(pr) 12 press photographers and
-photographers received their diplomas on Thursday evening at the MAZ
taken. This means that the Swiss School of Journalism has the most
unique course of study for the third time successfully.
The graduates have spent an intensive 18 months
with reportage, portrait and documentary photography, they have
discussed and worked with star photographers from all over the world, have
legal and ethical issues in photojournalism were considered and the
the latest image processing techniques. And they have, not
last but not least, the acquired knowledge always immediately tested in the traineeship and
applied.
These are the freshly crowned photographers of the 3rd Press Photography course (with volunteer positions):
Markus Forte, Finance + Economy
Dörthe Hagenguth, Der Tagesspiegel
Hanna Jaray, Neue Zuger Zeitung
René Kälin, Sunday View
Peter Klaunzer, Keystone
Miriam Künzli, SF DRS
Remo Nägeli, L'Illustré and 24 Heures
Carmela Odoni, Swiss Illustrated
Sabine Rock, NZZ
Raphael Röösli, Liechtensteiner Vaterland
Marius Schären, St. Galler Tagblatt
Marco Zanoni, Tagesanzeiger and Sonntagszeitung

The 4th Press Photography course will start in spring 2007.

The law on the promotion of information
on Switzerland as a business location fell by 64 to 54 votes in the National Council.
with 35 abstentions. The business thus returns to the
Council of States. The marketing of Switzerland as a business location must
should therefore be relaunched. Ruth Genner, President of the Greens
Party of Switzerland, spoke on behalf of her group with reference to the
the Federal Council's "drastic" cost-cutting measures against the law.
The SVP insisted on improved coordination of "Location: Switzerland"
with other export promotion and national advertising organizations
such as Osec or Presence Switzerland. The SP parliamentarians abstained
entirely to the voice. The "Location: Switzerland" program introduced in 1996 was
was initially limited until 2006. Therefore, a new
legal basis required. For 2006 and 2007, 9.8
million francs were requested. 3 million francs would have been in the form of
of fees flowed back into the federal coffers.

Swiss TXT launches the
tennis tournament Davidoff Swiss Indoors has launched an SMS information service and a
SMS competition. In this way, the long-standing information and
Promotional partnership via the teletext and Internet channels for the first time
to the Swiss TXT mobile platform. The new
SMS info service provides all important information before and during the tournament.
News and results directly to your cell phone. Swiss TXT also organizes
for the first time a competition for tennis aficionados, which also
via the mobile platform and via the Teletext channels,
Internet and mobile. Swiss TXT delivers the Davidoff Swiss
Indoors will also continue to provide the latest tennis news in several languages
for the official tournament website. The organizer of the
the biggest national sporting event on TV and on the Internet.
for the promotion of its offers around the organization of the
this year's events.

Matthias Ramsauer was appointed by Federal Councillor
Moritz Leuenberger appointed Vice Director and new Head of the Radio Division
and Television of the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM).
Ramsauer is a lawyer and since 1997 was head of the Legal Affairs and
Information Society of the Bakom. Previously, he headed the legal service
of the Telecom Services Department and was a research associate at the
General Secretariat of the Federal Department of Transport and
Department of Energy. The Radio and Television Department of the
Bakom is the federal government's first point of contact for legal, financial
or frequency-related issues in the field of electronic media.
Ramsauer will take up his new post on November 1, 2005.

The Aargau writer Klaus Merz
was honored on Wednesday evening in the Baden transformer hall with the Aargauer
Cultural Award of the AZ Medien Group. Over 370 guests celebrated
the author from the Wynental in the canton of Aargau, whose prose and
his poems to the important contemporary voices in the
German-speaking countries. The jury recognizes Klaus Merz as "a
committed poet and observer of art, who sees life in its
perceives the whole", as stated in a press release. The laudatory speech was given by
Manfred Papst, Head of Culture at NZZ am Sonntag. The 25,000
Aargauer Kulturpreis, which is endowed with a prize money of
The prize was awarded for the eighth time and donated by publisher Peter Wanner.

