The attack on the editorial office of the Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which claimed at least twelve lives on Wednesday (Werbewoche.ch reported), deeply shocks the cartoonists, caricaturists, journalists and journalists of the professional association Imprint. "We mourn and express our deepest condolences to the families of the victims. We strongly condemn the attack on freedom of the press and expression and call on the authorities to hold those responsible for the massacre and those behind it accountable without regard to other interests."

French Swiss cartoonist Burki: "An unimaginable drama".

The attack has also caused consternation for Swiss cartoonist Raymond Burki. "I am very sad," said the longtime West Swiss cartoonist. He described the attack as an "unimaginable drama." He was previously only aware of reports in the French media that several well-known cartoonists such as Cabu, Charb, Wolinksy and Tignous had died, Burki said when asked by the SDA news agency. Burki worked for the French-speaking Swiss newspaper 24 heures for 38 years. If those reports are accurate, he said, the world has lost "big feathers." To be killed because of a drawing, he said, was unbelievable. Earlier in the afternoon, the French judiciary confirmed that these four draftsmen had been killed.

Publisher President Lebrument: Rethinking editorial security

Publisher President Hanspeter Lebrument fears new challenges for the media. Such an act has great impact and consequences, it is "like a beacon," Lebrument told the news agency SDA. After this attack, he said, one cannot simply sit back. The president of the publishers sees new challenges ahead for the media. One must consider whether the security of the editorial offices is guaranteed, he said. In addition, it is becoming increasingly difficult for media professionals to describe the relationship between the native population and immigrants with a Muslim background.

Médias Suisses, the publishers' association in French-speaking Switzerland, expressed its consternation when asked by SDA. It was a "black day" for press freedom, said Secretary General Daniel Hammer. Those in charge of the caricature museum in Morges VD are also in shock. The museum wants to dedicate a tribute to the four killed cartoonists. It is a black day for free expression, said Wednesday curator Charlotte Contesse. Satirist Viktor Giacobbo was dismayed: "Many media requests - and unfortunately no. Even as a satirist, you can't express more than horror at the whole mess," he tweeted.

200 Swiss media professionals mourn in Bern

In the early hours of Wednesday evening, around 200 media representatives gathered on the Bundesplatz in Bern for a mourning rally. With their participation, they expressed their dismay about the attack. In the afternoon, various journalist organizations had spontaneously called for a silent funeral march in Bern. Rallies are also planned in Lausanne and Geneva. The media union Syndicom, the journalists' organization Impressum and the Syndikat Schweizer Medienschaffender put up a black emblem with the words "Je suis Charlie" on their websites on Wednesday afternoon.

Solidarity also in French-speaking Switzerland

In Geneva, about 500 people gathered in memory of the victims of the attack. They laid numerous candles at the mourning rally in front of the university building. In Lausanne, also about 500 people, including many journalists, commemorated the victims on the Place de la Riponne. The Vaud cantonal government was represented by Pierre-Yves Maillard (SP), Nuria Goritte (SP) and Béatrice Métraux (Greens). French-born State Councillor Métraux expressed her shock at the events: "I grew up with Charlie Hebdo and
the Canard Enchaîné," she told the SDA news agency. "We have come to express our solidarity with the victims and defend freedom of expression," added her counterpart Nuria Goritte. Signs with "Je suis Charlie" were also everywhere at the rallies in French-speaking Switzerland.

The associations also expressed their dismay at the attack in Paris. "Like numerous attacks before it, this tragedy will not prevent journalists from standing up for open and critical reporting in the future," the Syndicate of Swiss Media Professionals announced. Freedom of expression and freedom of the press must be defended because they are the foundation of a free society in which everyone has the right to express themselves, Syndicom said.(pd/SDA/hae)

Netpulse is starting 2015 with new management: 26-year-old Nina Aemissegger is acting as CEO of the successful Winterthur-based online marketing company with immediate effect, according to a statement. Lukas Nauer, the founder, owner and previous CEO is withdrawing from the operational business and devoting himself to new projects. He plans to found a new company in spring 2015, which will focus on search engine optimization (SEO).

