At the 150th anniversary of the media trade union Comedia in Zurich on Saturday, Federal Councillor Micheline Calmy-Rey spoke out in favor of stronger banking regulation. The trade unions are also called upon to help with the reorganization in connection with the banking crisis.
According to SDA, the Foreign Minister told around 300 trade union members and guests that new regulations needed to be established, in particular stricter controls on risk assumption. A key point was also the review of bonus and incentive systems. After all, the banks depend on the support of the population.
According to Calmy-Rey, the medium and long-term effects of the government's countermeasures can hardly be estimated today. However, the state aid measures abroad and in Switzerland in support of UBS were necessary to stabilize the financial system and prevent worse things from happening.
However, Calmy-Rey said she understood that large sections of the population felt it was unfair if the people were asked to pay after years of bonuses flowing into bankers' pockets thanks to risky investments.
Financial crisis also an opportunity
Comedia Co-President Roland Kreuzer also saw the financial crisis as an opportunity: the purely profit-oriented market ideology and deregulation strategy of the last 20 years had been badly shaken. This shows that no social system can survive in the long term by ignoring the people.
According to Kreuzer, this is a testament to Comedia's own history and gives courage for tomorrow. Strengthening Comedia's ability to assert itself is important for the future. The current efforts to merge the media union with other trade unions should be seen in this context.
Comedia, which has 13,500 members, was formed just ten years ago from the merger of the Printing and Paper Union (GDP) with three smaller unions, the Book Trade Employees, the Lithographers' Union and the Journalists' Union. For its anniversary, Comedia took its inspiration from the GDP, which was founded in Olten in 1858. The Employees' Association of the Swiss Book Trade was also founded 125 years ago.

The horror is catching up with us: Pro 7 is planning the second season of the mentalist show "The next Uri Geller" for January. The challenger and star of the show will be Vincent Raven, according to the Sonntag newspaper. The one with the evil eye and the raven Corax, we remember. However, Uri Geller's blond, curly-haired successor is anything but sure that he will compete in the second season. He is not at all happy with the contract that Pro 7 has offered him, he is quoted as saying in Sonntag. But no, it's not about the money - he already has enough of that: he is said to have won 160,000 francs for his spells in the first season. It is much more important to him that it works for him and his animals. Very commendable, Mr. Raven. However, he does not want to reveal any contract details. He is now waiting for a new contract from the TV station - if the conditions are not right, he will no longer compete. With or without Vincent - the second season will probably have some of us sitting obsessively in front of the TV with a spoon on top and shouting strange words... although of course nobody really believes it.

The German science journalist Max Rauner receives this year's Prix Media of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT). He is being honored for an article on panic research using the example of the pilgrimage site of Mecca. His article "One-way street to the Hajj" was published in the Sonntagszeitung on November 11, 2007.
Radio DRS 2 also receives a recognition award for the special program "At the frontiers of knowledge". On February 8, 2008, under the direction of editor Christian Heuss, everything revolved around scientific questions, topics and boundaries for 14 hours.
This year, the Prix Media will be awarded for the last time in its previous form. As of 2009, it will be awarded jointly within the framework of the Association of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences as the "Prix académies-suisses der Naturwissenschaften".

2010 will be a year of major upheaval for SRG: Radio DRS and Swiss Television SF will be merged organizationally. Important activities will be merged - and the two SRG companies will now have a joint director. This is the result of research by the Sonntag newspaper. Today, Ingrid Deltenre and Walter Rüegg have their own directors. However, both heads are holding out the prospect of stepping down in two years' time, as are SRG Chairman of the Board of Directors Jean-Bernard Münch, SRG Director General Armin Walpen and his deputy Daniel Eckmann, who, according to Sonntag, is toying with the idea of taking early retirement. Before this coordinated multi-pack resignation takes place, the bosses are pushing ahead with the "convergence project". Radio director Rüegg says: "Parts of IT, accounting and HR can easily be concentrated." The Ticino region, where such a project is already underway, serves as a model. The aim is to exploit synergies.

On the occasion of the ADC Gala in February 2009, the Art Directors Club is realizing the new festival magazine Brisanz this year. In cooperation with the Swiss business magazine Bilanz, the new issue will be published on February 2, 2009.
Since last year, the festival newspaper has become a professional magazine with contributions from journalists, writers, the best advertisers and representatives from marketing and PR, writes the ADC in a press release.
The first 500 copies will be distributed to the guests present on the evening of the ADC Gala. A further 10,000 copies will be added to the total circulation of the trade magazines Persönlich rot and Werbewoche and sent to the ADC community and other marketing and advertising circles.

