The organizers announced on Monday that a new record number of participants had already been registered before the deadline. In addition, a second hall will have to be rented for the Preview Day and the judging in February. The longer submission deadline is intended to give latecomers the opportunity to solve technical problems. They should also have enough time to submit high-quality work.

Birrer's new responsibilities include the publishing houses Rüegger, Südostschweiz Buchverlag and Terra Grischuna Buchverlag. Susanne Birrer has been working for the book publishers in Zurich since July 2006, initially as assistant to Myriam Engler, later as her deputy and as project coordinator. The team also consists of Anita Plozza, responsible for marketing for the (regional) publishers Südostschweiz and Terra Grischuna, and Hans Ramseier, responsible for cross-publisher sales.

Business with job advertisements alone has slumped by 15 million francs, said Peter Wanner, publisher of AZ Medien, in a report by the Aargau/Solothurn Regional Journal of Swiss Radio DRS on Monday. The reason for this was the economic crisis. The cost-cutting measures in the past financial year had not been able to cushion the massive slump. AZ Medien will therefore be in the red. Wanner did not disclose how high the loss will be. AZ Medien AG will publish its financial results at the annual general meeting on May 28, 2009.

As Head of Human Resources, Corporate Communications, Branding and Advertising, Pamela Thomas-Graham will report directly to CS CEO Brady Dougan, CS announced on Monday. The previous heads of Human Resources and Communications, Harald Stoehr, Global Head of Human Resources, and Charles Naylor, Global Head of Corporate Communications and Branding, will continue their responsibilities. They will now report to Pamela Thomas-Graham. In the newly created role, Pamela Thomas-Graham will help CS to become the "most respected bank in the world", according to the press release.
Pamela Thomas-Graham (born 1963) comes from Detroit. She currently lives in New York with her husband and three children. Thomas-Graham most recently worked as Managing Director at the private equity group Angelo, Gordon & Co. in New York. Prior to that, she was Group President at fashion company Liz Claiborne and Chairman and Managing Director of CNBC Television and CNBC.com. She also worked at the consulting firm McKinsey for ten years, most recently as a partner.

Each of the three stories begins with the many questions and the uncertain feeling of a young woman before a first date. As the stories progress, it becomes clear that the excitement of the first encounter sometimes makes situations seem different than they actually are. And the stories show that despite all the misunderstandings, a first date can turn into something more. The commercials are now available in 30 and 20-second versions.

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Responsible at Neu.ch: Joachim Rabe. Responsible at McCann Erickson: Sibylle Kaelin, Stephen Dickel, Anne Posmantir (consulting), Bernd Schultze, Silke Wartenberg, Stefan Gigon (creation). Adaptation: Markenfilm Schweiz and Tonstudios Z.

Ilja Kaenzig worked as assistant sports director and transfer coordinator for Grasshoppers-Club Zürich from 1994 to 1998. He then worked as manager of Bayer 04 Leverkusen until 2004, with whom he reached the Champions League final in 2001/2002. From mid-2004 to mid-2007, he was Managing Director and Sports Director of Hannover 1996. Most recently, he worked independently in the field of investments in football.
Kaenzig studied business administration and began his journalistic career in 1993 with regular expert appearances and columns on international football on television and in print media, including the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and FIFA magazine. Since June 2008, he has been writing a weekly column for Blick am
Evening. Kaenzig is a member of the Association of Swiss Sports Journalists.

In order not to upset Beijing, the Wall Street Journal censors itself. Comments critical of the regime that were published on the newspaper's English website are nowhere to be found on the Chinese site. "Sometimes, for example on the founding day of the People's Republic of China on October 1, the Chinese online edition of the Wall Street Journal even comes across as well-behaved and statist, as if it were published by the Communist Party itself," according to an article in the Tagesanzeiger on Friday. On the occasion of the holiday, photos of marching soldiers and Chinese flags could be seen, but no critical comments on the pompous military parade. Even some Chinese-owned newspapers, and in particular the online edition of the Financial Times, were more courageous, the article continued.
The Murdoch employees in Asia did not want to comment. However, when Rupert Murdoch expressed an interest in buying the Wall Street Journal in 2007, the foreign correspondents based in China protested against the takeover in an open letter. In this letter, they wrote that Murdoch had sacrificed his journalistic integrity to satisfy his political and personal goals.

