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Awards Finalists

SOPA Announces 2018 Awards for Editorial Excellence Finalists!

(Below listings in alphabetical order of publication’s title)

 

 

 

1. Excellence in Reporting on Women’s Issues (卓越女性議題報道獎)
Group A
The Associated Press, Rohingya – Fleeing Rape (Award for Excellence)
The New York Times, For Rohingya Women, the Abuse Continues
The Thomson Reuters Foundation, An Unequal Life – Women’s Fight for Land in Asia (Honorable Mention)
Group B
ABC News Online, Domestic violence and religion series
Fountain Ink, The police rapes (Award for Excellence)
Rappler, Rape within the family: The Philippines’ silent incest problem (Honorable Mention)
Group C
端傳媒 , 艾曉明:困獸猶鬥 (Award for Excellence)
端傳媒 , 菲律賓女傭的雙面生活:想念家鄉,環球大廈就是那扇隨意門
香港01有限公司, 「影圈#metoo」系列報道  (Honorable Mention)

2. Excellence in Journalistic Innovation (卓越新聞報道創新獎)
Group A
Reuters, The Rohingya Crisis (Award for Excellence)
Reuters, Where tourism meets tanks
The New York Times, How the Rohingya Escaped (Honorable Mention)
Group B
Rappler, Marawi in 360
Sixth Tone, Hu Line: Journey Through China’s Heartland (Honorable Mention)
Sydney Morning Herald, Year 12 with Cancer: Gabbie’s Story (Award for Excellence)
Group C
Apple Daily Taiwan, 河瘤大調查
澎湃新闻, 山河:活在临界线上 (Award for Excellence)
端傳媒 , 互動地圖帶你重溫香港六七暴動 Interactive Map:Hong Kong 1967 Leftist riots (Honorable Mention)

3. Excellence in Video Reporting (卓越視頻報道獎)
Group A
Sky News, Battle for Marawi (Honorable Mention)
The New York Times, Inside a Rohingya Refugee Camp (Award for Excellence)
The Thomson Reuters Foundation, Kung Fu nuns strike back at rising sex attacks on women in India
Group B
Mediacorp Pte Ltd, CNA Digital, The real Suicide Squad: Heroes of Marawi (Award for Excellence)
South China Morning Post, Cheesemaker of Beijing
South China Morning Post, Chinese roots (Honorable Mention)
Group C
Apple Daily Taiwan, 吞辱被笑像狗爬 200種發明揚威國際 (Honorable Mention)
端傳媒 , 亂象背後的邏輯:六問「北京切除」,暴力「士紳化」由何而來?
蘋果日報 , 中國孤兒雜技團 (Award for Excellence)

4. Excellence in Human Rights Reporting (卓越人權報道獎)
Group A
Reuters, Duterte’s war falters (Award for Excellence)
The Associated Press, The Rohingya Exodus
The New York Times, A Humanitarian Crisis Unfolds (Honorable Mention)
Group B
Frontier Myanmar, “We eat the same rice” (Honorable Mention)
The Phnom Penh Post, The sky became white (Award for Excellence)
This Week In Asia, Rohingya: nowhere like home
Group C
Ming Pao Weekly, 香港難民 看不見的牆
農傳媒 , 把脈百萬農民大軍 農業職災誰聞問?  (Honorable Mention)
香港01有限公司, 劉曉波病逝系列報道:瀋陽、北京、廣州直擊 (Award for Excellence)

5. Excellence in Feature Writing (卓越專題特寫獎)
Group A
Bloomberg, What Happens When the Government Uses Facebook as a Weapon?
The New York Times, How to Get Away with Murder (Award for Excellence)
The New York Times, Japan’s ‘Lonely Deaths’ (Honorable Mention)
Group B
ABS-CBN News Digital, Healing the wounds from the drug war (Award for Excellence)
Frontier Myanmar, The muzzling of the Myanmar Times (Honorable Mention)
R.AGE, Student/Trafficked
Group C
立場新聞 , 【北進.未竟】「雨傘運動最令人痛心的,是中國失去了陳健民」 (Honorable Mention)
端傳媒 , 離開過的他們,今天會留下嗎?重訪97紀錄片中的香港人 (Award for Excellence)
纽约时报中文网 , 谍影疑云:消失在朝鲜的亲人