The Switch Foundation, which manages the .ch and .li domain names, is relaunching its customer magazine, the Switch Journal. The first issue of the Switch Journal was published on Friday.
The agency for brand consulting and communication design Eclat conceived and designed the new magazine and provided editorial support. Christoph Frei is responsible for illustrations and Frank Brüderli for photography.
The Switch Journal has been published since 1989, currently twice a year, in March and October, and reports in several languages on the activities, projects and current developments of the Switch Foundation and its customers, primarily Swiss universities. The content covers the areas of networks, security, collaboration and Internet domains.

Cavegn Werbung has designed a new poster for the Zurich Ballet. Markus Cavegn and his team designed a large-format advertising image for the performance of "La Sylphide", which was produced under the direction of Heinz Spoerli. It is available in F4 format at the box office of the Zurich Opera House. The Zurich-based advertiser has already designed several posters for the ballet company.
Responsible at the Zurich Ballet: Heinz Spoerli (overall responsibility), Peter A. Marschel (manager). Responsible at Cavegn Werbung: Markus Cavegn (art direction), Daniel Soldenhoff (graphics), Julien Vonier (photography), Reproscan (litho), Setaprint AG (printing).

The Swiss offshoot of the sporting goods company Nike is expanding the responsibilities of its Head of Marketing. Heiko Brunner is now responsible not only for Switzerland, but also for Austria and Slovenia. He will now lead two local teams based in Bassersdorf and Vienna.
Heiko Brunner worked in various positions in marketing and sales at Unilever, most recently as brand and innovation developer for the Omo brand. He has now been responsible for marketing at Nike for three years.

The Euro RSCG "Brand Momentum Study" has revealed that Obama has a stronger future brand potential than Google or the iPhone. In this year's study, 3,500 brands in 12 countries were examined in terms of their brand momentum.
In a consumer survey, Euro RSCG analyzed the top brands in the USA, Great Britain, France and China. For the study, consumers were asked which brands they thought had fallen behind, gained ground or stayed the same.
The tool has been proven to predict the success or failure of the world's best-known brands, writes the SDA in a press release.
With a brand momentum of 82.2 points, Obama achieved a stronger future brand potential than Google with 73.3 points.
The Wii brand achieved the highest brand momentum ever in the United States. The iPod is predicted to have the greatest brand potential in France, the top brand in the UK is Google and Taobao in China.
In the study, Google was the only brand to rank in the top 3 in the USA, France and the UK. The three brands with the greatest future brand potential in China are Taobao, Intel and BMW.

Despite the economic crisis, Google has recorded a strong increase in profits. Thanks to flourishing advertising revenues, the search engine group's profit rose by more than a quarter to 1.35 billion dollars in the third quarter.
Page impressions and sales growth were strong around the globe, as the company announced on Thursday. Google dominates the Internet search advertising business ahead of Yahoo and Microsoft.
Yahoo now wants to cooperate to some extent with Google in online advertising. But nothing has been decided yet.
The new cell phone with the Android operating system initiated by Google was recently launched in the USA and is intended to compete with Apple's iPhone. In this way, Google also wants to secure advertising revenue from mobile Internet use.
In England, Google is now also advertising betting for the first time.

The news network association of Tages-Anzeiger, Berner Zeitung and BAZ now publishes the current TV ratings on a daily basis. On weekdays, these are published between three and four o'clock in the afternoon.
As soon as the viewing figures collected by Mediapulse are available, the Newsnetz editorial team will compile a list of the 20 most-watched TV programs of the previous evening. The ratings can be found on the Culture page in the Top lists section. The current music charts, book bestsellers and cinema charts can also be viewed there.

The major Rollenwechsel.ch project to completely renovate Ringier's newspaper printing center in Adligenswil is taking shape. Ringier Print Adligenswil and the Neue Luzerner Zeitung put the new printing facilities into operation on September 30.
The computer-to-plate systems are designed to ensure greater performance and flexibility. The renewal of the system will also continue the 10-year partnership between Ringier Print, NLZ and Agfa Graphics, according to a press release issued on Friday.
The conversion and installation of the new printing and finishing systems was expected to take three years. The Board of Directors of Ringier Print Adligenswil gave the go-ahead for the "rollenwechsel.ch" renewal project at the end of March 2005.
The red ribbon was cut by Martin Werfeli, CEO of Ringier, Moritz Rogger, President of Agfa Graphics Europe Central, and Erwin Bachmann, Chairman of the Executive Board of LZ Medien.