Post wins gold with bay area and property reporting
Reporters of the Post won gold in two award categories at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong’s (HSUHK) 8th Business Journalism Awards.
Veteran journalist Enoch Yiu won gold in the Best Greater Bay Area Business News Reporting category with her feature on August 12 about how China’s fledgling Wealth Connect plan had been stymied by the three disparate regulatory and economic systems in the region.
Real estate writer Yulu Ao and her London colleague, Chad Bray, received the gold award in the category of Best Property Market News Reporting for their analysis on September 2 about how the debt woes at Country Garden Holdings could be worse for the nation’s economy than China Evergrande Group.
“The awarded articles reflect Hong Kong’s business environment and trend as they are not only reviewed by judges with media experience, but also professionals from the business and finance sectors,” said Professor Scarlet Tso, dean of the School of Communications at the HSUHK, which administers the awards.
More than 500 nominations were received for the nine catergories of the awards, according to Tso.
“The quality of business journalism has improved” since the awards progressed into their eighth year, said Moses Cheng Mo-chi, chairman of the council of the HSUHK.
This year’s nominees were mostly “recovery stories” about “how different businesses and industries are bouncing back from the pandemic”, he said. “As usual, Hong Kong always bounces back after a tough period.”
FWD Group chairman Fred Ma Si-hang, the officiate guest of the award ceremony, said it was important for news media to “seek truth”.
As an example, Ma pointed out he and Tang Heiwai, a professor at the University of Hong Kong Business School, recently submitted an article highlighting the seven strengths that would keep the city’s economy going to an English newspaper and a Chinese newspaper.
“I was not in Hong Kong at the time, and a reporter from an English newspaper kept asking Professor Tang to confirm whether the sources of the information cited in the article were correct. They were very serious,” Ma said, highlighting the professionalism of the media organisation. “The article was published as what we cited. The information is correct.”
It is understood that Ma was referring to an opinion piece published in the Post on March 4.