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A clean sweep by the Post Newspaper takes all journalism awards in English-language category for 1988/89 HE South China Morni,ng Post teant of prize-winners were all smiles at the presentation ceremony at the Furama Hotel last month. No fewer tha¡r 10 members of the staff were chosen by the Newspaper Society of
Hong Kong for its 1988-89 Journalism
Awards. Chief reporter, Simon Macklin, was named Journalist of the Year. Macklin,
27, aBriton who began his journalism
career in Hong Kong four years ago, also won the Best Feature-story category for his article on letters written by refugee children.
The award for the Best News Story went to Post's assistant editor, Anne Quon, who broke the news of a UN
High Commissioner for Refugees' report detailing allegations of brutality towards Vietnamese boat people at the Hei Ling Chau detention centre in July last year. The report led to the governor of Hong Kong, Sir David Wilson, ordering an inde pendent inquir¡ which found that exces-
sive use of force had
occurred.
Disciplinary action was subsequentþ taken against some Correctional Services Departrnent staff. Business reporter, Eva To, won the Best Business Story category for the general all-round excellence ofher entries.
The Best Story Award, again for allround excellence, went to deputy sports editoç Spencer Robinson, 27. America¡r l-arry Feign, creator of the World of Lily ï[ong cartoon strip which appears on page 2 ofthe Posl on weekdays, won the Best Cartoon category.
Paul Best, the P¿st's chief editorial artist, won the Best Illustration category with his impression of former Light Rail Transit executive, Joe Wade. The 2$year-old native of New Zealand
won the prestigious Australian Walkley Award for illustration last year while working with The Australian. The Posf's photographers also picked up a clutch of awards, which went to Robert Ng. The other winning Post photographers were Sam Chan (second in
the News and third in the Sports categoies); Oliver Tsang (second, Sports); David Wong (third, News); and outstanding award winners PY Tang, CY Yu and Peter Tse. The awards were donated by leading Hong Kong companies. Simon Macklin's
top prize came from the HongkongBank Foundation, with Cathay Pacific providing a return business-class ticket to any destination in Asia. Winners in other categories received $5,000 each, donated by Kumagai Gumi, $2,S00
the Swire Group, Hutchison Whampoa, San Miguel, Hongkong land and Esso.
The judges were Mrs Irene Yau, Director of Government Information Services; Michael Keats, vicepresident of
UPI in the Asia-Pacific region; and Louis lkaar, a former Asia correspondent and member of the boârd of editors of. Fortune International. While there had been a solid response from the Posl and the Hongkong Standard in the number of entries, a Newspaper Society spokesman said the Chinese sec-
tion had had a "particularþ
poor
response", which resulted in awards being made in only two of the seven categories. The award for the Best Illustration category for Chinese was won by Wong I{anang of Ming Pao, while the Best Comic Strip award went to Wong Kee-krvan, also of Ming Pao.
The spokesman said the number of Chinese entries was not satisfactory this year perhaps because reporters of Chinese newspapers were preoccupied with covering China's pro-democracy movement when entries closed on May 31. While the South China Morning Post front-paged the report, accompanied by photographs of its staffers and Lily Wong, fhe Hongh,ong Standørd ignored the story completely. O
SCMP prize-winners (from left): Paul Best, Eva To, Robert Ng, Spencer Robinson, David Wong, Sam Chan, Ann Quon and Oliver Tsang. Macklin and Feigr were out of town,
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1989
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