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WSJ wins three Human Rights Press Awards

The Wall Street Journal has won three categories in the 24th Human Rights Press Awards announced Wednesday.

Journal reporters Natasha Khan, Joyu Wang, John Lyons, Chun Han Wong, Wenxin Fan, Mike Bird, Lucy Craymer, Jing Yang and Eva Dou won in the breaking news category for their coverage of the Hong Kong protests.

Khan, Fan and Lyons also won in the explanatory feature writing category for “The People of Hong Kong.”

And Josh Chin and Clement Burge won the multimedia category for “Xinjiang: China’s Drive for Control.”

The Journal also received a merit recognition in two other categories.

“Amazon’s Troubled Asian Supply Chain” by Jon Emont, Alexandra Berzon, Justin Scheck and Shane Shifflett received merit recognition in the investigative feature writing category.

“The Crackdown Has Begun: Holding Power to Account in Hong Kong” by Jillian Kay Melchior received merit recognition in the commentary writing category.

See all of the winners here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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