The Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) announced the winners of the SOPA 2025 Awards for Editorial Excellence on 26 June. Initium Media, with 11 nominations, eventually won 10 awards as the biggest winner among all the participating media.
- From Divorce to Home: A Hong Kong Lesbian Couple’s Journey to Their LGBT Wedding wins Honorable Mention for Excellence in Reporting on Women’s Issues
- Unfinished Line: Unsung Stories of Chinese Leaving Their Homeland wins Award for Excellence in Audio Reporting
- Chinese Fighting for Russia: Money, Thrill, and Becoming Influencers wins Award for Excellence in Feature Writing
- Frontiers of AI: Censorship, Vanishing Languages, and Invisible Labor wins Honorable Mention for Excellence in Technology Reporting
- Records of the Biggest National Security Trial: Court Coverage of the Hong Kong 47 wins Award for Excellence in Explanatory Reporting
- Zhuhai Random Attack Report Series wins Award for Excellence in Reporting Breaking News
- Sinking China wins Honorable Mention for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment
- Hualien Earthquake: Disaster and Rebirth wins Award for Excellence in Photography
- Chinese Fighting for Russia: Money, Thrill, and Becoming Influencers wins Honorable Mention in the Scoop Award
- Walk the Line, the Journey Continues wins the Carlos Tejada Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting
In addition, our participation in the Internews’ Earth Journalism Network’s crossborder collaborative reporting series ‘Ground Truths: A Collaborative Special Report on Soil in Asia’ won a Honorable Mention for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment in the Regional/Local category. (‘Sinking China’ from the same reporting series published on the Initium also won the SOPA Award)
Also, our reporting series ‘Cattle Hustle’ collaborated with ‘Mekong Eye,’ won the Carlos Tejada Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting. (‘From Southeast Asia to China, How Far Does a Cattle Travel’ from the same reporting series published on the Initium)