Former Blick editor-in-chief Peter Uebersax is dead
Peter Uebersax has died. The former editor-in-chief of *Blick* passed away last Thursday at the age of 87 in Herrliberg, as *Weltwoche Verlags AG* announced on Tuesday.
Uebersax was brought to Blick at the beginning of the 1960s. He only stayed for a few months and then moved back to the US news agency United Press International (UPI). As an agency journalist, he published for the New York Times, among others. At the beginning of the 1980s, Uebersax returned to Blick. In his second period as editor-in-chief, which lasted six and a half years, the newspaper achieved a circulation of over 400,000 copies. After his retirement, Uebersax wrote books and contributed to various newspapers and magazines, including NZZ am Sonntag and Weltwoche. (SDA)
