Hansjörg Enz was a member of the founding crew of the former Radio aktuell in 1984, later becoming a reporter and presenter of the SF DRS news program Tagesschau. After leaving Swiss television, Enz was media officer for Helvetas and lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur (now ZHAW), where he was responsible for the practical training of 300 students in the field of journalism/organizational communication. From 2008 to 2010, Hansjörg Enz worked for the German aid organization Eirene in Congo, where he trained journalists.

Hansjörg Enz says about his commitment to TVO: "I am excited by the task of presenting a discussion program on politics and business. The fact that other former TV faces are returning to the screen at almost the same time is a nice coincidence and a sign that television still has confidence in older men. "
 

Tageswoche is the new newspaper from Basel. The editorial team reports daily online at Tageswoche.ch and provides additional background information, reports, interviews, analyses, commentaries and columns every Friday in the weekly newspaper Tageswoche. The printed edition will be published for the first time on October 28, 2011.

> New Basel weekly newspaper is called Tageswoche

Sportplausch Wider has bikes for every taste, the agency writes in a statement. On request, a bike can even be "customized" according to personal preferences and dimensions. Therefore, the bike store from Wallisellen has commissioned a poster series of a special kind: Handmade posters for handmade bikes.

The graphic artists Silvio Brügger and Philipp Thöni (Blackyard, Bern) and Tobias Held (Atzgerei, Vienna) were engaged for the three creations. The posters will be published as silkscreen prints in limited and hand-signed small editions.

Responsible Sportplausch Wider: Peter Wider (overall responsibility). Responsible at Advico Young & Rubicam: Markus Gut (CCO), Daniel Bieri (CD), Julia Brandstätter (text), Silvio Brügger and Philipp Thöni (illustration, Blackyard) and Tobias Held (illustration, Atzgerei).

Joachim Aschoff, 47, took over as the new CIO of Ringier Informatik on May 1, 2010, the media company said in a statement Wednesday. He was responsible for managing group-wide IT services as well as all IT activities of Ringier Switzerland. Aschoff reported to the then Head of Corporate Center, Samuel Hügli - after the integration of the division directly to Michael Voss, COO Ringier Switzerland and Germany.

Aschoff played a key role in the integration of IT following the joint venture at Group level with the German publishing house Axel Springer in Eastern Europe, integrating the department at Ringier Switzerland and successively aligning it to the new needs, the statement continues. Among other things, Aschoff was responsible for the group-wide introduction of Google Mail. He also restructured IT as a central internal service provider at Ringier.

Now that this integration has been successfully completed and Joachim Aschoff had basically joined Ringier for a Group IT management function, he has decided to take on a new challenge. The new Head of IT will be 39-year-old Roland Kühne (pictured), Head of Services, who will take on the function in addition to his previous job. Kühne will take over on September 1, 2011 and, according to the press release, will focus IT even more strongly on the needs of Verlag Schweiz in the future.

Roland Kühne.
 

The cover story of the first issue of The Color of Days It is dedicated to the writer Werner Renfer from the Bernese Jura, who died 75 years ago, as the editors announced on Wednesday, according to SDA. Contributors to the 48-page inaugural issue include the Vaud-based director Lionel Baier, the photographer and journalist Michel Bührer, and the director of the Cinémathèque Suisse, Frédéric Maire. The magazine’s creators are opting for a slower pace with longer articles and feature stories. 'Quick updates are the domain of the internet,” said graphic designer Pierre Lipschutz, the project’s initiator. The magazine is launching with a print run of 15,000 copies. According to Lipschutz’s estimates, 4,000 subscribers and regular newsstand sales are needed to ensure the magazine’s long-term viability.

At the half-year financial press conference, Chairman of the Board of Directors Pietro Supino said that Radio 24's results had improved significantly. Tamedia's figures do not reveal how much profit the station made. Apparently, however, the improvement has an influence on the sales negotiations. According to the news agency SDA, Supino is calmly examining whether and to whom Radio 24 should be sold. The word "whether" indicates the possibility that Tamedia will not part with Radio 24 after all. The future of the station is to be clarified by the end of the year.

The same applies to Capital FM from Bern. Supino did not comment on the latter on Wednesday. Last week, Tamedia announced that it would sell the two TV stations Tele Züri and Tele Bärn to AZ Medien in Aarau. The sales price is not known.
 

