The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong – Hong Kong News Awards 2023 (6 wins)

Best News Writing

• Winner: Burden of love too much for many carers in city – Fiona Sun

Best Business News Writing

• 1st Runner-up: Hurdles on the way to city’s crypto hub dream – Matt Haldane, Dylan Butts, Xinmei Shen
• 2nd Runner-up: Missing link in HK’s carbon bridge role – Eric Ng

Best Headline

• Winner: Writing on the wall for sensitive titles – Sariwati Latif

Best News Page Design (Single Page)

• Merit: Bailu: the transition to autumn – Victor Sanjinez

Best News Page Design (Series)

• Merit: Gaza-Israel conflict – Emilio Rivera

New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2024 (1 win)

Documentary – Short Form

• Silver: North Korea’s ‘return to paradise’ nightmare

8th Business Journalism Awards of HSUHK (2 wins)

Best Greater Bay Area Business News Reporting

• Gold: A bridging challenge – Enoch Yiu

Best Property Market News Reporting

• Gold: Worst yet to come – Chad Bray, Yulu Ao

WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards Asia 2024 (4 wins)

Best Lifestyle Site

• Gold: Style – a luxury lifestyle destination

Best Use of Video

• Gold: SCMP Films
• Silver: SCMP Explains

Best Digital Subscription/Reader Revenue Project

• Silver: Posties – SCMP’s educational news product for kids

INMA Global Media Awards 2024 (1 win)

Best Use of Visual Journalism and Storytelling Tools

• Honourable Mention: Israel-Gaza war explained

Society for News Design (SND) – Best of Digital Design 45th Edition (2023) (31 wins)

Design: Features

• Silver: The history and revival of ancient Chinese hanfu – Kaliz Lee
• Award of Excellence: ‘Lifestyle rather than performance’: a visual guide to wearing Chinese hanfu – Kaliz Lee
• Award of Excellence: The 24 terms in the solar calendar – Victor Sanjinez, Yan Jing Tian
• Award of Excellence: In summer of 2023, Hong Kong sweltered as world set heat record – Rocio Marquez, Davies C. Surya, Marcelo Duhalde

Infographics: Features

• Silver: The history and revival of ancient Chinese hanfu – Kaliz Lee
• Award of Excellence: ‘Lifestyle rather than performance’: a visual guide to wearing Chinese hanfu – Kaliz Lee
• Award of Excellence: The 24 terms in the solar calendar – Victor Sanjinez, Yan Jing Tian
• Award of Excellence: Leader heights ranked: how do you measure up? – Marcelo Duhalde

Elements: Data visualization

• Bronze: Israel-Gaza war explained – Rocio Marquez, Marcelo Duhalde, Andrew London
• Award of Excellence: In summer of 2023, Hong Kong sweltered as world set heat record – Rocio Marquez, Davies C. Surya, Marcelo Duhalde

Elements: Animation design

• Award of Excellence: The history and revival of ancient Chinese hanfu – Kaliz Lee

Illustrations: In-House Illustration (multiple)

• Bronze: The history and revival of ancient Chinese hanfu – Kaliz Lee
• Bronze: In summer of 2023, Hong Kong sweltered as world set heat record – Rocio Marquez, Davies C. Surya, Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: ‘Lifestyle rather than performance’: a visual guide to wearing Chinese hanfu – Kaliz Lee
• Award of Excellence: Football legend Pele’s greatest achievements – Victor Sanjinez
• Award of Excellence: The 24 terms in the solar calendar – Victor Sanjinez, Yan Jing Tian
• Award of Excellence: China and Russia: a friendship with ‘no limits’ – Victor Sanjinez

Illustration: In-House Illustration (single)

• Award of Excellence: Leader heights ranked: how do you measure up? – Marcelo Duhalde

Portfolio: Story Page Design (organization, staff or team)

• Bronze: SCMP graphics portfolio (Story page design-staff) – Marcelo Duhalde, Victor Sanjinez, Dennis Wong, Kaliz Lee, Yan Jing Tian, Brian Wang

Portfolio: Information Graphics (organization, staff or team)

• Bronze: SCMP graphics portfolio (information graphics-staff) – Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Rocio Marquez, Victor Sanjinez, Davies C. Surya, Andrew London, Yan Jing Tian
• Award of Excellence: SCMP graphics portfolio (information graphics-staff 2) – Victor Sanjinez, Dennis Wong, Kaliz Lee, Davies C. Surya, Brian Wang, Yan Jing Tian

Design: Business

• Award of Excellence: America’s debt: what US$31 trillion looks like – Kaliz Lee, Dennis Wong, Marcelo Duhalde

Design: Sports

• Award of Excellence: Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, China – Yan Jing Tian

Design: International

• Award of Excellence: China and Russia: a friendship with ‘no limits’ – Victor Sanjinez, Andrew London
• Award of Excellence: Israel-Gaza war explained – Rocio Marquez, Marcelo Duhalde, Andrew London

Infographics: Environment & Science

• Award of Excellence: In summer of 2023, Hong Kong sweltered as world set heat record – Rocio Marquez, Davies C. Surya, Marcelo Duhalde

Infographics: Sports

• Award of Excellence: Football legend Pele’s greatest achievements – Victor Sanjinez, Dennis Wong

Infographics: International

• Award of Excellence: Israel-Gaza war explained – Rocio Marquez, Marcelo Duhalde, Andrew London

