Point (journalist award)

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The PUNKT is a German journalism award that recognizes special achievements in the field of technical journalism. The prize has been awarded annually by acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering - since 2005 . With the award of the prize, the academy aims to support the social discourse on innovations and their possible applications. The POINT is awarded to text, photo and multimedia contributions that "literally get to the point of technical issues" (according to the self-portrayal). The award is given in three categories:

  • Text category (daily newspaper and magazine / magazine / weekly newspaper)
  • Category Photo
  • Multimedia category (In 2012, a multimedia prize was awarded for the first time for “formats that use the expanded possibilities of the Internet in a pioneering way”.)

A photo grant has also been awarded since 2011, which recognizes the best idea of ​​a photo report with a technical focus .

The categories are advertised alternately every year: in 2018, entries in the text category were awarded, in 2019 the multimedia and photo categories were awarded.

The individual prize categories and the photography grant are each endowed with 5,000 euros. In 2009, for the first time, the jury also awarded a special prize beyond the intended competition categories for the establishment of a technology column in a regional newspaper. The award ceremony takes place annually as part of the academy's festive event.

jury

Personalities from the media and science are represented in the independent jury; acatech President Henning Kagermann advises the jury, but does not have his own voice, to evaluate the submitted work. The Journalist Prize was launched in 2005 by Joachim Milberg , the founding president of the Academy.

  • The members of the Photo category are Jörg Buschmann ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ), Michael Danner ( University of Applied Sciences Europe , Berlin), Ellen Dietrich ( Die Zeit ), Judith Egelhof (Publicis Pixelpark), Betty Fink (freelance photo editor and exhibition manager), Tobias Lehmann (freelance picture editor) and Heiner Müller-Elsner (freelance photographer) and Carla Rosorius (GEO Kompakt).

Award winners

2005
  • Magazine: Hilmar Schmundt, "A lifetime phone for $ 999" ( Der Spiegel )
2006
  • Weekly newspaper: Dirk Asendorpf , "Everything on one card" ( Die Zeit )
  • Magazine: Christopher Schrader , "Igniting Ideas" (SZ Wissen)
  • Single photo: Markus Steur, "Microstructure areas of the visionary"
  • Photo series: Thomas Ernsting, "Portrait of EADS Space Transportation"
2007
2008
  • Daily newspaper: Georg Küffner, "With the power of freely moving water" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
  • Magazine: Tanja Krämer, "Comes the controlled personality" ( spectrum of science )
  • Single photo: Norbert Michalke, "Kugelblitz"
  • Photo series: Walter Fogel, "Aqua_ray"
2009
  • Daily newspaper: Alexander Stirn, "750 passengers in the Rochenflügel" (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
  • Magazine: Gregor Honsel, "The power grid gets rolling" ( Technology Review )
  • Special prize for science column: Ina Matthes "Researched" ( Märkische Oderzeitung )
  • Single photo: Sven Döring, "Apple tree in blossom"
  • Photo series: Bernd Müller, "Collaborative Research Center 484 at the Institute for Physics of the University of Augsburg"
2010
  • Daily newspaper: Hannah Schneider, "Off to the socket" ( Kölner Stadtanzeiger )
  • Magazine: Gerald Traufetter, "Captain Computer" ( Der Spiegel )
  • Single photo: Bernd Müller, "Implant for early detection of epilepsy"
2011
  • Magazine: Susanne Donner, "Eating stones" ( WirtschaftsWoche )
  • Single photo: Stefan Thomas Kröger, "3D space"
  • Photo series: Rafael Krötz, "Zettel's Dream"
  • Photo grant: Thomas Imkamp, ​​concept "The classic landscape in the age of renewable energy technology"
2012
2013
  • Photo: Sven Döring, "Eating day and night"
  • Photo grant: Uwe H. Martin, concept "Landrausch"
  • Multimedia: Editing of Süddeutsche.de , interactive infographic "Third runway"
2014
2015
2016
2017
  • Photo: Sven Döring, "Basic Research"
  • Photo grant: David Carreño Hansen, concept: "Technical progress in everyday technologies"
  • Multimedia: Jannis Brühl, Katharina Brunner, Sabrina Ebitsch and a team from the Süddeutsche Zeitung , online dossier "The Facebook factor"
2018
  • Daily newspaper: Helga Rietz-Pankoke, "The measurement of night unrest" ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung )
  • Magazine: Wolfgang Richter, "This machine could soon crack your bank account" ( GEO )
2019
  • Photo: Volker Crone, "From the End of Darkness"
  • Photo grant: Hannes Jung, concept: "How does love change through the virtual world?"
  • Multimedia: Eva Limmer, Kevin Ebert, Maximilian Osenstätter, Tobias Schießl and a team from the editorial offices " PULS -Reportage" and " Die News-WG " from Bayerischer Rundfunk , reports on YouTube and Instagram .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. BBK Berlin: acatech prizes for text and photo, multimedia for the first time and a photo grant
  2. acatech PUNKT> The Text Jury. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  3. acatech POINT> The Photo Jury. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  4. acatech PUNKT> The Multimedia Jury. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .