Michael Schoenenberger becomes new NZZ domestic boss
Michael Schoenenberger is taking over as head of the domestic news department at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He succeeds René Zeller.
Zeller moves to the editor-in-chief of Weltwoche.
Since the beginning of the year, Schoenenberger has been working as a senior consultant at Farner Consulting in Zurich. From 2010 to the end of 2015, he was an editor in the Switzerland section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. During this time, he was in charge of the social security, political parties and education dossiers. "Michael Schoenenberger quickly made a name for himself as an accomplished commentator with a clear liberal profile. He has the leadership qualities and journalistic stature to lead the core Switzerland department," says NZZ Editor-in-Chief Eric Gujer, explaining his decision.
Schoenenberger, born in 1973, grew up in Zug, Bern and Thurgau. He studied history, German and political science at the University of Zurich. He began his journalistic career as domestic editor at the Zürichsee-Zeitung. In 2003, he became domestic editor-in-chief and in 2005 deputy editor-in-chief of this newspaper. From 2006 to 2010, he was responsible for the national section of the Zurich regional newspapers as managing editor and editorial director.