Infographics: Politics

• Award of Excellence: The Chinese economic power players making decisions that will impact the world – Marcelo Duhalde, Dennis Wong
• Award of Excellence: China and Russia: a friendship with ‘no limits’ – Victor Sanjinez, Andrew London

Topics: Israel-Gaza War

• Award of Excellence: Israel-Gaza war explained – Rocio Marquez, Marcelo Duhalde, Andrew London

Society for News Design (SND) – Best of Print News Design 45th Edition (2023) (29 wins)

Information Graphics

• Gold: Bailu: The transition to autumn – Victor Sanjinez
• Silver: China and Russia’s ‘no limits’ friendship – Victor Sanjinez, Andrew London
• Award of Excellence: Nepal’s grim record – Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee
• Award of Excellence: America’s cash crunch – Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: How much waste water will be released from Fukushima? – Davies C. Surya
• Award of Excellence: One year of conflict – Dennis Wong
• Award of Excellence: Workers of the world – Yan Jing Tian
• Award of Excellence: Hangzhou 2023 Asian Games – Yan Jing Tian, Victor Sanjinez
• Award of Excellence: Pele, the King of Football – Victor Sanjinez
• Award of Excellence: The dangers of solo hiking – Brian Wang
• Award of Excellence: Behind the scenes of The Exorcist – Kaliz Lee
• Award of Excellence: Hit local films at Hong Kong’s box office – Kaliz Lee
• Award of Excellence: The rabbit hops in – Brian Wang
• Award of Excellence: ‘The brick’: world’s first mobile phone – Victor Sanjinez, Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: The revival of Chinese hanfu – Kaliz Lee
• Award of Excellence: The hottest summer ever – Davies C. Surya, Rocio Marquez
• Award of Excellence: Crossing paths – Marcelo Duhalde

Illustration

• Silver: Bailu: The transition to autumn – Victor Sanjinez, Senior Infographic Designer

Inside Pages (News)

• Award of Excellence: Crossing paths – Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: China and Russia’s ‘no limits’ friendship – Victor Sanjinez
• Award of Excellence: America’s cash crunch – Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: How much waste water will be released from Fukushima? – Davies C. Surya

Inside Pages (Sports)

• Award of Excellence: The dangers of solo hiking – Brian Wang
• Award of Excellence: Hangzhou 2023 Asian Games – Yan Jing Tian, Victor Sanjinez

Inside Pages (Features)

• Award of Excellence: Calling all urban detectives! – Kaliz Lee

Photography

• Award of Excellence: City’s first 52 storeys at 50 – Carl Jones, Emilio Rivera

Staff Portfolio

• Award of Excellence: SCMP graphics portfolio (staff, feature) – Kaliz Lee, Victor Sanjinez, Davies C. Surya, Rocio Marquez, Brian Wang, Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: SCMP staff portfolio 1 – Kaliz Lee, Victor Sanjinez, Davies C. Surya, Rocio Marquez, Brian Wang, Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: SCMP staff portfolio 2 – Kaliz Lee, Victor Sanjinez, Davies C. Surya, Rocio Marquez, Brian Wang, Marcelo Duhalde

WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards Worldwide 2024 (1 win)

Best Use of Video

• Winner: SCMP Films

Hong Kong Press Photographers Association – Focus at the Frontline 2023 (4 wins)

Spot News

• Winner: Dickson Lee
• Merit: Sam Tsang

Nature & Environment

• 1st Runner-up: Elson Li

Sports

• 2nd Runner-up: Dickson Lee

SOPA Awards 2024 (1 win)

Excellence in Photography

• Award for Excellence: How dams in China are destroying livelihoods downstream in Cambodia – Andy Ball

19th Annual w3 Awards (2024) (3 wins)

General Video – News & Politics

• Gold: The grim reality of life in Hong Kong’s ‘coffin homes’ – Talking Post with Yonden Lhatoo

Individual Episodes & Specials – News & Politics

• Silver: China’s Demographic Revolution

Video Series – Food & Drink

• Silver: Eat Drink Asia

8th HKAIM Media Convergence Awards (12 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 (Social Media) – South China Morning Post
• Gold Award: Newspaper Category (Mobile App) – South China Morning Post
• Gold Award: Overall Media (Website) – South China Morning Post
• Silver Award: Overall Media (Social Media) – South China Morning Post
• Silver Award: Overall Media (Mobile App) – South China Morning Post
• Bronze Award: Newspaper Category (ESG) – South China Morning Post
• Bronze Award: Overall Media (ESG) – South China Morning Post
• Bronze Award: Magazine Category (Website) – ELLE Hong Kong

Digiday Video and TV Awards 2024 (1 win)

Video Executive of the Year

• Winner: Chieu Luu

ASTRID Awards 2024 (2 wins)

Magazines (General) – Luxury/Lifestyle

• Gold: Style magazine

Special Projects – Cross-Media Editorial Storytelling

• Bronze: Morning Studio – Southside

Campaign Asia Event Marketing Awards 2024 (2 wins)

People/Team Categories – Event Strategist of the Year

• Winner: Razlan Manjaji

People/Team Categories – Best Event Marketing Team

• Winner: SCMP Live

Campaign Asia Digital Media Awards 2024 (2 wins)

