Many Zurichers, few women: Tamedia appoints head of department for competence center
Tamedia has appointed the department heads for the planned center of excellence in German-speaking Switzerland, which will be established in Zurich and Bern. The proportion of Zurich-based staff is much higher than that of Bern-based staff. Women are also few and far between.
Under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Arthur Rutishauser, the new competence center in German-speaking Switzerland will be responsible for national reporting in the domestic, foreign, business and sports sections. It will also provide cultural, social, knowledge and service content for the affiliated newspaper titles.
"Capital city office" in Bern
As has been known for some time, Arthur Rutishauser is editor-in-chief. His deputy is Adrian Zurbriggen, who comes from the Bernese Newspaper and will take over the "Hauptstadtbüro" in Bern, as Tamedia announced internally on Friday. Other members of the editorial team are Armin Müller, Iwan Städler and Michael Marti. A look at the newly appointed department heads shows that the majority of the Tages-Anzeiger comes from. Bernese people are less common. This is because the editors of Tages-Anzeiger and SonntagsZeitung was already the largest editorial office within Tamedia, said company spokesman Christoph Zimmer at the request of the SDA. That is why it also has the largest number of department heads in the new editorial team. However, with Zurbriggen as deputy editor-in-chief and several department heads, Bern is also represented at management level.
Daniel Foppa and Fabian Renz are in charge of the politics department, while Peter Burkhardt is head of the business department. Christof Münger is in charge of the Foreign Affairs department and three department heads are responsible for Sport: Adrian Ruch, Ueli Kägi and Alexandra Stäuble. Guido Kalberer will be Head of Culture and Bettina Weber Head of Society.
Only a few women
Zimmer also admits that the proportion of male managers is still higher than the proportion of women. But this also reflects the current situation, he said. According to Zimmer, however, there are also exceptions - such as Editorial Services, which combines layout, picture editing, photography, proofreading and other support departments. Half of the management positions there are held by women.
Only two editorial offices left
The media group Tamedia announced in August that it was reorganizing its newspaper editorial team. From 2018, two supra-regional editorial teams in German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland will provide the cover for twelve newspaper titles. Competence centers are planned for Zurich, Bern and Lausanne. According to Tamedia, no redundancies are planned until the introduction on January 1, 2018. The reason for the concentration is the sharp decline in advertising sales.
