Truttmann is the first editor-in-chief of the Fundaziun Medias Rumantschas
David Truttmann is the first editor-in-chief of the new Romansh news agency Fundaziun Medias Rumantschas (FMR). The 44-year-old journalist, who hails from Müstair in the Münster Valley, has extensive professional experience.
Truttmann has worked in various capacities for Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha RTR over the past 15 years, most recently as co-head of the "Reflexiun" department, the FMR Board of Trustees, headed by former Chancellor Corina Casanova, announced Tuesday. Previously, he wrote as an editorial assistant for the Romansh daily newspaper La Quotidiana.
Truttmann will take up the new position in the course of the fall. He originally trained as a primary school teacher, then studied general history and Romansh linguistics and literature at the University of Zurich.
FMR, headquartered in Chur, is financed by the federal government and the canton of Graubünden and provides the Romansh media with journalistic texts, photos and multimedia content in all five Romansh idioms as well as in the written language Rumantsch Grischun. This offer is complemented by news contributed by RTR.
The new editorial structure with the FMR is to be implemented at the beginning of 2020. The FMR is the successor organization to the Agentura da Novitads Rumantscha ANR, which was founded in mid-1996.
