New Editorial Director SRF News
Mark Livingston, currently editorial director of the radio midday shows "Rendez-vous" and "Tagesgespräch," is moving internally to SRF News. There, as editorial director, he will take over personnel and journalistic responsibility for SRF's online newsroom.
44-year-old Mark Livingston studied environmental sciences at ETH Zurich. From 2009 to 2011, he completed postgraduate studies (Master of Advanced Studies in Applied History) at the University of Zurich. Livingston has been in charge of the midday shows "Rendez-vous" and "Tagesgespräch" on Radio SRF since the beginning of 2010. Before that, he worked as a producer on the "Rendez-vous" team and as science editor for DRS 2 and Radio Information. In addition, he initiated and directed multimedia projects as an exhibition organizer. He has also written as a freelance print journalist for various media titles. He gained insight into television practice by spending several weeks at "Menschen-Technik-Wissenschaft" and at "Rundschau".
In June 2016, Mark Livingstons will relinquish editorial management of "Rendez-vous" and "Tagesgespräch" and then take over day-to-day operations in the online editorial department of SRF News. He will report directly to Sandra Manca, Head of SRF News. The succession of the editorial management of "Rendez-vous" and "Tagesgespräch" will be settled in the next months.
