2025 Awards

WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards Worldwide 2025 (1 win)

Best Digital Subscription/Reader Revenue Project

WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards Asia 2025 (1 win)

Best Native Advertising / Sponsored Content Campaign

INMA Global Media Awards 2025 (4 wins)  | View more

Best Product Iteration (National Brands)

  • 3rd place: SCMP.com 2.0

Best Brand Awareness Campaign

Best Use of Print (National Brand)

  • 1st place: Style Magazine

Best New Video Production

The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) Awards (1 win)

Excellence in Arts and Culture/Entertainment Reporting

Hong Kong Press Photographers Association – Video at the Frontline (1 win)

Video at the Frontline (Open Category)

Hong Kong Press Photographers Association – Focus at the Frontline (8 wins)

Spot News

  • Winner: Sam Tsang
  • Merit: Sam Tsang

Portraits

  • 1st Runner-up: Eugene Lee
  • Merit: Sam Tsang

Sports

  • Winner: Elson Li

Nature & Environment

  • First runner-up: Dickson Lee
  • Second runner-up: Eugene Lee
  • Merit: Sam Tsang

New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2025 (1 win)

Documentary – Short Form

9th HKAIM Media Convergence Awards (11 wins)

  • Top 10 Media: South China Morning Post
  • Gold Award: Comprehensive Review (Website) – South China Morning Post
  • Silver Award: Comprehensive Review (Mobile App) – South China Morning Post
  • Bronze Award: Comprehensive Review (Social Media) – South China Morning Post
  • Gold Award: English Media (Overall) – South China Morning Post
  • Gold Award: English Media (Website) – South China Morning Post
  • Gold Award: English Media (Social Media) – South China Morning Post
  • Gold Award: English Media (Mobile App) – South China Morning Post
  • Silver Award: Magazine (Overall) – Esquire HK
  • Silver Award: Magazine (Website) – Esquire HK
  • Bronze Award: Magazine (Website) – ELLE Hong Kong

Créateurs Design Awards 2025 (1 win)

Excellence in Creative Journalism

Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards 2025 (2 wins) | View more

Excellence in Arts and Culture Reporting (Regional / Local)

Excellence in Magazine Design

  • Award for Excellence: PostMag

Native Advertising Awards 2025 (1 win)

Best Influencer Partnership

Astrid Awards 2025 (5 wins)

Magazines – Art & Culture

  • Honours: Postmag

Websites Redesign/Relaunch

  • Gold: PostMag

Special Projects Integrated

Special Projects – Multimedia

  • Gold: Cathay

Video / Blog

Campaign Asia Digital Marketing Awards 2025 (1 win)

Industry Excellence – Media and Entertainment

The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong – Hong Kong News Awards 2024 (12 wins)

Best Scoop

  • Winner: Uncovering HK’s land grab (Edith Lin and Jeffie Lam)
  • First runner-up: The controversy of a Dubai prince ( Kahon Chan, Natalie Wong, Lilian Cheng, Jeffie Lam and Edith Lin)

Best News Reporting

  • Merit: Article 23 series (Jeffie Lam, Natalie Wong, Lilian Cheng, Willa Wu and Connor Mycroft)

Best Business News Reporting

Best Science News Reporting

Best News Writing

Best Business News Writing

Best Photograph (News)

  • Merit: Up in flames (Sam Tsang)

Best Photograph (Features)

  • Merit: Sea of mist (Eugene Lee)

Best Photograph (Sports)

  • Second runner-up: Creating a splash (Elson Li)

Best News Page Design (Single Page)

  • Second runner-up: Takeaways from Hong Kong’s single-use plastic ban (Kaliz Lee)

Best News Page Design (Series)

  • Winner: Paris 2024, Olympics Coverage (SCMP Graphics, Victor Sanjinez Garcia)

State Street Institutional Press Awards (Asia Pacific) 2024 (5 wins)

