New editorial director for SonntagsBlick magazine
SonntagsBlick's magazine gets a new editorial director. Janine Urech will take over as head of the magazine in spring 2011. At the same time, she will become the new head of the "Lifestyle" department in the newsroom of the Blick Group.
Janine Urech succeeds Marcel Maerz, who has headed the magazine since May 2005 and is moving to Berlin to Ringier Germany, where he will build up the Corporate Publishing division. At the same time, Janine Urech will also take over the management of the "Lifestyle" department in the newsroom of the Blick Group. With this step, the publisher wants to integrate the magazine even more strongly into the newsroom, Ringier announced. Roland Grüter, head of the "Lifestyle" department since the launch of the newsroom in spring 2010, will become head of publishing services for the Blick Group in spring 2011.
Janine Urech began her journalistic career at Ringier, graduated from the Ringier School of Journalism and worked from 1996 to 2003 as a reporter, deputy head of department and finally as head of the "Entertainment" department at Blick. She then moved to Annabelle as Head of Lifestyle, where she was most recently Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Head of Lifestyle.
