Pietro Supino wants to join the SDA Board of Directors

With Pietro Supino, Tamedia, SDA's largest single shareholder and single customer, will be directly and appropriately involved in the SDA Board of Directors. "However, Tamedia is not seeking a dominant position within SDA," Pietro Supino informed the Board of Directors before his election. The company wanted to emphasize the importance that Tamedia attaches to SDA.
The Board of Directors proposes to the Annual General Meeting that the number of Board members, previously set at five to seven, be redefined as "at least five". This should ensure that both large and small media companies from different parts of the country can determine the fate of SDA.

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The SDA claims to represent the Swiss media landscape in its supreme body: The previous President, Hans Heinrich Coninx, was elected to head SDA while still President of the Swiss Press Association and has acted as an independent representative on the SDA Board of Directors since he was replaced as President of the Association by Hanspeter Lebrument. Hanspeter Lebrument, current President of the Swiss Press Association, also represents the interests of small and medium-sized publishing houses.
The NZZ is represented on the SDA Board by CEO Albert P. Stäheli, the SRG by Gérard Tschopp. Matthias Hagemann (Radio Basilisk) brings the perspective of the private radio stations to the Board. French-speaking Switzerland is represented by Eric Hoesli from Edipresse and Albert Noth (Imprimerie Saint-Paul).

Details of the financial year can be found in the annual report, which is available at Sda.ch can be downloaded.