Nikkei Asia wins top honor at the SOPA
awards for two years in a row

25 June, 2024 – Nikkei Asia ( https://asia.nikkei.com/ ), Nikkei Inc.’s English-language news

outlet, won the 2024 Award for Excellence in Explanatory Reporting in the global category at

the Hong Kong-based Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) awards on June 20. This is thesecond year in a row that Nikkei Asia has won a top prize in the global category, which attracts
entries from prominent media organizations around the world.

The series, “Asia’s Age of Hydropolitics” ( https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Asia-s-Age-of-Hydropolitics ), by Pak Yiu (Editor at Large, Nikkei America), Kiran Sharma (Staff writer, NewDelhi Bureau), Lien Hoang (Staff writer, Ho Chi Minh), and other writers, which was released inJuly 2023, shed light on geopolitical trends in water resources in Asia. The series featured

political friction between China, which continues to build dams on international rivers, anddownstream regions facing the threat of water shortages. SOPA judges praised the visuallyappealing series, incorporating a wealth of photos and data gathered through local interviews,
as a “great overview” of “a topic that is of vital importance but nevertheless gets relatively

little attention.”

Shin Nakayama, editor-in-chief of Nikkei Asia, said the award confirms that the publication

continues to produce high-quality journalism as a global media company. “We hope tocontinue to grow as a media organization that can cover the wide range of issues facing Asia
from an Asian perspective," he said.

In March, “Asia’s Age of Hydropolitics” also won the top prize for energy, sustainability andclimate change reporting from the U.S. Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing(SABEW), an organization of business journalists.

The Financial Times (FT), also a Nikkei company, won the Excellence in Journalistic Innovation
award for a piece that used satellites and drones to demonstrate how mosques in China arebeing modified or destroyed by authorities.

The Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) is a not-for-profit organization of journalists. The SOPA

Awards for Editorial Excellence were established in 1999 to recognize excellence in journalismin Asia Pacific. The SOPA 2024 awards recognized outstanding journalistic works from the pastyear. Global, regional, Chinese-language and other media outlets are included. Nikkei Asia firstentered the global category in 2021. It became the first Japanese media outlet to win a top
award for its reporting on women’s issues in 2023.

About Nikkei Asia

Nikkei Asia is an English-language news service that provides an accurate image of the fast-growing economies of Asia with the unique perspective of the Asia-based Nihon Keizai

Shimbun, or Nikkei. The company uses its close coverage of Asia to publish many in-depth

original articles. Including translated articles from Nikkei, it reports on what is happening in

Asia today, with contributions from economic experts and insights, views, and analysis from

specialists and intellectuals. Nikkei Asia provides unbiased views of the “true Asia” for global

leaders who are responsible for Asia’s future and for those who wish to learn more about theregion.

About Nikkei

Nikkei Inc. is a world-renowned media brand for Asian news, respected for quality journalism and for being a trustedprovider of business news and information. Founded as a market news provider in Japan in 1876, Nikkei has growninto one of the world's largest media corporations, with 37 foreign editorial bureaus and approximately 1,500
journalists worldwide. Nikkei acquired the UK-based Financial Times in 2015. Our combined digital and printcirculation totals about 2.3 million, and we are continually deploying new technologies to increase our readership.
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