Sponsorship award for three Tamedia media professionals
For the seventh time, the Tamedia media group is honoring outstanding articles published in its media outlets with an award. The winners are Simone Rau, Mark Dittli, and Mathias Ninck.
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. One journalist and two journalists from Tages-Anzeiger and Das Magazin receive the 2014 sponsorship award:
Simone Rau (photo), Tages-Anzeiger: She received the Zurich Journalism Prize 2014 for her article "Der Mann, der sich zu Tode hungerte", published in the Tages-Anzeiger on August 19, 2013. The jury praised Simone Rau's article as "the posthumous portrait of a prisoner in the canton of Zug who went on a hunger strike and starved to death, even though everyone said he didn't want to die. Simone Rau describes the dying without judging and without inciting. The result is a piece of contemporary history that is a must-read.
Mark Dittli, Das Magazin: He was awarded the Zurich Journalism Prize 2014 for "Die verpasste Chance", published in Das Magazin on November 1, 2013. Quote: "Marc Dittli writes about the global financial crisis and its striking failure to overcome it, explained and narrated as well as would be necessary for such an important topic, which is far too rarely the case."
Mathias Ninck, Das Magazin: He received the Ostschweizer Medienpreis 2014 for his article "Krieg in der Herzklinik", published in Das Magazin on 16 November 2013. The jury commented: "Surgeons without a license to practice, false doctor's letters, a smuggled corpse - tough and precise research. Mathias Ninck succeeds in organizing the wealth of details in a comprehensible way and creating a gripping suspenseful arc."
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.
Picture: Tagesanzeiger.ch
