Zurich Journalism Prize: Frank A. Meyer, Simone Rau, Mark Dittli and Alex Baur receive awards
Three outstanding journalistic works and the entire oeuvre of a journalist known beyond the country's borders receive the prestigious Zurich Journalism Prize 2014.
This year, the jury of the Zurich Journalism Prize honored three contributions that take up and comprehensively illuminate socio-political and economic issues. Simone Rau for her report "Der Mann, der sich zu Tode hungerte" published in the Tages-Anzeiger, Mark Dittli for his banking analysis "Die verpasste Chance" (Das Magazin) and Alex Baur for the interview with "Carlos" published in Weltwoche, "Ich möchte frei sein", received the Zurich Journalism Prize 2014. The Berlin-based journalist Frank A. Meyer was honored for his complete works.
At the award ceremony, which took place on Tuesday, 20 May 2014, at Kaufleuten Zurich, the jury honored the journalist and her three colleagues with one of the most important awards for journalistic texts in Switzerland in the presence of numerous prominent guests from business, media and politics. Rainer Esser, Managing Director of the successful Zeit-Verlag publishing house in Hamburg, gave the keynote speech. The French-Swiss duo "120 secondes" offered a high-level "intervention satirique". Andrea Masüger, Somedia CEO and President of the Zurich Journalism Prize Foundation, thanked Fredy Gsteiger for his many years of service as jury president. The deputy editor-in-chief of SRF Radio is now handing over this office to Hannes Britschgi, Head of the Ringier School of Journalism.
The Zurich Journalism Prize was awarded for the 34th time this year. Each of the prizes awarded is endowed with CHF 10,000. It is regarded as one of the most important prizes for journalistic work in Switzerland. Outstanding and groundbreaking work and complete works are honored, regardless of the form and channel through which they are distributed.
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