Online reports
OnlineReports.ch is an Internet news portal from Basel that primarily publishes regional research, news and comments. They are published by research journalist Peter Knechtli , who is also editor-in-chief and looks after a team of 15 freelance journalists and columnists .
The media landscape in Basel was devoid of controversy for years. Since 1977 the Basler Zeitung has had a de facto monopoly in regional journalism. Critical Basel residents repeatedly complained about this situation. A competing newspaper could not be realized due to a lack of investors.
Peter Knechtli saw the Internet as an opportunity to attack the Basler Zeitung's monopoly - even without the support of a publisher or investor. In 1997 it went online as a laboratory test with the Peter Knechtli Reports , an independent low-budget medium. This makes the website the “oldest and commercially independent Internet news site in Switzerland”. A year later the project was renamed OnlineReports.ch .
OnlineReports.ch has 920,000 visits and over 2.1 million page views every year . The journalistic work, including some primeurs, is often taken up by the competition. The editorial team cultivates the image of frenzied reporters and takes sides for responsibility, sustainable energy production, human rights, indigenous peoples. The focus is on news, background information and comments from the Basel region, but also from the international world if necessary. Columns and theater reviews by well-known authors complete the offer.
OnlineReports.ch is financed exclusively through the market economy, mainly through self-acquired advertising. In addition, there is a research fund fed by readers, from which services (news, research, interviews, reports) by independent journalists are financed.
In 2007 and 2008, Knechtli was named “Swiss Journalist of the Year” in the local journalism category.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ In: Telebasel . February 20, 2007 (quoted from Medien-Echo OnlineReports ). Retrieved May 21, 2009.
- ^ Biography Peter Knechtli. In: online reports. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .