Director Beat Witschi leaves Swissinfo
Swissinfo Director Beat Witschi will step down from his position at the SRG at the end of August 2008. The SRG announced that he had decided, for personal reasons, to take on another challenge abroad. A successor has not yet been named.
Swissinfo Director Beat Witschi is leaving the SRG company at the end of August 2008. He has decided to take up another challenge abroad for personal reasons, SRG announced. A successor has not yet been announced. Beat Witschi has been Head of Swissinfo since January 2005. He previously worked for SRG for several years as a radio and online journalist and as a multimedia specialist. Under his leadership, Swissinfo developed from the radio station Schweizer Radio International/SRI into the nine-language news and information platform Swissinfo.ch, according to the SRG, which expressed its deep regret at Witschi's departure in a press release.
