Refugees edit Swiss newspaper

A Swiss daily tabloid newspaper has dedicated its news output to the growing migrant crisis – with a team of refugees based in Switzerland editing the edition on Friday. Blick, Switzerland’s biggest selling paid-for newspaper, was produced for the day by a team of journalists and photographers who had fled from Syria, Kyrgyzstan, Eritrea, Iran and Sri Lanka. The newspaper’s regular staff only wrote content for the sports section. The content featured an interview with Simonetta Sommaruga, Swiss Justice Minister in charge of asylum and this year’s president. “The dimensions [of the crisis] are enormous,” said Sommaruga in the interview. “No single country can deal with it alone. Europe can do more – and Switzerland can do more.” Other articles included one journalist’s account of how he fled from Iran across the Balkans to reach Switzerland – a journey that took six weeks and ended in Switzerland on August 8. Another journalist compared the cost of living in his ...