"Franzen lets people tell their stories - even where there is mistrust and words are chosen carefully," says editor-in-chief Marcus Hebein. "When you listen to the people Christof Franzen lets speak, you understand a lot of what is currently moving the world a little better. Perhaps even better than through a long political analysis of the New York Times. It is precisely with work like this that SRF proves what public service can achieve."
Franzen himself says in the interview: "My aim is to listen and understand - even when making critical statements. I'm not interested in arguing people into the ground."
In addition to the main category, voting took place in 14 other categories this year. The category winners 2025:
- Editor of the year: Echo of time
- Editor-in-Chief: Reza Rafi, SonntagsBlick
- Politics: Larissa Rhyn, Tages-Anzeiger
- Column: Philipp Loser, The magazine
- Reporter: Adrienne Fichter, Republic
- Economy: Lucia Theiler
- Company: Rafaela Roth, NZZ on Sunday
- Research: Fabian Eberhard, SonntagsBlick
- Culture: Nora Zukker, Tages-Anzeiger
- Local: Liliane Minor, Tages-Anzeiger
- Sports: Seraina Degen, SRF
- Newcomer: Aylin Erol, Watson
- Audio: Dominik Meier, SRF
- Photo: Dominik Nahr, NZZ
This year's vote was extremely popular: 1,163 people - mainly journalists and employees from the media industry - took part in the online vote. This is the highest number for many years. In addition, around 700 comments were received, mostly praising, but also critical. There was also a change in mode: for the first time, the average of the points awarded decided the ranking, rather than their total.
Susanne Lebrument is Media Manager of the Year
At the end of the year, "Journalist:in" also named the "Media Manager of the Year". This year, the editorial team chose Susanne Lebrument. "She fights like a lioness for her company," was a recurring theme in the research - even from critical quarters. With this award, "Journalist:in" honors a media manager who has shown great commitment to the continued existence of her family business in a difficult environment - sometimes using unusual methods.
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The industry magazine Swiss journalist:in annually determines which journalists have done exceptional work in the year. In the 2024 election, 1126 participants voted.
This year's winner was Susanne Brunner, foreign editor and head of the foreign desk at Radio SRF. "A very nice recognition after an extremely turbulent year in the Middle East and other regions of the world: not just for my work, but for SRF's foreign reporting," says Brunner about her award.
The Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 goes to Roger de Weck, Media Manager of the Year is Mark Dittli. In addition, 14 other journalists were honored in various categories. The winners are as follows:
- Editor-in-chief: Dominique Strebel (Observer)
- Politics: Philipp Loser (Tages-Anzeiger)
- Reporter: David Nauer (SRF)
- Economy: Reto Lipp (SRF)
- Research: Adrienne Fichter (Republic)
- Company: Mona Vetsch (SRF)
- Column: Anna Rosenwasser (Republic)
- Culture: Simone Meier (Watson)
- Sport: Florian Raz (Tamedia, from December View)
- Newcomer: Gina Bachmann (NZZ on Sunday)
- Local journalism: Simon Jacoby (Tsri.ch)
- Photo/Video: Laurent Gilliéron (Keystone-SDA)
- Audio/Radio: Salvador Atasoy (SRF)
- Editor of the year: Woz
The award ceremony will take place on March 24, 2025 at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich.
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The "Journalist of the Year" in Switzerland is Christof Gertsch. The reporter from the Magazine was selected in the election of the industry magazine Swiss journalist:in was voted into first place. In second place is Bigna Silberschmidt (SRF), third is Sacha Batthyany (NZZ on Sunday).
Christof Gertsch was already writing about sports at the age of 15. But he was hardly interested in the big, popular disciplines; his passion has always been the sideshows and fringe sports. Today, Gertsch no longer sees himself as a sports journalist. The 40-year-old is now considered one of the best reporters in the country. In an interview with the Swiss journalist:in Gertsch tells how he had to fight for space for his stories in his early days. When switching from the NZZ on Sunday to Magazine he initially felt completely overwhelmed. His journalistic work is impressive. It includes years of research for sensational reports and portraits, such as the "Magglingen Protocols," a portrait of Martina Hingis or, most recently, a story about an Antarctic glacier whose imminent collapse could have an impact on the entire climate development.
The participation in this election was enormous. 1,169 votes were cast and almost 1,500 comments were written. The scoring was determined in a point system. Each participant could award points between 0 and 10. The jury, which had previously drawn up the shortlist, included 50 media journalists, award winners from previous years, and media managers of the year.
