Lucy Küng
Regula Bührer Fecker
Oscar Knapp
Sylvia Egli von Matt
Lucy Küng
© SRG SSR / Marcel Grubenmann
Chair, Professor of Media Innovation at the University of Oslo, Visiting Fellow at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford
Regula Bührer Fecker
© SRG SSR / Marcel Grubenmann
Communications expert, partner and founder of communication agency Rod Kommunikation, lecturer and speaker on the subjects of strategic planning and crossmedia at a number of Swiss educational institutions, Zurich
Oscar Knapp
© SRG SSR / Marcel Grubenmann
Former Swiss ambassador, former member of management at the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters, Federal Department of Finance, Scuol
Ombudswoman SWI
Sylvia Egli von Matt
Vice-president of the Federal Media Commission
In accordance with the SWI swissinfo.ch constitution, 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, Bern
Chok Woo
Engineer and manager, Bern
Marina Karlin
Publishing director, editor and journalist, Zurich
Cinzia Dal Zotto
Professor at the University of Neuchâtel
Urs Ziswiler
Diccon Bewes
Chok Woo
Marina Karlin
Cinzia Dal Zotto
We asked the members of the Public Council to answer the following two questions and to take a look back at 2017.
Discussions and meetings
The Public Council held three regular meetings in its new configuration in 2016. The joint meeting with the Committee of the SRG Board of Directors responsible for SWI swissinfo.ch was held in February. The new President, Urs Ziswiler, attended three meetings of the Committees of the various SRG Public Councils. Prior to the June meeting, the Council attended the meeting of all editorial staff, making three presentations at the event.
2017 | 2016 | 2015 | |
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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 |
Number of employees 2016 | % | Number of employees 2015 | % | |
Total | 106 | 100 | 102 | 100.0 |
Collective employment contract (CEA) | 91 | 85.8 | 91 | 89.2 |
Executive employees | 12 | 11.3 | 11 | 8.7 |
Temporary employees | 3 | 2.8 | 0 | 0.0 |
Men | 57 | 53.8 | 58 | 56.9 |
of which full-time employees | 28 | 26.4 | 28 | 27.5 |
of which part-time employees | 29 | 27.4 | 30 | 29.4 |
Women | 49 | 46.2 | 44 | 43.1 |
of which full-time employees | 11 | 10.4 | 15 | 14.7 |
of which part-time employees | 38 | 35.8 | 29 | 28.4 |
Total part-time employees | 67 | 63.2 | 59 | 57.8 |
Nationality: CH | 82 | 77.4 | 77 | 75.5 |
Nationality: EU | 13 | 12.3 | 15 | 14.7 |
Nationality: other | 11 | 10.4 | 10 | 9.8 |
Number of represented nations (without CH) | 13 | 14 | ||
Full-time positions | 85.3 | 84.6 |