Nina Aemissegger has been deputy managing director for the last two years. Prior to that, she worked part-time at Netpulse during her studies. At the same time as she graduated, she joined Netpulse as a senior manager and immediately took charge of what was then a staff of around 20. She also optimized the product range and introduced new services on platforms such as YouTube and Facebook. Born in Thurgau, Switzerland, she studied International Management at the ZHAW in Winterthur and in Medellín, Colombia. In addition, Nina Aemissegger is a board member of the Swiss Marketing Club Winterthur.

Netpulse was founded in 2009 by Lukas Nauer and started as a one-man operation. The company is now one of the ten most important online marketing companies in Switzerland and works closely with Google. Currently, 25 employees work at the Winterthur and Biberist SO locations, a new location in Biel will be opened soon. netpulse AG specializes in SEO and Google AdWords as well as online advertising on YouTube, Facebook especially for SMEs, associations and individuals (politics, music, etc.).

He is currently Head of Communications at the Swiss Insurance Association (SIA) as a member of the Executive Board. Michael Wiesner has many years of management experience in communications functions in companies and associations. He has been responsible for all communications at the SIA since March 2005. Prior to that, as a member of the Executive Board, he was in charge of corporate communications for the Zurich Insurance Group in its home market and was previously responsible for internal communications at the former Winterthur Insurance (now Axa Winterthur) in Switzerland. He also has several years of professional experience as a journalist, editor, producer and project manager.

Michael Wiesner studied natural sciences at ETH Zurich and completed a part-time postgraduate degree in Communication Management and Leadership with a specialization in political communication at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He is a lecturer for strategy development and conception practice as well as media work in the CAS Political Communication at the Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM) at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).

"I am convinced that Michael Wiesner, as an experienced and competent manager, will provide important impetus for our communications and ideally complement our management team," says Monika Rühl, Chairwoman of the Executive Board of Economiesuisse. In his new role, Michael Wiesner will replace Roberto Colonnello, who has been leading the communications team on an interim basis since the resignation of Ursula Fraefel.

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After the end of her TV career, she worked as a certified respiratory and speech therapist. Furrer lived in Zofingen AG. The city's residents' services confirmed a corresponding report by the Zofinger Tagblatt on Wednesday at the request of sda. (SDA)

The popular Swiss TV announcer Dorothea Furrer, photographed on December 31, 1986 shortly before her last appearance in the TV studio in Zurich. After 23 years of service, Dorothea Furrer bids farewell to viewers on New Year's Eve. (Keystone/Str)

"I'm really looking forward to this new role. Training and supporting people in media appearances and in dealing with journalists is very exciting, but also challenging," says Cornelia Burkhard. The qualified journalist is the former editor-in-chief of Radio Sunshine, ran the Salto press office and worked for many years as a journalist, presenter and consultant. From 2011 to 2013, she also managed the 50plus project of the speranza foundation set up by the late entrepreneur Otto Ineichen. There she coached adults and young people from all over German-speaking Switzerland in difficult situations.

In recent years, Smartquotes has made a name for itself in training for professional media appearances, the development of communication concepts, the support of challenging communication cases and in the field of event moderation. Smartquotes specializes in crisis communication.

Eleven people were injured, four of them seriously, according to public prosecutor François Molins on Wednesday evening. According to French media reports, three perpetrators were identified on Wednesday evening. Their arrest was denied by the Ministry of the Interior. Among the dead are the Mohammed cartoonist and editorial director Charb, alias Stéphane Charbonnier, and his bodyguard. Charb appeared on a "wanted list" in the spring of 2013 in the Internet magazine Inspire of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). AQAP mainly carries out attacks in Yemen. According to witnesses, two black-cloaked men with Kalashnikovs broke into the editorial offices and shot around in cold blood. The terrorists shouted "Allah is great" and "We have avenged the Prophet".

"They spoke perfect French," said the illustrator Corinne Rey, who survived the attack, to the newspaper l'Humanité. They claimed to belong to the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization. The attack lasted about five minutes; she had sought cover under a desk. According to Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, three perpetrators were involved in the attack. Their actions lead the police to conclude that they were professionally trained killers.

