ING-Diba features three outstanding print articles from
Frankfurt - The decision has been made, the winner of the tender at the Helmut Schmidt Prize for Journalism 2007, the ING-Diba fixed. In a total of 90 applicants chose the star-studded panel of three print-posts that despite all the differences of a public : They really light up familiar themes from unusual perspectives.
Winner: Gabor Steingart for his in the "Spiegel" (37/2006), published cover story "world war for wealth." This points to the journalist and author, how to move under the influence of globalization, power and wealth. His findings: Asia stockings, while the work force of Europeans would devalued millions. In contrast, the West must resist in order not to fail.
share this year, two journalists in second place:
for his contribution "price war in the Bückzone" shall Reto U. Schneider, second prize. In his published in NZZ Folio Article, he gives the readers as well founded as entertaining insights into the world of sales psychology. He explains, among other things interfere, which is why fruits and vegetables in supermarkets are always at the entrance, why Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" force the purchase of expensive wines, and why men when shopping.
also secured the second prize, Robert von Heusinger for his open letter to the "beloved country." In an unusual journalistic form, it proves that the pension is too complicated: "There are around 3400 Riester products in Germany and tens of thousands of consultants." Be published in the "Time" article appeared in the appeal: "Please, let's not alone."
Ein dritter Preis wurde in diesem Jahr von der Jury nicht vergeben.
Mit der nach dem früheren Bundeskanzler benannten Preis zeichnet die ING-DiBa seit 1996 jährlich herausragende Beispiele für kritischen Wirtschafts- und Verbraucherjournalismus aus. Die Preise werden am 22. November in Anwesenheit von Helmut Schmidt in Hamburg überreicht.
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