Michael Marti

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The Swiss journalist and digital expert Michael Marti in a portrait from 2019
Michael Marti (2019)

Michael Marti (born March 21, 1966 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss journalist and digital expert. He has been a member of the Tamedia editorial team since 2013 .

Life

After completion of the baccalaureate at the Cantonal School Aarau in 1986 studied Marti at the University of Zurich German , journalism and social and economic history . In 1994 he completed this with a licentiate degree in phil . from (Licentiate thesis: The Baby-Ficker-Debate: Scandalization and Reception of a Literary Text ).

Marti, father of two daughters, lives with his family in Zurich.

job

Parallel to her studies, Marti worked as a freelance journalist from 1992, including for Das Magazin and Facts , and from 1997 as a reporter for the latter. In 2002 he moved to NZZ am Sonntag and then returned to Facts in 2004 to head the culture and society departments, and from 2006 as a member of the editor-in-chief.

From 2008 to 2013 Marti was deputy editor-in-chief of Newsnetz , from 2013 head of Newsnet and a member of the editorial board of Tages-Anzeiger and SonntagsZeitung . In 2015, he enrolled in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism's Lede 12 program , a four-month program in programming and data journalism. Since 2018 Marti has been a member of the Tamedia editor-in-chief, which produces the content for all newspapers in the publishing portfolio.

Marti has implemented numerous innovation projects for Tamedia-Verlag, such as setting up the storytelling team and the web video unit, or developing the 12 app launched in 2015 and has since won several awards. In 2017, together with the television journalist Vivian Manz, he launched the Swiss Youth Media Week YouNews, an initiative to promote media literacy among young people, supported by all major publishers and Swiss television.

In addition, Marti teaches as a lecturer for online journalism at various journalism schools, such as the School for Applied Linguistics in Zurich (since 2010) and regularly publishes articles on the digital transformation in journalism .

Prizes and awards

  • 2003 Zurich Journalism Prize
  • 2017 Award of Excellence at the European Newspaper Congress for the # 12 app from Tamedia AG

Publications

Article (selection)

Non-fiction

  • together with Peter Wälty: James Bond and Switzerland . Realtime Verlag, Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3905800203 .

Web links

Commons : Michael Marti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

credentials

  1. ↑ Marcus Klöckner: "The journalism crisis is a journalist crisis". Interview with Michael Marti, member of the editor-in-chief of the Tages-Anzeiger. In: Telepolis . August 14, 2017. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Author: Michael Marti. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. Tamedia AG, accessed on July 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ "Swiss journalists are too skeptical about technology". Interview with Michael Marti. In: michaelmartiblog. July 4, 2015, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ sda / maw: Tamedia. Editorial innovation should be strengthened. In: persoenlich.com. December 19, 2017. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Edith Hollenstein: Tages-Anzeiger: "Projects of this complexity require a certain humility". Interview with Michael Marti. In: persoenlich.com. February 5, 2014, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  6. ^ Christian Beck, Edith Hollenstein: Tages-Anzeiger. Is this article worth reading? In: persoenlich.com. April 10, 2017. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Michael Marti: On our own behalf: The stories of the day on the new 12 app. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. Tamedia AG, October 12, 2015, accessed on July 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ YouNews. Young people do media. In: interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch. Tamedia, accessed July 18, 2019 .
  9. ↑ All winners. In: http://zh-journalistenpreis.ch . Zurich Journalist Prize Foundation, accessed on July 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Marti, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and digital expert
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne