L'Hebdo receives Ringier Media Prize 2006

The French-speaking Swiss news magazine L'Hebdo received the Ringier Media Prize on Thursday - in recognition of the Bondy Blog. In the Bondy Blog, members of the L'Hebdo editorial team reported on the riots in France. The editors had settled in the Parisian suburb of Bondy for several months and reported on the youth riots in the blog "with great commitment and expertise", as Ringier writes in a press release. Ringier awards the media prize annually to its own media professionals. L'Hebdo receives prize money of CHF 15,000. The Bondy Blog, which is being continued with interested young people from the Paris banlieu, will also be supported with an equal amount.
Ringier also presented an internal Photo Award for the first time: The winners were Horia Calaceanu and Darius Mitrache from Romania and Miklos Teknös from Hungary.