Isabelle Jacobi becomes new USA radio correspondent
At the end of 2017, Radio SRF will fill the U.S. correspondent position in Washington. Isabelle Jacobi will step down as head of «Echo der Zeit» and succeed Beat Soltermann, who will return to Bern next year.
Isabelle Jacobi studied journalism in the USA and English, Swiss history and theater studies at the University of Bern, where she graduated with a licentiate. She has worked for Swiss Radio DRS and Radio SRF since 1999. Until the end of 2006 she was presenter and editor of "DRS2 aktuell". After that, she worked as a freelance correspondent in New York for almost three years and worked for SRF, Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandradio Berlin, "NZZ am Sonntag" and "Der Bund".
She moved to the political background program "Echo der Zeit" in 2008, where she initially held the positions of producer and deputy editorial director. Since 2012, Isabelle Jacobi has been the editorial director of "Echo der Zeit," and since the beginning of the year she has also hosted the show. She is now expected to take over the US correspondent position in Washington at the end of 2017. Isabelle Jacobi succeeds Beat Soltermann, whose mandate expires next year and who will then return to Bern.
The succession for the editorial management of "Echo der Zeit" will be settled in the next few months.