Hollande speaks of barbarism

French President François Hollande spoke of extraordinary barbarity. At the same time, the government declared the highest terror alert level for Paris. Numerous heads of state and government from Berlin to London, Rome, Washington and Moscow expressed their outrage and promised France their support in the search for the attackers. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon also condemned the attack. The President of the Swiss Confederation, Simonetta Sommaruga, expressed her shock on behalf of the Federal Council.

Islamic authorities condemn act

Representatives of Muslims in France also condemned the attack. The perpetrators were criminal barbarians who had sold their souls to hell, said the imam of the Drancy mosque near Paris. But clear words also came from Cairo. "This is a criminal act. Islam rejects violence of any kind," the Islamic scholars of the Al-Azhar University, which is authoritative for Sunnis - around 90 percent of all Muslims - told the Egyptian news agency Mena. And the Arab League said: "We strongly condemn the terrorist attack." The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, guardian of the holy sites in Mecca, also took a stand. The attack was a "cowardly act of terrorism that is rejected by the religion of Islam and all other religions", said a spokesman for the royal house.

The weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo had already been the target of an arson attack in 2011 after publishing an image of the Prophet Muhammad on its front page. Depictions of Muhammad are forbidden in Islam. According to the police, the weekly magazine has received numerous threats, which is why the editorial team has been under constant police surveillance for some time.

New book provokes in France

Michel Houellebecq's new book "Submission" ("Soumission") was launched on the French market on Wednesday. It is set in a France dominated by Islam. There had been fierce protests against it from Muslims. The new issue of Charlie Hebdo, which was also published on Wednesday, discusses the book in detail. The journalists' associations of 15 major media outlets in France published a statement of solidarity on Wednesday. "We are all Charlie", declared the media people. Various solidarity and mourning rallies were held in France as well as in other countries, including Switzerland. (SDA)

Pütz is thus responsible for all sales activities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He reports to Lars Hasselbach, Managing Director of Ligatus. Eric Pütz has been with Ligatus since fall 2011. When he joined the company, he took over sales responsibility for Adyard, Ligatus' specialist for performance display in the premium segment, after the founding members left. As Head of Performance Display, he has been responsible for the entire display business at Ligatus since January 2014. Before joining Ligatus, Eric Pütz was responsible for affiliate marketing at the E-Plus Group as Channel Manager Affiliate. He began his professional career in 2005 at Yahoo, where he held various positions in search and display marketing.

Lars Hasselbach, Managing Director of Ligatus D-A-CH, said in a statement: "Thanks to his many years of experience in the performance business, Eric Pütz is very familiar with the requirements and needs of our advertising customers. He has also acquired in-depth knowledge of our company and its products during his three years at Ligatus, making him the ideal candidate for the position of Head of Sales D-A-CH."
 

Marco Ratschiller has been editor-in-chief of Nebelspalter for ten years. During this time, there has not been a single threat related to faith or religion, he said in response to an inquiry from the SDA news agency. Satire is "not an exact science" for Ratschiller. It plays with ambiguities and is sometimes not the best means of the hour to uphold media freedom, he said. The Nebelspalter editorial team takes a different course than Charlie Hebdo - according to Ratschiller, always with the target group in mind, who need to be entertained and stimulated to think. In 2012, for example, when the French magazine published cartoons of Muhammad, Nebelspalter made a conscious decision not to print them. "That's not our understanding of satire," Ratschiller says in response.

West "does not understand ban on images"

Western culture does not understand the ban on images in Islam. There, the depiction of Muhammad is a taboo violation, "while we ourselves basically don't even recognize a satirical punch line in it. Because: Such a caricature has a target group to which one does not belong oneself. Nebelspalter does not do this form of "breaking taboos as an end in itself. The editorial office of the magazine is located in a rural area and also employs numerous freelancers. It is therefore likely to be less exposed than a central editorial office in a large city. Nebelspalter has been published for 141 years and, according to its own information, is the oldest satirical magazine in the world. The German-language magazine comes out ten times a year and has a circulation of 21,000 copies.

