Five media professionals from online, print, radio and TV honored

The awards, worth a total of CHF 15,000, were presented at a ceremony in Olten on Monday evening, as announced by the Aargau/Solothurn Media Prize Association. The prize in the online category was awarded for the first time. As in the previous year, a jury headed by President Peter Schellenberg and the heads of the specialist jury Catherine Duttweiler (print) Emanuel Freudiger (photo), Marius Egger (online), Denise Bolle (radio) and Oliver Kuhn (TV) selected the winners from the more than 100 entries submitted. The Aargau/Solothurn Media Prize is organized by the companies based in the two cantons and by the cantons of Aargau and Solothurn. The prize is intended to promote journalistic quality in local and regional reporting. (SDA)