Two women at the top of 20 Minuten Video News

Silvana Guanziroli and Nicole Ulrich (from left) take over the management of 20 Minuten Video News.

Silvana Guanziroli took over the management of the team at the beginning of January. She has been in the news business for over 24 years. She has worked as a video journalist and news editor for the following TV stations: RTL/Pro Sieben Schweiz, Tele 24 and Schweizer Fernsehen. As a reporter, author and deputy foreign editor, the 43-year-old wrote for View, SonntagsBlick and Basel Newspaper. As a journalist and multimedia editor, she was most recently part of the core team at Bluewin.ch, Swisscom's news portal. In addition, she founded the online magazine "Crime Schweiz" with a focus on Swiss court and criminal cases.

The Winterthur native with roots in Ticino has taken up her position at 20 minutes as early as the beginning of January 2020. "This task is currently one of the most exciting in Swiss journalism for me. The opportunity to put together a completely new team and implement a new video concept at the same time is a fascinating challenge. I am very excited to tackle this opportunity."

The trained commercial employee studied cultural sciences at the Distance Learning University in Hagen, and also trained as a police officer with the Zurich Cantonal Police. Most recently, she completed the Federal Diploma in Public Relations.

Nicole Ulrich will take over as her deputy at the beginning of April. The 39-year-old presenter and journalist currently works for Mediafisch. There, she produces and realizes the Saturday evening show "Wer wohnt wo?" on behalf of SRF. After completing her commercial apprenticeship, Nicole Ulrich found her way into the world of journalism around 20 years ago by doing a traineeship at the Zurichsee-Zeitung her entry into journalism. Later stations led her via the news departments of Radio Zürichsee, 3+ and TeleZüri to SRF, where she became known to a broad public as presenter and editor of the knowledge magazine Einstein (2009 to 2013). From 2014 to 2017, Ulrich worked in marketing.

20 minutes is gradually switching its reporting to "video first" - as already communicated. Since the beginning of 2020, the video content has been supplemented by even more live reports on breaking news and special events in order to inform users directly and let them participate closely in current events.