TVB footage of 'police beating protester' wins journalism award
TVB, Hong Kong’s largest television broadcaster, has won another broadcast journalism award for its exclusive news video footage of police officers apparently beating a pro-democracy protester during last year's Occupy Movement.
Titled "Suspected Police Brutality Against Occupy Central Movement’s Protester”, the video clip was chosen as the Best TV news item at the 55th Monte Carlo TV Festival, according to the broadcaster.
In April this year, the same video won an award in the hard news category at the 2015 Edward E. Murrow Awards.
On the latest award, TVB said the video won against other entries, including those from Britain's BBC and Canada's CBC, in view of its "comprehensive, objective and professional" report.
The winning video generated controversy when it was broadcast at the height of the Occupy protests last October after the original voice-over report, which said "the protester was kicked and beaten by the police”, was cut on the order of news director Keith Yuen Chi-wai.
Fifty-eight assignment editors, anchors and reporters from the television station issued a joint statement expressing their displeasure over the news management’s decision to edit the video report on the Oct. 15 incident.
Yuen’s action also led some TVB reporters to quit their jobs, including the reporter who did the voice-over.
TVB assistant news director Wong Suk-ming, who supported Yuen's move to edit the voice-over report, received the award in Monaco.
-- Contact us at [email protected]
CH/JP/CG
-
How GIS supports zero carbon strategy Dr. Winnie Tang
China aims to peak its CO2 emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060 which is "a tough battle”, according to President Xi Jinping. It is said that even developed countries need a
-
Epidemic and 40-year-high inflation stalk HK migrants in UK Mark O'Neill
The website of the Trinity Church in Sutton, southwest London, is written in English and traditional Chinese – 歡迎香港人, Welcome Hong Kong people. “The middle of a pandemic is not an easy time to arrive
-
The privilege of shorter quarantine Ben Kwok
The nightmare of staying in a hotel for three full weeks might hopefully be over. Yesterday the National Health Commission announced to shorten the hotel quarantine period for people arriving in the
-
3D maps enhance disaster prevention and rescue Dr. Winnie Tang
Abnormal and even extreme weather has become more frequent. The Observatory forecasts that tropical cyclone incidence and total rainfall this year will be "normal to high". To be well-prepared, the
-
Ignoble ease Neville Sarony
There is no shortage of commentators, both lawyers and lay people, who feel entitled to criticize Hong Kong’s legal community for what these observers assert is a failure to stand up for the liberal
