SRF: New correspondent for Central Switzerland
From January 2017, Reto Holzgang will report from Central Switzerland as TV domestic correspondent for Swiss Radio and Television. He succeeds Nicole Frank, who is moving to the editorial department of the Federal Parliament.
Reto Holzgang, 57, attended the monastery's grammar school in Einsiedeln SZ and then the teacher training seminar in Zug. After two years of teaching in Freiamt, he graduated from the Ringier School of Journalism and switched to journalism. He then joined SRF, first as editor for the regional journal Aargau Solothurn, later as TV domestic correspondent for the same region. Since mid-2003, he has been working for "Schweiz aktuell" as an editor, but also as a producer of focal points or long-term reports such as "Hausverschiebung Oerlikon," "Landsgemeinde Glarus," "Flughafen Zürich" or, most recently, "Eröffnung des Gotthard-Basistunnels" (Opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel). Now Reto Holzgang, who has lived in Muri in Freiamt for more than 35 years, is moving once again to a TV correspondent position, to Lucerne.
Reto Holzgang in a statement: "What fascinates me about Central Switzerland is the diversity within a very small area: from the financial metropolis of Zug to sophisticated Lucerne to the most remote mountain villages on the Gotthard. All of this generates exciting topics - I'm looking forward to it!" And Barbara Flückiger, Head of TV Domestic Correspondents: "Reto Holzgang has an excellent command of the television craft and brings with him a huge amount of experience in regional journalism. I'm very pleased to be able to win him over for Central Switzerland."
