The fifth Global Chinese Sustainability Reporting Awards, hosted by the TVBS Sustainability Foundation of Trust, Hope, Love, and was recently presented on TVBS. The Department of Information and Communication, STUST, won two Excellence Awards both the Long Video Reporting Category and the Short Video Reporting Category of the student group. "Food Waste Island," a student project created by a group of STUST students—Bow-Wei Chang, Ting-Shuan Shih, Yi-Shuan Jiang, Hui-Ling Huang, Yan-Tzi Wang, Yi-hong Wu—won the Excellence Award of the Long Video Reporting Category (second place) in the student group. Jia-Ying Fang won the Excellence Award (second place) of the Short Video Reporting Category in the student group with her work "The Dawn of the Humanitarian Road: New Directions of Exotic Species—Green Iguana."

[The award-winning work "Food Waste Island" by the student team of the Department of Information and Communication, STUST, won the Excellent Award of the Long Video Reporting Category in the student group. The instructor, Prof. Dan-Ching Liang (right) attended the ceremony to receive the award on their behalf (the photo is taken from the live webcast of the TVBS Global Chinese Sustainability Award Presentation Ceremony).]

While the world was forced to press the stop button by the COVID-19 pandemic and the communication among people had been disrupted, news interviews and reports had never been interrupted. Participants still actively submitted their works. Under the influence of the pandemic, the number of entries still increased by 57%. The professional groups and the student groups received a total of 790 entries; the winning rate was 5.3%, with a total of 1.89 million NTD for the prize money.

[Jia-Ying Fang, a student from the Department of Information and Communication, STUST, won the Excellence Award of the Short Video Reporting Category in the student group with her work "The Dawn of the Humanitarian Road: New Directions of Exotic Species—Green Iguana." Her instructor, Prof. Dan-Ching Liang (right) attended the ceremony to receive the award on her behalf (the photo is taken from the live webcast of the TVBS Global Chinese Sustainability Award Presentation Ceremony).]

The award-winning work "Food Waste Island" takes "leftover food crisis" as a sustainable development issue, using the title as a reference to point out that Taiwanese people have long been accustomed to food waste in life, The project work tries to arouse the public's heed to the leftover food issue, taking it seriously and seeking some solutions. In the work, there was an attempt to lead the audience back to the good time without leftover food. At the same time, it uses mascot animation commentary and a series of scenes combined with news interviews to interpret serious issues in a relaxed and lively way. Bo-Wei Chang said that the biggest challenge in the interview production process was how to integrate differently oriented methods into systematic solutions and to transform serious issues into content that everyone is interested in. After a lot of data collection and discussion, It was decided that the work should provide the audience with a multi-faceted way of cherishing their food learned from different perspectives of non-governmental organizations, catering industry, educational institutions, and government units.

[The student project "Food Waste Island," created by a team from the Department of Information and Communication, STUST—Bow-Wei Chang, Ting-Shuan Shih, Yi-Shuan Jiang, Hui-Ling Huang, Yan-Tzi Wang, Yi-hong Wu—won the Excellence Award of the Long Video Reporting Category in the student group (Photo taken from the live webcast of the "TVBS Global Chinese Sustainability Award Ceremony).]

The award-winning work "The Dawn of the Humanitarian Road: New Directions of Alien Species Laws—Green Iguana" addresses a series of ecological and legal issues arising from the abandonment, killing, and unmanageability of the alien species "Green Iguana" in Taiwan. By presenting real hunting at night and interviews of the hunters, the work highlights the humanitarian issues of wildlife protection and increase the visibility of news among serious news topics. The award-winning student Jia-Ying Fang said that it appears to be a simple issue of the management of exotic species of green iguanas, but the ethnic groups and associated issues involved are of a great variety. Therefore, in the planning of interviews and production of this news film, the consensus of each ethnic group must be taken into consideration. The report will certainly help the competent authority to see the seriousness of the problem, make correct decisions, and improve Taiwan's ecology.

[A scene from the work “Food Waste Island” by the award-winning student team of the Department of Information and Communication, STUST.]

Prof. Dan-Ching Liang, the instructor of the award-winning student works, said that the competition in the student group was fierce, and STUST was the only university of science and technology among all the shortlisted colleges and universities. After competing with the long established departments of department and information, their work was awarded and greatly affirmed by the judges. STUST has been working very hard over the past years in training students to use constructive journalism as a sustainable topic (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals). The way of storytelling through video and audio is also a great encouragement to teachers interviewed and reported. In addition, the TVBS "Step by Step" TV news magazine program also hopes to broadcast the award-winning works of students, adding luster to the school and the student team!

[“A scene taken from the live webcast of the TVBS Global Chinese Sustainability Award Presentation Ceremony: Jia-Ying Fang, a student from the Department of Information and Communication, STUST, won the Excellence Award of the Short Video Reporting Category in the student group with her work "The Dawn of the Humanitarian Road: New Directions of Exotic Species—Green Iguana.]

As President Deng-Maw Lu of STUST said, TVBS’s holding of the Global Chinese Sustainability Reporting Award is of great significance. All of the winning works report relevant sustainable news topics, including the social progress and environmental protection of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—the three major aspects of social development, environmental protection, and economic growth. He added that TVBS Global Chinese Sustainability Reporting Award" is an index international competition. The fact that STUST could won two excellent awards at the same time shows that the dedication of teachers and students to the reporting of sustainability issues is worth recognition.

[The work of Jia-Ying Fang from the Department of Information and Communication, STUST: "The Dawn of the Humanitarian Road: New Directions of Exotic Species—Green Iguana."]