Eco-Enterprise picked up three awards at this yr’s Asian Digital Media Awards, amongst which its podcast collection on different protein and the Asian shopper’s shift to a extra sustainable, plant-based food plan gained the highest prize for ‘Finest Podcast’.
The four-episode “Way forward for Meals” collection hosted by a staff of Eco-Enterprise journalists – together with affiliate editor Robin Hicks, regional correspondents Liang Lei and Samantha Ho – seemed into the bumps and obstacles that the booming different protein sector has run into in recent times, explored what it would take to get folks to shift to sustainable plant-based diets and mentioned new hybrid meals merchandise and dairy substitutes.
It was produced in collaboration with diet and style agency Kerry and featured skilled voices corresponding to Dr Brent Loken, international meals lead scientist at WWF and Jennifer Morton from the Good Meals Institute APAC.
On the annual awards organised by World Affiliation of Newspapers and Information Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the Singapore-based media firm was additionally recognised for one more of its model studio’s campaigns for Honest Finance Asia (FFA), a regional community of over 90 allied civil society organisations engaged in sustainable finance advocacy.
The year-long partnership between the 2 entities, which dropped at gentle points like how governments in Asia should not investing sufficient in financing a simply and equitable vitality transition and the way Asian banks are turning a blind eye to poor social practices of their investments into agribusinesses, gained runner-up recognition for Finest Sponsored Content material Marketing campaign. Eco-Enterprise was concerned in the curation and moderation of roundtable discussions on these matters, and produced long-form tales that supported and amplified FFA’s messages.
The highest prize went to Singapore-based monetary information web site DealStreetAsia for its ‘Offers Barometer’ platform which gives entry to analysis-driven stories on dealmaking throughout Southeast Asia, India and China.
Jessica Cheam, founder and managing editor of Eco-Enterprise, mentioned she was happy with the regional newsroom and model studio staff for punching past their weight to ship stable, partaking content material on a variety of advanced matters.
“The popularity from WAN-IFRA additionally reveals how content material that’s commissioned in partnership with different organisations will also be impactful. The work that we do can enhance coverage and convey narratives that encourage,” she mentioned.
EBStudio, Eco-Enterprise’ branded content material supply, produces quite a lot of content material in collaboration with companions who’re aligned with the corporate’s mission to help and push for sustainable improvement in Asia Pacific. These embody characteristic tales, long-form stories, govt interviews, in addition to multimedia content material corresponding to podcasts and movies.
Eco-Enterprise bagged three awards on the WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards 2023. From left: Affiliate editor Robin Hicks, regional correspondent Liang Lei, assistant editor Ng Wai Mun and managing editor Jessica Cheam. Picture: Eco-Enterprise
Amplifying Indigenous voices
This yr’s Asian Digital Media Awards noticed Eco-Enterprise dominating the ‘Finest Podcast’ award class – a bilingual podcast recorded in Bahasa Melayu and English that featured a gaggle of Orang Asli filmmakers picked up the runner-up prize.
The younger feminine filmmakers have been concerned within the manufacturing of a collection of quick movies to focus on the tales and plight of Malaysia’s Indigenous tribes. Within the podcast, they inform Eco-Enterprise why they picked up the digicam and selected to inform the narratives of their communities in their very own language, Malay.
Regional correspondent Samantha Ho mentioned it was her first time producing a podcast and it was each a steep studying curve and an amazing skilled improvement alternative. She had listened to different bilingual podcasts which featured non-English languages like Spanish and Greek to organize for the recording – an experiment to weave totally different languages in a single podcast episode.
She mentioned: “Interviewing the filmmakers was enjoyable! Their movies have been distinctive and spoke to their very own lived experiences. I’m additionally excited by how they’ve gone on to characterize themselves on larger phases and carry the necessary message of social justice to the world.”
Final yr, Eco-Enterprise gained gold for its revamped information web site on the Asian Digital Media Awards. The media publication contests within the small- and medium-sized firm classes on the awards, which assesses the work by media corporations with an annual income of lower than US$10 million.
The “Way forward for Meals” podcast collection curated by a staff of Eco-Enterprise journalists, in collaboration with style and diet agency Kerry, gained “Finest Podcast”.
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