Journalist of the year 2020 – winners, placements, comments

The great ranking of journalists 2020 – watson obtained two categories

Each year, the industry magazine “Schweizer Journalist” determines the best journalists in the country in an audience vote. Three SRF journalists win the main category, Watson wins in two categories.

By the end of the year, almost 1,000 media professionals vote online to vote for the best and most influential Swiss journalists. The contest is organized by the industry magazine “Schweizer Journalist”. A preliminary jury composed of 40 industry representatives nominates the candidates. Notable this year: women won nine out of ten categories.

watson publishes the winners of the respective categories of the 2020 ranking:

Journalists of the year

SRF is back in the top spot. After “Echo der Zeit” host Nicoletta Cimmino won the main category last year, this year she is in Trio of journalists from the SRF “Rundschau” program on the first podium.

The verdict is clear: 43.5 percent of the votes went to the online voting of the “Swiss journalist” Fiona Change, Nicole Vögele and Anielle Peterhans. Together with colleagues from the Second German Television (ZDF) and the Washington Post, they revealed the background to one of the most important secret service stories in recent Swiss history. The American and German secret service owned Crypto AG. And the latter delivered the encryption devices to everyone.

Editor-in-chief of the year

In editor-in-chief of the year, the category goes up Nicole Meier, Editor-in-chief of Keystone-SDA, last year’s winner and editor-in-chief of Watson, Maurice Thiriet. Meier wins with a 2.1 percent advantage. The journalist’s job is described as keeping the editorial team “on the move, despite meager finances.”

Reporter of the year

In the “Reporter of the Year” category, Watson reporter Sarah Serafini took first place. She inspires other media professionals with her “attractive writing style” and modern, well-lit themes, says the “Schweizer Journalist.”

Cultural Journalist of the Year

A journalist from Watson also wins in the culture category. This is not the first time that Simone Meier has won the award. She wins with 34 percent of the online vote. “Nobody writes nicer texts about culture and trash TV”, someone describes his work.

Politjournalistin des Jahres

The victories with 30.7 percent of the online votes SRF– Federal Correspondent Nathalie Christians. Christen has been reporting for SRF for just over four years. And he always does it “calmly, authentically and always with a bit of mischief”, write his colleagues.

Business Journalist of the Year

Olivia kühni, Journalist at the republic, wins gold with 31.7 percent of the vote. Kühni has worked as a journalist for more than ten years and writes mainly on political and economic topics. They manage to whet an appetite for dry topics, says the “Swiss journalist”.

Columnist of the Year

Little girl Kunzwho for the «Magazine»Of the« Tages-Anzeiger »writes, it wins by a wide margin in the column category. “Great entertainment value, full texts, difficult topics are not left out,” her colleagues write about her.

Sports Journalist of the Year

As the only man in the ten categories wins Mother Sykora from swiss football magazine Twelve the award for the best sports journalist of the year. “There is only one person who REALLY lives, loves and transmits football,” says Sykoras Berufsgspändli about him.

Journalistin des Jahres

the republicJournalist Adrienne Fichter wins first place in the research category with 33.8 percent of online votes. “You can finally read topics from the tech scene,” they praise her.

Society Journalist of the Year

The philosopher Barbara Bleischwho have been regularly running the SRF– moderated the debate program “Sternstunde Philosophie”, ranked first in the Society category. Bleisch succeeded in making philosophy a widely known subject, he says in the “Schweizer Journalist.”

Young Journalist of the Year

In the Newcomer category, young journalist Ronja Beck, who writes for “Republik,” took first place. Win with 27.9 percent of online votes. “You can write about anything you can eat before breakfast,” is how Becks Berufsgspändli describes his writing.

The special award given by the editors of the “Schweizer Journalist” goes to the K search of Tamedia. The meticulous chronology of the first confinement, published in book form, looks like a thriller. As you read, one inevitably wonders why so few lessons were learned from the events of that time and why we are at a similar point today.

TO “Local Heroes»You have chosen the editors: Sophie Reinhardt (“The waistband”), Matieu Klee (SRF Regional Journal Basel), Simon Jacoby (Tsüry.ch), Denise Erni (“Southeastern Switzerland”), Simon Mathis (“Luzerner Zeitung”), Isabel Oven (“Channel 9”) and Lillo Alaimo (“The coffee”).

(bed / sda)