New President of the Editors-in-Chief Conference
Christian Dorer, Editor-in-Chief of the Aargauer Zeitung/Die Nordwestschweiz, is the new President of the Conference of Editors-in-Chief. He was elected unanimously at the General Assembly in Bern on Tuesday.
The 39-year-old Dorer has been a board member of the conference since March 2012, as the organization announced in a press release on Wednesday. He succeeds Martin Spieler, former editor-in-chief of the Sonntagszeitung newspaper, who chaired the association for four years.
Daniel Weber, Editor-in-Chief of NZZ Folio, was appointed Vice President. Stefan Regez, Editor-in-Chief of Schweizer Illustrierte, and Arthur Rutishauser, Editor-in-Chief of Sonntagszeitung, were newly elected to the Board. The Conference of Editors-in-Chief currently has 52 members.
