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Video Address

Lillian KungBloomberg / SOPA Honorary Secretary

Excellence inInformation Graphics

Honoring entries that demonstrate high standards in presenting information in graphical form

Excellence in Information Graphics CGroup

The Paper澎湃新聞網

CommonWealth Magazine天下雜誌

Initium Media端傳媒


Publication:Initium Media端傳媒

Title of Entry:Poor, Ill and Always Waiting, Data Animation Shows You What It Is Like Ageing in Hong Kong數據動畫帶你看，老死在香港是種什麼體驗


Honorable Mention

Journalists:Xiaotong Xu, Stanley Leung, Qiufeng Jin, Lee-yu Tseng, Ron Lau徐小童、梁詩聰、金秋楓、曾立宇、劉家睿


Honorable Mention

Award for Excellence


Publication:CommonWealth Magazine天下雜誌

Title of Entry:Interactive Map of Taiwan elections 20182018九合一選舉互動地圖



Journalists: Andy Lin, Joanna Hong,Pin-Chieh Lai, Yu-Ting Huang, Yi-Wen Lin,Angel Pai林佳賢、洪家寧、賴品潔、黃昱婷、林奕文、白雅文



Judges’ Comments:The detailed data provides great support for the project in the first place, and the design of this interactive map is pretty powerful -giving readers enough guidance but also allowing them much freedom to explore the data.

BSouth ChinaMorning Post

India Today South ChinaMorning Post

Excellence in Information Graphics

Group

Publication:India Today

Title of Entry:Is The Taj Doomed?

Journalists:Nilanjan Das

Excellence in Information Graphics BGroup

Honorable Mention

Publication:South China Morning Post

Title of Entry:The Forbidden City

Journalists: Marco Hernandez, Marcelo Duhalde, Adolfo Arranz



Judges’ Comments:This infographic, full of historical relevant and interesting information is shown to the reader using many different and successful visual resources.



AExcellence in Information Graphics

Group

The Wall Street JournalReuters Reuters

Publication:Reuters

Title of Entry:The Sanchi oil spill

Journalists:Simon Scarr, Weiyi Cai, Jin Wu, Chris Inton

Excellence in Information Graphics AGroup

Honorable MentionAGroup

Publication:Reuters

Title of Entry:Rohingya refugees at risk

Journalists: Weiyi Cai, Simon Scarr, Chris Inton, Jin Wu



Judges’ Comments:Reuters innovative use of maps is combined with graphics and charts to tell the story of a humanitarian crisis the world's political leaders seem all too keen to brush under the carpet. Succinct and powerful visual storytelling at its best



Excellence inReporting Breaking News

Honoring the work that demonstrates high standards of reporting a breaking news event under deadline pressure

The Reporter報導者

Apple Daily蘋果日報

Apple Daily蘋果日報

Excellence in Reporting Breaking News CGroup

Publication:Apple Daily 蘋果日報

Title of Entry:HK devastated by Typhoon Mangkhut山竹襲港系列：我城滿目瘡痍政府救災不力

Journalists:Staff Writers at Apple Daily City Crime Department蘋果日報突發組


Honorable Mention



Publication:Apple Daily 蘋果日報

Title of Entry:African Swine Fever inches closer to Hong Kong非洲豬瘟疫情逼近香港

Journalists:Siu Yu蕭宇



Judges’ Comments:Well rounded reporting, includes vivid examples, uncovers information the public has yet to know. Demonstrates the value of journalism.

BSouth ChinaMorning Post

Malaysiakini South ChinaMorning Post

Excellence in Reporting Breaking News

Group

Publication:South China Morning Post

Title of Entry:Typhoon Mangkhut: as it happened

Journalists:SCMP reporters

Excellence in Reporting Breaking News BGroup

Honorable Mention

Publication:Malaysiakini

Title of Entry:Malaysiakini's coverage of the 14th Malaysian general election

Journalists: Malaysiakini Team



Judges’ Comments:This scrappy, relatively new online site defied the odds and official attempts at censorship to give Malaysians the news that the official pro-government media was trying to block. Malaysiakini on election night proved itself a major new player in the Malaysian media landscape.



