After following theSun for the past 10 weeks, I will have to say that theSun is undoubtedly the worthy winner of the 2009 Societies of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) awards: Excellence in Investigative Reporting. theSun won it's third award for investigative journalism in as many years.
Following the political tsunami on the 8th March 2008, while the English main stream media has certainly slightly reversed it's bias trend towards a more neutral stand, theSun has certainly proved itself to be the people's voice!
theSun's special reports and investigations team of editor R.Nadeswaran and deputy editor Terrence Fernandez picked up an honourable mention for investigative journalism for "Public Land Gone" - their expose on the Bandar Utama land scam where seven parcels of land meant for public amenities were alienated to political parties, politicians and businessmen.
theSun beat three other newspapers who are also vying for this award- Singapore's The New Paper and The Straits Times, and Hong Kong's Far Eastern Economic Review.
Kudos to the team! May you guys keep reporting the truth, and stay neutral!
http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=34600
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