New Editorial Director Dok In-house Productions
Effective September 1, 2014, Belinda Sallin will take over as head of Dok In-House Productions. This marks the completion of the reorganization within the documentary and reportage division of the Culture Department.
Belinda Sallin has been a writer for "Dok" and "Reporter" since 2008. From 2002 to 2006, she was editor-in-chief of the political magazine program "Rundschau", for which she had worked since 1998. Belinda Sallin joined Swiss television in 1996 as an editor on the program "Lipstick". She studied German literature, philology and communication sciences at the University of Fribourg in Üechtland and graduated in 1994.
"Documentaries are my great passion. I am delighted to be able to help shape SRF's own documentary productions together with Marius Born and a team of outstanding authors," says Belinda Sallin. Marius Born is looking forward to "a close, inspiring collaboration," according to the press release.
With the move to the Culture department in spring 2014, various tasks in the documentary and reportage area were already reorganized in April: Nathalie Rufer is Deputy Head of Division and Editorial Director of Reporter and mitenand; Frank Senn heads the DOK Series editorial team; Urs Augstburger is responsible for Pacte; and Michèle Sauvain is in charge of co-productions and special programs. Marius Born heads the Dok external productions team in addition to his role as Head of Department.
In addition to the traditional programs "Dok", "Dok" series and "Reporter", the documentary film part of the Pacte de l'audiovisuel, the contract that regulates cooperation with independent filmmakers, is now also part of the department. In co-production with SRF and SRG SSR, documentaries are produced for the cinema or for the programs "Dok", "Sternstunden" and "ch:filmszene". The program "mitenand" rounds off the division's offerings.