AExcellence in Reporting Breaking News

Group

ReutersBBC News Online Financial Times

Publication:BBC News Online

Title of Entry:The rescue of the Thai cave boys

Journalists:Anna Jones, Tessa Wong, HelierCheung

Excellence in AGroup

Honorable Mention

Excellence in Reporting Breaking News AGroup

Publication:Reuters

Title of Entry:Malaysia topples Najib

Journalists: A. Ananthalakshmi, Emily Chow, Joseph Sipalan, Kevin Krolicki, Praveen Menon, Tom Westbrook

Judges’ Comments:The first exclusive interviews with both Najib and Mahathir after the election? These scoops can't be beat.


Excellence in Reporting Breaking News AGroup

Excellence inOpinion Writing

Honoring the opinion piece(s) or editorial(s) that best serve(s) to advance discussion and debate on a topic of

significance

Carlos TejadaThe New York Times / SOPA Editorial Committee


Financial Times ChineseFT中文網

The Paper澎湃新聞網

Excellence in Opinion Writing CGroup

Publication:The Paper澎湃新聞網

Title of Entry:Commentary Series about Changchun Vaccine Scandal長春疫苗事件系列評論

Journalists:Xia Zhengyu, Chen Cai, Cheng Shicai, Shen Bin夏正玉、陳才、程仕才、沈彬


Honorable Mention



Publication:The Reporter 報導者

Title of Entry:Taiwan’s nine-in-one local elections in 2018 2018九合一選舉結果觀察

Journalists: Tsuyoshi Nojima, Nathan F. Batto, Mei-hua Chen 野島剛、鮑彤Nathan F. Batto、陳美華



Judges’ Comments:The commentary uses different aspects, choosing different backgrounds but includes the right characters to allow the readers a well rounded and deep perspective.

BThe Courier MailFrontier Myanmar Nikkei Asian Review

Excellence in Opinion Writing

Group

Publication:Frontier Myanmar

Title of Entry:Time for a new approach on Rakhine State

Journalists:Thomas Kean

Excellence in Opinion Writing BGroup

Honorable Mention

Publication:The Courier Mail

Title of Entry:Igniting Conversations About Violence Against Women

Journalists: Sherele Moody

Judges’ Comments:This entry is a powerful and well-crafted discussion on the under-covered issue of violence against women, showing a deep knowledge of this scourge.

Excellence in Opinion Writing BGroup


AExcellence in Opinion Writing

Group

The Wall Street JournalBloomberg The New York Times

Publication:The Wall Street Journal

Title of Entry:Calling China’s Slowdown

Journalists:Nathaniel Taplin

Excellence in Opinion Writing AGroup


Publication:Bloomberg

Title of Entry:China Should Remember Its Friends

Journalists: Mihir Sharma

Judges’ Comments:Very well written and fresh, these columns offer unique insight into China's struggles from his base in India. He offers a strong argument about the benefits of democracy as a better check on flawed economic plans.

Excellence in Opinion Writing AGroup


Excellence inReporting on the Environment

Honoring the work that demonstrates high standards of reporting on an environmental topic of significance


Apple Daily Taiwan蘋果日報台灣


Excellence in Reporting on the Environment CGroup

Publication:Apple Daily Taiwan蘋果日報台灣

Title of Entry:Taiwan. The World's Dumping Ground台灣・世界垃圾場


Honorable Mention

Journalists:Po Chun Ho, Liang Ju Hou,Yi Jing Wu, Wei Chou Chen, Huan Cheng Lin, Charles Wang, Kristi Hu, King Hsueh, Tiffany Keng何柏均、侯良儒、吳宜靜、陳偉周、陳鼎仁、林奐成、王士銓、胡祖維、薛合淇、耿詩婷


Honorable Mention




Title of Entry:Dangers Hidden in Quangang district after leaking 69 metric tons of petrochemicals.

「先有廠，再規劃」，泄漏69噸「碳九」的泉港埋了多少雷？

Journalists: Yang Yu楊鈺



Judges’ Comments:The ability to report under difficult situations in the field is of utmost importance. The story is all encompassing and detailed, with great background depth.

BVICE IndonesiaABS-CBN News Digital Sixth Tone

Excellence in Reporting on the Environment

Group

Publication:ABS-CBN News Digital

Title of Entry:THE BORACAY PROJECT

Journalists:Katrina Domingo and Fernando Sepe Jr.

