Susan Boos
Susan Boos is a Swiss journalist and publicist. Since 2005, she is the editor-in-chief of WOZ Die Wochenzeitung.Life
Boos grew up in St. Gallen and completed a training as a teacher at the seminar Rorschach in the canton of St. Gallen. From 1984 to 1991, she worked for the Eastern Swiss Workers' Newspaper in St. Gallen, in 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 Zurich WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, where she became Editorial Manager in 2005. Boos is a jury member of the "Zürcher Journalistenpreis".
She publishes intensively on nuclear and energy policy.Awards
- 2005: "Alstom Journalistenpreis" of the energy and transport company Alstom
- 2012: Honorary Award of the Nuclear-Free Future Award in the category "Special Recognition" of the Franz Moll Foundation
Writings (selection)
- "Beherrschtes Entsetzen. Das Leben in der Ukraine zehn Jahre nach Tschernobyl" WOZ, Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 1996,.
- "Strahlende Schweiz. Handbuch zur Atomwirtschaft" WOZ, Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 1999,.
- "Sanktgaller Spitzen : sechs Reportagen aus dem Osten" Appenzeller publishing house, Herisau 2003,.
- "Fukushima lässt grüßen. Die Folgen eines Super-GAUs." Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2012,.