ONZ: Melk von Flüe replaces Francesco Welti as editor-in-chief
ONZ Obwalden und Nidwalden Zeitung, which was founded in April 2010, will have a new editor-in-chief at the end of August. Melk von Flüe, who comes from Sachseln in the canton of Obwalden, will replace Francesco Welti, who previously headed the editorial team.
Melk von Flüe (pictured) has been an editor at ONZ since September last year and has so far reported mainly on politics and sport, according to a press release issued on Monday. He will be 30 years old next September and before joining ONZ, he worked as a freelancer and occasionally as an editorial employee for the Obwaldner Wochenblatt and the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung as well as in the Media Research department at AGB Nielsen in Buochs, Lugano and Sydney.
Francesco Welti will remain available to ONZ as Editor-in-Chief until the end of August and will gradually hand over his duties to Melk von Flüe until then. The current Editor-in-Chief is leaving ONZ for personal reasons. After working for the newspaper with full commitment for around one and a half years, he is now devoting himself to other challenges, writes the ONZ. "The ONZ is now so well positioned that I can hand over my position with a clear conscience," summarizes Welti, who is based in Ticino.
Melk von Flüe is already looking forward to his new role: "I am very motivated and would like to thank the ONZ Board of Directors for the trust they have placed in me." Von Flüe will head up an eight-strong editorial team and wants to anchor the newspaper, which has already quickly established itself in Obwalden and Nidwalden, even more firmly in the two original cantons.
The ONZ Obwalden und Nidwalden Zeitung is a micro-newspaper with a circulation of 10,000 copies. According to the press release, micro-newspapers are so called because their makers regard the region from which they report as a microcosm: Everything is local, everything is seen through the lens of one's own region. There are currently two micro-newspapers in Switzerland: The original, the Jungfrau Zeitung, and the first licensed edition, the ONZ Obwalden und Nidwalden Zeitung.
