香港报业公会主席
甘焕腾先生献辞

　　2014年，本地和国际大事频繁，肯定是香港新闻从业员以至全体市民记忆深刻的一年。本地有政改问题引起激烈争辩，导致历时79日的占中运动；内地与香港的关系亦因水货走私问题而变得紧张。国际上，极端恐怖组织扰乱了西方以及中东的秩序，危及现代文明；西非爆发伊波拉病毒，考验各国卫生医疗系统的防御能力；马来西亚航机失事，数百无辜生命瞬间殒灭。

　　采访报道这些重大新闻，对新闻媒体是个难度很高的专业考验。工作在第一线的同业，日以继夜克尽职责，使广大受众通过报纸版面获取及时、准确的资讯和客观、深入的分析。在社会事件频发的情况下，新闻媒体作为行政、立法、司法之外的第四权力，坚守言责，使社会公义得以彰显，公权力得到合理监察，他们的努力得到市民广泛的认同和信任。2014年度「香港最佳新闻奖」的所有获奖作品，充分反映了同业们辛勤不懈的专业成果。

　　在此，我谨代表香港报业公会感谢社会各界支持，尤其是各家赞助机构和所有评审委员。衷心祝贺2014年度新闻奖的各得奖者，期望他们精益求精，继续发掘优秀的新闻题材，编写更多引起读者共鸣的作品。

Keith Kam
Chairman
Message from Chairman of The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong

　　With momentous events breaking out in both Hong Kong and abroad, 2014 is certainly one of the most memorable years not just to journalists but also every member of the community. Locally, heated discussions over political reform culminated in the 79-day Occupy Movement, while tension between Hong Kong and the mainland was also stoked by problems caused by parallel trading. Internationally, extreme terrorist groups sowed fears in the West and the Middle East and threatened to undermine modern civilization. In West Africa, the Ebola outbreak tested the capability of respective countries’ healthcare systems to protect their peoples. The fatal crash of a Malaysian airliner put an abrupt end to hundreds of innocent lives.

　　Reporting these major news events was a tremendous challenge to the professionalism of the news media. Our colleagues on the frontline worked round the clock to provide the public with timely and accurate information as well as objective and in-depth analyses. As social issues arose from time to time, the press – as the fourth estate apart from the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government - stuck to its duty of ensuring that social justice was upheld and public authority properly supervised. Their efforts have been widely approved by the community and the winning entries of Hong Kong News Awards 2014 fully reflected the fruits of their labour.

　　On behalf of The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong, I would like to thank all of our supporters from every walk of the community, especially our sponsors and judges of the news awards. I would also like to congratulate every award recipient and encourage them to continue to spare no efforts to explore newsworthy topics and produce reports that resonate with the readers.