6. Excellence in Magazine Design (卓越雜誌設計獎)
Group A (cancelled due to not receiving more than 5 entries)
Group B
Billionaire, Billionaire (Honorable Mention)
Fah Thai Magazine, MPMI Group Co., Ltd.
Tasting Kitchen (TK), TK29 – Nordic Odyssey (Award for Excellence)
Group C
《生活》月刊, 城市生长 (Award for Excellence)
《號外》, 「島敘詩人」(Honorable Mention)
Time Out 北京, 无鸡不成宴

7. Excellence in Arts & Culture Reporting (卓越藝術及文化報道獎)
Group A
Mabuhay, Modern Ikebana (Honorable Mention)
Reuters, Uncovering North Korean food and art
The Economist, Coverage of China’s Arts and Culture Soft Power (Award for Excellence)
Group B
Khmer Times, Street art (Honorable Mention)
The Phnom Penh Post, A ‘crime’ against local history (Award for Excellence)
VICE Indonesia, Experts in Exile: How Indonesia Lost an Entire Generation of Intellectuals
Group C
爱尚美术 , 生命的写意——对话隋建国先生
端傳媒 , 哲學來了! (Award for Excellence)
纽约时报中文网 , 尘封28年的 “六四”照片 / “六四”后藏起的底片,终于拿出来了 (Honorable Mention)

8. Excellence in Explanatory Reporting (卓越解釋性報道獎)
Group A
Bloomberg, Feeding China (Honorable Mention)
The Associated Press, Republic of Kim
The Wall Street Journal, Inside North Korea: A Guided Tour Through The World’s Most Reclusive and Dangerous Nuclear State (Award for Excellence)
Group B
ABS-CBN News Digital, Buhay pa kami’: Dispatches from Marawi (Honorable Mention)
Frontier Myanmar, Rakhine State conflict
Sixth Tone, Spilled Milk: How China Failed Its Dairy Farmers (Award for Excellence)
Group C
Ming Pao Weekly, 隱形禍患 濫用抗生素
眾新聞 , 追蹤何志平涉賄非洲政要 (Award for Excellence)
鏡週刊 , 一起回家:原住民傳統領域在吵什麼 (Honorable Mention)

9. Excellence in Business Reporting (卓越經濟報道獎)
Group A
Bloomberg, Spotlight on HNA
Financial Times, Unravelling the mystery of China’s HNA (Award for Excellence)
The New York Times, Tracking HNA (Honorable Mention)
Group B
Euromoney, Inside Ant Financial’s Nest (Honorable Mention)
Frontier Myanmar, Funny money (Award for Excellence)
This Week In Asia, The buck stops in India
Group C
Caixin Media Company Limited, 穿透安邦魔术 (Award for Excellence)
Ming Pao, 證監揭內地人操控TVB系列
天下雜誌 , 決戰湄公河 (Honorable Mention)

10. Excellence in Information Graphics (卓越數據圖像獎)
Group A
Reuters, Duterte’s War on Drugs (Award for Excellence)
Reuters, The fire and fury behind North Korea’s weapons (Honorable Mention)
The New York Times, North Korea’s Nuclear Push
Group B
Sixth Tone, How Faster Trains Draw China’s Cities Ever Closer
South China Morning Post, What happens in the cage, stays in the cage (Award for Excellence)
South China Morning Post, What’s in a face? (Honorable Mention)
Group C
Business weekly, 大破壞大連結之深度圖解 全球財經30年大勢 (Honorable Mention)
Caixin Media Company Limited, 北京人口 (Award for Excellence)
端傳媒 , 數據動畫帶你看:北京清退「低端人口」,影響多大?未來如何?

11. Excellence in Reporting Breaking News (卓越突發新聞獎)
Group A
BBC News Online, An emboldened and nuclear North Korea
Reuters, The Battle for Marawi (Honorable Mention)
The Wall Street Journal, Inside the Bizarre and Brutal Assassination of the Half-Brother of North Korea’s Dictator (Award for Excellence)
Group B
New Straits Times, Assassination of Kim Jong-Nam (Award for Excellence)
Nikkei Asian Review, Thailand at a turning point
The Phnom Penh Post, CNRP Dissolved: Supreme Court ruling ‘death of democracy’ (Honorable Mention)
Group C
Business Today, 體育界的轉型正義 還要等多久? (Honorable Mention)
Ming Pao, 港鐵縱火案
香港01有限公司, 港鐵縱火案系列報道 (Award for Excellence)

