Roger de Diesbach

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Roger Meinrad Marie Guillaume de Diesbach (born April 27, 1944 in Bern , † September 21, 2009 in Friborg ) was a Swiss journalist . From 1996 to 2004 he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper La Liberté .

Life

Roger de Diesbach from the Freiburg line of the von Diesbach family was the son of the corps commander of the Swiss Army Roch de Diesbach and Alix de Kalbermatten. The influential patrician family de Diesbach, with citizens of Freiburg and Pierrafortscha , produced several well-known high-ranking military men. Roger de Diesbach was a captain in the Swiss Army. He was married to Nicoletta de Diesbach geb. Sztachelski, with whom he had three sons, Gilles, Romain and Simon. Roger de Diesbach succumbed to longstanding cancer at the age of 65.

Professional career

From 1970 to 1976 de Diesbach worked for the Swiss dispatch agency , where he set up the research and reporting service. After the “helicopter affair”, when he published a report on the delivery of police helicopters to General Pinochets Chile against the instructions of his superior and made the instruction public, he was dismissed. He then worked as a federal correspondent for the Tribune de Lausanne , but left the newspaper after ten years after it had become a tabloid after it was renamed Le Matin .

In 1986, de Diesbach founded the “Bureau de reportage et de recherche d'information” (BRRI) in Rossens ( Canton Friborg ) and worked with La Suisse and the program Temps présent from Télévision Suisse Romande . The office published around 1,500 articles, including several about the Pilatus company and the problematic delivery of its aircraft to crisis areas. In 1994 he had to close the office for financial reasons.

He then became deputy editor-in-chief of the Journal de Genève and, from 1996 to 2004, editor-in-chief of La Liberté , where he initiated a collaboration with the French newspaper Liberation . After leaving for health reasons, he continued to work part-time as a journalist.

Roger de Diesbach is considered one of the first Swiss investigative journalists .

Awards

1987: Prix Jean Dumur

Works

Presse utile, presse futile - Plaidoyer pour le journalisme. Editions Slatkine, Geneva 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benoît de Diesbach Belleroche: Diesbach, Roch de. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Ulrich Moser: Diesbach, de. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ Andreas Z'Graggen: «Napoleon took everything». In: Weltwoche . July 22, 2009 (interview).
  4. ↑ Helen Brügger: Adieu, Roger! In: plain text. September 22, 2009.
  5. ↑ Suspension d'un journaliste de l'ATS - le comité de la FSJ prend position. ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Journal de Genève . 29th September 1976. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.letempsarchives.ch
  6. ↑ a b Roger de Diesbach. In: RTS . December 26, 1992.
  7. ↑ Sylvie Arsever: Roger de Diesbach est mort. In: Le Temps . September 22, 2009.
  8. ↑ Helen Brügger: “It's unbelievable how much the publishers love us”. In: plain text. July 10, 2007.
  9. ^ Jean-Philippe Ceppi: Le Prix Jean Dumur 2013. Roger de Diesbach. On the website of the Prix Jean Dumur. September 2009.
  10. ↑ La presse, baromètre de la democratie. In: Swissinfo .ch. December 20, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Diesbach, Roger de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diesbach, Roger Meinrad Marie Guillaume de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2009
Place of death Freiburg