Award recipients of the Prix Média and the Prix Média Newcomer

2023

2022

• Samuel Schläfli, Seraina Hügli und Lucas Pfister: «One Health - Mit neuem Gesundheitsverständnis gegen die nächste Pandemie», NZZ am Sonntag
• This Wachter, Theres Lüthi, Patrick Imhasly und Simon Meyer: Podcastserie «Skalpell und Wahn», NZZ am Sonntag
• Lucas Vimpere: «Les trésors cachés des montagnes libanaises», Prix Média Newcomer und SciencEscape

2021

• Martin Amrein: «Das Virus ist hier, um zu bleiben» , NZZ am Sonntag
• Arian Bastani: «Gerät das Stromnetz aus dem Gleichgewicht?», Republik
• Simone Pengue: «Forgotten Data: the Leftovers of Science / Dati dimenticati: gli scarti della scienza»

2020

Fabien Goubet and his team César Greppin (web), Paul Ronga (graphics) and Isabelle Boudjkhi (video) have won the Prix Média 2020 with their entry «Attraper une exoplanète, mode d'emploi», published on labs.letepms.ch on 17.12.2019. Goubet ventures into a very complex topic that is rarely addressed. Together with his team, he uses the technical, graphic and linguistic capabilities to make it accessible for a wide audience.

Michelle Isler won the Prix Média Newcomer 2020 with her article «Gender balance in the crisis» (in german). Isler analyzes the role of women in the Covid-19 pandemic on the basis of self-collected data. She shows how few appearances women have in the coverage of the Corona crisis and which stereotypes are formed in the process. The jury particularly appreciated the fact that Michelle Isler was willing to undertake an effort that many newsrooms are unable or unwilling to make.

2019

The freelance science journalist Mathias Plüss has won the Prix Média 2019 with his article «TUN SIE WAS! – eine Anleitung von A bis Z zur Rettung der Welt». The article in «Das Magazin» (No 13, 2019) runs to 20 pages: "Written in a journalistic and scientifically clean way with references - original, humorous and absolutely morality-free", is a conclusion of the prize jury.

2017

The winners of the Prix Média 2017 award are Jean-Daniel Bohnenblust and Sophie Gabus. The television journalists are awarded for their contribution Poisons, venins, toxines: les animaux qui soignent in the programme RTS 36.9°. Bohnenblust and Gabus show how new medicines could be developed with animal poisons and lead us to those laboratories where research is already underway into the medicines of the day after tomorrow. This insight is as new as it is surprising and brings a previously largely unnoticed topic into the public eye.

Alessandro Staehli from the nature magazine La Salamandre receives the Prix Média Newcomer award 2017. Staehli’s award-winning contribution is entitled Voyage au centre de la terre – an allusion to the adventure novel of the same name by Jules Verne. “His lively and multi-facetted dossier has shown us precisely the wonderful diversity of the soil,” says Felicitas Pauss, jury member and physicist at ETH Zurich, explaining the decision.

2016

The winner of the Prix Média 2016 is Lison Méric for the entry «J’entends des voix», RTS 36.9°, 16.12. 2015. She accepted the prize together with director Sarah Perrig at the Swiss Media Forum in Lucerne. The prizes were awarded on 23 September 2016 as part of the break session “Investigative Science Journalism”.

2015

The award winner 2015 is Anja Jardine with her article «Das letzte Terrain» (NZZ Folio 9/2014).