The categories at a glance:
- Journalist of the Year: Christof Gertsch, The magazine
- Editor of the Year: WOZ (Florian Keller, Silvia Süess, Kaspar Surber)
- Reporter of the Year: Luzia Tschirky, SRF
- Political Journalist of the Year: Sandro Brotz, SRF
- Business Journalist of the Year: Patrizia Laeri, elleXX
- Investigative Journalist of the Year: Fabian Eberhard, SonntagsBlick
- Society Journalist of the Year: Daniel Ryser, Republic
- Sports Journalist of the Year: Christof Gertsch, The magazine
- Columnist of the Year: Patty Basler, NZZ on Sunday
- Cultural Journalist of the Year: Simone Meier, Watson
- Local Journalist of the Year: Liliane Minor, Tages-Anzeiger
- Photographer of the Year: Alessandro della Valle, Keystone-SDA
- Audio: Laura Bachmann, Mirja Gabathuler, Vivienne Kuster, Philipp Loser, Tages-Anzeiger (Podcast Speaking of)
- Video Journalist of the Year, Benno Kälin, TeleZüri
- Newcomer of the Year: Karin A. Wenger, freelance journalist
Gisela "Gila" Blau receives the award for her life's work: The 80-year-old impresses with her journalistic passion, diversity in topics and formats, and constant commitment. She worked for many years at the Swiss Illustrated, then among other things at the View, the Handelszeitung and with Focus.
The also by the editorship of the Swiss journalist:in special prize goes to Martina Fehr. She has only been head of the MAZ since 2020, but has developed the school of journalism with commitment and speed in this short time and is now one of the weighty voices in the Swiss media industry.
The award ceremony will take place on March 13 at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich. (sda)
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In an interview with the Swiss journalist:in Luzia Tschirky talks about her everyday life as a correspondent in Russia - and her abduction in Minsk earlier this year. The interview can also be found in the podcast "Entre Nous" on all common platforms. In second place was Italy correspondent Oliver Meiler from the Tages-Anzeiger, third place goes to Carlos Hanimann, Republic.
Editor-in-Chief of the Year is the Megafon collective from Bern's Reitschule, which received attention last year primarily for its dispute with Tamedia. Philipp Loser from the Magazine is columnist of the year. His editor Bruno Ziauddin describes how a good column works - and why Loser meets these specifications so precisely. Hanspeter Bäni is Video Journalist of the Year. He receives the award shortly before his retirement. Christof Gertsch and Mikael Krogerus were voted Reporters of the Year by a wide margin. Newcomer of the Year is Petar Marjanovic from Watson. There were numerous comments on all the nominees, some of which are published unchanged in the current issue of Swiss journalist:in presents.
This is how the 1280 participants* voted this year:
- Journalist of the Year: Luzia Tschirky, SRF
- Editor-in-Chief of the Year: Kollektiv Megafon, Megafon
- Reporter of the Year: Christof Gertsch and Mikael Krogerus, The magazine
- Political Journalist of the Year: Oliver Washington, SRF
- Business Journalist of the Year: Olivia Kühni, Republic
- Research Journalist of the Year: Adrienne Fichter, Republic
- Society Journalist of the Year: Sacha Batthyany, NZZ on Sunday
- Sports Journalist of the Year: Mämä Sykora, Twelve
- Column of the Year: Philipp Loser, The magazine
- Cultural Journalist of the Year: Andreas Tobler, Tages-Anzeiger
- Local Journalist of the Year: Samuel Burgener, Valais Messenger
- Newcomer of the Year: Petar Marjanovic, Watson
- Audio Journalist of the Year, Susanne Brunner, SRF
- Video Journalist of the Year, Hanspeter Bäni, SRF
The report published by the editors of the Swiss journalist:in The special award goes to the Social Responsibility Board of 20 minutes.
Due to the current pandemic situation, the planned award ceremony has been postponed from January to spring.
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In a broad voting process, the industry magazine "Schweizer Journalist" determined which media professionals had done exceptional work in 2020. The trio of journalists Fiona Endres, Nicole Vögele and Anielle Peterhans wins the main prize by a large margin in this year's "Journalist of the Year" election. The jury agrees that Crypto-Leaks is one of the biggest investigations of recent years. Together with colleagues from the Second German Television ZDF and the Washington Post, they revealed the background of one of the biggest intelligence stories in recent Swiss history.
The category titles also all went to women, with one exception:
- Editor-in-Chief of the Year: Nicole Meier, Keystone-SDA
- Reporter of the Year: Sarah Serafini, Watson
- Sports Journalist of the Year: Mämä Sykora, Twelve
- Research Journalist of the Year: Adrienne Fiechter, Republic
- Social Journalist of the Year: Barbara Bleisch, "Sternstunde Philosophie" SRF
- Political Journalist of the Year: Nathalie Christen, SRF
- Business Journalist of the Year: Olivia Kühni, Republic
- Columnist of the Year: Nina Kunz, The magazine
- Cultural Journalist of the Year: Simone Meier, Watson
- Newcomer of the year: Ronja Beck, Republic
The report published by the editors of the Swiss journalist goes to Tamedia's research desk. The meticulous chronology of the first lockdown, published in book form, reads like a thriller.
