Blick head of sports becomes a member of the editorial team

As head of the sports department in the Blick Group newsroom, Felix Bingesser has been promoted to the rank of editor-in-chief as of January 1, 2014, as the media company announced in a press release on Friday. The 50-year-old Bingesser is responsible for the entire sports content of the Blick Group and has held this position since January 2011.

Management team supplemented

Dirk Ruschmann (42), previously a member of the editorial team and interim head of the Sonntagsblick magazine, is the new Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Sonntagsblick alongside Editor-in-Chief Christine Maier. Philippe Pfister (50) is already part of the management team - also as Deputy Editor-in-Chief. Frank Hubrath (49) will take over as interim team leader of the magazine.

New co-head of the politics department

As of April 1, 2014, the Politics department in the Blick Group newsroom will have a new co-head: Joël Widmer (37) and Matthias Halbeis (41) have been recruited as successors to Jürg Auf der Maur, who is moving to Bote der Urschweiz as Editor-in-Chief. Halbeis and Widmer will co-manage the politics section from the two offices in Zurich and Bern.

Editor-in-chief launched

As already announced at the end of August (Werbewoche.ch reported), René Lüchinger (55) started as the new Editor-in-Chief of Blick on January 1, 2014. At the same time, Andreas Dietrich (49) also took up his new position in the newsroom as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Blick.