Epoch Times Journalists Win Top Award for Outstanding Reporting on CCP's Live Organ Harvesting
Recently, The Religion Communicators Council (RCC) presented the 2025 Wilbur Award. Two journalists from The Epoch Times were awarded the prestigious award for their courage in exposing the truth about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) live organ harvesting crimes and their support for the Israeli people in the war zone. Observers said the award shows that The Epoch Times’ reporting on these crimes has attracted serious attention from the international community.
PHOTO : Accompanied by Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek (left) and journalist Dan Berger (second from left), journalist Eva Fu accepts her 2025 Wilbur Award at a dinner at the Religion Communicators Council's annual conference in Salt Lake City on April 25, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times,
On April 25, at the Religion Communicators Council’s annual conference, The Epoch Times English-language journalist Eva Fu was honored with the 2025 Wilbur Award. The award is the RCC’s highest honor for outstanding media reporting on religious issues, spiritual values, and faith-related topics.
Meanwhile, another Epoch Times journalist, Dan Berger, was honored with the Award of Excellence, which recognizes work of high quality and deserving of recognition.
This year’s recipients of the Wilbur Award include Abraham’s Bridge; The Associated Press; The Baltimore Banner; Being Jewish with Jonah Platt; Bo Media, CBC Radio; CBS 60 Minutes; CBS Sunday Morning; The Epoch Times; Greater Grove Hall Main Street/Boston Herald; Harper’s Magazine; Hasidic Archives; Hey Jude Productions; National Public Radio; NPR News; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; The Politzer Foundation; Religion News Service; and the San Francisco Chronicle.
The RCC has presented the Wilbur Award annually since 1949. The award honors the late Marvin C. Wilbur, “a pioneer in religious public relations, longtime board leader, and former executive of the Presbyterian Church,” the professional association said in a statement.
“The Epoch Times journalists’ reporting is very accurate, true and timely. It is very reasonable and worthy of them to receive awards from the international community,” said Liu Yinquan, chairman of the Social Democratic Party of China and a former history professor in mainland China.
Sheng Xue, a Chinese-Canadian writer and editor-in-chief of China Spring, said: “The Epoch Times has long been the target of the CCP’s smear campaign. But this time, this award proves that the international journalism community is increasingly recognizing independent media like The Epoch Times, especially for their courage to expose tyrannical regimes like the CCP and its human rights violations. This will put pressure on other Western mainstream media to pay more attention to human rights issues in China and not be constantly influenced by the CCP’s overseas propaganda.”
This year’s award jury was composed of media professionals, and winners were selected based on content quality, creativity, impact, and excellence in conveying religious values. The main criteria were that the work communicated faith and religion in a fair, professional, honest, and respectful manner.
Over the years, The Epoch Times has consistently reported on human rights violations in China, including forced organ harvesting from healthy prisoners of conscience—organs that are then sold to transplant patients at home and abroad, fueling the illicit organ transplant industry. In her award-winning journalistic work, Eva Fu deeply exposed the CCP’s crimes of live organ harvesting.
Sheng Xue added: “This Wilbur Award is a very important award. It shows that the CCP’s atrocities in live organ harvesting have increasingly attracted the attention of the international community.”
According to a report by a Canadian human rights organization, the CCP systematically harvests organs from political prisoners and provides them to hospitals for tens of thousands of transplant operations each year.
The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) has been conducting independent investigations since 2006 and has proven that the CCP has been harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for more than 20 years.
In 2016, the United States House of Representatives passed Resolution 343, demanding that the CCP immediately stop harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience, especially Falun Gong practitioners.
PHOTO : Winners of the annual awards presented by the Religion Communicators Council—including Epoch Times journalists Eva Fu (eighth from left) and Dan Berger (seventh from right)—pose for a photo during the organization's annual conference in Salt Lake City on April 25, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
“We know that live organ harvesting in China is very common. Many people have mysteriously disappeared—they are most likely victims of organ harvesting. The whole world, including its people and governments, must condemn this atrocity. This is a fascist act, a crime against humanity, and must be condemned,” Liu Yinquan said. (Hui)
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Reporting by NTD.TV journalist Tang Rui
