Roger Köppel is now also head of Welt Kompakt
Its expansion is part of an online offensive by the Welt/Berliner Morgenpost newspaper group.
Roger Köppel, editor-in-chief of the German newspaper Welt, will now also be head of the tabloid Welt Kompakt. His expansion of responsibilities is part of an online offensive by the Welt/Berliner Morgenpost newspaper group, as reported by Kress.de. According to Peter Würtenberger, Managing Director of the publishing house, Welt Online is to become a "leading news and service-oriented website in Germany". Christoph Keese, editor-in-chief of Welt am Sonntag, will also head Welt Online for the time being. He is to expand the editorial team and install a "powerful editorial management". Springer also intends to bundle the newspaper group's print and online activities: a central newsroom is to go into operation as early as the fourth quarter of 2006. Welt, Welt Kompakt, WamS, Berliner Morgenpost and Welt Online will therefore have joint editorial management under Keese's chairmanship. Jan-Eric Peters, publisher and editor-in-chief with overall responsibility for Welt, Welt Kompakt and Berliner Morgenpost, is only involved in the integration in an advisory capacity: he is to take up a new position at Springer on January 1, 2007. This is why the former editor-in-chief of Weltwoche Köppel is now coming into play.
