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The SOPA Awards for Editorial Excellence were established in 1999 as a tribute to editorial excellence in both traditional and new media

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2012 Winners List Group A

1. Excellence in Multimedia News Presentation

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: Financial Times
Title of Entry: Japanese March 11 earthquake and tsunami
Award Recipients: Mure Dickie, Demetri Sevastopulo, Josh Noble, the FT’s interactive and video editing teams
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: International Herald Tribune
Title of Entry: Disaster in Japan
Award Recipients: International Herald Tribine.

2. Excellence in Human Rights Reporting

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: Financial Times
Title of Entry: Wukan
Award Recipients: Rahul Jacob, Jamil Anderlini, Zhou Ping, Ben Marino
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: Financial Times
Title of Entry: One-child policy and gender imbalances in China
Award Recipients: Patti Waldmeir, Kathrin Hille, Amy Kazmin, Girija Shivakumar

3. Excellence in Feature Writing

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: Financial Times
Title of Entry: Little girl found
Award Recipients: Patti Waldmeir
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: The Wall Street Journal Asia
Title of Entry: Ruin and Rebirth
Award Recipients: Daisuke Wakabayashi

4. Excellence in Magazine Design

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: Action Asia Magazine
Title of Entry: Action Asia Magazine
Award Recipients: Stephane Delgado, Jun Ng
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: Discovery Channel Magazine
Title of Entry: Discovery Channel Magazine, December 2011
Award Recipients: Richard McLean, Design Director

5. Excellence in Lifestyle Coverage

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: TIME Asia
Title of Entry: Aching for the ’80s
Award Recipients: Bill Powell
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: Newsweek
Title of Entry: Country of the Khans
Award Recipients: Peter Pomerantsev

6. Excellence in Explanatory Reporting

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: The Economist
Title of Entry: Japan’s Catastrophe
Award Recipients: Henry Tricks, Kenneth Neil Cukier
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: International Herald Tribune
Title of Entry: India’s Way
Award Recipients: Jim Yardley, Vikas Bajaj, Lydia Polgreen

7. Excellence in News Photography

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: Newsweek
Title of Entry: War Without End
Award Recipients: Balazs Gardi and Teru Kuwayama
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: International Herald Tribune
Title of Entry: After the Quake
Award Recipients: Shiho Fukada

8. Excellence in Business Reporting

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: Bloomberg News
Title of Entry: Japan’s Deal with the Devil
Award Recipients: Stuart Biggs, Yuji Okada, Yuriy Humber, Makiko Kitamura, Alan Ohnsman, Aki Ito,
Tsuyoshi Inajima, Jason Clenfield
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: The Wall Street Journal Asia
Title of Entry: Flawed Miracle
Award Recipients: Paul Beckett, Geeta Anand, Tom Wright, Harsh Gupta, Amol Sharma, Megha Bahree

9. Excellence in Reporting Breaking News

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: Reuters News
Title of Entry: Japan Tsunami
Award Recipients: Chisa Fujioka, Elaine Lies, Damir Sagolj, Kevin Krolicki
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: Bloomberg News
Title of Entry: Inside Japan’s Nuclear Disaster
Award Recipients: Jason Clenfield, Takahiko Hyuga, Pavel Alpeyev, Peter Langan, Yuji Okada,
Yuriy Humber, Stuart Biggs

10. Excellence in Opinion Writing

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: The Wall Street Journal Asia
Title of Entry: Beijing Undermines Hong Kong’s Autonomy
Award Recipients: Hugo Restall
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: Financial Times
Title of Entry: China crashes into a middle class revolt / The Japanese miracle is not over / Now for
the price of chasing Afghan shadows / When a hero’s image signals a new Burmese
dawn / Why Americans should learn to love the renminbi
Award Recipients: David Pilling

11. Excellence in Reporting on the Environment

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: Time Asia
Title of Entry: Killing Fields
Award Recipients: Hannah Beech, Alex Perry
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: Financial Times
Title of Entry: Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
Award Recipients: Mure Dickie, Jonathan Soble, Clive Crookson

12. Excellence in Feature Photography

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: TIME Asia
Title of Entry: The First Lady of Freedom
Award Recipients: Platon
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: Reuters News
Title of Entry: Crisis in North Korea
Award Recipients: Damir Sagolj

13. The Scoop Award

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: Reuters News
Title of Entry: China to clean up billions in local government debt
Award Recipients: Benjamin Lim, Kevin Yao
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: Financial Times
Title of Entry: The Olympus Scandal
Award Recipients: Jonathan Soble, Louise Lucas

14. Excellence in Investigative Reporting

Group A – Honorable Mention
Publication: The Economist
Title of Entry: The Queensway syndicate and the African trade
Award Recipients: Oliver August
Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: International Herald Tribune
Title of Entry: Hidden Dangers: Behind the Disaster in Japan
Award Recipients: Martin Fackler, Norimitsu Onishi, Hiroko Tabuchi, Keith Bradsher

15. Journalist of the Year

Group A – Award for Excellence
Publication: The Wall Street Journal Asia
Name of Journalist: Daisuke Wakabayashi

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