"Arena": Jonas Projer becomes new editorial director
After Jonas Projer was introduced as the new host of «Arena» earlier this year, he will now also take over as editorial director effective early November 2014. He succeeds Marianne Gilgen.
She will lead SRG SSR's coverage of the 2015 federal parliamentary elections (Werbewoche.ch reported). Jonas Projer has been working for Swiss television since 2006. He completed his SRF stint on "Schweiz aktuell" and worked on "10vor10", "Eco" and "Tagesschau", among others. In 2009, the 33-year-old took on the position of domestic TV correspondent for Zurich and Schaffhausen. In spring 2011, Projer became a foreign correspondent in Brussels and reported on NATO, the EU and the Benelux countries; his journalistic focus was on the euro crisis and Switzerland's bilateral relations.
On Friday, Jonas Projer will host "Arena" for the first time, and in November he will also take over the editorial management of the discussion program. Marianne Gilgen relinquishes the editorial management as she takes over the overall management of SRG's coverage of the federal parliamentary elections on October 18, 2015.
Jonas Projer: "I'm really looking forward to working on 'Arena' with a team that is as clever as it is creative. Over the next few months, we will be working on the planned relaunch of the format in addition to the weekly program. Our goal remains the same as before: a fair, exciting, informative and surprising discussion program that helps our viewers to form their political opinions. I look forward to this task with anticipation, but also with great respect."
Tristan Brenn, Editor-in-Chief TV: "Jonas Projer will be one of the youngest editorial directors in the history of SRF. I am convinced that he not only has the best qualifications as a presenter, but also as editorial director of 'Arena' to give the program a modern, credible face, also in view of the planned relaunch."