Roger Köppel, editor-in-chief of Weltwoche, declined to comment on security issues on Wednesday. Satirist Andreas Thiel had criticized the Koran and Mohammed in a "polemic" at the end of November, causing an uproar. (SDA)

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The Internet comparison service Comparis.ch has brought a digital and communications expert on board: Ergin Iyilikci has been responsible for editorial, marketing and corporate communications at Comparis.ch as the new CCO since January 1, 2015. Born in Berlin, Iyilikci headed the entire corporate communications of the Scout24 Group, which is active in 22 countries, for five years as Vice President Corporate Communications & PR. Before that, Iyilikci was Head of Public Relations and Press Spokesman for ImmobilienScout24 in Germany, where he played a key role in building up the successful online company. The communications scientist began his professional career at German sports television (DSF).

Further expanding the relevance of the brand

"We are extremely pleased to have gained such an experienced manager with profound expertise for this key position in Ergin Iyilikci. Under his leadership, we want to further expand the brand's appeal and relevance," says Paul Kummer, CEO of Comparis.ch. Ergin Iyilikci is regarded as a proven expert in the fields of communications and digital business, and has received awards including the PR Report Award, Germany's most prestigious PR industry prize, in 2007 and 2012. He succeeds Christian Schmelter, who worked for comparis.ch for more than eight years. We wish Christian Schmelter all the best on his future career path and look forward to working with Ergin Iyilikci.
 

It shows bright customers who are visibly happy and not only keep moving forward but also have everything with them. The campaign is used on various POS media and posters.

Responsible at Socar: Reto Reidt, Noële Schaffner, Michèle Keller. Responsible at Brain2: Oliver Kindhauser, Jan Indermühle.

The SRG should concentrate fully on a narrower program with fewer channels. It should withdraw from the battle for larger advertising shares with private broadcasters, said publisher president Hanspeter Lebrument on Tuesday at the Epiphany Conference of the Swiss Media Association in Zurich.

Content restrictions

An alternative to an advertising ban would be content restrictions for SRG on the internet. The fact that SRG produces a fully-fledged news portal and state-of-the-art apps (for news and weather) and offers them free of charge is harmful. Fortunately, SRG is not allowed to sell online advertising, although it is constantly trying to circumvent this ban. By offering an excessive amount of text on the internet, it is harming private publishers. SRG promotes the free mentality on the Internet. This makes it harder for publishers to find demand for their paid content.

Indirect funding must remain

The debate on the public service makes sense if the framework conditions for the private media are improved without households having to dig deeper into their pockets and the principle of indirect press subsidies (via a reduction in postal taxes) is maintained, continued Lebrument. Against the backdrop of years of aggressive attacks by the SRG against the private media, the publishers were in favor of an in-depth parliamentary and media policy debate on the public service. Newspapers should neither be weakened nor sacrificed because of an increasingly expensive public service for the SRG.

Constitutional reform called for

The fact that the debate surrounding the public service is currently raging is also due to the fact that the constitution does not adequately cover the new media. In an article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on Tuesday (today), Urs Saxer, Professor of International Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Media Law, points out that a constitutional reform is necessary in order to adequately meet the media policy challenges. (SDA)

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As Homer Simpson once said: "Here's to alcohol - the source and solution to all of life's problems". It's old news that the number one drug in society has more than just negative properties, in addition to all its devastating consequences. Red wine, for example, is said to be beneficial to health in certain doses. And beer can generate valuable beer ideas that seem very worth pursuing, at least for the rest of the evening.

This popular knowledge has now been rock-solidly underpinned by science. a study at the University of Illinois showed that people with an alcohol level of 0.75 per mille generate the most creative thought processes. This is said to be the ideal level for solving problems, inventions and general "out of the box" thinking.

But this is obvious: If this value is exceeded, productivity will only go downhill. The Danish agency CP&B Copenhagen therefore has the beer "The Problem Solver" developed. The bottle of hand-brewed Indian Pale Ale helps you reach your creative peak according to your gender and weight.

Presumably an idea that was also born over an after-work beer. It shouldn't be taken much more seriously. And the fact that a man weighing 80 kg is supposed to have 0.75 per mille after less than 7.5 dl of beer - that would make the Danish chickens laugh. Nevertheless, the beer is no joke and can be bought in well-stocked Danish drinks shops. And it is served within the agency when creativity is required. Cheers! (hae)