Journalist of the Year – Regulation

  • Winner: Enoch Yiu

Journalist of the Year – Investments

  • Winners: Yulu Ao and Chad Bray

Journalist of the Year – Investor Services

  • Highly commended: Enoch Yiu and Zhang Shidong

Journalist of the Year – Private Markets & Alternatives

  • Highly commended: Salina Li

Award for Best Newcomer

  • Highly commended: Yulo Ao

9th Business Journalism Awards of HSUHK (1 win)

Best Property Market News Reporting

Society for News Design (SND) – Best of News Design Creative Competition 46th Edition (2024) (94 wins)

Infographics – Regional / Local

Award of Excellence: Three decades of PlayStation evolution (Victor Sanjinez and Andrew London)

  • Award of Excellence: Three decades of PlayStation evolution (Victor Sanjinez and Andrew London)

Infographics – Environment & Science

  • Silver: Takeaways from Hong Kong single-use plastic ban (Kaliz Lee)
  • Bronze: Plastic unfantastic: what’s banned in Hong Kong’s war on waste (Kaliz Lee, Davies Surya and Andrew London)
  • Bronze: The sky as a canvas (YiZhe Ang and Andrew London)
  • Award of Excellence: 200 geniuses of the millennium (Marcelo Duhalde and Katie Yue)
  • Award of Excellence: Danger in the sky (Brian Wang and Victor Sanjinez)
  • Award of Excellence: Hong Kong zoo monkey deaths; here’s what we know (Victor Sanjinez and Rocio Marquez)

Infographics – International

Infographics – Investigative

  • Silver: Bedtime Stories of Hong Kong’s Helpers (Davies Surya, Andrew London, and John Henderson)
  • Bronze: Uncovering Hong Kong’s secret land grab (Rocio Marquez, Davies Surya, Dennis Wong, Jeffie Lam and Edith Lin)
  • Award of Excellence: Lives in limbo: struggles of asylum seekers in Hong Kong (Rocio Marquez, Jess Ma, Dennis Wong, Catherine Ma and Andrew London)

Infographics – Politics & Elections

  • Award of Excellence: Trump’s path to victory (Rocio Marquez, Marcelo Duhalde and Andrew London)

Infographics – Social Issues

  • Silver: Bedtime Stories of Hong Kong’s Helpers (Davies Surya, Andrew London and John Henderson)
  • Bronze: Uncovering Hong Kong’s secret land grab (Rocio Marquez, Davies Surya, Dennis Wong, Jeffie Lam and Edith Lin)
  • Award of Excellence: Lives in limbo: struggles of asylum seekers in Hong Kong (Rocio Marquez, Jess Ma, Dennis Wong, Catherine Ma and Andrew London)

Infographics – Sports

Illustration + Use of Multimedia – International

  • Silver: Trench warfare in Ukraine (Victor Sanjinez)

Illustration + Use of Multimedia – Business

Illustration + Use of Multimedia – Features / Lifestyle

  • Award of Excellence: Dogs in the city (Brian Wang)

Illustration + Use of Multimedia – Multiple illustrations (single subject)

  • Gold: Bedtime Stories of Hong Kong’s Helpers (Davies Surya)
  • Silver: Trench warfare: Ukraine and Russia dig in as fighting grinds into third year (Victor Sanjinez and Marcelo Duhalde)
  • Award of Excellence: Lives in limbo: struggles of asylum seekers in Hong Kong (Rocio Marquez)
  • Award of Excellence: A different opening, the River Seine scenario (Victor Sanjinez)
  • Award of Excellence: Hong Kong zoo monkey deaths; here’s what we know (Victor Sanjinez, Rocio Marquez)

Illustration + Use of Multimedia – Animation Design

  • Bronze: The sky as a canvas (YiZhe Ang and Andrew London)

Illustration + Use of Multimedia – Illustrated Reporting

  • Silver: Bedtime Stories of Hong Kong’s Helpers (Davies Surya)
  • Award of Excellence: A different opening, the River Seine scenario (Victor Sanjinez)
  • Award of Excellence: Uncovering Hong Kong’s secret land grab (Davies Surya and Victor Sanjinez)
  • Award of Excellence: Trench warfare: Ukraine and Russia dig in as fighting grinds into third year (Marcelo Duhalde and Victor Sanjinez)

