SRG: Large contingent in Locarno

According to the report, almost a quarter of the Swiss journalists enrolled on August 5 work at an SRG station - most of them at SRF and RSI. It is "as little as possible and as much as necessary" to fulfill the journalistic mission with "hard work in the four national languages," as SRF spokesman Daniel Steiner justifies the considerable number of accredited journalists to the NZZ am Sonntag. The festival is also an industry meeting, he said, with countless working sessions held with producers, directors, screenwriters, distributors and trade associations, as well as film funders. The festival has been running since Wednesday. A total of 962 journalists from 41 countries are accredited. (NZZaS/hae)