The Straits Times wins top prizes at annual SPH awards

Singapore

THE Straits Times won the top accolades at the annual Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) English/Malay/Tamil Media (EMTM) Group Awards, which were held virtually on Wednesday.

Science and Environment Correspondent Audrey Tan was named Journalist of the Year, while Choo Yun Ting won the Young Journalist of the Year award.

Shannon Teoh, the paper's Malaysia Bureau Chief, won Story of the Year for his piece, "Malaysians await outcome of meeting over state of emergency".

That story was published last October, when Malaysia was thrown into political turmoil after Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin met the king to discuss imposing emergency measures.

Among other EMTM publications, David Sun from The New Paper won a Special Award for Excellence for a series of stories he wrote throughout the year.

TNP's Eugene Mok won Headline of the Year for "By hook or by crook".

A six-person team from Berita Harian won a Special Award for Excellence, for their weekly Sunday morning lifestyle programme, The BM Show.

EMTM editor-in-chief and ST editor Warren Fernandez said at the ceremony that EMTM newspapers "did a fabulous job" when it had needed to cover and help readers make sense of Covid-19 developments, as well as having to learn new ways of doing things along the way.

SPH chairman Lee Boon Yang said: "I am very glad that we have been able to continue serving our audience over multiple channels and delivering critical information and other content on time and reliably."