reporting

  • Honorable Mention: Hong Kong idols – Kanis Leung

Cannes World Film Festival – Remember the Future (1 win)

Best Documentary Short

  • Winner: Because I Choose Freedom – Lea Li

World Film Carnival – Singapore (1 win)

Documentary Film

  • Outstanding Achievement: Because I Choose Freedom – Lea Li

Online Journalism Awards 2022 (1 win)

Digital Video Storytelling, Medium Form, Large Newsroom

  • Winner: The Healing Kitchen

22nd Consumer Rights Reporting Awards (2 wins)

Feature Writing Award

  • Bronze: Hong Kong feels the inflation pinch – Denise Tsang, Fiona Sun

News Photography Award

  • Bronze: E-voucher plan omits some of neediest – Dickson Lee

Information is Beautiful Awards 2022 (1 win)

Current Affairs & Politics

  • Silver: The first 100 days of protests rocking Hong Kong

Asia Podcast Festival Awards 2022 (1 win)

Best Science, Tech or Business Podcast

  • Winner: Inside China – Coronavirus Podcast

Human Rights Press Awards 2022 (1 win)

Multimedia

  • Winner: Mass arrest of Hong Kong’s opposition figures – South China Morning Post

Native Advertising Awards 2022 (3 wins)

Best Use of Infographic

  • Gold: Morning Studio – The Moon is Leaving Us (Audemars Piguet)

Best Integrated Program (Omni-Channel Integration)

  • Bronze: Morning Studio – The Moon is Leaving Us (Audemars Piguet)

Best Design

  • Bronze: Morning Studio – Clean Waterways (HSBC Clean Waterways Programme)

APAC Women Content Champions Awards 2022 (2 wins)

  • Winner: Trishna Mahtani – South China Morning Post
  • Winner: Cheryl Wu – South China Morning Post

ASTRID Awards 2022 (3 wins)

Magazines (General) – Luxury/Lifestyle

  • Silver: Style magazine

Magazines (General) – Community Engagement

  • Bronze: Morning Studio – Dress Circle

Custom Publications – Special Edition

  • Silver: Morning Studio – LA MARINA

Campaign PR Awards Asia 2022 (1 win)

PR Communications Team

  • Commendation: SCMP Corporate Communications team

Marketing Magazine’s The Spark Awards 2022 (4 wins)

Best Media Campaign – Social

  • Gold: Esquire HK – Tyson Yoshi x Gareth T. “december” Music Video

Best Media Campaign – KOL

  • Silver: Esquire HK – Tyson Yoshi x Gareth T. “december” Music Video
  • Bronze: ELLE HK x Gucci – Festive Magical Factory

Best Original Content

  • Bronze: ELLE HK, Harper’s BAZAAR, Esquire, Cosmopolitan – The Editors Season II

Campaign Asia-Pacific 40 Under 40 2022 (1 win)

  • Top 40: Ang Jin – South China Morning Post