The Correspondent, May - June 2014

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MEDIA Investigative journalism is alive and growing Things are getting better, not worse for investigative journalists around the globe, fuelled by the explosion of the Internet and technology.

MEDIA So near yet so far FCC member David Schlesinger, one of Reuters’ finest Beijing bureau chiefs, says that in some ways, this is now a golden age for foreign reporting in China.

REPORTAGE Dien Bien Phu 60 years on: War and words The capitulation of a remote French military base in northern Vietnam 60 years ago to a largely peasant army marked the finale of centuries of European colonialism in Southeast Asia.

SPEAKERS Press freedom state of play in Hong Kong Chan King-Cheung of EJ Digital, commentator Ching Cheong and Shirley Yam, SCMP columnist, looked at this issue in a panel discussion in April.

REPORTAGE Lord of the Killing Fields returns Thirty years after the release of The Killing Fields, producer Baron David Puttnam returned to a very different Cambodia.

For the most part he was feted by filmmakers, diplomats and academics over his seminal work.

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THE CORRESPONDENT

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Viet Minh soldiers occupy Dien Bien Phu.

The surrender of French forces was the most significant defeat of European arms in Southeast Asia during the colonial era.

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ENGLISH-LANGUAGE CATEGORIES News Prize Series: Bangladesh Factory Conditions – Jim Yardley – The International New York Times News Merits “Deaf Generation Lost in Translation” – Jennifer Ngo – SCMP Body of work: “Prostitutes Vulnerable to Police Abuse,” “What Will Replace Re–Education Through Labor,” “Abused Wives Denied Justice” and “Elderly Couple Refuses to Deny Dreams of Freedom” – Verna Yu – SCMP Features Prize Series: “Inheriting China’s Problems: Parents, Children and the Authoritarian State” – William Wan – The Washington Post Features Merit “A Mother’s Hard Labor of Love” – Wu Nan – SCMP Magazine Prize “The Face of Buddhist Terror” – Hannah Beech – TIME Magazine Merits “The Drugs Don’t Work” – Krista Mahr – TIME “Hong Kong’s Refugee Shame. But Wait, There’s Hope…” – Samuel Lai Chun-chit and Mark Tjhung – Time Out Hong Kong Online Prizes “The Children Who Work in India’s Rat–Hole Coal Mines” – Ammu Kannampilly – Agence France–Presse “China’s Quiet Rebellions” – Wenxin Fan and Neil Western – Bloomberg News “India’s Shame” – Andrew MacAskill and Bibhudatta Pradhan – Bloomberg News “Youth Interrupted: Underage, Illiterate Breadwinners” – Text and reporting

by Patrick Winn, photos and video by Jonah M. Kessel – Global Post Online Merit “Four Years After War, Sri Lanka’s Widows Fear Rape” – Charlotte Turner –Agence France–Presse Television Prizes “Wukan” – Lynn Lee and James Leong – Al Jazeera “Unhealed Wounds of Osh, Kyrgyzstan” – Robin Forestier–Walker – Al Jazeera International: 101 East “Sectarian Divide in Pakistan” – Yaara Bou Melhem – Al Jazeera International: 101 East “Murder in God’s Name’ in Pakistan” – Evan Williams – Al Jazeera International: 101 East “Scars of Sri Lanka” – Evan Williams – Al Jazeera International: 101 East Television Merits Series: Body of Work on Sex Slavery from Hong Kong, China and Thailand – Sylvia Yu – TVB: The Pearl Report “Every Day in Cambodia” – Lisa Cohen – A CNN Freedom Project “Nepal’s Slave Girls” – Subina Shrestha – Al Jazeera International: 101 East “Dying for Growth” – Teressa Siu – CCTV News (International) / CCTV America CHINESE-LANGUAGE CATEGORIES News Prize “ Hong Kong Ballet Caught in Self-Censorship Row over ‘Cultural Revolution’ Scenes” – Chin Wai Ki and Lu Wen – Ming Pao News Merits Series: Dock Workers’ Strike – Wong Tung Leung, Chiu Yin Ping, Lau Oi Ting, Tung Kit, Lao Xian Liang – Sing Tao Daily “Exposing the ‘Big Four Developers’ Land Reserves in the New Territories” – Hon Yiu Ting, Lam Wai Chung, Yuen Pak Yan – Apple Daily Features Prize “ A Father and Activist is Repeatedly Detained; Daughter is 10–Year–Old Prisoner of Conscience” – Investigation Team – Ming Pao Features Merits Series: “Occupy Central” – Vivian Tam Wai Wan – Ming Pao “Tell No Lies: Cheng Yizhong, a Bad Child in the Eyes of the Party” – Kan Suk Ming – AM 730 24

