Swiss Construction Industry: Susanna Vanek New Editorial Director
Susanna Vanek is the new editorial director of the trade journal Schweizer Bauwirtschaft. She has taken over the editorial management of the monthly publication as of April 1, 2016. Vanek succeeds Massimo Diana.
According to the press release, the latter wanted to reorient himself professionally after five years in this position. Susanna Vanek is an accomplished connoisseur of the industry and has been dealing with construction topics as a trade journalist for many years. From 2010 to 2015, she was editor-in-chief of Schweizer Holz-Zeitung and, as part of a cross-media publishing strategy, was responsible, among other things, for setting up an online portal about the timber construction industry. Before that, from 2007 to 2009, she was editor-in-chief of the trade magazines Kommunalmagazin, Bauherrenmagazin, Wohnwelten and Hotel + Gastro at the publishing house Docu Media Schweiz.
Vanek studied Italian, Slavic studies and German at the universities of Zurich and Rome. Her first journalistic stations were the Aargauer Zeitung and the lifestyle and travel magazine WoW World of Wellness, for which she was editor-in-chief.
The Swiss Construction Industry is published by the Swiss Association of Master Builders. The trade magazine is published monthly and contains articles in German, French and Italian. According to Wemf certification, the magazine, which is in its 115th year, has a paid circulation of 6268 copies, and the total print run is 6700 copies.
