Barbara Lüthi voted journalist of the year
Barbara Lüthi, China correspondent for Swiss television, has been named Journalist of the Year. The 35-year-old television journalist accepted the CNN Journalist Award, which comes with prize money of 20,000 Swiss francs, on Thursday evening in Munich. She won both the overall prize and the prize in the television category.
Barbara Lüthi, China correspondent for Swiss television, has been named Journalist of the Year. The 35-year-old television journalist accepted the CNN Journalist Award, which comes with prize money of 20,000 Swiss francs, on Thursday evening in Munich. She won both the overall award and the television category. She had been nominated for her report "Land expropriation in China", which was broadcast on Rundschau. This was a report on Chinese farmers who are being forcibly expropriated by the government.
Lüthi has been China correspondent in Beijing for Swiss Television since 2006. She previously worked as an editor for the political and business magazine Rundschau at SF. She won a CNN Journalist Award back in 2005 for a report on working conditions in Chinese toy factories. It was also reported that she met her current husband at the award party. Lüthi will become a mother in February. The journalist therefore has nothing but good feelings about the CNN Award.
In addition to Lüthi, 300 journalists from renowned German media such as ZDF, Zeit Campus, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and WDR were nominated this year in the four categories TV, print, radio and online.
Lüthi has been China correspondent in Beijing for Swiss Television since 2006. She previously worked as an editor for the political and business magazine Rundschau at SF. She won a CNN Journalist Award back in 2005 for a report on working conditions in Chinese toy factories. It was also reported that she met her current husband at the award party. Lüthi will become a mother in February. The journalist therefore has nothing but good feelings about the CNN Award.
In addition to Lüthi, 300 journalists from renowned German media such as ZDF, Zeit Campus, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and WDR were nominated this year in the four categories TV, print, radio and online.