Page Design – Investigative

  • Award of Excellence: Lives in limbo: struggles of asylum seekers in Hong Kong (Rocio Marquez, Jess Ma, Dennis Wong, Catherine Ma and Andrew London)
  • Award of Excellence: Uncovering Hong Kong’s secret land grab (Rocio Marquez, Davies Surya, Dennis Wong, Jeffie Lam and Edith Lin)
  • Award of Excellence: Bedtime Stories of Hong Kong’s Helpers (Davies Surya, Andrew London and John Henderson)

 

Page Design – Politics & Elections

  • Bronze: Deng Xiaoping, ’the chief architect’ (Rocio Marquez and Carl Jones)
  • Award of Excellence: All you need to know about Hong Kong’s domestic national security law (Marcelo Duhalde, Dennis Wong, Sammy Heung and Kahon Chan)
  • Award of Excellence: The US electoral oracle (Marcelo Duhalde)

Page Design – Regional / Local

  • Bronze: Lives in limbo: struggles of asylum seekers in Hong Kong (Rocio Marquez, Jess Ma, Dennis Wong, Catherine Ma and Andrew London)
  • Bronze: The sky as a canvas (YiZhe Ang and Andrew London)
  • Award of Excellence: Uncovering Hong Kong’s secret land grab (Rocio Marquez, Davies Surya, Dennis Wong, Jeffie Lam and Edith Lin)
  • Award of Excellence: Hong Kong zoo monkey deaths: here’s what we know (Rocio Marquez, Victor Sanjinez, Elizabeth Cheung and YiZhe Ang)
  • Award of Excellence: Takeaways from Hong Kong’s single-use plastic ban (Kaliz Lee)
  • Award of Excellence: Macau: 25 years of change (Rocio Marquez)
  • Award of Excellence: Bedtime Stories of Hong Kong’s Helpers (Davies Surya, Andrew London and John Henderson)
  • Award of Excellence: Hong Kong zoo monkey deaths; here’s what we know (Victor Sanjinez and Rocio Marquez)

Page Design – Social Issues

  • Silver: Uncovering Hong Kong’s secret land grab (Rocio Marquez, Davies Surya, Dennis Wong, Jeffie Lam and Edith Lin)
  • Bronze: Bedtime Stories of Hong Kong’s Helpers – Davies Surya, Andrew London, and John Henderson)

Page Design – Sports

  • Award of Excellence: Value of gold (Victor Sanjinez)
  • Award of Excellence: Race of endurance (Victor Sanjinez, Brian Wang and YiZhe Ang)
  • Award of Excellence: River of dreams (Victor Sanjinez)

Portfolios and World’s Best – Individual: Infographics Portfolio

  • Bronze: Victor Sanjinez Infographic portfolio (Victor Sanjinez)
  • Award of Excellence: SCMP Kaliz Lee Individual Infographics (Kaliz Lee)

Portfolios and World’s Best – Individual: Multiple Topics Portfolio

  • Bronze: SCMP Individual (Rocio Marquez)

Portfolios and World’s Best – Individual: Original Illustration Portfolio

  • Silver: SCMP, Original Illustration (Victor Sanjinez)

Portfolios and World’s Best – Staff: Art Direction Portfolio

  • Silver: SCMP Art Direction Staff (Marcelo Duhalde and Kaliz Lee)

Portfolios and World’s Best – Staff: Features/Magazine Portfolio

  • Award of Excellence: SCMP Spark (Kaliz Lee, Marcelo Duhalde, Victor Sanjinez, Catherine Ma, Davies Surya, KaKuen Lau, Brian Wang, Rocio Marquez, Joe Lo, Henry Wong, Eunice Tse and Esther Cheung)

