Sponsorship award: Tamedia honors three journalists

The sponsorship prizes are awarded by the committee of the Journalism Conference of the Editorial Boards, chaired by publisher Pietro Supino. Employees or teams who have been awarded a recognized media or journalism prize are presented with a sponsorship award. Others can be nominated for recognition by the editors-in-chief. Three journalists from Tages-Anzeiger and Das Magazin receive the 2013 sponsorship award:

Jean-Martin BüttnerTages-Anzeiger: He is honored at the request of the editor-in-chief. The committee of the Journalism Conference thus recognizes Jean-Martin Büttner's consistently outstanding journalistic performance at the Tages-Anzeiger; in particular his talent as a writer, his critical and questioning mind and the way he knows how to get to the heart of the matter.

Rico CzerwinskiFor his article "Die Anomalie", published in Das Magazin on April 14, 2012, he was awarded the Zurich Journalism Prize 2013. The laudatory speech spoke of a "close-up from the driver's cab of the VBZ" and that Rico Czerwinski "has written a socially highly relevant story that others have only seen as a news item".

Iwan StädlerTages-Anzeiger: He is the winner of the 2013 Zurich Journalism Prize for his article "Leichen im Keller des Professors", published in the Tages-Anzeiger on September 11 and 12, 2012. The laudation for this work concludes: "Städler has brought to light the maladministration in a time-honored Zurich institution."

Tamedia's sponsorship prizes have been awarded since 2008. The sponsorship is intended to take into account the individual needs of the winners and enable the realization of special journalistic projects or a change of perspective. The award winners are offered paid working time, financial support for a major piece of research, an exchange with another editorial team in Switzerland or abroad or the opportunity to undertake further training.