Industry Excellence Awards – Media and Entertainment

• Silver: I Read SCMP

Media Awards – Best Use of Influencer

• Bronze: I Read SCMP

LinkedIn Talent Awards 2024 (1 win)

Best Employer Brand on LinkedIn (Below 1000 Employees)

• Bronze: South China Morning Post

Marketing Magazine’s The Spark Awards 2024 (7 wins)

Best Media Campaign – Public Awareness

• Gold: ELLE Hong Kong, Esquire Hong Kong (Client: HK Film Awards / Campaign: 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Partnership)

Best Media Campaign – Video

• Silver: ELLE MEN Hong Kong (Client: TOD’S / Campaign: TOD’S SS24)

Best Media Campaign – Corporate Social Responsibility

• Bronze: Cosmopolitan Hong Kong (Client: Plan International Organization / Campaign: Run For Girls 2024)

Best Sponsorship Campaign

• Gold: Harper’s BAZAAR Hong Kong (Client: Vacheron Constantin / Campaign: Harper’ BAZAAR X Vacheron Constantin – Heritage Reimagined campaign)

Best Use of Branded Content

• Silver: Harper’s BAZAAR Hong Kong (Client: Vacheron Constantin / Campaign: Harper’ BAZAAR X Vacheron Constantin – Heritage Reimagined campaign)

Best Launch/Rebranding Campaign

• Bronze: ELLE MEN Hong Kong (Campaign: ELLE MEN)

Best Custom Event

• Bronze: Harper’s BAZAAR Hong Kong (Client: Vacheron Constantin / Campaign: Harper’ BAZAAR X Vacheron Constantin – Heritage Reimagined campaign)

The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong – Hong Kong News Awards 2022 (13 wins)

Best Business News Reporting

• 1st Runner-up: A series of stories on Ping An Group’s push to break up HSBC – Chad Bray, Enoch Yiu

Best News Writing

• Winner: Cloud of nationalism hangs over congress – Jun Mai
• 1st Runner-up: Living on the edge – Fiona Sun
• 2nd Runner-up: Green is gold for leaders of sustainability drive – Eric Ng, Martin Choi

Best Business News Writing

• 1st Runner-up: Flower power revolution – Enoch Yiu

Best Headline

• Winner: Send in the crowns – Richard Kirk
• 1st Runner-up: In the mood for reel love – Francine Chen

Best Photograph (News)

• 2nd Runner-up: Airlines in race – Sam Tsang
• Merit: Lee and Lam Plot Path to Smooth Transition – Robert Ng

Best Photograph (Features)

• 1st Runner-up: Readying to reopen – May Tse

Best News Page Design (Single Page)

• Winner: Windows on a crisis – Carl Jones, Emilio Rivera
• 1st Runner-up: Flight of fancy? – Huy Truong

Best News Page Design (Series)

• 1st Runner-up: FIFA World Cup – Carl Jones, Emilio Rivera, Lee Wing-yam

7th Business Journalism Awards of HSUHK (3 wins)

Business Reporter of the Year

• Winner: Lam Ka-sing

Best Property Market News Reporting

• Silver: Restaurants filling the empty retail landscape – Lam Ka-sing

Best Business Technology News Reporting

• Silver: Metaverse and NFTs: from Gucci to Starbucks, luxury and consumer brands rush into the virtual world for their pots of gold – Iris Ouyang

Human Rights Press Awards 2023 (1 win)

Short Video

• Winner: Life of Sex Workers & Their Children in Delhi’s Biggest Brothel, India – South China Morning Post

Hong Kong Press Photographers Association – Focus at the Frontline 2022 (9 wins)

Photo of the Year

• Winner: Sam Tsang

Spot News

• Winner: Sun Yeung

General News

• Winner: Sam Tsang
• Merit: Robert Ng
• Merit: Sam Tsang

Nature & Environment

• Winner: Yik Yeung Man
• Merit: Sam Tsang

Photo Essay

• Merit: Sam Tsang
• Merit: May Tse

INMA Global Media Awards 2023 (2 wins)

Best Use of Visual Journalism and Storytelling Tools

• First Place: Life in Hong Kong’s Shoebox Housing

Best Use of Print

• Honourable Mention: Subdivided Flat Living In Hong Kong

Society for News Design (SND) – Best of News Design 44th Edition (2022) (25 wins)

Information Graphics

• Gold: Subdivided flat living – Kaliz Lee
• Award of Excellence: Hong Kong’s housing crisis – Kaliz Lee, Han Huang, Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: Urban Encounters: The Wild Boars Of Hong Kong – Kaliz Lee, Victor Sanjinez
• Award of Excellence: More People Than Rats – Han Huang
• Award of Excellence: Bamboo Curtains – Victor Sanjinez, Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: Land rush – Han Huang
• Award of Excellence: Life in a shoebox – Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: The Godfather at 50 – Adolfo Arranz
• Award of Excellence: To a trickle – Dennis Wong, Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: Hot summer days – Zoe Kwok, Marcelo Duhalde

Staff Portfolio

• Award of Excellence: SCMP graphics staff portfolio2 – Staff

Inside Pages (News)

• Award of Excellence: Windows on a crisis – Carl Jones
• Award of Excellence: To a trickle – Dennis Wong, Marcelo Duhalde

Inside Pages (Sports)

• Silver: Safety comes first at Games – Marcelo Duhalde

Inside Pages (Features)