The Zurich advertising agency Ruf Lanz is
with two works in the final of the London International Advertising
Awards (LIAA). Both concepts were developed for consulting companies
McKinsey & Company develops: "Pencil", a recruiting pencil
with an extra-long eraser, and "Phone
numbers", mathematical
encrypted telephone numbers that can only be accessed with the appropriate
qualification can be "cracked". The two works have already been published in
Cannes with a Silver Lion and a Bronze Lion. Also
on the LIAA shortlist is Publicis Zurich with its
Christmas mailing for Wilson Tennis.

Stephan Wiederkehr takes over as of 1.
October 2005 the operational management of the Swiss Collection Agency
for radio and television reception fees, Billag, which belongs to the Swisscom Group
heard. Wiederkehr takes up the post as successor to
Chairman of the Board of Directors Jürg Rötheli. The latter had taken over the function of
CEO since the appointment of Matthias Remund as Director of the Federal Office
for Sports in the spring of 2005. Stephan Wiederkehr has worked for the company since 1.
July 2005 as Head of Operations at Billag. Previously, he was Head of
Corporate & Financial Law at the headquarters of Swisscom and
worked for several years as legal counsel for the Ascom Group and
as Chief Administration Officer for a start-up company.

(pr) The "pink rabbit glut" in Switzerland has
Saturday, October 1, 2005. The cute stuffed bunnies that
the shop windows as an advertising medium for the new Tally Weijl poster campaign
of the more than 60 stores in Switzerland will be donated to the Aids
Help Switzerland sold for 15 francs. The fashion group expects a
big run on the banging Love Bunnies, because the circulation is
severely limited.
The current poster campaign of the Swiss fashion group Tally Weijl
has caused red heads and smiles over the past few weeks.
Faces. The Israeli top model lolls on the poster subject
Bar Rafaeli in front of a wallpaper with drawn pink rabbit couples that
indulge in lovemaking.
The "advertising media" were produced in a limited edition of 2000
windows of Tally Weijl stores in Switzerland and abroad.
Germany. At the end of the campaign, the rabbits will be presented on Saturday, the
October 1, 2005 for a good cause. The entire proceeds of the
The entire proceeds from the rabbit campaign will go to Aids Hilfe Schweiz. The
pair of rabbits can be purchased during official store opening hours and in
can be purchased in all stores for 15 francs. "We had already
hundreds of requests for the rabbits," reports media spokesman Christian
Handelsman. That's why it's worth getting up early for hare lovers.
"Due to the very limited edition (a few dozen pieces per store),
only the fastest will get to the collector's item they are looking for",
Handelsman continues. The same campaign will take place on October 8, 2005
will also take place in the Swiss fashion label's German stores. There
the money is distributed to various German AIDS foundations.

On October 10, the intranet of
Ringier replaced by a new portal called my.ringier.ch.
Christoph Soltmannowski takes over the editorial management of
my.ringier.ch and will be responsible for the daily news and background info
be responsible. Soltmannowski has been a freelance journalist since 1991 and
Owner of an office for communication and was from 1985 to 1991 as a
Editor at Blick and Schweizer Illustrierte already for
Ringier. He then worked as a freelance journalist from 1995 to 2000.
staff member of the SonntagsBlick magazine. In addition to his journalistic
Among other things, he served as press officer for the Street Parade in the
and supervised various PR mandates in the areas of
Entertainment and multimedia.

The international festival of
TV entertainment Rose d'Or, according to the Neue Luzerner Zeitung (NLZ)
have massive money worries. Various bills have been outstanding since May
open from suppliers. The festival's financial problems are
due to the fact that some promised sponsorship funds were not
have been received, explains Christian Handelsman, spokesman for Rose
d'Or, told the NLZ. One or two large sponsor companies are
the short term "after their ownership situation changed".
had," says Handelsman. Rose d'Or - with an estimated total budget
of around 1.5 million francs - almost a third of which was due to
financed by sponsors. However, the festival management is currently conducting promising
talks with new sponsors and is therefore confident about the future.
the outstanding sums of money. By the end of November at the latest
all outstanding invoices should be settled.

