Fairfax journalist Gerard Hutching wins $10,000 China study prizeNZ China Council chairman Sir Don McKinnon, Jared Savage (NZ Herald), Findlay Buchanan (student), Sally Chen (SkyKiwi), Minister of Education Nikki Kaye, Gerard Hutching (Fairfax NZ) and NZ China Council executive director Stephen Jacobi at the Council's 2017 media awards. Fairfax New Zealand agribusiness journalist Gerard Hutching has taken out the supreme prize at this year's New Zealand China Council media awards. As well as being named best journalist in the business reporting category, Hutching will receive a $10,000 bursary to travel to China for reporting. In this way his writing adds quite a different perspective to the typical debate about China business impact," the judges said. NZ China Council chairman Sir Don McKinnon, a former Foreign Affairs Minister in the 1990s, said during his tenure the main questions related to China were the three "Ts" - Tibet, Taiwan and Tiananmen Square.

Source: Stuff August 24, 2017 04:07 UTC