15th ENA: Awards for Swiss newspapers
Numerous Swiss newspapers were honored at this year's European Newspaper Awards. Among the multiple winners were the NZZ, Ostschweiz am Sonntag, and Schweiz am Sonntag.
The NZZ multimedia report "No Time for Anger" received an award in the "Online and Crossmedia" category. Based on his Fukushima report in 2011, reporter Marcel Gyr and photographer Christoph Bangert traveled to Japan again two years after the disaster. The impressions, images and videos were turned into a large-scale multimedia project by an interdisciplinary editorial team. In the "Data Journalism" category, the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" received an award for the reports "Stable Unemployment Rate" and "Swiss Maps". NZZ Fokus and NZZ Campus received two awards in the "Magazine" category.
The newspaper Ostschweiz am Sonntag also received awards in four categories. In the category "Section front pages weekly newspaper", Ostschweiz am Sonntag received an award for its generously designed front pages of the individual newspaper bundles, writes the St. Galler Tagblatt in its Monday edition. The newspaper received a further award for its varied presentation of the topic on pages two and three of each edition. Specifically, the jury recognized an investigation into the production of and trade in cheap textiles. The jury also presented an award for "Concept/Innovation" for the presentation of the major weekly interview that kicks off the Reflexe newspaper bundle. And finally, the panel honored the St. Galler Tagblatt in the typography category.
Other Swiss winners:
- Switzerland on Sunday ("Section front pages weekly newspaper", "News pages", "Concept / Innovation"),
- New Lucerne Newspaper ("Regional newspaper front pages", "Regional newspaper section front pages")
- Handelszeitung ("Front pages of weekly newspaper", "Inside pages with advertisements")
- Bernese Newspaper ("Vatican", "Local Pages")
- Biel newspaper ("Section front pages local newspaper")
- Central Switzerland on Sunday ("News pages")
- Thuner Tagblatt ("Infographic"),
- Basel Newspaper ("Supplements")
- Bündner Tagblatt ("Typography")
The European Newspaper Award is the largest European newspaper competition and has been presenting awards in the field of newspaper design and conception for 15 years now. This year a total of 211 newspapers from 25 countries took part. You can find the complete list of winners at this link (PDF).