• Award of Excellence: More people than rats – Han Huang
• Award of Excellence: Bamboo curtains – Victor Sanjinez, Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: Land Rush – Han Huang
• Award of Excellence: Subdivided flat living – Kaliz Lee
• Award of Excellence: Life in a shoebox – Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: The Godfather at 50 – Adolfo Arranz

Photography

• Award of Excellence: Re-imagining Covid-19 – Carl Jones
• Award of Excellence: Windows on a crisis – Carl Jones
• Award of Excellence: Image conscious – Emilio Rivera

Combination Print & Digital

• Award of Excellence: Bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong – Marcelo Duhalde, Victor Sanjinez, Dennis Wong
• Award of Excellence: Subdivided flat living – Adolfo Arranz, Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Han Huang, Dennis Wong

Society for News Design (SND) – Best of Digital Design 44th Edition (2022) (17 wins)

Best in Show: Large newsrooms

• Winner: Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing

Illustration: Commissioned Illustration (multiple)

• Gold: Bamboo scaffolding in HK – Victor Sanjinez

LOC: Features and Social Issues

• Gold: Hong Kong’s housing Crisis – Adolfo Arranz, Marcelo, Kaliz Lee, Han Huang, Dennis Wong, Fiona Sun

Design: Features

• Silver: Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing – Adolfo Arranz, Marcelo, Kaliz Lee, Han Huang, Dennis Wong

InfoGfx: Regional/local

• Silver: Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing – Adolfo Arranz, Marcelo, Kaliz Lee, Han Huang, Dennis Wong

InfoGfx: Features

• Bronze: Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing – Adolfo Arranz, Marcelo, Kaliz Lee, Han Huang, Dennis Wong
• Award of Excellence: Bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong – Marcelo Duhalde, Victor Sanjinez, Dennis Wong

Illustrations: In-House Illustration (multiple)

• Bronze: Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing – Adolfo Arranz, Marcelo, Kaliz Lee
• Award of Excellence: Pigs in cities: why wild boar stray into urban areas – Kaliz Lee, Victor Sanjinez

Design: Sports

• Award of Excellence: Fifa World Cup 2022 in Qatar: football in the desert – Lau Ka-kuen, Dennis Wong, Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: Sealed off winter games – Marcelo Duhalde, Dennis Wong, Han Huang

InfoGfx: Business

• Award of Excellence: World shipping-container crisis explained – Marcelo Duhalde, Siqi Ji, Dennis Wong

InfoGfx: Politics

• Award of Excellence: The 19th Central committee – Han Huang, Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: Friends in High places – Han Huang, Marcelo Duhalde

Platform: Video design (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram)

• Award of Excellence: Bamboo scaffolding: why Hong Kong is among the last cities using centuries-old building method – Lawrence Ge, Tom Leung, Marcelo Duhalde, Victor Sanjinez, Dennis Wong

LOC: Long-form series

• Award of Excellence: Hong Kong’s subdivided units – Adolfo Arranz, Fiona Sun, Dennis Wong

Portfolio: Information Graphics (organization, staff or team)

• Award of Excellence: SCMP graphics team (Infographics) – Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Han Huang, Dennis Wong

SOPA Awards 2023 (2 wins)

Excellence in Magazine Design

• Honorable Mention: Faking the Grade (Post Magazine) – Mario Rivera, Dennis Yip, Victor Sanjinez

Excellence in Infographics

• Award for Excellence: Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing – Adolfo Arranz, Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Han Huang, Dennis Wong

58th Annual Society of Publication Designers (SPD) Awards (3 wins)

Web/App: Information Graphics

• Gold: Life in Hong Kong’s Shoebox Housing – Marcelo Duhalde
• Silver: Bamboo Scaffolding in Hong Kong – Marcelo Duhalde

Video: Animated Content

• Silver: “Living in 15 sq ft: Inside Hong Kong’s Coffin Homes – Chieu Luu

WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards Worldwide 2023 (1 win)

Best Data Visualisation

• Winner: Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing – Marcelo Duhalde

Asian American Podcasters Association’s Golden Crane Awards 2023 (1 win)

Best News Podcast

• Winner: China’s Demographic Revolution (Episode 2) – Jasmine Tse, Jarrod Watt

Gerald Loeb Awards 2023 (1 win)

Visual Storytelling Category

• Winner: Life in Hong Kong’s Shoebox Housing – Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Han Huang, Adolfo Arranz, Fiona Sun, Dennis Wong

Signal Awards 2023 (1 win)

Limited Series & Specials – General – News & Politics

• Silver: China’s demographic revolution – Jasmine Tse, Jarrod Watt

WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards Asia 2023 (4 wins)

Best Data Visualisation

• Gold: Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing

Best Newsletter

• Gold: Lunar – Women and gender in Asia

Best Use of Online Video

• Silver: Telling Hong Kong’s Story Through Food — City Bites, Hong Kong Edition – Goldthread

Best Digital Subscription Initiative

• Silver: Rosetta – Subscriber Onboarding Journey 2.0

WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards 2023 (6 wins)

Best in Newspaper Infographics

• Gold: Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing
• Silver: Bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong

Best in Covid-19-related Photography

• Gold: Covid-stricken elderly wait outside swamped hospitals

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

• Silver: Murder of Hong Kong model Abby Choi

Best in Feature Article (Non Covid-19-related)

