Nikkei Asia wins four prizes, including twogolds, at the Asian Media Awards
July 23, 2021 -- Nikkei Asia ( https://asia.nikkei.com/ ) was honored with four awards at thisyear⒢s Asian Media Awards, including gold prizes for reporting on the pandemic and theU.S.-China trade war.

The results, announced July 22 by the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), markthe fourth straight year of prizes for Nikkei Asia, as well as its most prizes in a single year.
The gold prize in pandemic reporting went to "Red Pill? Behind China's COVID-19 vaccine
diplomacy⒥ from November 2020 by CK Tan and Erwida Maulia. From the perspective ofShanghai and Bandung, this feature examines China⒢s distribution of Sinovac and other
Chinese-developed coronavirus vaccines to Southeast Asia in the context of Beijing⒢s
diplomatic frictions with the region.
<https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/Red-Pill-Behind-China-s-COVID-19-vaccine-di
plomacy>Also in the category of coronavirus reporting, ⒤Coronavirus: Economic contagion is alreadyrippling through Asia⒥ from January 2020 won a bronze prize for its look at the early days of thepandemic in Asia by William Yang, Marwaan Macan-Markar, Akane Okutsu and Cliff Venzon.
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Nikkei Asia⒢s second gold prize was for ⒤Inside the US campaign to cut China out of the techsupply chain,⒥ an October 2020 feature by Lauly Li and Cheng Ting-Fang. From its opening
scene of a "serious and unsettling⒥ visit by U.S. officials to an Apple supplier in Taiwan, thispiece delves into U.S. tech giants⒢ efforts to build supply networks that do not rely on mainland
China.
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Never before had Nikkei Asia won two gold prizes in one year at the WAN-IFRA Asian MediaAwards.

In the magazine cover design category, the April 23, 2020 issue ⒤Life in Lockdown⒥ won abronze prize. MinJung Kim served as the art director for the illustrations, which capture thesense of cramped isolation felt throughout Asia by people hunkered down at home, with only adevice to connect them to the outside world.
<https://asia.nikkei.com/Print-Edition/Issue-2020-04-23>⒤2020 will surely be etched in human history as an annus horribilis because of the coronavirus
pandemic,⒥ said Shigesaburo Okumura, editor-in-chief of Nikkei Asia. ⒤Coronavirus coverage
was a topic that Nikkei Asia put its utmost efforts into, and a standalone category in the AsianMedia Awards this year.⒥⒤Winning three prizes ⒝ a gold and two bronzes -- in this special category in this very specialyear shows the high quality of Nikkei Asia⒢s reporting,⒥ Okumura added.
⒤Our other gold prize examines American tech giants⒢ supply chain reviews in the context of theU.S.-China tensions. This feature digs deeply into the global tech industry from Taiwan, a pillarof support in semiconductors. We are encouraged by the high recognition received by thisexample of Nikkei⒢s strength in using the economy as a launch pad for reporting.⒥This was the 20th year of the WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards, which recognize excellence inbreaking news, feature stories, photography and design. WAN-IFRA has 60 member publisher
associations representing 18,000 publications in 120 countries, according to its website.
Nikkei Asia won prizes in three categories at last year⒢s awards.

About Nikkei Asia
Nikkei Asia brings insight from Asia from the inside out. As part of Nikkei, Asia⒢s largest
independent business media group, with a network of about 1,500 local and international
reporters, Nikkei Asia offers trusted, comprehensive pan-Asian reporting that is vital to its
readers⒢ decision-making.

About NikkeiNikkei is a world-renowned media brand for Asian news, respected for quality journalism and for being a trusted
provider 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 36 foreign editorial bureaus and approximately 1,500
journalists worldwide. Nikkei acquired the Financial Times in 2015.
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