Anja Jardine from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung receives the Hugo Junkers Prize
Every year, the Aviation Press Club honors outstanding journalistic contributions to aviation and aerospace. This year's award goes to NZZ reporter Anja Jardine.
The Luftfahrt-Presse-Club (LPC) Germany honors Anja Jardine for her work "Flug ins Nichts" (Flight into Nothingness) on flight MH370, published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on March 3 of this year. In it, she describes the three years since the Boeing 777 disappeared on the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, focusing on the fate of Ghyslain Wattrelos, whose wife and two children were on board the plane.
Anja Jardine has worked for the NZZ since 2005. From 2005 to February 2016, she was an editor at "NZZ Folio", focusing on reports and portraits on socio-political and economic issues. Since August 2016, she has been working as an author and reporter for all sections of the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung". Her work has won several awards. This year, she has already won the Zurich Journalism Prize.
The Hugo Junkers Prize, named after the German aviation pioneer, has been awarded by the Luftfahrt-Presse-Club for 21 years and honors outstanding journalistic work on aviation and aerospace. The journalism prize is sponsored by Bernd Junkers, the German Aerospace Industries Association and the LPC and is endowed with 10,000 euros. Anja Jardine shares the prize with a team of reporters from the "Hamburger Abendblatt" newspaper, which is being honored for a report from the Airbus plant in Hamburg-Finkenwerder.
The Hugo Junkers Award was presented at the annual meeting of the Aviation Press Club in Munich on Saturday, November 18, 2017.
