David Bauer leads new storytelling team at NZZ
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung is expanding its digital expertise and hiring David Bauer as head of the new NZZ storytelling team. The product development team NZZ.ch is being reorganized under Florian Steglich.
On September 1, journalist and digital strategist David Bauer will join the editorial team of the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" to build up the new storytelling team. Between February and June, David Bauer already accompanied the further development of NZZ.ch as an external project staff member. Before that, he worked as a digital strategist for the Basel-based medium since the founding of Tageswoche in 2011. His articles and data visualizations have been published in SonntagsZeitung, The Guardian, Das Magazin and Quartz, among others. In 2010, the book "Kurzbefehl - Der Kompass für das digitale Leben" was published by him in the Echtzeit-Verlag. He has also initiated several journalistic digital projects.
In the new storytelling team headed by David Bauer, infographics experts, data journalists, interactive designers and front-end developers will work closely together. Together with the editors of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, they will develop and test templates for digital and visual narrative forms and use them not only for lighthouse projects but also in everyday journalistic work.
At the same time, the NZZ.ch product development department is being reorganized under Florian Steglich, Head of Development Editorial NZZ.ch. Effective immediately, Florian Steglich will coordinate a team that combines experts from IT, product marketing, editorial, conception and design to further develop NZZ.ch. This composition will lead to shorter decision-making paths and more agile processes.
Anita Zielina, Editor-in-Chief New Products: "In order to fully exploit the content expertise of the 'Neue Zürcher Zeitung' digitally as well, we will make more intensive use of the possibilities offered by digital storytelling forms. The new storytelling team is an important first step in making the digital NZZ offering even more attractive for our readers. I am delighted that we have been able to recruit David Bauer, one of the most renowned digital journalists in the German-speaking world, to lead this team. The new structure of product development under Florian Steglich, who has worked consistently on the innovation of the NZZ brand with NZZ Labs in recent years, will accelerate our digital development. I look forward to working in the new constellation."
News in own thing: I change to the @nzz and build a digital storytelling team there. \o/
- David Bauer (@davidbauer) August 13, 2015