• Silver: They braved deadly waters to swim to freedom

Best in Covid-19 Reporting

• Silver: China’s reopening: the impact of Beijing’s U-turn on zero-Covid

State Street Institutional Press Awards (Asia Pacific) 2023 (2 wins)

Journalist of the Year – Investor Services

• Winner: Enoch Yiu

Award for Best Newcomer

• Winner: Mia Castagnone

11th Chinese University Journalism Award (2 wins)

Best Multimedia News Reporting

• Grand Award: Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing – Adolfo Arranz, Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Han Huang, Dennis Wong, Lawrence Ge, Tom Leung

Best Audio News Reporting / News Feature

• Merit: Inside China Podcast: Are protests in Beijing, Shanghai and beyond changing China’s zero-Covid policy – Jarrod Watt

Digiday Video and TV Awards 2023 (1 win)

Best Use of Instagram Reels

• Winner: Goldthread

Native Advertising Awards 2023 (2 wins)

Best Use of Infographic

• Gold: Morning Studio – Icon Forged in Steel: Royal Oak 50th Anniversary (Audemars Piguet)

Best Use of Instagram

• Gold: Morning Studio – The Macallan Experience (The Macallan)

Marketing Magazine’s The Spark Awards 2023 (8 wins)

Best Custom Event

• Bronze: Harper’s BAZAAR – BAZAAR At Work Summit 2023

Best Launch/Rebranding Campaign

• Silver: South China Morning Post – I Read the SCMP

Best Media Campaign – KOL

• Gold: South China Morning Post – I Read the SCMP Bronze: Esquire HK – CROCS Digital Cover

Best Result-Driven Campaign

• Bronze: South China Morning Post – I Read the SCMP

Best Use of Multi-Channels

• Silver: ELLE HK – ELLE Society

Best Informative Media

• Gold: South China Morning Post

Best Socially Responsible Media

• Gold: South China Morning Post

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

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

• • 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

77th Pictures of the Year International Awards (organised by Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism)

Portrait 

• Third Place: Run the runtlet – Tsang Kwok-chung

The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong – Hong Kong News Awards 2019 (15 wins)

Best News Reporting

• Merit: Hong Kong protest series – Jeffie Lam and Gary Cheung

Best Business News Reporting

• 1st Runner-up: AI series – Meng Jing, Sarah Dai, Hu Minghe, Zen Soo, Tracy Qu, Coco Feng, Iris Deng, Jane Zhang

Best News Writing (English)

• Winner: War of the future will be fought via 5G technology – Liu Zhen
  2nd Runner-up: Yuen Long’s night of terror – Jeffie Lam and Clifford Lo

Best Business News Writing (English)

• Winner: Why Shenzhen is no threat to HK as financial centre – Enoch Yiu

Best Headline (English)

• Winner: My way or the Huawei: Amercia’s ultimatumfalls flat in Southeast Asia – Andrew Raine

Best Photograph (Sports)

• Winner: Taking a tumble – Winson Wong
• Merit: Flash forward – Winson Wong

Best News Page Design (Single Page)

• Winner: How MMA’s roots are in Hong Kong – Pablo Robles, Adolfo Arranz, Dennis Wong
• 2nd Runner-up: The first 100 days of protests – Pablo Robles
• Merit: Why your smartphone is a pain in the neck – Pablo Robles
• Merit: The many stages of Cantonese opera – Marcelo Duhalde

Best News Page Design (Series)

• Winner: A city torn apart – Brian Wang, Lau Ka-kuen, Henry Wong, Adolfo Arranz
• 1st Runner-up: HK protects infographics – Marcelo Duhalde, Pablo Robles
• Merit: June 4 anniversary – Adolfo Arranz, Brian Wang, Perry Tse

Society for News Design (SND) – Best of Digital Design 41th Edition (2019) (30 wins)

Story Page Design – Breaking News

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Key events from Hong Kong’s anti-government protests

Story Page Design – International

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – The rule of law: Hong Kong vs China

Story Page Design – National

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Key events from Hong Kong’s anti-government protests
• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – From Occupy 2014 to protests 2019
• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – 100 days of protests rock Hong Kong

Story Page Design – Environmental, Health & Science

• Bronze: South China Morning Post – Why your smartphone is causing you ‘text neck’ syndrome

Story Page Design – Sports

• Bronze: South China Morning Post – How Bruce Lee and street fighting in Hong Kong helped create MMA

Story Page Design – Arts, Entertainment, Food, Travel & Lifestyle

• Bronze: South China Morning Post – How Bruce Lee and street fighting in Hong Kong helped create MMA
  Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Cantonese performing art

Information Graphics – Breaking News

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Key events from Hong Kong’s anti-government protests
• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Violence worsens as police, radicals clash at siege of Polytechnic University

Information Graphics – National

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – How Hong Kong airport protests ended in chaos
• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – 100 days of protests rock Hong Kong
• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Key events from Hong Kong’s anti-government protests
  Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – From Occupy 2014 to protests 2019

Information Graphics – Environmental, Health & Science

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Why your smartphone is causing you ‘text neck’ syndrome

Information Graphics – Sports

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – How Bruce Lee and street fighting in Hong Kong helped create MMA
• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Electrifying return of the Hong Kong Formula E