The editors have chosen the following as "Local Heroes": Sophie Reinhardt (The Covenant), Matieu Klee (SRF Regionaljournal Basel), Simon Jacoby (Tsüry.ch), Denise Erni (Southeast Switzerland), Simon Mathis (Lucerne Newspaper), Isabel Zumofen (Canal 9) and Lillo Alaimo (Il Caffè).
The industry magazine Swiss journalist honors outstanding journalists for their work in ten categories every year. This year, around 900 Swiss journalists took part in the online voting. The current issue of Schweizer Journalist will be published on Wednesday.
For her work, the 45-year-old native of Biel received the attributes "serious, unagitated, critical, reflective and authentic," as the industry magazine Swiss journalist announced on Tuesday. Cimmino has worked for Swiss Radio since 2004.
The journalists voted Maurice Thiriet from the online portal Watson. Thiriet received around a third of the votes. Around 800 people took part in the online survey.
Projer has made "Arena" more politicized again by making the selection of guests more controversial, the magazine justified its choice, according to an SRF media release on Thursday. He is so confident as a presenter that he can also afford to make excursions into infotainment.
In addition to Projer, other SRF journalists took the top spots in their respective categories: For example, "10vor10" anchor Susanne Wille was named Political Journalist of the Year, and Middle East correspondent Pascal Weber took the title of Reporter of the Year.
According to its own information on Thursday, the online portal Watson.ch can also be pleased about prizes: For example, its culture journalist Simone Meier was chosen as columnist of the year, and sports journalist of the year is Klaus Zaugg.
Lukas Hässig of "Inside Paradeplatz" is the business journalist of the year, former war reporter Kurt Pelda won in the research category, and the resigning editor-in-chief was named editor-in-chief of the year. NZZ on SundayEditor-in-Chief Felix E. Müller was elected. The Tages-Anzeiger-editors Jean-Martin Büttner and Michèle Binswanger came out on top in the culture and society categories.
The election of the journalists of the year by the Swiss journalist took place for the 13th time. According to watson.ch, a total of 1,200 readers cast their votes in an online poll. (SDA)
Zeit editor Teuwsen received the most votes in the eighth edition of the award, according to a statement. Teuwsen had "established a new voice in political discourse with the Swiss pages of Zeit er" and thus stood for "quality journalism," it said in the reasons given by those who voted. A total of 1012 participants took part in the election. A preliminary jury had put 14 candidates to the vote. Teuwsen has headed the Swiss pages of Die Zeit since the end of 2008 and is also the paper's correspondent.
Second place went to Jonas Projer, Brussels correspondent for Swiss television, for his "exemplary reporting on the EU debt crisis. Third place went to Kurt Pelda, one of the few journalists from Switzerland who "courageously and fearlessly went to Syria to see what was happening on the ground. His articles appear mainly in Weltwoche.
Hansi Voigt of 20 Minuten online was voted Editor-in-Chief of the Year. Newcomer of the Year is Joiz presenter Gülsha Adilji. All other categories and rankings can be found in the magazine Schweizer Journalist, which will be published these days.
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Engeler was elected by an "unusually large margin," according to a statement. The 61-year-old had caused a stir with research on the SVP's candidate for the Federal Council in Zurich, Bruno Zuppiger. Zuppiger eventually withdrew his candidacy. Two TV journalists from the consumer program "Kassensturz" made it to second place: Ursula Gabathuler and Roger Müller. They were honored for their research into the Coop meat scandal. Freelance journalist Hanspeter Guggenbühl was named third best journalist for his reporting on the nuclear phase-out and energy issues.
In addition to "Journalist of the Year", the best were selected in various categories: as best political journalist was also awarded to Urs Paul Engeler. Reto Lipp from Swiss Television (SF) received the prize of the best business journalistsKarin Wenger (Swiss Radio DRS), those of the best reporter. Go to best editor in chief was Susan Boos of the weekly newspaper. Best cultural journalist is Jean-Martin Büttner (Tages-Anzeiger). The "Newcomer of the Year" is Jonas Projer, SF foreign correspondent in Brussels. This category includes journalists who are under 30 years old. To "Sports Journalist of the Year was won by Fredy Wettstein (Tages-Anzeiger/Sonntags-Zeitung), while the prize for best science journalist went to Reto U. Schneider (NZZ Folio). In the category "Columnist of the Year" Kurt W. Zimmermann (Weltwoche) received the most votes.
More than 1,500 media professionals took part in the online vote.
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