Winners Swiss Press Award 2022
27.04.2022
This year’s Swiss media awards are shared between one German-speaking Swiss, two French-speaking Swiss, and two teams from German-speaking Switzerland. Denis Balibouse is the Swiss Press Photographer of the year and Mattias Greuter is the Swiss Press Journalist of the Year.
The Swiss Press Awards 2022 were held by the Reinhardt von Graffenried Foundation on Wednesday 27 April, at the University of Bern. The Rhaeto-Romance musician Pascal Gamboni premiered the Swiss Press Song 22 “in eroplan”,which he had composed especially for the occasion.
The award ceremony was streamed live from the University of Bern at http://www.swisspressaward.ch and on youtube, where it can still be viewed.
The winners are: Mattias Greuter (Swiss Press Text), Joana Kelén, Fabian Baumgartner, Franco Gervasi and Linda Koponen (Swiss Press Online), This Wachter, Patrick Imhasly, Theres Lüthi and Simon Meyer (Swiss Press Audio),François Ruchti (Swiss Press Video), Simon Gabioud (Swiss Press Local) and Denis Balibouse (Swiss Press Photo).
Winners Swiss Press Award 2022 (PDF)
For their outstanding work each of the six award winners was presented with a Diamond trophy and the sum of CHF 15,000. The 2nd and 3rd prizes in all categories received 3,000 and 1,000 respectively. The category winners of the Swiss Press Photo each received CHF 3,000. The Journalist of the Year and the Photographer of the Year left the stage with 25,000 each.
The Reinhardt von Graffenried Foundation was established as an independent organisation with the aim of promoting Swiss journalism.
The Swiss Press Yearbook in four languages, showcasing the work of the award-winning journalists along with Switzerland’s best press photos is being published by Steidl Verlag for the second time.
The exhibition “Swiss Press Photo 22” launches its national tour on 6 May 2022 in the Swiss National Museum in Zurich (6 May – 26 June), before moving on to the Bern Historical Museum (28 September – 30 October), then to the Château de Prangins (4 November 2022 – 26 February 2023) and to the Museo Castello Grande in Bellinzona (3 March – 26 April 2023).
The Swiss Press Song 2022 is by Rhaeto-Romance singer-songwriter Pascal Gamboni and is called “in eroplan”. The song is available to listen to here: In eroplan