Schweizer Familie is strengthening its editorial team. Sabine Schweizer will be working as a producer in the Leisure department from August 17, 2009. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Inside Switzerland Magazine. Daniel Ganzfried will join the Knowledge Department as a producer on August 3, 2009. Ganzfried currently works as a rewriter at Blick, and previously worked for Facts, Folio, NZZ, Du and other media. He is the author of the novel "Der Absender" and co-author of several film projects.

Anyone who thought the infamous Nipplegate scandal was water under the bridge was mistaken. The exposed breast of U.S. pop star Janet Jackson at the 2004 Superball final, which was watched by around 90 million TV viewers, is still a matter of concern in the U.S. today. More precisely, the Supreme Court in Washington. After the CBS television station, on which the incident was shown, was acquitted by the appeals court in Philadelphia in July 2008 after three years of trial, the Washington court has now decided to overturn the acquittal. The appeals court must now reconsider whether the broadcaster should not have paid a fine after all.
The acquittal in Philadelphia had taken place during George W. Bush's term in office and was naturally a thorn in the latter's side - like any true Republican. The government argued that Jackson's "public exposure" fell under the U.S. ban on causing public nuisance - even though Jackson's chest was adorned with a sun nipple piercing. Well, nothing and no one is immune to the scandalization craze.

The online magazine Tink.ch, which is produced by young people for young people, is opening a new local editorial office in Basel and is looking for young journalists. They are looking for young people between the ages of 16 and 30 who are socially interested and committed and enjoy writing. Journalistic experience is not a prerequisite, editor-in-chief Lena Tichy told Basellandschaftliche Zeitung. Working for Tink.ch is a hobby for the reporters, as there is no fee. In addition, there is no minimum number of texts that have to be written. Around 40 permanent members and 50 freelancers are currently involved in St. Gallen, Zurich and Bern.

The Gütersloh-based media group Bertelmann wants to cut costs immensely. As Group CEO Hartmut Ostrowski told the FAZ, he wants to save several hundred million euros.
The measures affect program costs in the television division RTL Group as well as the pricing policy at the book publisher Random House. Ostrowski also wants to cut personnel costs, for example in the printing and services division Arvato. Among other things, the Bertelsmann CEO named the temporary waiver of vacation and Christmas bonuses as well as extended working hours as possible instruments. Like his Executive Board colleagues, Ostrowski had waived all bonus payments for 2009 and thus more than 50 percent of his income.
Europe's largest media group, which will present its quarterly figures for the first quarter of 2009 on May 12, will not slip into the red operationally in the current year, according to Ostrowski. Last year, Bertelsmann's revenues fell by around 14 percent to 16.1 billion euros.

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Move to Tamedia: Martin A. Senn will become a member of the editorial boards of the Bund and Tages-Anzeiger and - if the papers merge - will perform a hinge function. Most recently, he was deputy editor-in-chief of NZZ am Sonntag. In addition, the 50-year-old Senn will also become head of a possible joint editorial office of the Bund, as Tamedia announced on Saturday. Martin A. Senn knows the conditions in Bern: He began his journalistic career at the Bund.
The fate of the Berner Bund is still up in the air. The media group Tamedia is currently examining several models to ensure the newspaper's survival. One envisages a cooperation between the Bund and the Tages-Anzeiger, another a merger with the Berner Zeitung. The long-awaited decision is to be made in the summer.
However, as Tamedia spokesperson Christoph Zimmer emphasized on Saturday at the request of SDA, Senn's appointment is by no means a preliminary decision in the direction of cooperation with the Tages-Anzeiger. If the Tamedia Board of Directors does not decide in favor of the cooperation model, Senn will continue to work as the head of the Federal House and a member of the Tagi editorial team.
If the cooperation model comes to fruition, Senn will play a pivotal role between Bern and Zurich. Recently, the Bund and Tages-Anzeiger have also repeatedly exchanged articles. Zimmer emphasized that this is not an indication of a preliminary decision. There had been departures at both papers recently. It made no sense to fill these vacancies before the future of the Bund had been clarified. That's why the exchange was an obvious choice. Zimmer described the fact that the cooperation model could be tested as a pleasant side effect.

