Personnel changes in the Press Council and its Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees of the «Swiss Press Council» Foundation made a series of personnel decisions in November. Bernard Cathomas, the former director of Radio Televisiun Rumantsch (RTR), will take over as chairman of the «Swiss Press Council» Foundation effective July 1, 2012, succeeding Ticino-based journalist Enrico Morresi, who is stepping down at the end of 2011.
In the first half of 2012, Philipp Cueni, Editor-in-Chief of "Edito", will act as interim Chairman of the Board of Trustees. As part of the general election that takes place every four years, the Board of Trustees also confirmed all 13 members of the Press Council who were standing for re-election. In addition to Press Council President Dominique von Burg, who was re-elected in spring 2011, Max Trossmann and Francesca Snider were newly elected as Vice Presidents. The Press Council writes this in a press release on Presseportal.ch.
New members of the Press Council as of January 1, 2012: Marianne Bieber (SDA), Annik Dubied (Professeur associé Département de Sociologie Université de Genève), Mathias Halbeis ("Sonntagszeitung"), Francesca Luvini ("Il Quotidiano"), Franca Siegfried ("Blick"), David Spinnler (RTR) and Françoise Weilhammer ("Temps présent").
