Monthly newsroom awards announced

Date:2009-07-24

Shanghai Daily unveiled its monthly "Best Stories" and "Best Pages" awards yesterday.

The best stories of June went to metro reporter Cai Wenjun, business reporter Zhu Shenshen and feature writer Yao Minji.

Cai had an exclusive with her story headlined: "HIV grows rapidly among city men who have sex with men" (June 19, A2), which was widely cited by media and Internet bulletins. Cai attended a scientific education lecture and managed to collect enough material that authorities normally are reluctant to disclose to raise social concerns.

Yao and Zhu developed their own idea into the feature story "Telling pigs from porn: Problems with anti-porn software" (June 23, C4-5), which focused on the green-dam software. It was a very timely and in-depth story with resourceful and interesting sidebars. It was critical, yet well balanced and offered a nice read.

The best page of June went to Sunday's Style column (June 23, B4-5), which showed and commented on celebrities walking the red carpet on the opening night of the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival, written by Zhang Yi and designed by Fu Rong.

The best visual art of the month was shared by our illustrator Zhou Tao and the whole new version of "Live in Shanghai" website (live.shanghaidaily.com).

Zhou created an interesting Scope cover (June 3) combining animation characters together in a classroom of "Olympic math."

Website designers Zhu Moqing, Li Hualiang, Zhang Rui and Shen Xinyi were mainly involved in the "Live in Shanghai" project.