Local journalism without locals? (Swiss Press Local 2021, by Urs Bühler) - Swiss Press Award
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Print und online
Local
2021
Urs Bühler
The temporary closure of restaurants in 2020 presented many restaurateurs with existential challenges. The journalist, who has been a restaurant critic for his newspaper for 17 years, had a relatively trivial problem to solve: local journalism without restaurants! At least the weekly column never went away, even during the coronavirus pandemic, and perhaps offered some distraction in these gloomy times.
