SRF: Catherine Thommen becomes new TV correspondent in Basel
The TV correspondent position for the Basel Baselland region will be filled by Catherine Thommen. The former "Schweiz aktuell" presenter succeeds Philippe Chappuis, who is leaving SRF.
Catherine Thommen, 41, began her journalistic career at the youth and culture station Radio X. She also worked for Telebasel and Tpc. Other stations in her career were Telebasel, Radio Basel 1 and Tpc. In August 2011, the Basel native joined SRF and was a presenter and editor at "Schweiz aktuell" until September 2014. From October 2014 to January 2015, she worked at "Tagesschau" and "10vor10." After that, she took over the moderation of "Sonntags-Talk" at Telebasel and has also worked as a freelance journalist for SRF on a project basis time and again to date.
To fill vacancies, Catherine Thommen rejoined "Schweiz aktuell" in mid-2018 and supplemented the anchor team for several months. Now the Basel native is moving to the TV correspondent position in Basel for SRF, replacing Philippe Chappuis, who is moving to Telebasel as Editor-in-Chief. (Werbewoche.ch reported). Catherine Thommen is taking up her new position in stages, as she is currently also still working in the newsroom in Zurich.
