Awards & Accolades

SPH Media has been recognised with numerous awards and accolades over the years, reflecting our strength and influence on the media landscape in Singapore and throughout Asia.

Editorial / Printing / Creative Achievements.

2022
2021
2020
2019

Society for News Design Best Of Print News Design 2021

Award of Excellence Inside Pages (Features)	The Straits Times The many faces of Loki
Award of Excellence Inside Pages (Sports)	The Straits Times Time to take off
Award of Excellence Photography	The Straits Times Deck the hols
Award of Excellence Information Graphics	The Straits Times Space, the new travel spot
Award of Excellence Information Graphics	The Straits Times 21 news events of the year
Award of Excellence Information Graphics	The Straits Times Wonder Woman
Award of Excellence Staff Portfolio	The Straits Times

Society for News Design Best Of Digital Design 2021

Silver Medal Design: Regional/Local	The Straits Times How have Singaporean homes changed over the decades?
Silver Medal Infographics: Features	The Straits Times How have Singaporean homes changed over the decades?
Bronze Medal Design: Features	The Straits Times How have Singaporean homes changed over the decades?
Award of Excellence Infographics: Regional/Local	The Straits Times How have Singaporean homes changed over the decades?
Silver Medal Portfolio – Story Page Design (Individual)	The Straits Times Alyssa Karla Mungcal
Bronze Medal Design: Business	The Straits Times Supply chains, interrupted: Why a bicycle takes 40 days to reach Singapore
Bronze Medal Infographics: Business	The Straits Times Supply chains, interrupted: Why a bicycle takes 40 days to reach Singapore
Award of Excellence Format: Use of In-House Illustration	The Straits Times Supply chains, interrupted: Why a bicycle takes 40 days to reach Singapore
Award of Excellence Format: Use of Maps	The Straits Times Supply chains, interrupted: Why a bicycle takes 40 days to reach Singapore
Bronze Medal Design: Regional/Local	The Straits Times Saving Singapore's Shores
Award of Excellence Format: Use of Animation	The Straits Times Saving Singapore's Shores
Award of Excellence Infographics: Environment & Science	The Straits Times Saving Singapore's Shores
Award of Excellence Design: Environment & Science	The Straits Times Saving Singapore's Shores
Bronze Medal Design: Environment & Science	The Straits Times How Singapore built one of the world's largest floating solar farm
Bronze Medal Line of Coverage: Climate Change	The Straits Times Three-part interactive series for COP26
Award of Excellence Design: Environment & Science	The Straits Times Red alert! What can you do to help bring carbon emissions down?
Award of Excellence Infographics: Environment & Science	The Straits Times Red alert! What can you do to help bring carbon emissions down?
Award of Excellence Product: Multimedia or Interactive Modules	The Straits Times Red alert! What can you do to help bring carbon emissions down?
Award of Excellence Design: Features	The Straits Times Singapore 2030: How the city will transform in the next decade
Award of Excellence Design: Regional/Local	The Straits Times Singapore 2030: How the city will transform in the next decade
Award of Excellence Infographics: Features	The Straits Times Singapore 2030: How the city will transform in the next decade
Award of Excellence Design: Business	The Straits Times Flying during Covid-19: When will Singapore's air travel take off again?
Award of Excellence Infographics – Business	The Straits Times Flying during Covid-19: When will Singapore's air travel take off again?
Award of Excellence Design: Health	The Straits Times Remembering the 5 million lives lost to Covid-19
Award of Excellence Design: Sports	The Straits Times The Champion's Challenge
Award of Excellence Design: Health	The Straits Times Three million masks every minute: How Covid-19 is choking the planet
Award of Excellence Portfolio: Story Page Design (Staff or team)	The Straits Times Features
Award of Excellence Portfolio: Information Graphics (Staff or team)	The Straits Times dataSTories

21st SIAS Investors’ Choice Awards 2021

Financial Journalist of the Year Award	Ben Paul, Senior Correspondent, The Business Times
Financial Story of the Year Award	Chew Boon Leong, Senior Business Correspondent, Chinese Media Group Newshub
Investor Education Journalist of the Year Award	Rachel Adrienne Kelly, Senior Producer-Presenter, MONEY FM 89.3
Media Excellence in Community Investor Education Award	ST Invest, The Straits Times
Runner-up Singapore Corporate Governance Award (Diversity Category): Runner-up	Singapore Press Holdings
Runner-up Most Transparent Company Award (Communication Category)	Singapore Press Holdings