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Magazine Merits “The Search for Father” – Simon Yiu Chi Yin and Ko Chung Ming – Next Magazine “Confidential Form Leaked: Government Departments Misuse Netizens’ Data” – Martin Lam and Ben Lei – East Week “Rebelling Against the Propaganda Department”: Series on the “Southern Weekend” Incident – Annie Zhang Jieping, Yang Guang, Xiong Wei, Shen Yiwang, Ma Te, and Mo Zhixu – iSunAffairs Commentary Merit “Countering the Propaganda Department” – Chang Ping – iSunAffairs Cartoon / Illustration Merit “Under C.Y. Leung’s Regime: 2013” – Apple Daily Art Department Television Prize “My Mother is Innocent” – Choy Yuk Ling – RTHK Television: Hong Kong Connection Television Merits “China’s System for Producing Elite Athletes, and How to Get Rid of It” – Chan Wai Li – now News “Ethnic Minority School Girls Separated” – Cheng Sze Sze – Cable TV “A Half-Century of Re–education through Labor” – Hui Siu Fun – TVB: Sunday Report “The ‘Southern Weekend’ Incident” – Lam Kin Seng – Cable TV “Police–Led Activism” – Wu Lik Hon – Cable TV “Parents of Sichuan Earthquake Victims Change Their Tone, Thanking the Country and the Party” – So King Hang – RTHK “Veterans of Sino–Japanese War Long for Return and Recognition” – So King Hang – RTHK Spot News Photography Prizes “HKTV Staff and 100,000 Citizens Light up the Night” – Lo Kwan Ho – Apple Daily “Scholarism Pushes C.Y. Leung on Universal Suffrage” – Tse Wing Yiu – Apple Daily Spot News Photography Merits “Chronic Corruption Behind Village Uprisings” – Edward Wong – SCMP “Tears of an Actress” – Edward Wong – SCMP “Dock Workers Strike” – Cheng Kok Yin – SCMP “Protester in a Wheelchair” – David Wong – SCMP “Protecting Candles in the Rain” – Li Chak Tung – Ming Pao “City U. Clears Way for the Chief Executive” – Lo Yick Ming – Ming Pao “Education Protest in the Rain” – Lo Yick Ming – Ming Pao “Rain of Tears” – Chan Yik Chiu – Apple Daily “C.Y. Leung’s Supporters Attack Protesters” – Lo Kwan Ho – Apply Daily “Non–local Parents Queue for Childrens’ School Admission” – Lo Kwan Ho – Apple Daily “Anger Over TV Licensing” – Lo Kwan Ho – Apple Daily “Policeman Grabs Female Protester” – Ho Pak Kai – Apple Daily “Postgraduate Students Support Dock Workers” – Chan Yik Chiu – Apple Daily Feature Photography Prizes Series: “Transsexual Angel” – Law Lan Yung – East Week “Coffin Rooms” – Dickson Lee – SCMP Feature Photography Merits “Makeshift Home in a Slum” – Sam Tsang – SCMP “Health of the Poor an Urgent Case” – Cheng Kok Yin – SCMP “Tackling Poverty Below the Line” – Felix Wong – SCMP Series: Bangladesh Factory Collapse – Munir Uz Zaman – Agence France–Presse “Window on the Rooftop” – Li Chak Tung – Ming Pao “The Media are Kidnapped” – Lo Yick Ming – Ming Pao “The Outsider” – Lo Yick Ming – Ming Pao “A Gay Parade Proposal” – Wong Tak Kin – East Week Series: “Scavenging” – Tan Chi Wing – Ming Pao No prizes or merits were given for English commentary, English cartoon, English radio or Chinese online coverage. Plaques and certificates are awarded to individuals and not to organisations.

From top to bottom: • Tackling Poverty Below the Line – Felix Wong – South China Morning Post • A Gay Parade Proposal – Wong Tak Kin – East Week • Health of the Poor an Urgent Case – Cheng Kok Yin – South China Morning Post

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FCC staff

Press freedom state of play in Hong Kong

Ching Cheong

It’s always a bad thing when journalists become the news

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FCC archive

A young Gilbert Cheung and Mr. Liao at the legendary Oval Bar in Sutherland House.

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