Learning from peers

HKBU Associate Vice-President C.K. Yeung said he is glad to find that students' ability to select subjects is improving every year, and he is also pleased to see the improvement of their writing skills. "These award-winning works reflect their sensitivity to current affairs and expression prowess, presenting interesting angles even from the mundane," he said.

Compared with other competition, the contest gathered young journalists' works from different places in the region and established a platform for them to understand and learn from each other's perspectives, he added.

He suggested that the competition further enlarge its scope to universities to include a wider range of places, including Southeast Asia and Western countries.

A winner of an award in Best in News Reporting, Lo Chi-leng, a student at the University of Macau, said she has learned a lot during the interview and writing process. "The competition provides us an opportunity to see the student works of other universities in different places, and we learned a lot from them."

Zhao Jiaqi, a student at Renmin University of China, said receiving an award means professional recognition of the students' work in data journalism and is a great encouragement for him to pursue this goal further.

An infographic about disputes between doctors and patients brought his team the golden prize of Best in Web Page Design in the Chinese category. He said they spent about a month conducting an in-depth investigation and analyses into the subject.