2023 Human Rights Journalism Awards Winners: “Ming Pao” and Taiwanese media “Reporter” among recipients.

Today (May 3) is World Press Freedom Day, Human Rights Watch announces The 2023 Human Rights Journalism Awards Winners, “Ming Pao” won the “Breaking News” (Chinese category) award for its “Hong Kong New Coronary Epidemic Public House Fall Series”.In addition, the “Human Rights Journalism Awards” supplementary release The 2022 Human Rights Journalism Awards WinnersAmong them, the discontinued “Stand News” won awards in the four categories of “Investigative Feature”, “Short Film”, “Multimedia” and “Documentary”, but did not disclose the name of the award-winning work; moreover, the list of winners in 2022 The Merit winners and titles of works are not announced as usual.

The “Human Rights Journalism Award” was originally hosted by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) in Hong Kong for more than 20 years. However, after the FCC completed the awards in April last year, it suddenly announced that it would suspend it because it “did not want to fall into the French Open by mistake”. The list of winners has not been made public. , and later pointed out that the journalism award will be hosted by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, a college under the Arizona State University, and the FCC will no longer participate.

Keith Richburg, who was re-elected as the chairman of the FCC last year, was later interviewed by Emily Lau. He did not mention by name that “Stand News”, which was accused of sedition, won nine awards. In addition to undermining the fairness of the Human Rights Journalism Awards, it may also be regarded as In support of illegal actions, the FCC has therefore decided to suspend the awards. Later, some award winners expressed dissatisfaction with Rui Kaide’s remarks. After meeting the above-mentioned winners, Rui Kaide apologized to the judges and the reporter of “Stand News”.

“Ming Pao” received the full list of winners in May last year, “Stand News” won a total of 9 awards in the Chinese category, covering the “35+ Primary Election” case, the 7.21 attack in Yuen Long, the affiliated organizations and the outage of “Apple Daily”. As for “Zhongxin”, which was discontinued in January last year, it also won 5 awards.

Only two Hong Kong media have won awards this year and both belong to the “Ming Pao” department

In the 2023 “Human Rights Journalism Awards”, “Ming Pao” is one of the two Hong Kong news media that won the award, and the other media is “Ming Pao Weekly”. Explanatory Feature “Category Award”. Other overseas media focusing on Hong Kong issues have won this year’s Human Rights Journalism Award. Among them, the Taiwanese media “Reporter” won the “Explain Sex Feature” category honorable mention (Honourable Mentions); “Deutsche Welle” (Deutsche Welle) won the “documentary” category honorable mention for “A Gap in the Headwind: A Hong Kong Journalist Finds a New Life”.

As for the media that won the “Breaking News” (English category) this year is “Agence France-Presse” with the work “The Defiant Women of Afghanistan”; the media that won the “Investigative Reporting” English and Chinese categories are “Reuters” and “The Reporter”, the works are respectively “Myanmar military abuses against the Rohingya and democracy activists” and “The Kidnapping. Illegal Workers. Study Abroad Trap: Out-of-Control International Recruitment of Higher Education and Technical Vocational Education”.