The photograph shows the farewell to SVP Vice President Jasmin Hutter. The imbalance between the two is immediately apparent: Brunner is leaning forward relatively strongly towards Jasmin Hutter, while she is leaning back.

This prompted the newspaper to question the reason given by the party for her resignation - that Hutter wanted to look after her son full-time. It wondered, however, "whether it was not the excessive affection of the party president that led Hutter to resign". Thank you for these views and insights!

Council of States member Filippo Lombardi will be standing for election to the presidency, the "Child Guardian" will be awarded and the former management team of Schweizer Werbung (SW) under Chairman Carlo Schmid-Sutter will be bid farewell. Musical entertainment will also be provided.
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Readers were able to vote by text message, e-mail or postcard. Several hundred people made use of this opportunity. The subjects that received the most votes will now be published on a full page. Below are the winners, which were written by Markus Ruf, Andreas Hornung and Thomas Schöb.

The misdemeanors are collected on websites such as the Twitter Fail Blog. If you have the time and inclination, you can spend hours there amusing yourself about the mishaps in the Twitter world or getting upset about them. The spelling fanatics pursue their goal meticulously: in order to find as many mistakes as possible, one capital letter critic has even written a program that tracks down tweets written entirely in capital letters and scourges them with automatic rebukes. FINALLY SOMETHING USEFUL!

The Washington Post reported this on Saturday, citing a statement from a member of the competitor's board of directors. The Washington Times could not initially be reached for comment. The paper closed its sports department at the end of last year. The move was part of a cost-cutting program aimed at reducing the workforce by 40 percent. The conservative newspaper is suffering badly from the decline in advertising revenue in the economic crisis and a dwindling readership.

Until a successor is appointed, Thomas Moll, currently Head of Online Development/Projects at Tamedia, will take over the management of Tilllate Switzerland. Christian Hagmann joined the team shortly after the going-out portal was founded in 2000. After Tamedia's first investment step and the reorganization of the management, he took over the management in August 2008.

The "idée Suisse" will only disappear externally, but will remain as a claim for the company, as SRG spokesperson Daniel Steiner explained to the news agency SDA. The new logo will hardly be visible to television viewers and radio listeners. The renaming will have no effect on the names of the individual channels and programs, it said. These would be "adapted within the framework of the usual life cycles of the program brands". According to SRG, the costs of two million francs for the new brand name will be financed by savings of 30 million francs already made in the area of support (including IT, real estate and finance).
With the merger in German-speaking Switzerland, the consolidation of radio, television and online is complete in all language regions. The future name of the German-speaking part of SRG remained unclear on Sunday.
a secret of the company. The various public media channels in French-, Italian- and Romansh-speaking Switzerland had already been merged earlier under the heading of convergence.

(New SRG logo. Image source: Sonntagsblick)

According to SDA, the Federal Administrative Court initially confirmed the opinion of the Competition Commission that Publigroupe holds a dominant position in the market for the placement and sale of advertisements and advertising space in print media in Switzerland. In this context, the company had discriminated against certain other intermediaries by imposing unjustified commissioning conditions. According to the judges in Bern, it is irrelevant that Publigroupe undertook to change its commissioning practice during the course of the Weko investigation. Publigroupe had argued unsuccessfully in its appeal that the Weko proceedings should have been definitively concluded with the submission of this declaration. There was no longer any scope for imposing sanctions. On the contrary, the fine imposed by the Competition Commission violated the principle of legitimate expectations.
However, according to the Federal Administrative Court, previous anti-competitive behavior must also be punished if there is an amicable agreement for the future. Furthermore, according to the court, the duration of the proceedings and the amount of the fine itself are not objectionable.
Publigroupe appeals judgment to the Federal Supreme Court
The company will appeal the ruling to the Federal Supreme Court, as Publigroupe announced on Friday. Publigroupe also states that the current decision is based on market conditions that existed several years ago. Since then, the media and advertising world has changed fundamentally.
The Competition Commission launched its investigation in 2002. In 2007, the competition authorities came to the conclusion that Publigroupe had wrongly refused to compensate various small companies for advertisements placed. Although, according to Publigroupe, this only affected 3 out of 33 intermediaries, the Competition Commission considered this to be a "serious infringement".

