Leaders appointed at the online network of Tagi, Baz and BZ
Peter Wälty, currently head of 20 Minuten Online, will be editor-in-chief of the new online news network being launched jointly by the Basler Zeitung, Berner Zeitung and Tages-Anzeiger. Cyril Treptow will take over as head of the advertising market. Wälty's successor at 20 Minuten Online will be Hansi Voigt, the current deputy editor-in-chief, on an interim basis.
Peter Wälty, currently head of 20 Minuten Online, will be editor-in-chief of the new online news network that the three daily newspapers Basler Zeitung, Berner Zeitung and Tages-Anzeiger are launching together with Landboten and Thurgauer Zeitung in spring 2008. Cyril Treptow, previously Advertising Market Online Sales Manager at Tages-Anzeiger, will take over the management of the advertising market. Before joining Tages-Anzeiger in 2004, he worked at the Chamber of Commerce in Whistler, Canada, and in the e-commerce sector at Telekurs.
Wälty's successor at 20 Minuten Online will be Hansi Voigt, the current deputy editor-in-chief, on an interim basis. Before joining the commuter newspaper's online presence in 2005, Voigt was head of copy at Beobachter and deputy editor-in-chief of Cash and the business newspaper Internet-Standard.
Wälty will take up his post on March 1, 2008, but will already have a significant influence on the structure and concept of the online news network before then. He has been editor-in-chief of 20 Minuten's online editorial team since 2000. Before that, the 40-year-old was project manager at Schweizer Radio International for two years. He gained further online experience as online editor of Tamedia Online and Facts.
According to Tamedia spokesman Christoph Zimmer, the current head of the online portal of the Tages-Anzeiger, Sandra Manca, will continue to work on the team and will be in charge until Wälty takes up her post. The current heads of the online presences of Basler Zeitung and Berner Zeitung will remain in their posts and will provide regional reporting there with their teams.
Wälty himself is in charge of the cover editorial team, which produces the content for the presences of the three daily newspapers. "The network is not a completely newly created platform, but builds on the strengths of the existing online presences," says Zimmer. Readers will be offered not only agency reports, but stories researched in-house. By the end of 2008, the network is to comprise 36 sites. According to Zimmer, the exact launch date for the network has not yet been defined, but it should be next spring.
The commuter newspaper News, which launches in December, will also be linked to the new network in the virtual world. Until its launch, the online presence of News will contain the content of the commuter newspaper and will be linked to the existing platforms of the daily newspapers, Zimmer explained.
Wälty's successor at 20 Minuten Online will be Hansi Voigt, the current deputy editor-in-chief, on an interim basis. Before joining the commuter newspaper's online presence in 2005, Voigt was head of copy at Beobachter and deputy editor-in-chief of Cash and the business newspaper Internet-Standard.
Wälty will take up his post on March 1, 2008, but will already have a significant influence on the structure and concept of the online news network before then. He has been editor-in-chief of 20 Minuten's online editorial team since 2000. Before that, the 40-year-old was project manager at Schweizer Radio International for two years. He gained further online experience as online editor of Tamedia Online and Facts.
According to Tamedia spokesman Christoph Zimmer, the current head of the online portal of the Tages-Anzeiger, Sandra Manca, will continue to work on the team and will be in charge until Wälty takes up her post. The current heads of the online presences of Basler Zeitung and Berner Zeitung will remain in their posts and will provide regional reporting there with their teams.
Wälty himself is in charge of the cover editorial team, which produces the content for the presences of the three daily newspapers. "The network is not a completely newly created platform, but builds on the strengths of the existing online presences," says Zimmer. Readers will be offered not only agency reports, but stories researched in-house. By the end of 2008, the network is to comprise 36 sites. According to Zimmer, the exact launch date for the network has not yet been defined, but it should be next spring.
The commuter newspaper News, which launches in December, will also be linked to the new network in the virtual world. Until its launch, the online presence of News will contain the content of the commuter newspaper and will be linked to the existing platforms of the daily newspapers, Zimmer explained.
