Swiss Media Prize: The nominations
The 2014 Media Award ceremony will take place on April 25 at the Stadttheater Bern. The nominees have been announced.
On the same evening, journalist François Gross from French-speaking Switzerland will be honored with the Reinhard von Graffenried Lifetime Achievement Award for his life's work. With the Swiss Prize for Local Journalism Print, Online, Radio and TV, the Fondation Reinhardt von Graffenried honors media professionals who have made a special achievement in the fields of local journalism and press photography in Switzerland in 2013. The following media professionals from the three language regions have been nominated for the 2014 Swiss Media Prize:
Print - Mario Fuchs, Sophie Roselli, Samuel Tanner
Jury president Peter Rothenbühler
"In the asylum", by Mario Fuchs, published on 30.3.2013 in the St. Galler Tagblatt
Série de cinq articles sur le drame d'Adéline, by Sophie Roselli, published from 9.10.2013 in La Tribune de Genève
"Chaos phase on the A13", by Samuel Tanner, published on 10.11.2013 in Ostschweiz am Sonntag
Online - Marcel Gyr, Florian Ratz, Alexandra Wohlgensinger
Jury president Peter Hogenkamp
"50 years of Seegfrörni", by Marcel Gyr, published on 25.1.2013 on NZZ Online
"Rotblaulive - The season of FC Basel", by Florian Raz, published on 22.8.2013 on Tageswoche Online
Piz Bernina ascent series, by Alexandra Wohlgensinger, published from May 2013 on Engadinerpost.ch
Radio - Wilma Rall, Maurine Mercier, Curdin Vincenz
Jury president Patrick Nussbaum
"All will be well in ZuReich - 20 years of Wohlgroth clearance", by Wilma Rall, Dendung Stadtfilter broadcast on 25.11.2013, on Radio RaBE and Radio Lora
"Dans la peau des mécanos. Quand c'est trop, c'est trop !", by Maurine Mercier, broadcast on 24.8.2013, RTS La Première - Quinze Minutes
"Who owns the lakeshore?", by Curdin Vincenz, broadcast on 29.4.2013, Radio SRF1 - Rendez-vous am Mittag
TV - Simone Herrmann, Sophie Hostettler, Cecilla Mendoza
Jury president Mario Cortesi
"School class sends balloon into space", by Simone Herrmann, broadcast on 27.5.2013, TV SRF 1 - Schweiz aktuell
"The Jura conflict" - series in the run-up to the vote, by Sophie Hostettler, broadcast from 24.11.2013, TV Telebärn News
"Les nouvelles tendances de marketing politique", by Cecilla Mendoza, broadcast on 20.9.2013, TV RTS 1 - Couleurs locales
The nominated entries can be found at this link available.
Reinhardt von Graffenried Lifetime Achievement Award
Born in Lausanne in 1931, François Gross found his way into journalism at the beginning of the 1950s. He first worked as an editorial secretary at the newspaper La Gazette de Lausanne with Pierre Béguin, then became the French correspondent in Paris for four years before being appointed editor-in-chief of Téléjournal Romand, which was broadcast from Zurich at the time. Between 1970 and 1990, he shaped the Fribourg daily newspaper La Liberté with his direct and independent style as editor-in-chief. He then took over Radio Schweiz International in Bern, became president of the association Reporters sans frontières and taught at the Institute of Journalism at the University of Fribourg. The 83-year-old thoroughbred journalist lives in Fribourg and still writes regular columns for the online portal Sept.info.
