Aargauer Zeitung: Mathias Küng becomes new head of politics in Aargau

Mathias Küng, who has long served as head of the domestic news department at the Aargauer Zeitung, will become the new head of the Aargau political desk effective early March 2009. Urs Moser, currently editor-in-chief of the Solothurner Tagblatt, will become deputy editor-in-chief for Aargau and regional news.

Mathias Küng, long-time head of the domestic department at the Aargauer Zeitung, will become the new head of politics in Aargau at the beginning of March 2009. The 50-year-old will take over from Balz Bruder, who is leaving the Aargauer Zeitung. The succession plan for Matthias Küng in the domestic editorial department has been initiated, according to a statement from AZ Medien. Küng reports to Werner De Schepper, Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Editor-in-Chief Aargau/Regions.
Urs Moser, currently editor-in-chief of the Solothurner Tagblatt, will become deputy editor for Aargau/Regions and, as a political reporter, will primarily write for the Aargau-Bund section of the Sonntag newspaper. Before the 45-year-old joined the Solothurner Tagblatt in April 2006, he reported from the Federal Parliament for Blick from 2000 and was editor and Federal Parliament correspondent for Sonntagsblick from 1996 to 1998. From 1988 to 1995, he was editor and head of the local editorial team at the Solothurner Zeitung. Moser will take up his new position on June 1, 2009 at the latest.
As already announced, there will be a change in the editorial team on February 1, 2009: Christian Dorer will become Editor-in-Chief of the Aargauer Zeitung/Mittellandzeitung. Philipp Mäder and Werner De Schepper have been appointed deputy editors-in-chief. Mäder will be the editor of the main section, De Schepper the editor for Aargau/Regions.
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Urs Moser.

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