Spillmann/Felser/Leo Burnett is now responsible for the communication presence of Migros Club School and will henceforth promote Switzerland's largest further education institution. The first works can be seen in all language regions from spring 2010.
Depot-Interio has decided to commission the opening campaign for its nine stores from the Zurich agency Matter & Gretener to be realized. The agency announced on Monday that the first communication measures will soon be seen.
The Danish software developer Ciklum has Jenni communication with the development and implementation of public relations work in Switzerland. The collaboration starts immediately. The main tasks include media relations and specialist communications consulting. Founded in 1996, the Zurich-based agency focuses on mandates in the ICT, start-up and consumer electronics sectors.
Future Connection won the budget for Richard Landheer's overall appearance and was commissioned to relaunch the website and print materials. The new website is intended to present the multifaceted company for building maintenance, cleaning and sewer maintenance more authentically and to address the various target groups more specifically. A long-term collaboration is also planned, in which further communication measures will be developed.

Silvio Lebrument, Managing Director of Südostschweiz TV, will take over the role on an interim basis. The new Sales and Marketing Manager of Radio Grischa and Radio Engiadina, which also belong to the Südostschweiz Group, will be Andres Hartmann. The 30-year-old has been working in marketing at Radio Grischa, Radio Engiadina and Tele Südostschweiz since 2006.

The trophies are awarded in 29 categories and four times as a special prize. New this year are the renaming and expansion of some categories to give greater prominence to electronic corporate publishing media. The "Electronic Publishing" category has become "Digital Media" and "Best Crossmedia Solution" stands for "Media Integration.
Applicants can now submit their electronic publications by industry affiliation rather than by media type, as was previously the case. In addition, the best video productions in the "Best Use of Video" category will receive a BCP award. The category for employee media has also been redesigned. Applicants submit their employee newspapers and magazines by industry affiliation.

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The new special "Cover of the Year" award is presented by Corbis and honors the best cover photo of a corporate publishing medium. In addition, there is a special "Green Publishing" award for publications with a high sustainability factor. In addition to international communication concepts, publications with outstanding print finishing or print finishing are awarded the special "Print & Innovation" prize. The Federal Association of German Press Officers (BdP) will also be presenting the Awards for Corporate Reports in 2010. The deadline for applications is April 15, 2010.
The Corporate Communications Awards will be presented on June 30, 2010 in Hamburg - following the international BCP Congress. The competition is organized by Forum Corporate Publishing (FCP) together with media partners Acquisa, Horizont, W&V and Werbewoche. The application documents, conditions of participation and further information on the competition can be found at Bcp-award.com.

In contrast to the previous website, it is no longer just SI articles that are posted, but mostly specially produced content. This includes several blogs by unknown female writers as well as the everyday experiences of presenter and online boutique owner Anna Maier. The new portal will be managed by six SI editors under the direction of Andrea Müller, the previous head of the SI website. Ringier spokesperson Stefan Hackh told the news agency SDA that there are no plans to hire additional staff for the time being. The online team will continue to work for the print product. The VIP lexicon contains pictures and information on the most important Swiss personalities from politics, business, society and sport. There is also a portal for cell phones, Schweizer-illustrierte.mobi, for use on the move.

With male and female protagonists respectively, human skin and materials meet, surfaces come to life, artfully stylized elements merge with each other in a physical way. Sounds and a voice form the acoustic framework. The productions can be seen from January 2010 on SF1, SF2, SFinfo, Vox and RTL (Switzerland).

Responsible at Elbau Küchen: Engelbert Weis. Responsible at Dachcom.ch Communication BSW, Rheineck: Heinrich Gmeiner, Ralf Bruggmann (CD/text), Hubert Stemer (AD), Otto Gmeiner, Didier Graf (consulting). Production: Das Netz, Kai Binder.