Asian Digital Media Awards 2020

Gold Best in Lifestyle, Sports, Entertainment Website or Mobile Services	The Straits Times How The Straits Times uncovered a love scammer’s 3-month ruse
Gold Best in Audience Engagement	Chinese Media Group Zaobao Rewards Loyalty Programme
Gold Best News Website or Mobile Service	Chinese Media Group ThinkChina.sg
Silver Best News Website or Mobile Service	Chinese Media Group 70 Years of Waiting
Silver Best Project for News Literacy	The Straits Times You ask, we answer: Questions about a pandemic

Singapore Sports Awards 2020

Most Inspiring Sport Story of the Year

Rohit Brijnath, Assistant Sports Editor, The Straits Times
“Heroes are found on all types of wheels”

Society for News Design Best Of Digital Design 2020

Award of Excellence Infographics – Local Issues	The Straits Times From 1845 to 2020: Singapore and the world through ST headlines
Award of Excellence Infographics – Arts, Entertainment, Food, Travel & Lifestyle	The Straits Times The Great Singapore Drive
Award of Excellence Portfolio – Infographics (Staff)	The Straits Times Digital Graphics Team
Award of Excellence Portfolio – Story Page Design	The Straits Times Alyssa Karla Mungcal
Award of Excellence Story Page Design - Politics	The Straits Times Singapore GE2020: New faces, old-timers and quite a few lawyers

Society for News Design Best Of Print News Design 2020

Award of Excellence Single Graphic (Sports)	The Straits Times Stadium in the forest
Award of Excellence Single Graphic (News)	The Straits Times Highway to leafy hideout
Award of Excellence Photo Series (Single-day)	The Straits Times X marks the spot

The Telly Awards 2021

Silver
Social Video, Animation Series

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Ah Boy Don't Play Pray! - An Animated Series

INMA Global Media Awards 2021

Second Place Best Initiative to Register Users	The Straits Times “Gift an Article” feature
Honourable Mention Best Use of Data to Drive Advertising	Singapore Press Holdings “Brand Safety Classification to Aid Inventory Exposure”

2021 Global News & Youth Media Prize

Gold
Journalism Award

The Straits Times
Little Red Dot

Asian Media Awards 2021

Silver Best in Feature Photography	The Straits Times The Burden of Weight
Bronze Best in Breaking News Article (Non Covid-19-related)	The Straits Times Match-fixers used Covid-19 lockdowns to recruit players
Bronze Best in Breaking News Article (Non Covid-19-related)	The Straits Times A bid that turned into an own goal

Digital Media Awards Asia 2021

Gold Best News Website or Mobile Service	The Straits Times straitstimes.com
Gold Best Native Advertising / Branded Content Campaign	The Straits Times How To Not Waste Your Annual Leave
Silver Best Data Visualisation	The Straits Times From 1845 to 2020: See the world evolve through 47,000 headlines
Silver Best in Audience Engagement	Chinese Media Group Platoon Thumbs Up Animation Series
Silver Best Use of Online Video (including VR)	Chinese Media Group Cycle with Zaobao
Silver Best Project for News Literacy	Berita Harian Berita Harian’s Translation Tool

INMA Global Media Awards 2020

Winner Best Initiative in Response to COVID-19	The Straits Times “Making Sense of the Pandemic for Young Readers”
Honourable Mention Best Idea to Acquire or Retain Advertising Clients	Singapore Press Holdings “From Offline to Online and Back – Activating Our Print Audience”

Society for News Design Best Of Digital Design 2019

Bronze Medal Story Page Design – Environmental, Health & Science	The Straits Times Trash or treasure: Can you tell what can and cannot be recycled?
Award of Excellence Information Graphics – National	The Straits Times Singapore’s underground: How deep can we go?
Award of Excellence Information Graphics – Arts, Entertainment, Food, Travel & Lifestyle	The Straits Times On a little street in Singapore… A road map of history, culture and society
Award of Excellence Line of Coverage – Long-form Series	The Straits Times South-east Asia’s meth menace
Silver Medal Portfolio – Story Page Design	The Straits Times Rebecca Pazos
Silver Medal Portfolio – Story Page Design	The Straits Times Alyssa Karla Mungcal

Society for News Design Best Of News Design 2019

Award of Excellence Illustration	The Straits Times Through the eyes of Miel
Award of Excellence News Design (Pages)	The Straits Times ‘Tis the season for online shopping
Award of Excellence News Design (Pages)	The Straits Times Weaving together tales of dementia
Award of Excellence Information Graphics (Single)	The Straits Times The Marvel Cinematic Universe: The story so far…
Award of Excellence Information Graphics (Single)	The Straits Times Barbie turns 60