The "Ringier Entertainment" division is being reorganized under the overall management of Marco Castellaneta, who is directly in charge of the "Events" sub-division. The "Radio" sub-division will be headed by Daniel Büchi, while the "Television/Moving Image" sub-division will be managed by Mathias Ruch, as Ringier reported in a press release on Friday. Markus Helbling is responsible for the "Event Services" sub-division and is also in charge of business development at Ringier Entertainment. Didier Peier, who will continue to head up "Marketing&Sales" at Ringier TV, will be appointed as the central Head of Marketing at Ringier Entertainment.
In addition to his duties as Editor-in-Chief of Cash TV, Fritz Spring will take over the overall management of the Ringier Presse TV programs Cash TV, Motorshow and Gesundheit Sprechstunde, which will be managed by Fibo Deutsch, as of May 1, 2010. Mathias Ruch, Head of Ringier TV, will be responsible for all other programs, such as 5 against 5 or Al Dente, as well as program development at Ringier TV.
Ringier Entertainment employs a total of 326 people. The newest Ringier division includes the radio stations Energy Bern and Energy Zurich as well as the DAB+ activities within SMC. In the television sector, it includes the production company Ringier TV, the Grundy business and the stakes in SAT.1 Schweiz and Teleclub. In the event sector, the involvement extends from the Rose d'Or, the concert agency Good News and the Classical Company in the classical concert sector to the ticketing sector. The changes will come into force on May 1, 2010.
Shareholdings
The Media Swiss Group will be affiliated with Ringier Switzerland and Germany with immediate effect. Daniel Grossen will remain in charge. As before, the holdings in Betty Bossi, 2R Media (il caffè), ER Publishing (Le Temps) and Ringier Kunstverlag JRP are organizationally located at Ringier Switzerland and Germany.
Strategy, services, projects
Michael Voss is now responsible at Ringier Switzerland and Germany level for Ringier Germany, Cash.ch, the Services division and Ringier Print Adligenswil. This is in addition to his duties as Head of Corporate Development and Strategy of Ringier Switzerland and Germany. These changes to the organization will take effect on 1 May 2010. Ringier Services will continue to be headed by Roland Kühne, while Bruno Blaser will remain in charge of Ringier Print Adligenswil.
Communication
Due to the increased responsibilities of Ringier Switzerland and Germany, the communications department is also being reorganized: Edi Estermann will take over overall management and external communications on June 1, 2010. The former head of news at Schweizer Illustrierte (2004 to 2008) most recently successfully led the Blick Group's "Integrated Newsroom" project. Internal communication in particular is also to be strengthened. This will also be headed by Stefan Hackh, who has been in charge of the Ringier Communications Switzerland department for the past two years, as of June 1, 2010.
Digital Media
The Digital Media division is headed by Thomas Huwiler. He heads the Digital Projects and Digital Competencies departments. At Ringier Switzerland and Germany management level, he will be responsible for geschenkidee.ch and Previon as of May 1, 2010. The managing directors of geschenkidee.ch, Leandro Sanchez and Simon Häusermann, and of Previon, Roger Wernli, will remain in their positions.

According to a press release issued by AZ Medien on Friday, the new division of the association will enable a clearer structure. The regions will be given a strong weight with their own second bundle, and the regional, journalistic competence and anchoring will also be formally emphasized. The number of departments and editorial pages will remain the same.
The first bundle is dedicated to national and international topics. It contains the opinion page, the topic of the day, domestic, foreign, business, national sport, national culture, special interest (knowledge, life, lifestyle, etc.). The second bundle is devoted to cantonal and regional topics. The front page of the second bundle features the most important topics from the respective region, the canton of Aargau and the canton of Zurich, in line with the Baden/Brugg/Zurzach, Aarau/Lenzburg-Seetal/Wynental-Suhrental, Freiamt or Fricktal and Limmattal editions. This is followed by cantonal topics, regional topics, regional sport and regional culture.
The Solothurner Zeitung, the Basellandschaftliche Zeitung and the Zofinger Tagblatt, which like the Aargauer Zeitung are part of the Mittelland Zeitung network, have already been published as a 2-bundle newspaper for several months and have met with a positive response from readers, according to the press release.

The 48-year-old Defago will take up his new position on July 1, 2010, the DDPS announced on Friday, according to SDA. The post of Head of DDPS Communications will be advertised. From July 1, 2010, Sebastian Hueber, Deputy Head of DDPS Communications/Chief of Information DDPS, will head the Departmental Communications ad interim.

Men who look in the mirror in the morning often take a critical look at their hair. The sparser it sprouts, the greater the resignation. As the advertisers at JWT+H+F found out in a comprehensive market analysis, those affected usually lack the belief that they can do anything at all about hair loss. However, there are now justified grounds for hope: with Priorin LF, Bayer is launching a freely available cosmetic product on the market that stimulates hair growth and actually provides help thanks to the pharmaceutical giant's concentrated scientific expertise.
JWT+H+F has developed the launch campaign for the new product and is focusing on strong emotions in a 30-second commercial. The nightmare of all men is dramatically visualized in an animated sequence. To prevent this nightmare from becoming reality, the benefits of early treatment with Priorin LF are then highlighted. Finally, the claim "Longer friends with your hair" sums up the product benefits in a nutshell. The campaign will be launched throughout Switzerland on May 3 and will include numerous POS measures in addition to the TV commercial.

Responsible at Bayer (Switzerland): Andreas Schönenberger (Country Division Head Consumer Care), Luca De Vito (Head of Marketing Analgesics & Dermatologics), Anita Hilgers (Brand Manager Priorin & Pretuval). Responsible at JWT+H+F: Remy Fabrikant (overall responsibility), Enrico Bachmann, Grischa Rubinick (CD), Grischa Rubinick (AD), Mathias Bart (text), Vanessa Lehmann-Spalleck, Christine Krause (consulting), Rainer Bühler (strategy), Victoria Iwaszkowska (DTP), Mirjam Fabrikant (FFF). Responsible at Frame Eleven (production): Marc Haas (consulting/CD), Pablo Kirschke (AD/3-D), Fabio Quaggiotto (3D mappings), Michael Raaflaub (illustrations/backgrounds), Beni Kägi (project management). Alexander Meier (director), Stephen Williams (DOP), David Satz (lighting), Jonathan Heyer (photographer), Rohner Retouche (image editing).