Format – Use of Original/Comissioned Illustration

• Silver: South China Morning Post – How Bruce Lee and street fighting in Hong Kong helped create MMA

Format – Use of Video in Digital Storytelling/Infographics/Social Media

• Bronze: South China Morning Post – Why your smartphone is causing you ‘text neck’ syndrome

Format – Use of Audio in Digital Storytelling/Infographics/Social Media

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Cantonese Performing Art

Format – Use of Animation

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Tokyo 2020 Olympic climbing debut explained

Line of Coverage – Breaking News/Disasters/Mass Violence

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Hong Kong protests

Product Design – Best Home Page

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post

Product Design – Best New or Redesigned Product, Site or App

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – China Tech City

Experimental Design

• Bronze: South China Morning Post – China Tech City

Portfolio – Information Graphics (Individual)

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Pablo Robles

Portfolio – Information Graphics (Organization)

• Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post

World’s Best Digital News Experience

• Finalist: South China Morning Post’s Information Graphics

Society for News Design (SND) – Best of News Design 41th Edition (2019) (40 wins)

News Design [Pages] – Inside page news/Broadsheet

• Award of Excellence: The many stages of Cantonese opera – Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: Adhering to the rule of law – Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: Big Brother is watching you – Dennis C.F. Wong
• Award of Excellence: Tracking Trump’s tangled trade war tweets – Marco Hernandez
• Award of Excellence: Extreme Earth is blowing hot and cold – Marco Hernandez
• Award of Excellence: Why rare earths matter – Pablo Robles
• Award of Excellence: Why your smartphone is a pain in the neck – Pablo Robles
• Award of Excellence: Where coal is king – Han Huang, Adolfo Arranz
• Award of Excellence: The first 100 days of protests – Pablo Robles
• Award of Excellence: Permafrost: the ticking time bomb – Pablo Robles
• Award of Excellence: To extradite or not? – Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: Occupy movement 2014 vs Anti-government protests 2019 – Adolfo Arranz
• Award of Excellence: Spinning Out of Control – Pablo Robles
• Award of Excellence: How MMA’s roots are in Hong Kong – Dennis Wong, Pablo Robles, Adolfo Arranz

Breaking News Topics – Editor’s Choice: National

• Award of Excellence: Occupy movement 2014 vs Anti-government protest 2019 – Adolfo Arranz
• Award of Excellence: The first 100 days of protest – Pablo Robles
• Award of Excellence: Spinning our of control – Pablo Robles

Special News Topics – Editor’s Choice: National

• Award of Excellence: To extradite or not? – Pablo Robles, Marcelo Duhalde, Adolfo Arranz

Features Design [Pages] – Lifestyle cover/Broadsheet

• Award of Excellence: Why your smartphone is a pain in the neck – Pablo Robles

Features Design [Pages] – A&E cover/Broadsheet

• Award of Excellence: How MMA’s roots are in Hong Kong – Dennis Wong, Adolfo Arranz, Pablo Robles

Illustration – News/Color

• Award of Excellence: Leadership stands by Tiananmen decision – Adolfo Arranz
• Award of Excellence: Beijing takes sober second look lending Africa – Lau Ka-kuen

Illustration – A&E/Color

• Award of Excellence: Death in Texas – Adolfo Arranz

Photography [Multiple Photos] – Photo Page Design

• Award of Excellence: It’s a small world of winners – Emilio Rivera

Information Graphics [Single] – Deadline/Local

• Award of Excellence: The first 100 days of protests – Pablo Robles
• Award of Excellence: Spinning out of control – Pablo Robles

Information Graphics [Single] – Deadline/Features

• Award of Excellence: Big Brother is watching you – Dennis Wong

Information Graphics [Single] – National & International

• Award of Excellence: Where coal is king – Han Huang, Adolfo Arranz

Information Graphics [Single] – Sports

• Award of Excellence: How MMA’s roots are in Hong Kong – Dennis Wong, Adolfo Arranz, Pablo Robles

Information Graphics [Single] – Features

• Award of Excellence: Why rare earths matter – Pablo Robles
• Award of Excellence: How MMA’s roots are in Hong Kong – Dennis Wong, Pablo Robles, Adolfo Arranz
• Award of Excellence: The many stages of Cantonese opera – Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: Permafrost: the ticking time bomb – Pablo Robles

Information Graphics [Multiple] – Portfolio/Staff

• Award of Excellence: Spinning out of control – Han Huang, Dennis C.F. Wong, Pablo Robles, Marcelo Duhalde, Adolfo Arranz, Darren Long

Combination Print & Digital – News

• Award of Excellence: Occupy movement 2014 vs Anti-goverment protest 2019 – Adolfo Arranz
• Award of Excellence: The first 100 days of protest – Pablo Robles

Combination Print & Digital – Features

• Award of Excellence: Sorting out China’s waste problem – Han Huang
• Award of Excellence: Why your smartphone is a pain in the neck – Pablo Robles
• Award of Excellence: The many stages of Cantonese opera – Marcelo Duhalde
• Award of Excellence: How MMA’s roots are in Hong Kong – Dennis Wong, Pablo Robles, Adolfo Arranz

4th Business Journalism Awards of HSUHK 

Business Reporter of the Year

• Winner: Enoch Yiu

Best Business Technology News Reporting

• Silver: Chinals car parking problem spawns start-ups with big money backers as AI dominance grows – Daniel Ren, Peggy Sito