Portfolios and World’s Best – Staff: Infographics Portfolio

  • Silver: SCMP staff, Infographics (Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Victor Sanjinez, Catherine Ma, Davies Surya, KaKuen Lau, Brian Wang, Rocio Marquez, YiZhe Ang, Joe Lo, Henry Wong, Eunice Tse, Andrew London and Dennis Wong)
  • Bronze: SCMP staff Infographics Print (Kaliz Lee, Marcelo Duhalde, Victor Sanjinez, Catherine Ma, Davies Surya, KaKuen Lau, Brian Wang, Rocio Marquez, YiZhe Ang, Joe Lo, Henry Wong, Eunice Tse and Andrew London)
  • Award of Excellence: SCMP Infographics Staff Two (Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Victor Sanjinez, Catherine Ma, Davies Surya, KaKuen Lau, Brian Wang, Rocio Marquez, YiZhe Ang, Joe Lo, Henry Wong, Eunice Tse, Andrew London and Dennis Wong)

Portfolios and World’s Best – Staff: Multiple Topics Portfolio

  • Silver: SCMP staff multiple topics Ol (Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Victor Sanjinez, Catherine Ma, Davies Surya, KaKuen Lau, Brian Wang, Rocio Marquez, YiZhe Ang, Joe Lo, Henry Wong, Eunice Tse, Andrew London and Dennis Wong)
  • Award of Excellence: SCMP Multiple topics Graphs and Pages (Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Victor Sanjinez, Catherine Ma, Davies Surya, KaKuen Lau, Brian Wang, Rocio Marquez, Joe Lo, Andrew London and Dennis Wong)

Portfolios and World’s Best – Staff: News and Business Portfolio

  • Award of Excellence: SCMP Plus N&B portfolio (Kaliz Lee, Marcelo Duhalde, Davies Surya, Brian Wang, Rocio Marquez, Henry Wong and Haining Gao)
  • Award of Excellence: SCMP Portfolio News, Staff (Kaliz Lee, Marcelo Duhalde, Victor Sanjinez, Catherine Ma, Davies Surya, KaKuen Lau, Brian Wang, Rocio Marquez, YiZhe Ang, Joe Lo, Henry Wong, Eunice Tse, Andrew London and Dennis Wong)

Portfolios and World’s Best – Staff: Original Illustration Portfolio

  • Gold: SCMP Original Illustration Portfolio (Kaliz Lee, Marcelo Duhalde, Victor Sanjinez, Catherine Ma, Davies Surya, KaKuen Lau, Brian Wang, Rocio Marquez, YiZhe Ang, Henry Wong, Eunice Tse, Andrew London and Dennis Wong)
  • Bronze: SCMP Original illustration pf2 (Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Victor Sanjinez, Catherine Ma, Davies Surya, KaKuen Lau, Brian Wang, Rocio Marquez, YiZhe Ang, Joe Lo, Henry Wong, Eunice Tse, Andrew London and Dennis Wong)
  • Bronze: SCMP Original Illustration print2 (Kaliz Lee, Marcelo Duhalde, Victor Sanjinez, Catherine Ma, Davies Surya, KaKuen Lau, Brian Wang, Rocio Marquez, YiZhe Ang, Joe Lo, Henry Wong, Eunice Tse, Andrew London and Dennis Wong)

Portfolios and World’s Best – Staff: Sports Portfolio

  • Award of Excellence: SCMP Sports portfolio (Kaliz Lee, Marcelo Duhalde, Victor Sanjinez, Catherine Ma, Davies Surya, KaKuen Lau, Brian Wang, Rocio Marquez, YiZhe Ang, Joe Lo, Henry Wong, Eunice Tse and Andrew London)

Special Coverage – Special topic: Olympics

  • Bronze: SCMP Graphics Olympic coverage (Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Victor Sanjinez, Catherine Ma, Davies Surya, KaKuen Lau, Brian Wang, Rocio Marquez, YiZhe Ang, Joe Lo, Henry Wong, Eunice Tse, Andrew London and Dennis Wong)

Special Coverage – Regional / Local

  • Award of Excellence: Article 23 and China’s National Security Law implications (Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Dennis Wong and Jeffie Lam)