"The IT department is designed to be agile, and that is how we want to develop and improve continually. Our work provides the technical framework allowing SWI swissinfo.ch to offer professional reporting to a worldwide readership."
Hubert Zumwald
Head of IT
FOREWORD TO THE2016 ANNUAL REPORT
We are often asked how SWI swissinfo.ch (SWI) selects its topics. And given the almost endless torrent of information, it's a fair question. In the past media professionals thought they knew what readers wanted and needed, and they made their own decisions about what to report on. But those times are gone. Today empirical analysis, together with user surveys and comments, makes it possible to identify public preferences with a relatively high degree of precision.
IN CONVERSATION WITH LARISSA M. BIELER
"Switzerland has strong global interrelationships: it shapes foreign countries, it exercises influence, it depends on foreign countries – journalistically we have to position ourselves more strongly"
SWI swissinfo.ch Committee
Regula Bührer Fecker
SWI swissinfo.ch Committee
Lucy Küng
SWI swissinfo.ch Committee
Oscar Knapp
Ombudswoman SWI
Sylvia Egli von Matt
SWI swissinfo.ch 360°
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"TWITTERVIEW" WITH BALZ RIGENDINGER
Chief Editor for Switzerland
"Our work is an important element in ensuring the transparency of our operational value transfers, and of our productivity. This allows us to continue targeting our services for maximum effect."
Peter Zschaler
Head of Finances and Controlling, Dep. Director
WHAT DOESSWI SWISSINFO.CHACTUALLY DO?
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The Public Council of SWI swissinfo.ch looks back at 2017
We asked the members of the Public Council to answer the following two questions and to take a look back at 2017.
- Why was the ten-language platform swissinfo.ch particularly important in 2017?
- What was an editorial highlight or an especially interesting report for you on www.swissinfo.ch?
Tell the story!
Introducing the Multimedia team
Kayaking, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing are just a few of the winter activities the Swiss are supporting in the Central ...
At SWI swissinfo.ch we like to explore new ways of untangling Swiss politics for our audience abroad. Here video journalist ...
When and where the next avalanche will happen is hard to predict. In a special cold laboratory in Davos, researchers simulate the ...
In October, Swiss voters elect their political representatives for the next four-year term. Parliament is made up of two chambers to ...
Just like in alpine Switzerland, there is also a ski industry in the high mountains of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia, and it's getting some ...
In a special live recording of the Inside Geneva podcast, host Imogen Foulkes was joined by experts in conflict resolution to ...
Solar irradiance provides heat and light for life. It waxes and wanes with the cycle of solar activity, which currently cannot be ...
Cate Riley has flown to Switzerland from Australia on a mission to discover her Swiss roots. SWI swissinfo.ch joined her and her ...
The small city of Davos in southeastern Switzerland, located at an altitude of 1560m above sea level in the Swiss Alps, attracted ...
Livia Leu, Switzerland's chief negotiator with the European Union, has been talking about the challenges ahead in 2023, ...
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SWI Highlights 2017
SWI swissinfo.ch Audience Council
In accordance with the SWI swissinfo.ch swisconstitution, the Public Council ensures close contact between the programme managers and the audience.
The Public Council advises the managers in all programme matters and monitors and supports programme work with observations, suggestions and ideas. It regularly evaluates the development, organization and success of the international mandate in terms of quality, relevance, variety and uniqueness.
Urs Ziswiler, President of the Public Council
Former ambassador (Canada, USA, Spain), member of the Board of Directors and member of various committees since 2013, Zurich
Diccon Bewes, Vice-president
author and bookseller, Berne
Chok Woo
Engineer and manager, Berne
Marina Karlin
Publishing director, editor and journalist, Zurich
Cinzia dal Zotto
Professor at the University of Neuchâtel
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"Switzerland as it lives and functions. We explain our country for a foreign-based audience. The Swiss Department produces unbiased, in-depth, non-sensational items on key issues and events from Switzerland."
Balz Rigendinger
Head of the Swiss Department
THE OSA ANDSWI SWISSINFO.CH
A summary byAriane Rustichelli,Director of the OSA
Key figures
| 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating result (CHF 1'000) | 13 | -216 | 0 |
| Total expenditure (CHF 1'000) | 18'807 | 18'817 | 17'732 |
| Total return (CHF 1'000) | 18'820 | 18'601 | 17'732 |
| Financing SWI swissinfo.ch | |||
| Proportion SRG SSR (in %) | 49.9 | 51.3 | 50.0 |
| Proportion Confederation (in %) | 49.9 | 48.5 | 49.5 |
| Proportion SWI swissinfo.ch (in %) | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| Investments (CHF 1'000) | 377 | 189 | 310 |
| Proportion of turnover committed to investment (in %) | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1.7 |
| Depreciation (CHF 1'000) | 370.0 | 478.0 | 505.0 |
| Equity capital (CHF 1'000) | 1'466 | 1'453 | 1'669 |
| Provision (CHF 1'000) | 630 | 1'345 | 581 |
| Full-time positions | 85 | 85 | 85 |
| Salary increase (in %) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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