12. Excellence in Opinion Writing (卓越評論獎)
Group A
Financial Times, China and the rise of dictatorship (Honorable Mention)
Financial Times, Illiberal India: a conservative new order
The New York Times, Myanmar Is Not a Simple Morality Tale (Award for Excellence)
Group B
Nikkei Asian Review, China’s Bhutan land grab aims at bigger target
Nikkei Asian Review, Philippine peso flashes warning signs for Dutertenomics (Award for Excellence)
Sixth Tone, The Realistic Response to China’s Prostitution Problem (Honorable Mention)
Group C
多維新聞網, 社論:北京要完成香港的二次回歸
獨立評論@天下 , 黃哲斌專欄 ─ 反作用力 (Award for Excellence)
關鍵評論網, #MeToo的三個論述:是人權,是對法治的補充,是改變社會範式的運動 (Honorable Mention)

13. Excellence in Reporting on the Environment (卓越環境報道獎)
Group A
The New York Times, Changing Climate, Changing Cities (Award for Excellence)
The Thomson Reuters Foundation, Rising Heat: Can we cool the risks of an invisible disaster?
The Wall Street Journal, The Tragedy of India’s Holy Yamuna River: The World’s Next Environmental Disaster (Honorable Mention)
Group B
Frontier Myanmar, An army, a mountain and the ADB (Honorable Mention)
Nikkei Asian Review, China Charges Ahead
Sixth Tone, Addicted to Coal, Northern China Goes Cold Turkey (Award for Excellence)
Group C
Business Today, 一紙公約,威脅台灣企業存亡
端傳媒 , 世界最後一片純淨漁場:西非海洋生死劫 (Honorable Mention)
遠見雜誌, 台灣垃圾山重現!每年35萬噸垃圾在流浪 (Award for Excellence)

14. Excellence in Photography (卓越攝影獎)
Group A
Reuters, Along The Ganges
The New York Times, The Rohingya in Flight (Award for Excellence)
TIME, In Manila, Death Comes by Night (Honorable Mention)
Group B
Mediacorp Pte Ltd, CNA Digital, Asia’s Toughest Jobs: The fire and brimstone miners of ljen Crater (Award for Excellence)
Tasting Kitchen (TK), TK31 Wynning Combination (Honorable Mention)
Tasting Kitchen (TK), TK32 Along the Irrawaddy- Ageless River
Group C
Apple Daily Taiwan, 《蘋果》前進洛興雅 73萬難民悲慘逃屠殺 (Award for Excellence)
Business Weekly, 800根煙囪的家 (Honorable Mention)
蘋果日報 , 我要學雜技

15. The Scoop Award (獨家新聞獎)
Group A
Financial Times, Who is the real Jian Yang? The past of China-born MP in New Zealand revealed by the FT
Reuters, How North Korea evades sanctions (Honorable Mention)
The New York Times, Behind the Dismantling of a C.I.A. Spy Network (Award for Excellence)
Group B
Sixth Tone, Shortage of Critical Leukemia Drug Threatens Ill Children (Award for Excellence)
South China Morning Post, Party promotions (Honorable Mention)
The Phnom Penh Post, Deployed for the campaign
Group C
Apple Daily Taiwan, 踢爆 紫衣教主妙禪豪奢 信眾捐款流向成謎
端傳媒 , 獨家:劉曉波7月5日最後手稿全文披露,送給劉霞的最後禮物 (Award for Excellence)
香港01有限公司, 梁振英卸任後開兩公司無申報 (Honorable Mention)

16. Excellence in Investigative Reporting (卓越調查報道獎)
Group A
Reuters, Duterte’s killer cops (Honorable Mention)
The Associated Press, AP Exclusive: Pulp giant tied to companies accused of fires
The Wall Street Journal, China’s All-Seeing Surveillance State Is Everywhere (Award for Excellence)
Group B
Malaysiakini and Tempo, Following the illegal Indo-M’sia maid trade (Honorable Mention)
R.AGE, Student Trafficked (Award for Excellence)
Sixth Tone, Chinese Demand for Bloodwood Cuts Into Congo’s Ecosystem
Group C
傳真社, 新空管系統安全隱患系列報道 (Award for Excellence)
天下雜誌 , 錢、謊言、假論文
香港01有限公司, 港珠澳大橋海堤崩塌 (Honorable Mention)

17. SOPA Award for Public Service Journalism (亞洲出版業協會公共服務新聞大獎)
Reuters, Persecuting the Rohingya (Award for Excellence)
The Wall Street Journal, Beyond Big Brother: China’s All-Seeing Surveillance State Leaves No Face Unscanned and Nowhere to Hide
端傳媒 , 北京切除專題 Feature Stories of “Beijing Uprooted”

 

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