The Hugo Shong Reporting on Asia Award is presented each year 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 winners have included William Wan of the Washington Post, Jeremy Page of the Wall Street Journal, David Barboza of the New York Times, Carlotta Gall of the New York Times, and Peter Goodman, formerly of the Washington Post, the New York Times, and currently Executive Business and Global News Editor of the Huffington Post.
Photojournalists Guzy, Siddiqui win Hugo Shong Award
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers Carol Guzy and Danish Siddiqui will be honored next month as recipients of the 2022 Hugo Shong…
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.