Following the event premiere in London in 2010, this year's edition of the Forum will take place in Zurich from September 1 to 4. More than 1,000 young people from over 40 nations will then come together in Zurich's Kongresshaus to discuss the future of our world. In a first campaign phase is to draw attention to the event with stirring posters. Here you can see politicians who - as the real press images prove - too often waste their time with unimportant things instead of acting responsibly within the scope of their leadership function.

However, One Young World does not only take a stand against irresponsible politicians, it also discusses and provides its own solutions to remedy the ills of the world. Therefore, in a second campaign phase the broad spectrum of topics covered by the congress. Here, print subjects show the fresh approaches to solutions that young thinkers are using to tackle several world problems at the same time.

In a third phase of the campaign, a Facebook experiment also enables the general public to join in the One Young World discussions. Against the backdrop of the clocks being set back worldwide on October 30, the starting signal is given in Zurich for a social media campaign of a special kind. The linchpin is the one hour that everyone gets as a gift at the time change. World leaders are to use this time to think again about the decisions they have made, to work out new solutions, to correct mistakes. Under the motto "Time change, mind change. Leaders of the world, 1 hour to rethink your decisions." everyone can go to Facebook.com/timechangemindchange write about which politicians' decisions he feels are hasty, not fully thought through, or just plain wrong.

The campaign has been running since mid-August in Switzerland, abroad and on the web.

Responsible at One Young World: David Jones (Founder, Business Manager), Kate Robertson (Founder). Responsible at Euro RSCG Zurich: Frank Bodin (overall responsibility), Axel Eckstein, Alexander Holtz (CD), Ivan Madeo, Wolfgang Bark, Yannick Schaller (concept/text), Suzanne Friedli, Christina Wellnhofer (AD), Laurie Morard, Dominique Magnusson, Lea Fischlin (graphics), Nathalie Jakober (consulting), Verena Rentsch (art buying), Michael Wegmüller, Nicolas Baechtold (web project manager), Edi Burri (production).
 

Solitary as they are, the progress from various regions does not bode well. But Wirz Werbung and Condor Films have the situation under control and "Die Werbewoche" has the making of it.

In the second part, we report exclusively on the Cannes premiere 2011 in the Arena Filmcity, Zurich, and review this year's highlights.

People and advertising heroes on Thursday, 7.45 p.m. exclusively in "Die Werbewoche" on Star TV.

Ringier is parting ways with Nik Niethammer due to differing ideas about the future direction and concept of the magazine (picture above), the company wrote in a press release on Wednesday. He is handing over the reins to his deputy Stefan Regez. The 40-year-old has been a member of the editorial team since April 2010.

As editor-in-chief, Niethammer has significantly revised the visual language of the renowned Schweizer Illustrierte and further developed the proven people concept, the press release continues. He led the magazine into the digital age, greatly expanded the online editorial team and was responsible for the introduction and implementation of SI's internationally acclaimed eMagazine for the iPad.

Urs Heller, Head of Magazines Ringier Switzerland: "I would like to thank Nik Niethammer for his great commitment and dedication and wish him all the best for his future career."

Stefan Regez,
interim successor
by Nik Niethammer.

 

 

Apple wants access to subscribers' customer data, but the FT rejects this. The iPhone manufacturer has recently demanded that app subscriptions must be processed via its own online store. This gives the company access to the data of millions of cell phone and tablet users.

The iPad, which was introduced a year and a half ago, was a key driver behind the rising number of subscriptions to the online edition of the FT. They now account for around a quarter of all subscriptions. To become less dependent on Apple, in June the FT became the first major newspaper to launch a web-based version of its mobile app. Subscribers will soon be able to log in from any device via their internet browser. (SDA)
 

Nicolas Senn will host the new folk music show on SF 1 from August 25, 2012, SRF announced on Wednesday. The musician has been a fixture on the Swiss folk music scene since 2001 and has already made a number of appearances on Swiss radio and television. Senn has recently celebrated successes in various areas. He was awarded the "Prix Walo", toured with rapper Bligg and won the Swiss "Grand Prix of Folk Music" in 2010.

Kurt Zufluh will continue to host the show "Hopp de Bäse!" until June 30, 2012.
 

The 44-year-old was previously responsible for consumer PR for the Elmex and Meridol dental care brands in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, according to a press release. DJD is a press service for consumer topics. Around 150 articles with the sender DJD appear in German newspapers and magazines every day.