The move is at his own request, according to a statement on Friday. Whether and in what capacity Perricone will remain with the company is currently still being discussed. On an interim basis, the management and coordination of the politics department will be taken over by the board of editors-in-chief in the newsroom.

Perricone took over the job as head of politics from Jürg Lehmann at the beginning of March this year. He was previously deputy editor-in-chief of Blick am Abend.
 

Edi. is the Swiss film award for advertising, industrial and corporate films. The competition is under the patronage of the Federal Department of Home Affairs and is being held for the twelfth time this year. The submission period runs from July 1 to August 31, 2011. Commissioned productions produced by a Swiss production company and/or realized by Swiss directors can be submitted to the competition. The competition evaluates commercial film productions in terms of their professional output, and the award is given for high conceptual and cinematic quality.

Imprint representatives presented in Zurich the German translation of the new CLA for French-speaking Switzerland, which came into force on the same day. Imprint President Daniel Suter stressed that a similar agreement should also be possible for German-speaking Switzerland and Ticino.

In German-speaking Switzerland, the publishers organized in the Swiss Media Association terminated the CLA in 2004. Since then, the publishers have regulated the employment relationships with the journalists and freelancers they employ themselves.

Imprint has now written to the publishers individually, sent them the new CLA for French-speaking Switzerland and proposed CLA negotiations to the Executive Committee of the Swiss Media Association. In the letter, Impressum calls for a decision on the start of contract negotiations at the publishers' congress in September. If negotiations with the publishers were to begin, Impressum would of course conduct them together with the media union Syndicom. In German-speaking Switzerland, both organizations have always been contractual partners of the publishers.

Stagnating to declining wages

The seven years without a contract had "not only brought good things for the publishers," said Suter. In German-speaking Switzerland, labor disputes were much more frequent than in French-speaking Switzerland, where there was always a CLA. Settling such conflicts is often grueling not only for journalists, but also for publishers. These conflicts, in turn, arise because there is no CLA that sets generally binding guidelines for employment relationships. For journalists, in turn, these years without a contract have brought stagnating to declining wages.

Lebrument shows little inclination for CLA negotiations

Little inclination for CLA negotiations was shown by Publishers Association President Hanspeter Lebrument in an interview with Schweizer Journalist magazine. He does not think it is time to return to the negotiating table with the unions, he said. In the interview, he also said that "in a structure with very small publishing houses and corporate groups," it is no longer possible to regulate employment relationships in a way that is binding for everyone. Imprint, on the other hand, is counting on other publishers to be more open-minded. (SDA)
 

La Liberté's publishing and printing operations will be combined in the new St. Paul Druckereien und La Liberté Medien AG, the company announced, according to SDA. The second new company operates the book and bookstore business and looks after the company's real estate.

The third company is a holding company that manages the participations. For example, St. Paul AG holds stakes in the daily newspaper Freiburger Nachrichten, the newspaper La Gruyère from Bulle FR and in Radio Fribourg/Freiburg.

The new structure has no impact on the workforce. However, St. Paul AG hopes that this will make it easier for future partners to join the company. In March, the company had announced that the Sisters of St. Paul, who own the company, intended to withdraw in the medium term. (SDA)

The decision was triggered by the need to secure the continued existence of ZMS after Miranda Bammert-Zahn had to step down as CEO for health reasons, according to a statement on Friday. The planned cooperation under the joint holding umbrella is intended to bundle the strengths of the two Swiss media monitoring houses and better leverage them for the benefit of customers.

For the time being, nothing will change for the employees, the statement continues. They will remain employed in their respective companies, which will be managed by Ralph Brechlin, Argus, and on the ZMS side by Stephan Wyss and Mirjana Egeric. At the same time, both companies would jointly launch a cooperation project with the task of developing a proposal by the end of 2011 on how the cooperation between Argus and ZMS could be made as cooperative and at the same time as effective as possible. Linard Campell (Argus), Jürg Zahn (ZMS) and Matthias Mölleney (external project coach and personnel expert) have been assigned to lead the cooperation project.
 

Thomas Schrämli is the new head of Goldbach Interactive's Campaigns & Search competence center based in Zurich-Küsnacht, as the company announced on Friday. He leads a team of eleven consultants and strategists. The marketing planner previously worked as Senior Account Manager at Goldbach Interactive.

