NZZ correspondent Ivo Mijnssen and NZZ photographer Dominic Nahr win the 2025 Zurich Journalism Prize

NZZ correspondent Ivo Mijnssen and NZZ photographer Dominic Nahr were awarded the 2025 Zurich Journalist Prize on Tuesday evening . At the Kaufleuten in Zurich, the 43-year-old journalist and the 41-year-old photographer received the prize, endowed with CHF 10,000, for their front-line reporting from the embattled Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, titled "Pokrovsk Awaits the Final Battle."

In their laudation, the seven-member jury praised how Mijnssen and Nahr portray the suffering of the civilian population and the brutality of war with a rare combination of closeness, sobriety and empathy – without pathos, but with great impact.

Ivo Mijnssen was born in Zurich in 1982. He studied sociology and Eastern European history and completed his dissertation on the political and social role of World War II remembrance in the Soviet Union at the University of Basel in May 2015. Since April 2019, he has been reporting from Ukraine and Poland as an NZZ correspondent. In July, he will return to Switzerland and take over as head of the Zurich newsroom and deputy editor-in-chief of the NZZ.

Dominic Nahr was born in Appenzell in 1983 and grew up in Hong Kong. He studied Fine Arts in Toronto. He has been working for the NZZ since 2021. Prior to that, he photographed for various publications such as Time magazine, National Geographic, Stern, Spiegel, and GEO. He has received numerous awards, including a World Press Photo Award.

The Zurich Journalist Prize is one of the most prestigious journalism awards in Switzerland. Since 1981, an expert jury has recognized outstanding work from print and online media.

A total of 217 works were submitted for the 2025 prize. From these, the jury nominated nine entries for the main prize and three for the Newcomer Prize. Each of the main prizes is endowed with CHF 10,000, and the Newcomer Prize with CHF 5,000.

The foundation's sponsors are the media companies CH Media, NZZ, Ringier, and Tamedia; other well-known companies and institutions support the event financially.

The award-winning works and the laudations are available here .