Former SRF Middle East Correspondent Moves to SDC
André Marty, news editor and anchor for Swiss Radio and Television, will join the Federal Directorate for Development and Cooperation (SDC) as communications officer in April.
He will leave his post at SRF as early as February, SRF announced on Monday. The 46-year-old journalist André Marty has worked for Swiss radio and television since 1996. The Valais native started as an Italy correspondent, later worked for "10 vor 10" and for six years - from 2004 to 2010 - was Middle East correspondent based in Tel Aviv.
In 1998, Marty received the Central Switzerland Journalism Prize for research on real estate speculation, in 2006 he was named Reporter of the Year, and three years later he received the Catholic Media Prize. After returning from Tel Aviv, Marty worked as an editor and presenter for the "Tagesschau" news program.
