"Arena" presenter Jonas Projer is Journalist of the Year
Jonas Projer has won the top prize in this year's Journalist of the Year awards. The «Arena» host and editor-in-chief has been named Swiss Journalist of the Year by the readers of the industry magazine *Schweizer Journalist*.
Projer has made "Arena" more politicized again by making the selection of guests more controversial, the magazine justified its choice, according to an SRF media release on Thursday. He is so confident as a presenter that he can also afford to make excursions into infotainment.
In addition to Projer, other SRF journalists took the top spots in their respective categories: For example, "10vor10" anchor Susanne Wille was named Political Journalist of the Year, and Middle East correspondent Pascal Weber took the title of Reporter of the Year.
According to its own information on Thursday, the online portal Watson.ch can also be pleased about prizes: For example, its culture journalist Simone Meier was chosen as columnist of the year, and sports journalist of the year is Klaus Zaugg.
Lukas Hässig of "Inside Paradeplatz" is the business journalist of the year, former war reporter Kurt Pelda won in the research category, and the resigning editor-in-chief was named editor-in-chief of the year. NZZ on SundayEditor-in-Chief Felix E. Müller was elected. The Tages-Anzeiger-editors Jean-Martin Büttner and Michèle Binswanger came out on top in the culture and society categories.
The election of the journalists of the year by the Swiss journalist took place for the 13th time. According to watson.ch, a total of 1,200 readers cast their votes in an online poll. (SDA)
