Sonntagszeitung: Martin Spieler becomes new editor-in-chief
Tamedia's Board of Directors has appointed Martin Spieler as the new editor-in-chief of the Sonntagszeitung. The current editor-in-chief of the Handelszeitung and TV host will succeed Andreas Durisch sometime in the summer of 2010.
Martin Spieler has been Editor-in-Chief of the Handelszeitung since 2004 and has also been Head of Journalism for Business Magazines at Axel Springer Switzerland since fall 2007. In this function, the editors-in-chief of several magazines report to him. The 45-year-old also works as an expert and presenter on various business programs on radio and television and is Vice President of the Conference of Swiss Editors-in-Chief. He is also a lecturer at the Swiss School of Journalism MAZ, the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur and other universities of applied sciences. Martin Spieler worked as a financial journalist and columnist for the Sonntagszeitung from 2001 to 2004 and also wrote for the Tages-Anzeiger. From 1999 to 2001, he was editor-in-chief of the TV stock market programs Money and MoneyTalk on Tele 24 and was Chief Operating Officer at Belcom.
Andreas Durisch is leaving the Sonntagszeitung in mid-2010 to take up a new challenge as Senior Partner at the Dynamics Group, a service provider for strategy development, communications management and research, as Tamedia writes in a press release issued on Tuesday.
Who will succeed Martin Spieler as editor-in-chief of the Handelszeitung is currently still open, as Patricia Buck from Axel Springer Switzerland told Werbewoche. Information will be provided in the near future.
Andreas Durisch is leaving the Sonntagszeitung in mid-2010 to take up a new challenge as Senior Partner at the Dynamics Group, a service provider for strategy development, communications management and research, as Tamedia writes in a press release issued on Tuesday.
Who will succeed Martin Spieler as editor-in-chief of the Handelszeitung is currently still open, as Patricia Buck from Axel Springer Switzerland told Werbewoche. Information will be provided in the near future.
