Sid Ahmed Hammouche, 1970 - Swiss Press Award

Sid Ahmed Hammouche

1970

President of the Jury Swiss Press Local

Sid Ahmed Hammouche was born in Algiers in 1970. He studied literature, economic anthropology, and journalism at the University of Fribourg. For 11 years, he was a journalist for the Fribourg regional daily newspaper "La Liberté." Winner of the Nicolas Bouvier Prize in 2007, he produces regional reports and investigations in Switzerland and abroad. In 2013, he published the book "Attentat Express" on Syria with Editions du Seuil in Paris. He taught investigative and investigative techniques at the Academy of Journalism and Media at the University of Neuchâtel. A field journalist, Sid Ahmed Hammouche has also been a trainer at the Centre romand de formation des journalistes (CRFJ) in Lausanne. In 2013, he co-founded Sept.info, the Fribourg news website. Today, he works in the communications and media department of Migros in Zurich. He also makes documentary films.

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