Marc-André Capeder and Christina Duss take over as editorial directors of 20 Minuten Friday
As of September 1, 2018, Marc-André Capeder and Christina Duss will take over the editorial management of 20 Minuten Friday. They succeed Kerstin Netsch, who is leaving the company at the end of August.
Like 20 Minutes Friday announced in May, Kerstin Netsch, who has been the editorial director for many years, will be leaving the editorial team at the end of August. She is moving to the NZZ on Sundaywhere she will be responsible for the overall editorial management of the lifestyle titles Z, Stil and Bellevue.
As of September 1, the two editorial team members Marc-André Capeder and Christina Duss will take over the management of 20 Minutes Friday. In this function, they report to Marco Boselli, Head of Journalism and Processes at the 20 Minuten Group.
Marc-André Capeder is a long-standing lifestyle editor at Friday and deputy editorial director since July 2017. He studied journalism at the School of Applied Linguistics in Zurich and worked part-time as an editorial assistant at Blick. After an extended stay as a freelance journalist in New York, he began working in 2010 for 20 Minutes Friday to work. In his new role as Friday Editorial Director, Marc-André Capeder will be responsible for the lifestyle team as well as for commercial projects.
Since 2017, Christina Duss has been the head of the "Stars & Life" department and online page maker at 20 Minutes Friday. She studied journalism at the MAZ in Lucerne and began her journalistic career in 2004 at 20 minutes. With the launch of 20 Minutes Friday in 2008, she became part of the editorial team and worked on the development of the zero number of the new title. Later, Christina Duss wrote as an editor for the women's magazine Annabelle as well as for the Sonntags-Zeitung and the Tages-Anzeiger. Christina Duss takes over in her new function as Friday-editorial director, the content team's responsibility for the magazine and the website.
"We are delighted that with Christina Duss and Marc-André Capeder we have been able to recruit an experienced and well-coordinated team to lead the editorial team," says Marco Boselli, Head of Journalism and Processes at the 20 Minuten Group, adding, "We are convinced that the two of them will lead 20 Minuten Friday with great passion and commitment and further develop the lifestyle brand. On behalf of the 20 Minuten Group, I would like to thank Kerstin Netsch for her many years of cooperation and great commitment and wish her all the best and much success in her new tasks."