The telecommunications group Cablecom
will offer up to 40.5 million shares on October 13 at a
maximum price of CHF 70 on the stock exchange. With a market value of up to
to 3.5 billion Swiss francs, this would be the largest Swiss IPO
for five years. As the company announced on Thursday
the previous owners sell 35.2 million registered shares (approx. 70%).
The price per share is between 57 and 70 francs, which represents a market value of
of CHF 2.9 to 3.5 billion. The price target is therefore
well below the CHF 5.5 billion offered in media reports.
Nevertheless, traders described this target as ambitious, as the AP
reported. In the past few years, Cablecom has been
Cable network operator into a modern telecommunications group
rebuilt. Bruno Claude, President and CEO of Cablecom, is
confident about the forthcoming IPO and believes
that Cablecom's good reputation on the capital markets in a
will be reflected in the successful IPO. "We are thus supporting the
next phase of our development into the strong number two among the
telecommunications providers in Switzerland," says Claude.

Publishers Fritz Schuhmacher's positions on media boards of directors are increasingly coming under fire.
Trustee Fritz Schuhmacher as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of
PubliGroupe. But his seat has been shaky ever since the SonntagsZeitung
two weeks ago that his company was being investigated by International
Treuhand AG (Itag) is being investigated for property offenses.

Schuhmacher is not only a member of the PubliGroupe's top committee. He
has spun a far-reaching web of mandates. These include the
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vogt-Schild Holding (Solothurner Zeitung) and the
Vice-Chairman of Basler Zeitung Medien (BZM). But for both
an end is in sight.
 
Schuhmacher resigned from Vogt-Schild last week until further notice.
to take a leave of absence. He justified the move with the additional workload
through the investigations against Itag. With the BZM, the advocate must
will step down from his position on November 24. According to publisher Matthias Hagemann
however, this has nothing to do with the Itag affair. It is the consequence
from conversations he had some time ago with the PubliGroupe management.
Hagemann told the news platform Onlinereports.ch: "I
have been following the obvious conflicts for some time, which
shoemaker carries around with him. Gradually it became apparent that he had lost his
different interests can no longer be reconciled." The
had led to a clouding of the relationship of trust.

Hagemann himself had appointed Schuhmacher to the BoD five years ago.
and created the office of Vice President specifically for this purpose. Even before
a year ago, the publisher described the dual mandate
BZM/Vogt-Schild in an interview with Werbewoche as "for us
unproblematic".

Itag sold

Schuhmacher also resigned from all positions at the beginning of the week.
Itag's administrative bodies. He and the second main shareholder, Konrad
Annasohn, have sold their Itag shares to the Basel-based consulting firm Remaco
Merger sold. This should secure the future of the intact company.
Schuhmacher told the SonntagsZeitung newspaper. At the same time
but further weakened its position in the PubliGroupe VR. Because
Schuhmacher's ticket to the board was the shares of the
advertising group, which is owned by the Gerstenhauer family foundation, the
in turn managed by Itag. The foundation is the legacy of the
former Publicitas Director General Jean-Robert Gerstenhauer, who in 1968
has passed away. With 11.27%, she is the largest single shareholder in the
PubliGroupe.

However, Itag's mandate for the Gerstenhauer Foundation is now also coming to an end.
under fire. A member of the family is suing for the annulment of the
Foundation, as it was pursuing unauthorized commercial purposes.
According toSonntagsZeitung, the profits are not distributed as the founder intended.
to family members, but largely flow back into the family.
to the foundation, which is controlled exclusively by Itag.

"This should also make it clear that Schuhmacher (...) is also a
Vice Chairman of PubliGroupe will resign," said the
Tages-Anzeiger in the Monday edition. It was that far with
However, the editorial deadline for this advertising week has not yet been reached.
PubliGroupe CEO Hans-Peter Rohner was able to answer the question of whether
Schuhmacher's office was under discussion. He
merely pointed out that the next BoD meeting would be held on (last)
will take place on Wednesday. Whether the topic will be discussed
Rohner was not able to say.

Stefano Monachesi