Ancient stone sculptures such as the Farnese Hercules or the Venus de Milo can be models for people who want to model their bodies. This aspect is used by the David Gym fitness studio, where the cult of the body is at the center. The subjects of the campaign developed by Publicis each feature a man and a woman beating themselves out of stone, thus becoming a flawless, living image of the ancient sculptures.
The subjects of the campaign appear as print ads and as posters.
Responsible at David Gym: Kathi Fleig. Responsible at Publicis: Florian Beck (CD/AD), Denis Schwarz (AD), Thomas Berger (graphics), Jonathan Heyer (photography), Patrik Rohner (image editing), Fabio Clerici (litho).

Advico Young & Rubicam has developed a poster campaign to show the best way to keep your body fit: with a bike from Sportplausch Wider. The three subjects dramatize the bike as the ideal training device for keeping your stomach, hips and chin in shape. What at first glance looks like an exciting hilly landscape turns out to be a stubborn mountain of fat, which two men and a woman are defying on their bikes.
Responsible at Sportplausch Wider: Peter Wider (owner). Responsible at Advico Y&R: CCO Markus Gut, Isabelle Hauser (AD), Annik Weber (graphics), Julia Brandstätter (text), Felix Schregenberger (image editing).

For the third time, Cosmic has designed and realized the appearance of the "Day of Milk" of the Swiss Milk Producers SMP at over 90 locations in Switzerland. Posters, flyers and inserts in the trade magazine Le Menu were the main focus, according to a statement from the agency. This year, online measures were also used to a greater extent. In addition to an animated banner on Swissmilk.ch, a banner was also placed on Facebook for ten days.

Schweizer Radio DRS has completed the team for the "Persönlich" program. Katharina Kilchenmann will take over from Esther Schneider in August and Christian Zeugin will join the team in September as the fourth host of the talk show. Kilchenmann and Zeugin will alternate hosting the show with Karin Frei and Daniel Hitzig.
Kilchenmann has been a presenter and editor at Schweizer Radio DRS since 1992. Among other things, she regularly presents jazz in the program "Apéro" and is one of the morning voices in "DRS 2 à la carte". Zeugin has also been working for Schweizer Radio DRS for eight years. In 2007 and 2008, he was part of the launch team for the new information channel DRS 4, whose development he accompanied from the very beginning.

Together with Sensus PR, Eclat has won the pitch for the new DKSH customer magazine. This is already the second major assignment for DKSH.
The Erlenbach-based agency, which specializes in brand consulting and communication design, won the pitch against two competitors and was awarded the contract to design the graphics for the 64-page DKSH customer magazine and the subsequent issues. Sensus PR is also on board, taking on editorial responsibility.
DKSH is the leading company in the field of market expansion services with a focus on Asia. Previously, Fantree News was published twice a year and was aimed at employees, customers and manufacturers. In order to address the target group more effectively, Fantree News will now be continued as an employee magazine and an independent customer magazine will also be introduced in 2009. This is intended to position DKSH as the number 1 in the Market Expansion Services sector and as a specialized, experienced and reliable partner, as Eclat writes in a press release. The first issue of the magazine will be published in September 2009.
Last year, Eclat and Sensus PR were awarded the contract for the DKSH Annual Report 2008, which will be published in mid-May.

The Lucerne agency Ideart has designed and produced the twelfth edition of the Lucerne bar guide. The free pocket-sized guide is available in bars, hotels and tourist information offices in Lucerne and the surrounding area. The bar guide has been published since 1997 under the auspices of the Insider Verlag, Carlsberg and Ideart team. It was launched by Ludek Martschini (Ideart).
In addition to the guide itself, the agency also produced the VIP invitation to the launch party, posters, advertisements, flyers and the Website designed.
Responsible at Ideart: Ludek Martschini (concept/creation), Peter Martschini (layout/typesetting/DTP).
Responsible at Insider Verlag: Irina Rey. Responsible at Feldschlösschen: Markus Furrer.