Two new presenters for "Echo der Zeit"
Two new presenter positions are being filled at "Echo der Zeit". Editorial director Isabelle Jacobi is taking over the presenting role from Ursula Hürzeler, who is retiring. Presenter Samuel Wyss replaces Peter Vögeli, who is moving to Berlin as a correspondent.
In addition to her role as Editorial Director of "Echo der Zeit", Isabelle Jacobi will also host the program in future. She will succeed Ursula Hürzeler in this role at the beginning of 2016, when she retires. Isabelle Jacobi, 45, hosted the former background program "DRS 2 aktuell" from 1999 to 2006. She later worked as a freelance correspondent in New York, including for SRF. At the end of 2008, she began working as a producer at "Echo der Zeit", where she has been head of the editorial team since fall 2012.
Samuel Wyss will join "Echo der Zeit" as a new presenter at the beginning of August 2015. He will succeed Peter Voegeli, who is moving to Berlin as SRF correspondent in spring 2015. Samuel Wyss, 35, has worked for Radio SRF 4 News since 2010 as an editor, producer and, since September 2014, as a presenter. He is completing his Bachelor's degree in German and Media and Communication Studies at the University of Fribourg this summer. Before working in radio at SRF, he worked in advertising and communications.
Isabelle Jacobi, Editorial Director of "Echo der Zeit": "Samuel Wyss is a young, innovative presenter who, as a relative newcomer to the microphone, has quickly become an incisive and critically questioning radio voice. We are looking forward to our new colleague."