24th Human Rights Press Awards

Explanatory Feature Writing – English

• Merit: Abandoned in Assam: India creates its own Rohingya, and calls them ‘Bangladeshi’ – Debasish Roy Chowdhury

Hong Kong Press Photographers Association – Focus at the Frontline 2019 

Explanatory Feature Writing – English

• 2nd Runner-up: Sam Tsang
• Merit: Sam Tsang

General News

• 1st Runner-up: Felix Wong

Portraits

• Winner: Sam Tsang
• 2nd Runner-up: Felix Wong

WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards 2020

Best in Design – Newspaper Overall Design

• Silver Award:  South China Morning Post

Best in Magazine Overall Design

• Silver Award:  This Week in Asia

Best in Magazine Cover Design

• Gold Award: This Week in Asia

Best in Newspaper Infographics

• Gold Award:  The first 100 days of protests
• Bronze Award:  How MMA’s roots are in Hong Kong

Best in Sport Photography

• Gold Award: Hong Kong Sevens, short version

Lorenzo Natali Media Prize 2020

• Grand Prize: The ‘thin yellow line’ standing between Hong Kong police and protesters – Dayu Zhang

World Press Photo’s 2020 Digital Storytelling Contest

Short category

2nd Prize: The ‘thin yellow line’ standing between Hong Kong police and protesters – Dayu Zhang

Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism 2019

Informational Graphics (Newspaper Circulation 100,001+, Affiliated Website, National Magazine)

• Winner: Hong Kong protests: The full story in infographics

28th Malofiej International Infographics Awards 2019 (20 wins)

Print: 

Breaking News – Breaking News Coverage

• Silver: The first 100 days of protest – Pablo Robles

Features – Local

• Bronze: Occupy movement 2014 vs Anti-government protest 2019 – Adolfo Arranz
• Bronze: Spinning our of control – Pablo Robles

Features – Nation/World/Business News

• Bronze: Where coal is king – Han Huang, Adolfo Arranz

Features – Entertainment, Arts, Culture

• Silver: The many stages of Cantonese opera – Marcelo Duhalde

Features – Technology, Health, Science

• Silver: Why your smartphone – Pablo Robles
• Bronze: Permafrost Time Bomb The Ticking – Pablo Robles

Portfolios – Features Portfolio

• Silver: Features Portfolio – SCMP Graphic team
• Silver: Individual Portfolio – Pablo Robles

Digital:

Breaking News – Breaking News Coverage

• Gold: Key events from Hong Kong’s anti-government protests

Features – Local

• Gold: 100 days of protests rock Hong Kong – Pablo Robles, Darren Long, Dennis Wong

Features – Sports

• Silver: How Bruce Lee and street fighting in Hong Kong helped create MMA

Features – Entertainment, Arts, Culture

• Silver: Cantonese performing art

Features – Technology, Health, Science

• Silver: Why your smartphone is causing you ‘text neck’ syndrome

Planned Coverage – Expected Event

• Gold: Hong Kong protests
• Silver: 100 days of protests rock Hong Kong

Portfolios – Individual

• Gold: Pablo Robles Portfolio
• Bronze: Marcelo Duhalde Portfolio

Portfolios – Organisation

• Silver: South China Morning Post Portfolio

Sigma Awards 2020

Best visualization (large newsrooms)

• Honorable Mention: Why your smartphone is causing you ‘text neck’ syndrome – Pablo Robles

The Webby Awards 2020

Best Individual Editorial Feature – Media Company

• Honoree: Hong Kong Protests: 100 days of protests rock Hong Kong – Pablo Robles, Darren Long, Dennis Wong

Horizon Interactive Awards 2019

Web: Magazine, News, Blog

• Best of Category: China Tech City (Abacus) – South China Morning Post

Native Advertising Campaign of the Year

• Winner: Hello Hainan (For Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports of Hainan Province)

Best Video Journalism

• Highly recommended: On the ‘Front Line’ with Hong Kong’s protesters

INMA Global Media Awards 2020 

Best Use of  Video

•  First Place: “Tiananmen Square Crackdown: 30 years On”

Best Brand Awareness Campaign

• Third Place: “2019 SCMP Brand Campaign — Asia Matters”

Best New Initiative to Enhance Corporate Culture 

• Honourable Mention: “Hackathon and Kudos”

Best New Initiative to Empower and Retain Talent

• Honourable Mention: “Career Development and Mobility”

SOPA Awards 2020

Excellence in Video Reporting

• Award for Excellence: Thin yellow line – Dayu Zhang

Excellence in Business Reporting

• Award for Excellence: Hong Kong developers – Peggy Sito, Denise Tsang, Lam Ka-sing, Sandy Li

WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards 2020 

Best Use of Online Video (including VR)

• Gold Award: On the ‘Front Line’ with Hong Kong’s protesters

Best Data Visualisation

• Silver Award: Cantonese performing art

Best Native Advertising / Branded Content Campaign

• Gold Award: Uncover Art Macao

Best Special Project for Covid-19

• Gold Award: Coronavirus Pandemic Microsite

Online Journalism Awards 2020 

General Excellence in Online Journalism, Large Newsroom

• Winner: South China Morning Post

20th Consumer Rights Reporting Awards

Text (News/Features/Commentaries)

• Bronze Award: Why Hong Kong’s MPF pension scheme is failing to provide citizens with proper retirement protection – Cannix Yau

PRINT Awards 2020

Editorial

• First Place: Arrested Development – Adolfo Arranz

Premios NH20 Awards, Society for News Design’s Best of Ibero-American Journalistic Design (Spanish-language version) 

Digital Publications

• Special awards from the jury: Historia del coronavirus y su enfermedad, la COVID-19. Una narración visual – SCMP Graphics

Digital Publications – Data Projects and Infographics

• Gold: Historia del coronavirus y su enfermedad, la COVID-19. Una narración visual – SCMP Graphics

Laus Awards 2020

Graphic Design: Editorial – Infographic

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

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)

Print

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)

PANPA (Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association)

• Winner of the Award for Technical Excellence.

