Roger Blum is the new President of the UBI

 
The Federal Council has appointed Roger Blum as President of the Independent Complaints Authority for Radio and Television (UBI) for the next four years. He succeeds Denis Barrelet, who passed away a few months ago. Roger Blum has been Professor of Media Studies at the University of Bern since 1989. He was President of the Press Council from 1991 to 2001 and President of the Swiss Society for Communication and Media Studies (SGKM) from 1999 to 2005. The 62-year-old also has his own journalistic experience. Among other things, he worked as domestic editor and parliamentary correspondent at the Tages-Anzeiger, where he was a member of the editorial board. As a federal authority, the UBI deals with complaints against radio and television broadcasts. It assesses whether editorial broadcasts have violated applicable law or whether access to the program has been illegally denied. The committee consists of nine people, all of whom are elected by the Federal Council.