According to the press release, he previously gained industry experience as a consulting group leader at Maxomedia and as Head of Marketing and Communication at the Swiss Border Guard Corps (GWK). He is familiar with both traditional media and the new digital channels of advertising and knows how to dovetail them profitably.

Andreas Jorgella, who has been with Goldbach Interactive - then still Orange8 - since August 2008, is leaving the company at the end of August to pursue a medium-term career change. Under his leadership, the Küsnacht site was developed and continuously expanded into a full-service provider for performance marketing and search. Jorgella lectures part-time at the Swiss Marketing Institute as part of the "Online Marketing & E-Business Manager" course.
 

Tom Rüegge summarizes his decision by saying that he can look back on two very exciting and instructive years, that SSF now stands on a solid foundation and that the initially defined development work has been completed. He will devote himself to new tasks and mandates within Mediapolis, St. Gallen, in the field of business and communications consulting. The management of SSF will therefore consist of Claudia Lässer and Marcel Schelbert in future. As program manager, Lässer will continue to deal with content-related issues, while Marcel Schelbert, who has been working for SSF since the beginning of March, will take care of association cooperation and business management tasks.
 

"Testing will take place in July, there may still be interruptions, but the system will be up and running from August," Karin Müller, Program Manager and Editor-in-Chief of Radio 24, was quoted as saying in a press release on Friday. Müller does not want to reveal any details about the promotions and innovations in connection with DAB+. What is certain is that Radio 24 will not simply broadcast its existing program digitally.

The private broadcaster intends to provide ongoing information on further activities in connection with DAB+. A mailbox has been set up on the website: At Digital.radio24.ch there are answers to questions from listeners on the subject of digital radio.

Andreas Schönenberger, former Country Manager of Google Switzerland and member of the Publigroupe Board of Directors since April 2010, will represent the Group's interests at Zanox (joint venture with Axel Springer) together with Renato Martignoni and Andreas Schmidt, CFO of Publigroupe. Renato Martignoni, who as CFO of DMS was one of the key players in the development of the Group's digital portfolio, will take on additional operational responsibilities in his additional role as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the business segment and will report to the Group's CEO, Hans-Peter Rohner. In order to continue to drive forward the Group's digital expansion in the future, it was also decided to create a new Head of Digital Development role at Group level, which will be filled shortly. The changes and new responsibilities will take effect from September 1, 2011.

Publigroupe is active in three operational business segments: Search & Find, Media Sales and DMS. Publigroupe's online activities, including its participations, generated sales of CHF 657 million in 2010, according to its own figures. The digital division employs over 1,000 people.

> Thomas Kaiser leaves Publigroupe and becomes CEO of Media Swiss Group

Thomas Kaiser will take over the management of the Ringier subsidiary Media Swiss Group on October 1, 2011. He succeeds Daniel Grossen, who will continue to chair the company as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Kaiser has been with Publigroupe since 2006, initially as Head of Corporate Development, since 2008 as CEO Digital & Marketing Services and since 2009 also as Deputy CEO of the entire group. Prior to this, he spent several years in management positions in the media industry, including at Hubert Burda Media and Bertelsmann. Thomas Kaiser holds a degree in economics from the University of St. Gallen.

Following his resignation as CEO of the Scout Group, which he announced on March 29, 2011, the former head of Media Swiss Group, Daniel Grossen, will also step down from his current operational activities at the company at his own request in order to pursue new entrepreneurial challenges. Grossen will, however, remain active as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Media Swiss Group and will be available to Ringier as an advisor.

The Media Swiss Group operates online marketplaces, geographic information systems, electronic directories and the marketing of advertising space. The Group includes the online offerings of the Scout24 Group - a joint venture with Deutsche Telekom - Anibis, Gate24, Xmedia, Omnimedia, Geomatic, Baugate24, Mapgate24 and international holdings.

> Publigroupe: expansion of digital activities continues

Telesuisse also set itself new goals, according to the statement: the association wants to equip a television studio in the media center of the Federal Palace; from there, it should be possible to better follow topics of Federal Palace politics from a regional perspective. The association is planning a
office in the capital. From there, he wants to work centrally on some improvements to the RTV law in order to be able to guarantee the regional-local broadcasters the best conditions for a good public service in the sense of the current system.