Freedom of press, opinion and expression are regularly tested in the practice of journalism, even in a democracy. Myret Zaki, former editor-in-chief of the Swiss weekly Bilan, explains how and why.
A business journalist in Switzerland for 20 years, Myret Zaki began working for a Geneva-based private bank in 1997, where she trained in financial analysis. A year later, she obtained an MBA from the Business School of Lausanne. Of Egyptian origin through her father, who headed the editorial staff of major national dailies in Egypt, including Al Akhbar (the second largest daily newspaper), Myret Zaki was hired in 2001 as a journalist in the business section of the daily newspaper Le Temps, where she was in charge of the “Finance” pages and supplements until 2009. In 2010, she joined the Swiss bi-monthly Bilan, where she became deputy editor-in-chief and then editor-in-chief in 2014. After an unsuccessful attempt to buy the publication from the Swiss publisher Tamedia, she left the paper in the spring of 2019.
Myret Zaki is the author of several books: “UBS, les dessous d’un scandale” (2008); “Le Secret bancaire est mort, vive l’évasion fiscale” (2008); “La Fin du dollar” (2011). Myret Zaki was awarded the 2008 Swiss Schweizer Journalist Prize.