Basel Tageswoche parts ways with Urs Buess
Urs Buess is leaving the Basler Tageswoche. Buess served as co-editor-in-chief at the publication’s launch in October 2011 and most recently held the position of editorial director. The separation was by mutual agreement, according to a statement posted Thursday on Tageswoche.ch.
Irreconcilable differences with the editorial and management teams had led to the separation, Thomas Gelzer announced in the editorial blog "Mittendrin". Gelzer is chairman of the board of Neue Medien Basel, the publisher of Tageswoche. Buess, who had previously served on the editorial boards of Tagesanzeiger and Basler Zeitung, was co-chief editor of Tageswoche until May 2013. He was then appointed journalistic director. He also took a seat on the newly formed Publishers' Committee. The reason for the reorganization of the editorial management almost a year ago was to push the digital business. At that time, Dani Winter became the new editorial director. Remo Leupin remained head of print. The printed edition of Tageswoche has been published in a new look since the end of March. The Tageswoche hit the headlines in February because of falsified circulation figures. A circulation trick prompted the Basel public prosecutor's office to initiate a police investigation on suspicion of fraud. (SDA)
Image: Tageswoche.ch
