Susan Boos

Susan Boos (* 1963 in Zurich ) is a Swiss journalist , publicist and author. From 2005 to 2017 she was editor-in-chief of WOZ Die Wochenzeitung .

Life

Boos grew up in St. Gallen and trained as a primary school teacher in the Rorschach seminar in the canton of St. Gallen . From 1984 to 1991 she worked for the Ostschweizer Arbeiterzeitung (AZ) in St. Gallen, and from 1989 as an editor. At the same time she studied ethnology, political science and journalism at the University of Zurich . In 1991 she moved to the Zürcher WOZ Die Wochenzeitung , where she was editor-in-chief from 2005 to 2017. Boos is a member of the jury for the Zurich Journalism Prize . She publishes on nuclear and energy policy. On January 1, 2021, she will become President of the Swiss Press Council , succeeding Dominique von Burg .

Awards

• 2005: Alstom Journalist Prize from the energy and transport company Alstom (for several articles in the weekly WOZ)
• 2012: Honorary Prize of the Nuclear-Free Future Award in the "Special Recognition" category from the Franz Moll Foundation

Fonts (selection)

• Controlled horror. Life in Ukraine ten years after Chernobyl (= WoZ in Rotpunktverlag ). Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-85869-162-3 .
• Radiant Switzerland. Handbook for the nuclear industry (= WoZ in Rotpunktverlag ). Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-85869-167-4 .
• Edited with Lukas Unseld: Sanktgaller Spitzen. [Six reports from the east. SG 2003 - anniversary project] . Appenzeller-Verlag, Herisau 2003, ISBN 3-85882-352-X .
• Greetings from Fukushima. The consequences of a disaster . With a foreword by Tomoyuki Takada. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 3-85869-474-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Susan Boos in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Susan Boos at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zurich Journalist Prize Foundation: Zurich Journalist Prize 2013 . Weiningen [2013], p. 4.
2. ↑ In- house communications . December 20, 2017 ( woz.ch [accessed November 1, 2018]).
3. ↑ Weekly: Editor-in-chief Susan Boos quits . In: persoenlich.com . ( persoenlich.com [accessed November 1, 2018]).
4. ↑ Jury ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2017 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. . zh-journalistenpreis.ch, accessed on March 22, 2017. 
5. ↑ Susan Boos becomes the new president. In: Persoenlich.com , July 3, 2020.
6. ↑ Susan Boos , nuclear-free-future.com, accessed on 22 March 2017th