AZ Nordwestschweiz: New deputy editor-in-chief, new co-head of domestic operations

Andreas Schaffner succeeds Gieri Cavelty, who is leaving the editorial team at the end of July to become Head of Media at the State Secretariat for Migration. Schaffner is a business crack with many years of journalistic experience at various media companies. He completed his law degree in 1992. He then wrote for Cash and worked as a business journalist for SRF ("Kassensturz", "Eco" and "10vor10"). This was followed by his first move to AZ Nordwestschweiz as head of economics. He later returned to SRF as a documentary filmmaker, wrote briefly for Blick and has been Head of Economics at AZ Nordwestschweiz since the beginning of 2015.

Doris Kleck (34) and Anna Wanner (31) will succeed Stefan Schmid, who will become Editor-in-Chief of the St. Galler Tagblatt, as Co-Head of the Federal Parliament editorial team. They will take over on October 1.

Kleck studied International Relations at the University of St. Gallen. From 2006, she was domestic and business editor at "Schaffhauser Nachrichten", later becoming editor and member of the editorial board. From 2012, she was national editor at AZ Nordwestschweiz and is now employed in the same role at the Bund / Tages-Anzeiger.

Wanner studied political science, history and art history at the University of Zurich and Columbia University in New York. After graduating, she completed a two-year diploma course in journalism at the MAZ at AZ Nordwestschweiz. She then moved to Südostschweiz in the editorial office of the Swiss parliament. She has held the same position at AZ Nordwestschweiz since March 2015.