Artur K. Vogel becomes editor-in-chief at the Bund

Artur K. Vogel is to become the new editor-in-chief of the Bernese newspaper Der Bund. After consulting the editorial team, the Board of Directors today appointed the 53-year-old from Lucerne as the successor to Hanspeter Spörri, whose employment contract was terminated at the end of May (see ). Vogel will take up his position on January 1, 2007. Until then, the two deputy editors-in-chief, Dr. Rudolf Burger and Dani Landolf, will head the editorial team.
 The new "Bund" editor-in-chief studied law and business administration in Zurich. He has 30 years of journalistic experience. He worked for 20 years at the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper in Zurich, including as a correspondent in London and from 1988 to 1996 in the Middle East. He then became head of the foreign desk. Artur K. Vogel has also worked as Switzerland correspondent for Facts magazine and was head of foreign affairs at Weltwoche. He has been working for the "Aargauer Zeitung" for three and a half years in both the foreign and domestic editorial departments.