Hong Kong News Awards

• Ella Lee, second runner-up in the best news reporting category for her award-winning article, “Life-saving liver goes to waste”.
• Anna Healy Fenton, winner in the best news writing (English) category; two articles of Sherry Lee Man Nei won first and second runner-up awards in the category.
• Tom Mitchell, winner in the best business news writing (English) category; Eric Ng and Matthew Brooker, first and second runners-up respectively.
• Michael Kassay, winner in the best headline (English) category; Tim Pratt and Kylie Knott, first and second runners-up respectively.
• Martin Chan Kwok-cheung, first runner-up in the photographic section – news. David Wong Chi-kin won the merit award in the photographic section – sport.

PANPA (Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association)

• Winner of the Award for Technical Excellence.

DM Asia Awards

• Winner of a coveted Silver Award in multimedia for the “Read Smart, Win Smart” campaign.

Hong Kong News Awards

• K.Y. Cheng, second runner-up in sports photography.
• Dustin Sum, best sports photography and news photography merits.
• Joseph Lo, best news writing.
• Denise Tsang, second runner-up in business writing.
• Ravina Shamdasani, runner-up in news writing.
• Simon Pritchard, joint second runner-up in business writing.
• Jane Moir, runner-up in business writing.
• Colleen Thomson and Ian Young, joint winners in best headline.
• Oliver Tsang, runner-up in news photography.
• Tom Mitchell, best business writing.
• Post’s backbench, runner-up and second runner-up in best headline

PANPA (Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association)

• Winner of the Newspaper Marketing Campaign of the Year Award for the Centenary project.
• Winner of the Technical Excellence Awards Printed on a Double-Width Press (up to four webs).
• Winner of the Technical Excellence Awards Pre-print/Supplement Printed on a Double-Width Press.

25th Best of Newspaper Design Competition

• Review section of the Sunday Morning Post: Winner of the Award of Excellence in Entertainment Page Design and Entertainment Section Design.
• Cover of the centenary edition Post Magazine: Winner of the Award of Excellence in Magazines Cover Design.

“Star of Life” award

• An award expressing the Hospital Authority’s “most sincere gratitude and greatest appreciation” for the generous support provided by the South China Morning Post in the form of its fund raising ‘Project Shield’ during the SARS period in Hong Kong.

Society for News Design

• Winner of the Award of Excellence in Entertainment Page Design.
• Winner of the Award of Excellence of Magazines Cover Design.

Hong Kong News Awards

• Antony Dickson, winner of best sports photography.
• Martin Chan, second runner-up in sports photography
• Didi Kirsten Tatlow, winner of best news writing.
• Sherry Lee, first runner-up in best news writing.
• Peter Kammerer, second runner-up in best news writing.
• Denise Tsang, winner in best business news writing.
• Jane Moir, second runner-up in best business news writing.
• Cheung Chi-fai, first runner-up in news reporting.
• Simon Pritchard, joint second runner-up in business writing.
• Paul Buck, first runner-up in best headline.
• Ian Young, second runner-up in best headline.
• Dustin Shum, merit in news photography.
• Chan Siu Sin, second runner-up in best young reporter.
• Ben O’Neill, merit for news page design.

PANPA (Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association)

• An honourable mention in the Newspaper of the Year category.
• Winner in the Technical Excellence Awards Printed on a Double-Width Press (up to four webs).
• Winner in the Technical Excellence Awards Pre-print/Supplement Printed on a Double-Width Press.

10th Annual Human Rights Press Awards

• Sherry Lee won the top prize in the newspaper feature category.
• Ravina Shamdasani won two merit certificates in the general news category and one merit in the features category
• Polly Hui won one merit in the news category.
• Peter Kammerer won one Merit in the features category.

2005 Consumer Rights Awards

• Patsy Moy won the bronze award in the features category.
• Raymond Ma won merit in the news category.

Asia Media Awards by IFRA Asia

• Sunday Morning Post won gold award for Best In Newspaper Design.
• South China Morning Post won bronze award for Best In Newspaper Design.

The SOPA Awards (Society of Publishers in Asia)
Winners:

• Excellence in Feature Writing
• Excellence in Newspaper Design
• Excellence in News Photography
• Excellence in Special Section
• Excellence in Editorial Cartooning

Honourable Mentions:

• Excellence in Newspapers
• Excellence in Reporting

26th Best of Newspaper Design Competition

• The Review Section of Sunday Morning Post: winner of the Award of Excellence in Entertainment Page Design.
• Winner of the Features Page Designer Portfolio: Troy Dunkley.