The big winner of the German television price in 2020 – all. Because in addition to the usual prices has chosen the Jury for the Corona-reporting of the channel award. In the category “Best Information,” said the jury Chairman Wolf Bauer, awarded a special prize for outstanding achievements in the Corona-reporting. He was going to “channel across to the editors of the news and in-depth special consignments”.
And so will be awarded: “Tagesschau”, “Tagesthemen”, the “ARD extra: The Corona location”, “RTL aktuell” and the “RTL night journal”, the “n-tv Corona-reporting”, the “Pro Seven special Corona-Update”, the “satellite.1 Breakfast television. Together through the crisis”, “today”, “today journal” and the “international journal of special Corona Global” in the ZDF. As price-makers on behalf of their editors called the Chief editors and editors-in-chief of the consignments.
The Corona-crisis, so the Jury-chief, Bauer said, “the information needs of the people and how credible journalism can help to find orientation.” With their excellent reporting, the journalists had demonstrated “that the traditional television is for the majority of the people are still the most important window to the world, the connection and participation in the events and to the Emergence of a critical Public to contribute”.
in addition, is the winner in the category of Information Marietta Slomka as the”Best presenter”, the award for “Best Infotainment” goes to “Lesch’s talk on the cosmos” (ZDF), the “Best documentary/Reportage” to “The Story in the First: The sinister Power of the consultants” for the “Best sports broadcast” to “The Finals – Berlin 2019” (ARD/RBB/ZDF).