Asian Media Awards 2020

Silver Best in Breaking News Article	The Straits Times Jho Low reaches settlement with US authorities over 1MDB probe
Silver Best in Newspaper Infographics	The Straits Times The Marvel Cinematic Universe: The story so far
Bronze Best in Newspaper Overall Design	The Straits Times
Bronze Best in Breaking News Article	The Straits Times The puzzling case of SMC’s judgment on a doctor who was fined $100,000
Bronze Best in Sport Photography	The Straits Times Ronaldo and Kane show delights fans
Silver Best in Feature Photography	Chinese Media Group Project Aurora
Bronze Best in News Photography	Chinese Media Group Large flocks of Asian openbill storks encircling Singapore
Bronze Best in Feature Photography	Chinese Media Group The Embalmer

Asian Digital Media Awards 2019

Gold Best in Social Media Engagement	The Straits Times Instagram: News Challenge
Gold Best Digital News Start-up	The Business Times Garage
Gold Best Paid Content Strategy (incl. pay wall, membership or crowd funding models)	Singapore Press Holdings A machine learning-enabled personalised experience for audience engagement & subscriptions
Silver Best in Lifestyle, Sports, Entertainment Website or Mobile Services	The Straits Times War on waste: The dirty (brown) secret about e-commerce
Silver Best Digital Project to Engage Younger and/or Millennial Audiences	Singapore Press Holdings ST & BT Podcasts reach younger audiences
Bronze Best Paid Content Strategy (incl. pay wall, membership or crowd funding models)	Singapore Press Holdings SPH News Tablet
Bronze Best in Social Media Engagement	The Straits Times Where’s Merly? A National Day game challenge for Singaporeans

The Telly Awards 2020

Silver
Series – Talkshow/Interview

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Mission:SG – A sneak peek into the secret world of foreign ambassadors

Malofiej 28th International Infographics Awards

Silver	The Straits Times An immersive guide to the President’s official residence
Bronze	The Straits Times On a little street in Singapore…a road map of history, culture and society
Bronze	The Straits Times Packaging waste: 80%-empty parcels sent to online shoppers
Bronze	The Straits Times HK-Beijing High Speed Rail: A journey up north

INMA Global Media Awards 2019

Best in Asia/Pacific Regional/Local Brands	The Straits Times Asia Report Magazine
First Place Best News Print Product	The Straits Times Asia Report Magazine
Third Place Best New Corporate Innovation Initiative	“Project Storm: An Innovation Journey”
Second Place Best Execution of Print Advertising	"The Colourful Cat Advertisement”

Asian Media Awards 2019

Best in Design: Bronze Newspaper Overall Design	The Straits Times
Best in Photojournalism: Silver News Photography	The Straits Times First step on the long road to peace
Best in Photojournalism: Bronze Feature Photography	The Straits Times Rohingya Refugees
Best in Photojournalism: Gold News Photography	Lianhe Zaobao Diamond Formation Wing-suit Dive
Best in Photojournalism: Bronze Sport Photography	Lianhe Zaobao Ferrari takes the lead

Asian Digital Media Awards 2018

Silver Best News Website or Mobile Service	The Straits Times No one dies alone
Gold Best in Lifestyle, Sports, Entertainment Website or Mobile Services	The Straits Times Asia’s sacred art
Bronze Best Digital Marketing Campaign	The Straits Times Memories In Sydney
Silver Best Reader Revenue Initiative	The Straits Times NewsEd: Learning for tomorrow with the latest news
Bronze Best Reader Revenue Initiative	The Straits Times ST Premium: Best balance between subscription and ad revenue
Silver Best in Social Media Engagement	The Straits Times What’s Good
Bronze Best Digital News Start-up	The Straits Times The Straits Times Asia Report: Independent, insider, insights on Asia
Bronze Best Innovation to Engage Youth Audience	The Straits Times Budget 2018: Game of $urvival
Gold Best Innovation to Engage Youth Audience	The Straits Times NewsEd: Engaging young readers to learn for tomorrow with the latest news
Bronze Best in Lifestyle, Sports, Entertainment Website or Mobile Services	Chinese Media Group Three Bowls of Prawn Noodles: The Evolution of Singapore’s Hawker Culture
Silver Best Innovation to Engage Youth Audience	Chinese Media Group Six Letters: An Evolving Chinese Singaporean Identity
Silver Best Branded Content Project	Chinese Media Group Our Precious Water

2018 State Street Institutional Press Awards

Awarded over S$200,000 (US$150,000) in funding from the Google challenge for its innovative proposal to increase engagement with readers.

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Telly Awards 2019

Bronze Award Use of 2D Animation Category	zaobao.sg "Ah Boy and Friends"
Bronze Award History Category	zaobao.sg "Treasures Before Us"

Asian Environmental Journalism Awards 2019

Merit Award
Environmental Photograph category

Lim Yaohui, EMTM Visual

Singapore Sports Awards 2019

Sports Journalist of the Year

Sazali Abdul Aziz, Correspondent, The Straits Times

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