the.points.is. is a unique news agency with a goal: go back to the roots of journalism. In this world of 30-second news, there is no such thing as feature story to look at and maybe understand the society we live in. the.point.is. will not only tell you about it. It will also show it to you, because we believe in a close interaction between texts and pictures. We focus on the United States. But we go beyond that. In 2006, we covered the presidential elections in Haiti and Venezuela and we will do in-depth stories on countries of the Western hemisphere. the.point.is. believes in networking and in the coming months, we will publish stories by other journalists from around the world. We believe in surprising angles that go the heart of the story. And we believe in serious journalism. Our norm is to provide to news outlets finished products with a point and an idea.
Stories published in:
Tribune de Genève (Switzerland), 24heures (Switzerland), L’Actualité (Canada), L’Hebdo (Switzerland), largeur.com (Switzerland), Reflex (Switzerland), Terre et Nature (Switzerland), Télétop (Switzerland), TVguide (Switzerland), Migros Magazine (Switzerland), Texas Co-Op Power (USA), Le Matin Dimanche (Switzerland)
Stories broadcast on:
Swiss Public Radio (Switzerland), Couleur 3 (Switzerland), Radio Lac (Switzerland), Frequence Jura (Switzerland), RTN (Switzerland), Radio Fribourg (Switzerland)
Pictures published in:
Tribune de Genève (Switzerland), 24heures (Switzerland), L’Actualité (Canada), L’Hebdo (Switzerland), Marianne (France), Terre et Nature (Switzerland)
Photoshoot produced for:
Luxes par Bilan (Switzerland)
jean-cosme delaloye
Reporter, founder the.point.is
Jean-Cosme Delaloye is a Swiss reporter based in Brooklyn, USA, After graduating in 1999 in German, History and Journalism from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), he joined 24heures, a Swiss daily newspaper. From 1999 to 2002, he covered numerous crises around the world, from the Middle East to Rwanda and Burundi. In 2002, he was named US Correspondent for 24heures and Tribune de Genève. In the US, he has covered politics and UN affairs for the last five years and worked with US photographers Tim McKulka and Jarin Blaschke on numerous feature stories. In 2006, Jean-Cosme co-authored with Swiss director Nicolas Pallay “Razor Wire Rodeo”, his first feature documentary. The film was part of the official selection of the Brooklyn Film Festival in 2006 and was broadcast on numerous TV networks. In 2006, Jean-Cosme covered the crisis in Haiti and the presidential elections in Venezuela. In 2007, he covered hurricane Dean and the elections in Jamaica.
danielle delaloye-suter
Journalist, co-founder the.point.is.
Danielle Delaloye-Suter is a Swiss journalist based in Brooklyn, USA. She graduated in 2001 in journalism from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), she joined Edipresse Publications, where she worked for edicom.ch, a news website, and then for 24heures, a Swiss daily paper. In 2004, Danielle joined CB Communications, where worked as managing editor for 30Degrés and Skippers, two magazines, and wrote stories for fashion magazines. She moved to New York at the end of 2004. In New York, she focuses on fashion and lifestyle and is now the fashion editor for tpinews.com.
jarin blaschke
photographer
Jarin Blaschke recently emerged as a photojournalist from a diverse photographic background. In 2006, he began shooting for Edipresse Publications (Switzerland) and L’Actualite (Canada), covering stories throughout the Unites States as well as the Chavez revolution in Venezuela. Jarin is also a cinematographer, having photographed three films in competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and a lighting designer for photographer Wayne Maser, lighting for publications such as GQ, Vanity Fair and Allure. In November 2007, Jarin was the photographer on the editorial photo shoot for the magazine Luxes par Bilan. He has been based in New York for the last 11 years.
tim mckulka
photographer
Tim McKulka started shooting for Edipresse Publications in 2003. With Jean-Cosme Delaloye, he covered diverse feature stories such as the crisis in Haiti in 2006, the Angola Prison Rodeo, the US presidential elections in 2004, illegal immigration into the US and New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina. In 2005, he covered the presidential elections in Liberia. In 2006, Tim started with Jean-Cosme this project of a news agency. He later joined the UN as a photographer in the fall 2006. He is now based in Juba, in Southern Sudan.
daniella zalcman
photographer
Daniella Zalcman is a student at Columbia University, majoring in architecture even though she’s determined to pursue a career in photojournalism. She has been shooting for Tribune de Genève, 24heures and the.point.is since the Srping of 2007. Other passions, hobbies, side jobs, and bad habits include web design, piano, doodling on napkins, getting lost in large tourist traps, waitressing, naming inanimate objects, and being in the wrong place at the right time. Check her great website.
jan haux
graphic design the.point.is.
Do you like the way we look? Jan is the one, who came up with the logo and layout of the website. After graduating in graphic design in Germany, Jan came to New York, where he now works for Princeton Press. He has been involved in the project since the beginning, providing a vision for the.point.is. .
kirstofer widholm
web design tpinews.com
Kristofer is not only the frontman of Morex Optimo, one of New York’s most exciting indie bands. He is also an incredible web designer. He is the one who developed the backbone of the website.
pierre vaudan
Lebanon Correspondent
Pierre Vaudan is Swiss journalist and photographer. He covered the war in Lebanon for numerous Swiss papers and wrote a book about it. After working on stories in Algeria and Iraq, he joined a major daily newspaper in Switzerland. He left Switzerland in 2006 and spent a year in Cairo to learn Arabic. He now lives and works in Beyrouth.
Testimonials:
“Afet Jean-Cosme Delaloye moved to New York in 2002 to become the US Correspondent for 24heures, he reported brillantly about the US and showed us what is happening in this country in a way we rarely get to see it. I remember his story about a rodeo in a penitentiary in Louisiana. Incredible”. Jacques Poget, former editor-in-chief of 24heures and editorialist.
Profile on jean-cosme delaloye published in July 2007 in L’actualité, the main news magazine in Quebec.