Excellence in Reporting on the Environment BGroup

Honorable Mention

Publication:VICE Indonesia

Title of Entry:

A Tribe In Indonesia's Surf Paradise Is Facing Down an Energy Firm That Wants Their Land

Journalists: Febriana Firdaus, Jonathan Vit

Judges’ Comments:Vigorous and detailed look at a major environmental problem.

Excellence in Reporting on the Environment BGroup


AExcellence in Reporting on the Environment

Group

ReutersFinancial Times Reuters

Publication:Reuters

Title of Entry:Asia's undersea crisis

Journalists:Mari Saito and Matthew Green

Excellence in Reporting on the Environment AGroup


Publication:Financial Times

Title of Entry:Why the world’s recycling system stopped working

Journalists: John Reed, Leslie Hook



Judges’ Comments:Gripping, analytical, investigative reporting on a little understood and complex issue that has profound implications on the environment and the way society deals with its mounting trash.



Excellence inPhotography

Honoring the work that demonstrates high standards of feature photography

Chris BrummittCommunications Manager



Duowei News多維新聞網

Excellence in Photography CGroup


Title of Entry:Shenzhen: The Southern highway to prosperity?深圳：戰戰兢兢的南方高速

Journalists:Lam Chun Tung林振東


Honorable Mention



Publication:Duowei News 多維新聞網

Title of Entry:Survey on Water Pollution in China: Concealed Conduits all around, A Polluted Village Located at the Border of Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia中国水污染调查：暗管遍布陕蒙交界被浸染的村庄

Journalists: Xia Da Peng, Wu Tong夏大鹏、吴桐



Judges’ Comments:A perfect example of the power of photojournalism.

BThe Myanmar TimesNikkei Asian Review Sixth Tone

Excellence in Photography

Group

Publication:Sixth Tone

Title of Entry:Shrinking Cities

Journalists:Chen Ronghui

Excellence in Photography BGroup

Honorable Mention

Publication:The Myanmar Times

Title of Entry:The sentencing of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo

Journalists: Zarni Phyo



Judges’ Comments:These photos stand as a stark reminder of the sacrifices journalists make all over the world. Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are being persecuted for simply doing their jobs and informing the world.



AExcellence in Photography

Group

The New York TimesBloomberg Reuters

Publication:The New York Times

Title of Entry:China Rules

Journalists:Bryan Denton

Excellence in Photography AGroup


Publication:Reuters

Title of Entry:Devastation in Palu: No siren, no warning

Journalists: Athit Perawongmetha and Jorge Silva



Judges’ Comments:Under difficult circumstances, these photographers portray the hardship of the disaster while producing photographs that transcend into art.



The Scoop Award

Honoring the exclusive story that has a significant impact and is widely followed by competing news media



HK01香港01有限公司

The Scoop Award CGroup

Publication:The Reporter報導者

Title of Entry:Two text Messages Reveal key to Taiwan train crash.【普悠瑪18死事故】2通簡訊示警，關鍵53分鐘危機處理待調查

Journalists:Roger Yen嚴文廷

The Scoop Award CGroup

Honorable Mention

Award for ExcellenceCGroup

Publication:CommonWealth Magazine 天下雜誌

Title of Entry:Taiwan: The Next Money-laundering Haven?台灣，下一個洗錢天堂

Journalists: Yi-Shan Chen, Cho-Han Yang, Andy Lin, Mini Wu陳一姍、楊卓翰、林佳賢、吳廷勻

The Scoop Award

Award for ExcellenceCGroup

Judges’ Comments:An investigative piece that furthered discussion on a timely topic and shaped policies

The Scoop Award

BThis Week In AsiaNikkei Asian Review Nikkei Asian Review

GroupThe Scoop Award

Publication:This Week In Asia

Title of Entry:Near collision in flashpoint sea

Journalists:John Power, Catherine Wong

BGroup

Honorable MentionThe Scoop Award

Publication:Nikkei Asian Review

Title of Entry:A milestone in China’s chipmaking plan

Journalists: CHENG TING‒FANG and MICHELLE CHAN

BGroupThe Scoop Award


Judges’ Comments:Comprehensively reported story about how China, as a rising power, is pursuing its own chip-making capacity, and how having that capacity could change the world of tech.

