Epoch Times's Matthew Robertson awarded SPJ 2012 Sigma Delta Chi Award

NEW YORK, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Matthew P. Robertson of the Epoch Times, English edition won a coveted Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) 2012 Sigma Delta Chi Award (http://epochtim.es/spj13). The award recognizes exceptional journalism in non-deadline reporting.

"Hospitals are working hand-in-glove with the Chinese regime's repressive security apparatus, and doctors, using the skills meant to heal, are killing helpless prisoners of conscience by removing their organs," wrote Stephen Gregory, deputy editor-in-chief, in the letter nominating Robertson for the award. Gregory added that the articles submitted by Robertson on the topic "are a sample of a larger body of work and are the fruit of over two years of consistent effort."

The series of four articles included:  

• "Would Be China Defector, Once Bo Xilai's Right Hand, Oversaw Organ Harvesting" (http://bit.ly/V7pru3)
• "After Bo Xilai's Purge, Searches For 'Organ Harvest' Suddenly Allowed" (http://bit.ly/TYe4tz)
• "Accused Chinese Organ Harvester Lurks in Transplant Community" (http://bit.ly/OCwgFE)
• "Friendly Ties Come With Award, But Ethicists Object" (http://bit.ly/VVzlC9)

While Robertson's outstanding series was published in 2012, shocking revelations of the official organ trading network in China are still breaking in China's own Caijing news magazine, and being reported in the Epoch Times (http://bit.ly/17RrdWJ).

Epoch Times, New York, also took the 2012 first place award in the New York Press Association's "Best Special Section—Advertising, Division II," (http://bit.ly/ZKbTpL) for a special edition celebrating Asia Week, the largest Asian art event in New York City.

The New York Epoch Times is an edition of the Epoch Times, which is published in 35 countries, and 21 languages (About Us).

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SOURCE The Epoch Times