Observer Nature with new management
Beobachter Natur magazine will be published under new management from July 2014. Journalist Julia Hofer and art director Michael Adams will take over the management of the magazine together. Both future editorial managers already work for Beobachter Natur.
Both future editorial directors are already working at Beobachter Natur. Beobachter editor-in-chief Andres Büchi is convinced that this internal solution is the best possible successor to the previous editorial director Peter Ackermann: "Julia Hofer is an outstanding journalist and Michael Adams is an extremely creative designer with broad experience in magazine and newspaper design."
Julia Hofer studied art history and has been working for Beobachter Natur for around five months. Her previous positions were at Keystone Press and the women's magazine Annabelle. In 2012, she received the Zurich Journalism Prize for a report commissioned by Annabelle. Julia Hofer will be responsible for the content of Beobachter Natur in future.
Michael Adams studied communication design in Trier and then worked as a press photographer and art director for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Tagesspiegel in Berlin and the Basler Zeitung, among others, before joining Beobachter Natur in 2009. He has received several international awards for his newspaper designs. Michael Adams is responsible for the visual design of the magazine.
The new co-managing editor will replace the previous editorial director Peter Ackermann, who led the magazine for the last three years and resigned in April of this year. Axel Springer Schweiz AG and Beobachter would like to thank Peter Ackermann for his great commitment and hard work. Beobachter Natur is published ten times a year by Axel Springer and reaches around 230,000 readers with a certified circulation of over 30,000 copies.
