Der Sonntag: Beat Schmid becomes deputy editor-in-chief
Beat Schmid has been appointed deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper *Sonntag* by the board of directors. He succeeds Sandro Brotz, who is moving to Swiss Television.
Beat Schmid, 43, has been head of business at Sonntag since 2010 and will take on his new role on May 1, 2012, according to a statement on Tuesday. Before joining Sonntag, he was head of the economics department at the Sonntagszeitung. The high-profile business journalist and researcher previously worked at Blick, was deputy editor-in-chief of Computerworld and editor at the Reuters news agency. He is a graduate of the Zurich School of Interpreting and trained in corporate finance at the University of Zurich. Beat Schmid is married, has two children and lives in Männedorf ZH.
