SF: Karin Bauer to be new foreign correspondent for New York
The successor to New York correspondent Arthur Honegger is Karin Bauer. She will take over from him effective January 1, 2012. Honegger, who has been reporting from New York for three and a half years, will become the correspondent in Washington starting in 2012.
Born in 1969, Karin Bauer has been working at Swiss Television since 1994. After graduating from high school, the Zurich native took her first steps as a journalist in print and radio. From 1992 to 1994, she completed the Ringier School of Journalism and then went to work for Swiss Television. From 1994, she worked for two years as a journalist at "Kassensturz" and from 1996 as a journalist and reporter at "Rundschau". In 2008, she became a producer for "Rundschau" and a documentary filmmaker for "Dok" and "Reporter". Karin Bauer's latest "Dok: Der Asylchef und die Nigerianer" was nominated for the European Civis Media Award and the journal Schweizer Journalist awarded her second best journalist of the year in 2010.
