Due to the current tense epidemiological situation, the organizers of the "Fachjournalismus Schweiz" conference have decided to postpone the event, which was scheduled for this Thursday, until spring 2022. The association regrets this decision and the short-term cancellation very much, as it says in a message of Tuesday. The program would have been extremely exciting and informative.
The organizers will try to transfer the program to the new date as much as possible. The new date will be communicated as soon as possible.
In this context, the organizers cancel the SFJ Award 2021. The prize will still be awarded - the winners will be contacted individually by the association and informed about their result and the prize they won.
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Presenting complex interrelationships in a way that is comprehensible and appropriate for the media and the target group is a constant challenge for authors in the trade media. Not only solid factual knowledge and stylistically confident language are important prerequisites for successful articles in trade journals or trade magazines. The structuring and thematic approach also require professional skills. And an online publication requires further skills such as interactivity and integration of third-party content for a web-friendly implementation. With the SFJ Award, which will be presented for the eighth time in 2021, the association rewards precisely such achievements.
New in French and with online category
The prize will be awarded in four categories for the first time in 2021. The best German- or French-language article in a print or online medium will be selected. The competition is open to specialist authors who have published their article, for which they are solely responsible, in a German- or French-language specialist medium - trade journal or magazine, website, blog or e-magazine - between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 2021. A German- and a French-language jury will evaluate the competence of the presentation of facts, the pointing out of connections, the reader or user guidance, the media- and target group-oriented presentation as well as the elegance and correctness of the linguistic expression.
Submission until end of August
The technical articles can still be downloaded until the end of August via the website Sfj-ajs.ch/sfj-award be submitted. The award ceremony will take place on Thursday, December 2, 2021 at the SFJ conference "Specialized Journalism Switzerland" in Zurich. Participation in the competition is free of charge. Prizes worth a total of 2,500 Swiss francs await.
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In order to protect the members - especially those who belong to the Corona risk group - the General Assembly and the related award will be held via livestream. SFJ will send all members the documents with the possibility to vote in writing in the coming days. The AGM will be held via Zoom on September 18, 2020 from 4pm to approximately 5pm.
The Call for entries for the SFJ Award 2020 The best technical articles are being sought, three of which will be awarded prizes at the General Meeting. There are prizes worth 2500 Swiss francs to be won.
Trade journalists are confronted with special challenges: They prepare topics for a generally well-informed audience that has high expectations. Therefore, they have to go into depth in their work - but at the same time make sure to write elegantly and pleasingly.
Every year, the Swiss Federation of Professional Journalists (SFJ) honors those authors who have found particularly innovative or artful answers to the aforementioned challenges. This will also be the case on November 20, 2019 at the Sihl-City Center.
What challenges do architecture and engineering firms face when project entries are increasingly made as BIM models, i.e. when they have to use the "Building Information Modeling" method? This question was addressed by journalist Judith Solt in the magazine TEC21 and secured first place in the SFJ Awards with her article.
According to the jury, the author has succeeded in "elaborating in an outstanding way how momentous this upheaval is - and how little it has been able to shake up the planning industry so far. The extensive text remains clear at all times thanks to its transparent structure; readers are consistently led from aspect to aspect by apt intertitles, and the author does not shy away from pointed statements ("The heads are deep in the sand").
This is what winners look like: The winners of the SFJ Awards 2019 Markus Gehrig, Judit Solt and Carmen Hocker (from left) .
The contribution in Bioterrawith which Carmen Hocker won second place at the SFJ Awards, is dedicated to The richly illustrated article is devoted to the "multifaceted interrelationship between plant and pollinator". Such a zoological-botanical topic in a magazine aimed at people "who take care of their garden and balcony biologically and close to nature with pleasure, enjoyment and out of love for the environment" (homepage) requires a mediation strategy that ensures illustration, a depth of explanation appropriate to the target group as well as usefulness without under-challenging readers with more technical knowledge.
According to the jury, the author had solved this task in an exemplary manner. She explained technical terms such as "signal amplification", "mimicry" or "food deception flower" in an easily comprehensible way and illustrated them with examples and precise illustrations. In addition, she had consulted two experts for explanations, who knew how to formulate in layman's language.
Third place went to Markus Gehrig with an article in the magazine Electrical engineeringThe more electric vehicles are in operation, the more electrical planners have to think about cost-effective basic installations, for example in underground garages. Gehrig explains what needs to be considered in his technical text. And to provide practical help to the reading public, he has made extensive calculations of his own on charging duration and performance, the results of which are presented in tabular overviews.
This impressed the award jury: "The simple but effective structuring and the enrichment of the main text with numerous modules (explanatory graphics, glossary, tables, explanatory box, list of sources and references) help to process the concentrated information - no wonder, this specialist journalist also works as an instructor at a higher technical college," they said in their statement.
The jury selected Sellin's contribution "Quantum Leaps for Electricity Storage" (PDF), which was published in the journal Electrical engineering 4/2018 was awarded top marks.
Coen Kaat follows in second place. His contribution "Myth of Artificial Intelligence" (Link) is published in a multimedia version and abridged in the IT magazine Web Week 2/2018 published.
This year, third place goes to Nadine Kahnt for her contribution on the Aubrugg combined heat and power plant in Zurich (PDF), published in Phoenix unique #30.