Media award to RTS contribution on animal poisons for medicines
Sophie Gabus and Jean-Daniel Bohnenblust from RTS television in French-speaking Switzerland receive this year's Prix Média of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. The prize is awarded for their contribution on animal toxins in drug development.
The prize is endowed with 5000 Swiss francs. In the report entitled "Poisons, venins, toxines: les animaux qui soignent" in the program "RTS 36,9°", which was selected from 52 entries submitted to the competition, Gabus and Bohnenblust look at the potential of animal poisons for drug production.
In a communiqué issued on Monday, the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences wrote that the report provides publicity for a topic that has so far gone largely unnoticed. The television journalists provide a new, surprising insight into laboratories where research is being conducted into the medicines of the future.
The Prix Média Newcomer 2017, also endowed with 5000 Swiss francs, was awarded to Alessandro Staehli of the magazine La Salamandre. His "Journey to the Center of the Earth" - alluding to the novel by Jules Verne was a "lively and multifaceted dossier" on the world of soil, the jury found.
For their part, the individual academies of the network award sponsorship prizes. The Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) awarded the projects "Mit ausgedrucktem Schnitzel gegen die Welternährungskrise" by Julia Richter with the first prize and "Moral für Roboter" by Florian Wüstholz with a promotional prize.
The awards were presented Monday evening at the Swiss School of Journalism MAZ in Lucerne. The Academies of Arts and Sciences award the Prix Média for outstanding achievements in science journalism to promote reporting on scientific topics. These can appear in print media, on radio and television or online. (SDA)
Photo: Academies-Switzerland.ch
