SWI swissinfo.ch recognised at quality journalism awards

SWI swissinfo.ch has won a prize in the “science and environment” category of an annual award organised by Swiss magazine Private. In a statement on Thursday, the jury at the prize said that “swissinfo has played an important role for many years in promoting our democracy and societal cohesion”. The daily, 10-language reporting of SWI swissinfo.ch on Swiss politics, economics, science, culture and society helps to give visibility to Switzerland in the world, said SWI Director Larissa Bieler. “If Switzerland wants to be seen and understood in a globalised and digital world, it needs a source of comprehensive and comparative reporting about and from Switzerland,” she said. The value of SWI swissinfo.ch was once described by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper as a “weapon of soft power” which no other media was able to offer. Promoting quality The awards ceremony took place in Zurich on May 24. Organisers said that some 400 journalists had been nominated across six categories.