Idée Suisse media prizes awarded for "reaction to a current event"
The SRG has announced this year’s winners of the Idée Suisse Media Award. For this year’s edition, the jury decided to limit the Idée Suisse Media Award to the category «Response to a Current Event.» The winners are Thomas Schifferle of the Regionaljournal Graubünden, as well as Corinne Portier and Alain Hertig for the report «Complot de famille,» which aired on the TSR magazine program «Mise au Point.».
SRG has announced this year's winners of the Idée Suisse Media Prize. For this year's edition, the jury had decided to limit the Idée Suisse Media Prize to the category "Reaction to a current event". It had chosen the election of Ms. Widmer-Schlumpf as Federal Councillor as the theme. The winners were Thomas Schifferle for his report "Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf is Federal Councillor", which was broadcast on the Graubünden regional journal, and Corinne Portier and Alain Hertig for their report "Complot de famille" , which was shown on the TSR magazine "Mise au Point".
The Radio prize was awarded by the jury to the SR DRS local editorial teams in Graubünden and Eastern Switzerland. The two local editorial teams produced a 30-minute program that was remarkable in every respect when Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf was elected. This is despite the fact that both editorial teams work with very limited resources. They succeeded in combining political analysis with lively, regional reporting, thus offering the Grisons audience an intelligent, fast-paced and varied program.
The jury also awarded two honorable mentions in the radio category: One for the special broadcast of "Forums" (RSR) on December 12, 2007. In the programme entitled "déni démocratique ou acte souverain du parlament" (democratic refusal or sovereign act of parliament), the editors of "Forums" presented a bouquet of opinions on the dismissal of Christoph Blocher.
The second honorary mention went to the programme "Echo der Zeit" (SR DRS), which was broadcast on the evening of 13 December 2007. In this traditional production, the journalists from "Echo der Zeit" took a precise and well-founded look at the causes and effects of the parliamentary decision to replace Christoph Blocher with Evelyne Widmer-Schlumpf.
The Idée Suisse media prize for television went to the program "Mise au Point" (TSR) for the report "Complot de famille" (Corinne Portier and Alain Hertig asked the most important protagonists of the "conspiracy" for their comments in the days after Christoph Blocher was voted out of office on December 12 and summarized these statements in what the jury called an "excellent" 10-minute report.
The jury of the Idée Suisse media prize also awarded two honorary mentions in the television category. The first goes to "Classe politique", the SF discussion program on political issues. The debate between the party presidents, which was broadcast the evening after Ms Widmer-Schlumpf's election, showed what consequences the SVP's defeat is likely to have at a political level. Thanks to the participation of the new Federal Councillor, an SVP National Councillor from Bern and a political scientist, it was possible to shed light on the event in a very differentiated way.
The second honorary mention goes to the special edition of TSR's news programme, which was broadcast on 12 December at 7pm. An overview of the day's events and the uncertainties of the future was followed by an "excellently conducted and very lively debate" between the representatives of the four main parties. It made it clear why the political climate made the event possible, which for some was a "coup" by the classe politique and for others a "civic awakening" by the parliamentary majority, the jury was quoted as saying in a press release on Friday.
SRG presents the Media Prize every year as part of the Management Meeting. The president of the jury is Dominique von Burg, president of the Swiss Press Council and former editor-in-chief of the Tribune de Genève. The jury consists of Monica Piffaretti, publisher, Rainer Stadler, media editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Jacques Donzel, former program director of Radio Suisse Romande, and Marco Färber, former editor-in-chief of SR DRS.
The Radio prize was awarded by the jury to the SR DRS local editorial teams in Graubünden and Eastern Switzerland. The two local editorial teams produced a 30-minute program that was remarkable in every respect when Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf was elected. This is despite the fact that both editorial teams work with very limited resources. They succeeded in combining political analysis with lively, regional reporting, thus offering the Grisons audience an intelligent, fast-paced and varied program.
The jury also awarded two honorable mentions in the radio category: One for the special broadcast of "Forums" (RSR) on December 12, 2007. In the programme entitled "déni démocratique ou acte souverain du parlament" (democratic refusal or sovereign act of parliament), the editors of "Forums" presented a bouquet of opinions on the dismissal of Christoph Blocher.
The second honorary mention went to the programme "Echo der Zeit" (SR DRS), which was broadcast on the evening of 13 December 2007. In this traditional production, the journalists from "Echo der Zeit" took a precise and well-founded look at the causes and effects of the parliamentary decision to replace Christoph Blocher with Evelyne Widmer-Schlumpf.
The Idée Suisse media prize for television went to the program "Mise au Point" (TSR) for the report "Complot de famille" (Corinne Portier and Alain Hertig asked the most important protagonists of the "conspiracy" for their comments in the days after Christoph Blocher was voted out of office on December 12 and summarized these statements in what the jury called an "excellent" 10-minute report.
The jury of the Idée Suisse media prize also awarded two honorary mentions in the television category. The first goes to "Classe politique", the SF discussion program on political issues. The debate between the party presidents, which was broadcast the evening after Ms Widmer-Schlumpf's election, showed what consequences the SVP's defeat is likely to have at a political level. Thanks to the participation of the new Federal Councillor, an SVP National Councillor from Bern and a political scientist, it was possible to shed light on the event in a very differentiated way.
The second honorary mention goes to the special edition of TSR's news programme, which was broadcast on 12 December at 7pm. An overview of the day's events and the uncertainties of the future was followed by an "excellently conducted and very lively debate" between the representatives of the four main parties. It made it clear why the political climate made the event possible, which for some was a "coup" by the classe politique and for others a "civic awakening" by the parliamentary majority, the jury was quoted as saying in a press release on Friday.
SRG presents the Media Prize every year as part of the Management Meeting. The president of the jury is Dominique von Burg, president of the Swiss Press Council and former editor-in-chief of the Tribune de Genève. The jury consists of Monica Piffaretti, publisher, Rainer Stadler, media editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Jacques Donzel, former program director of Radio Suisse Romande, and Marco Färber, former editor-in-chief of SR DRS.
