Infochef of Baselbieter Gesundheitsdirektion changed to Baz
Thomas Lüthi, head of communications at the Basel-Landschaft Department of Economic Affairs and Health (VGD), is moving to the Basler Zeitung. Lüthi will join the Basler Zeitung (Baz) on September 1.
He will take over as head of the politics/news department there, he confirmed on Friday according to the Internet newspaper Online Reports. The politics/news department includes the domestic and foreign editorial offices. The now 50-year-old had taken over the management of the information service of the Basel-Landschaft economics and health director Peter Zwick two years ago, in May 2009.
Lüthi is an economist and historian and was an editor at the Basellandschaftliche Zeitung in Liestal until 1996. From 1996 to 2003, he was a freelance journalist for the Berner Zeitung, the Baz and the Volksstimme in Sissach. He then worked in corporate communications for the health insurers CSS in Lucerne and Helsana in Zurich, at the latter as media spokesman. (SDA)
