Eastern Switzerland Media Prizes 2008 awarded
The Eastern Switzerland Media Awards were presented in St. Gallen on Wednesday. Seven journalists received awards, including, for the first time, the writers of a television segment. A total of 134 entries were submitted.
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The Eastern Switzerland Media Awards for 2007 were presented in St. Gallen on Wednesday. Seven journalists were honored, including for the first time an author of a television report. A total of 134 works from 2007 were submitted, divided into five categories: Press photography, radio feature, reportage/background, daily text and new television feature. With his series Gleis 3, which appears once a week in the Thurgau edition of the St. Galler Tagblatt, 35-year-old Daniel Walt won the prize in the daily text category. The best reportage, a travel story from Scotland, was awarded to 49-year-old Michael Hug. Tobias Siebrecht won the Eastern Switzerland Media Prize in the press photography category for his series Coiffeursalon, which appeared in the culture magazine Saiten.
Tanja Köhler and Ronny Nicolussi shared the prize in the radio contribution category. Köhler was honored for her contribution Rescuing the Rhaeto-Romanic people, Nicolussi for Two days that changed Switzerland, a radio contribution about Blocher being voted out of office. Sereina Venzin and Daniel Blickenstorfer shared the prize money in the television contribution category, Venzin for a report from the prison in Chur, and Blickenstorfer for a television contribution "Lai da Palpuogna".
The Eastern Switzerland Media Awards for 2007 were presented in St. Gallen on Wednesday. Seven journalists were honored, including for the first time an author of a television report. A total of 134 works from 2007 were submitted, divided into five categories: Press photography, radio feature, reportage/background, daily text and new television feature. With his series Gleis 3, which appears once a week in the Thurgau edition of the St. Galler Tagblatt, 35-year-old Daniel Walt won the prize in the daily text category. The best reportage, a travel story from Scotland, was awarded to 49-year-old Michael Hug. Tobias Siebrecht won the Eastern Switzerland Media Prize in the press photography category for his series Coiffeursalon, which appeared in the culture magazine Saiten.
Tanja Köhler and Ronny Nicolussi shared the prize in the radio contribution category. Köhler was honored for her contribution Rescuing the Rhaeto-Romanic people, Nicolussi for Two days that changed Switzerland, a radio contribution about Blocher being voted out of office. Sereina Venzin and Daniel Blickenstorfer shared the prize money in the television contribution category, Venzin for a report from the prison in Chur, and Blickenstorfer for a television contribution "Lai da Palpuogna".
