The Hugo Shong Awards are presented each year by COM’s Department of Journalism for outstanding journalism, in two categories:
The Hugo Shong Lifetime Journalism Achievement Award honors the journalist whose body of work and contributions to the field exemplify the highest quality of reporting and analysis, outstanding accomplishments and ethical standards of the journalistic profession. Previous recipients include:
- Dean Baquet, New York Times
- Carol Guzy, photojournalist
- Ted Koppel, ABC
- Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
- Pete Souza, White House photographer
- Alex Gibney, documentary filmmaker
The Hugo Shong Reporting on Asia Award is presented to an individual who has displayed the highest standards of international journalism in a series of reports on matters of importance specific to Asia. Previous recipients include:
- Emily Feng, NPR
- Danish Siddiqui, Reuters
- William Wan, Washington Post
- Jeremy Page, The Wall Street Journal
- David Barboza, New York Times
- Carlotta Gall, New York Times
- Peter Goodman, Washington Post, New York Times, Huffington Post
- Jason Rezaian, Washington Post
- Lyndsey Addario, New York Times, Time
Feng, Baquet to receive COM’s Hugo Shong journalism awards
Former Executive Editor for The New York Times Dean Baquet and NPR International Correspondent Emily Feng will receive this year’s…
About Hugo Shong
Hugo Shong has been founding general partner of IDG Capital Partners since 1993, also of IDG-Accel China Growth Fund and IDG-Accel Capital Fund since 2005 and 2008 respectively.
In 1993, backed by Patrick J. McGovern, founder and chairman of Boston-headquartered International Data Group (IDG), Mr. Shong formed China’s first technology venture capital firm, IDG Capital Partners, which was to invest in a string of China’s most successful internet companies such as Baidu, Tencent (QQ), Sohu, Ctrip, and Soufun.
Partnered with Accel Partners in 2005, IDG Capital Partners now has a total of US$3.8 billion and RMB 3.6 billion (US$600 million) under its management in China.
As an award-winning journalist, Mr. Shong also launched and published over 40 magazines in China and Vietnam, including the Chinese editions of Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, National Geographic, Men’s Health and Robert Report, along with the Vietnamese editions of PC World and CIO magazines.
Mr. Shong completed the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program in the fall of 1996. He conducted graduate studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy 1987–88 and earned his MS degree from Boston University’s College of Communication in 1987. He studied Journalism at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 1984 to 1986 and he received a BA degree from Hunan University in 1982.
A recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award at the Boston University College of Communication in 1998, and Boston University Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2004, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Boston University since 2005. Read about Shong in Bostonia Winter-Spring 2014.