Matthias Halbeis joins Furrerhugi in January as Senior Consultant
Matthias Halbeis, co-head of the Blick Group’s Federal Parliament editorial office and former news director of the Sonntagszeitung, will join Furrerhugi on January 1, 2018. As a senior consultant, he will strengthen the communications agency’s strategic media relations and storytelling capabilities.
Matthias Halbeis has written about business and cantonal politics for the Mittelland Zeitung, the Solothurner Zeitung and the Lagenthaler Tagblatt. He then became news editor and head of news at SonntagsZeitung. From 2014, he was co-head of the BLICK Group's parliamentary editorial team. There he also promoted digital narrative forms in particular. Halbeis also has newsroom experience and social media skills. He studied geography and political science at the Universities of Bern and Aarhus in Denmark and lives with his family in Zurich.
Andreas Hugi, CEO Furrerhugi: "We are delighted to have Matthias Halbeis on board, an experienced journalist who thinks in stories, knows the media, political and economic system inside out and is also sensitized to the facets of digital communication.