BGroup

Award for ExcellenceThe Scoop Award

AGroup

The Associated PressFinancial Times Reuters

The Scoop Award

Publication:Reuters

Title of Entry:Exposing a Massacre

Journalists:Andrew R.C. Marshall, Antoni Slodkowski, Clare Baldwin, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis, Wa Lone, Zeba Siddiqui

AGroup

Honorable MentionAGroupThe Scoop Award

Publication:The Associated Press

Title of Entry:Chinese Researcher Claims First gene-edited Babies

Journalists: Reporters: Marilynn Marchione, Christina Larson; Videojournalists: Emily Wang, Kathy Young; Photographer: Mark Schiefelbein; Researcher Fu Ting

AGroupThe Scoop Award


Judges’ Comments:The story helped focus world attention on a key development that could just as easily have slipped by without much of a fuss were it not for this superb story.

Award for ExcellenceAGroupThe Scoop Award

Excellence inInvestigative Reporting

Honoring the publication that through the use of its journalistic resources, which as well as reporting may

include editorials, photographs and graphics, serves to advance the public interest on a topic of significance

Cliff BuddleChair

SOPA Editorial Committee


Business Weekly商業周刊


Excellence in Investigative Reporting CGroup

Publication:Business Weekly商業周刊

Title of Entry:Exclusive Survey: Lawmakers' Secret "Little Coffers“獨家揭露907位議員小金庫

Journalists:Kuan, Wu-Yuan/ Tien, His-Ju管婺媛/田習如


Honorable Mention



Publication:The Reporter 報導者

Title of Entry:Formosa Petrochemical’s Sixth Naphtha Cracking Project's 20th anniversary: Refugees from the scientific war六輕營運20年：科學戰爭下的環境難民



Journalists: Jung-shin Ho, Michelle Fang, Jung-shin Ho, Yu-yo Lin, I-ting Chiang, Chih-wei Yu, Jameson Wu, Yu-en Lin, Jen-tang Hsu, Mimi Chen, Yu-chen Huang, Chen-na Lin, Fa-hsien Li, Chung-jen Yu監製: 何榮幸記者: 房慧真、何榮幸、林雨佑、蔣宜婷攝影: 余志偉、吳逸驊、林佑恩、許震唐數位專案管理: 陳貞樺設計: 黃禹禛、林珍娜工程: 李法賢、余崇任



Judges’ Comments:An investigation into a science and environment issue with significant public interest.

BVOA KhmerRappler The Indian Express,

International Consortiumof Investigative Journalists

Excellence in Investigative Reporting

Group

Publication:The Indian Express, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Title of Entry:Implant Files

Journalists:Scilla Alecci, Sydney P. Freedberg, Ritu Sarin, Kaunain Sheriff

Excellence in Investigative Reporting BGroup

Honorable Mention

Publication:Rappler

Title of Entry:Murder in Manila

Journalists:Patricia Evangelista and Carlo Gabuco, with Lian Buan and Rambo Talabong



Judges’ Comments:This is the kind of reporting that reminds a reader why the free press is vital to a democracy.



AExcellence in Investigative Reporting

Group

The Wall Street JournalReuters The New York Times

Publication:The New York Times

Title of Entry:China’s Reach

Journalists:Maria Abi-Habib, Nicholas Casey, Clifford Krauss

Excellence in Investigative Reporting AGroup


Publication:Reuters

Title of Entry:Guns, clicks and cement: Inside Myanmar's hate machine

Journalists: Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Poppy McPherson, Shoon Naing, Simon Lewis, Steve Stecklow, Thu Thu Aung, Tom Lasseter, Zeba Siddiqui



Judges’ Comments:The piece on the murder of Ko Ni is a tour de force in exposing the heinous role of the government in hunting down and eliminating its opponents. Powerful, harrowing writing.



SOPA Award for Public Service Journalism

Honoring the work that demonstrates high standards of reporting, writing and in-depth analysis to explain a topic

of significance

Thomson ReutersNew York Times The Wall Street Journal

SOPA Awardfor Public Service Journalism



Publication:Thomson Reuters

Title of Entry:Erasing the Rohingya

Journalists: Andrew R.C. Marshall, Antoni Slodkowski, Clare Baldwin, Kyaw Soe Oo, Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Poppy McPherson, ShoonNaing, Simon Lewis, Steve Stecklow, Thu Thu Aung, Wa Lone, Zeba Siddiqui



Judges’ Comments:500-odd days of two courageous Reuters reporters behind bars had sparked global calls for an investigation into the Rohingya massacre, international attention on the safety of more than 730,000 Rohingya refugees and has raised the importance of press freedom around the world.

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