Media News - Monday, December 12, 2011

South China Morning Post reporter wins Lorenzo Natali Journalism Prize

South China Morning Post reporter Fiona Tam (Tan Xiao-mi) won the first prize for the Asia-Pacific region in the Lorenzo Natali Journalist Prize competition. The European Commission and a seven-member grand jury awarded the prize at the ceremony last Thursday night in Brussels. Her article "Medicine's Wild East," which appeared in the South China Morning Post in May, exposed the Chinese hospitals profiting from stem cells harvested from induced abortions. The grand jury, headed by senior journalist Toby Vogel from the European Voice, said: "'Medicine's Wild East' reveals that many Chinese hospitals are cashing in on the desperation of terminally ill patients, offering unproven and fraudulent treatments based on stem cells and tissues harvested from aborted fetuses." "The expose has generated intense discussion in China's blogosphere... With the public increasingly skeptical towards such treatments in the wake of this piece, China is now being forced to consider both the implications of its often lax regulatory system and its approach to human rights in general." The Lorenzo Natali Prize, established in 1992 by the European Commission, is in its 20th year, and is awarded to journalists for outstanding reporting on human rights, democracy and development. 17 winners from all around the world were awarded the Lorenzo Natali during the award ceremony in Brussels, chosen from more than 1300 participants. (Marketwatch)

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