COM Students Won Three Prizes at China Daily Campus Newspaper Awards

28 Dec 2020 (Mon)

Three media projects by students from the Department of Media and Communication have won awards at the 2020 China Daily Campus Newspaper Awards.

The short documentary titled “Light from Lighthouses” won the First Runner-up Award in the category of Feature Video at the annual competition regularly joined by 50 major universities in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

The documentary depicts a blind college student’s mental vision of lighthouses in her role as a curator for an exhibition of lighthouses for blind people.  It was produced by four postgraduate students, Wang Zuoyue, Tang Shiyun, Xu Yingjie and Zheng Jingsha, in collaboration with the Lighthouse Heritage Research Connections project of the Library at City University of Hong Kong.

Name of Awards	Award Rank	Project Title (Please click the title for the full video)	Name of Awardees
最佳專題視頻（中文組） Best in Feature Video Reporting (Chinese)	First Runner-up	燈塔的光明	Xu Yingjie, Tang Shiyun, Wang Zuoyue, and Zheng Jingsha

Another short documentary titled “Hong Kong Besieged” won the Second Runner-up Award also in the category of Feature Video.  Produced by Cui Yingxin, a postgraduate from the MA in Communication and New Media program, it depicts a city that was adversely impacted by the devastating COVID-19 pandemic but demonstrated a sense of optimism from a first-person perspective.

Name of Awards	Award Rank	Project Title (Please click the title for the full video)	Name of Awardees
最佳專題視頻（中文組） Best in Feature Video Reporting (Chinese)	Second Runner-up	圍城	Cui Yingxin

 

An online report by two undergraduate students from the BA in Communication and Media program, Chiu Chui Yi and Chan Yee Man, won the Second Runner-up Award in the category of Science and Technology News.

Name of Awards	Award Rank	Project Title (Please click the title for the full video)	Name of Awardees
最佳科技新聞報道（中文組） Science and Technology News (Chinese)	First Runner-up	天上掉曲奇？便利上網背後的代價	Chiu Chui Yi and Chan Yee Man

 
Chiu Chui Yi and Chan Yee Man won the 1st Runner-up of Science and Technology News (Chinese)

 

Students from the Department of Media and Communication have participated in this well-established competition in Greater China over the past eight years and won top awards almost every year, particularly in the category of Feature Video.  In 2017, a group of students won the Champion Award in Feature Video, and in 2019 two groups of students won both the Champion and Second Runner-up Awards in the same category.