Beat Jost new Head of Communications at Comedia
The journalist and trade unionist Beat Jost is to become the new Head of Communications at the media trade union Comedia. He gained national fame as part of the so-called CIA fax scandal.
Journalist and trade unionist Beat Jost is to become the new Head of Communications at the media trade union Comedia. He will also become Editor-in-Chief of the members' magazine "M", which is published in three languages. On February 1, 2008, the 53-year-old from Valais will take over from Daniel Graf, who is leaving the union after two years to pursue "new professional challenges", as Comedia announced. Beat Jost was business editor of the Blick and later editor of the Sonntagsblick. He gained national fame as part of the so-called CIA fax affair, which he wrote about together with Sandro Brotz in Sonntagsblick. The two even ended up in court over this, but were acquitted (see
). Before joining Blick, Jost worked for 15 years as secretary for the GTCP/GBI trade union, now Unia, in the industrial and services sector and was also a member of the Valais cantonal parliament.
). Before joining Blick, Jost worked for 15 years as secretary for the GTCP/GBI trade union, now Unia, in the industrial and services sector and was also a member of the Valais cantonal parliament.
