Publicist Markus Somm wants to take over Nebelspalter
The former publisher and editor-in-chief of the Basler Zeitung, Markus Somm, plans to take over the satirical monthly Nebelspalter. This is according to the Handelszeitung in its latest issue.
With the planned acquisition of the Nebelspalter Somm wants to realize a conservative media project that has so far gone under the working title "Säntis (Werbewoche.ch reported). The 55-year-old bourgeois publicist wants to join the Handelszeitung According to the company, it has yet to comment on the project: "We will only communicate when we can communicate."
The new Nebelspalter is to be built according to information provided to the Handelszeitung According to the information available, up to seventy investors have donated 100,000 Swiss francs each to the media project. This would mean that up to 7 million francs would be available to finance the planned 15-person editorial team in a start-up phase lasting several years.
The group of backers is said to include influential business leaders. The talk is of Marcel Erni and Alfred Gantner, the two heavily wealthy co-founders of the private equity group Partners Group. Multi-billionaire and Amag owner Martin Haefner is also said to support the project. So is former SVP National Council member and car dealer Walter Frey. Ex-banker Konrad Hummler, who previously headed the New Zurich Newspaper presided.
