Rutishauser takes over as editor-in-chief of Tages-Anzeiger
As announced in January, Arthur Rutishauser will assume the role of co-editor-in-chief of the *Tages-Anzeiger* and the *Sonntagszeitung* effective early 2016. The timing of the transition and the future structure of the expanded editorial board have now been finalized.
The transfer of staff at Tages-Anzeiger will take place on Monday, January 4, 2016. In addition to Arthur Rutishauser, the joint editorial team of Tages-Anzeiger and Sonntagszeitung will in future comprise Simon Bärtschi, Michael Marti, Armin Müller and Judith Wittwer. This was announced by Tamedia in a press release on Thursday.
Simon Bärtschi, who has been writing for the Sonntagszeitung since 2003, was previously responsible for editorial management in the extended editorial team of the Sonntagszeitung. Michael Marti has been a member of the Tages-Anzeiger editorial team since 2012 and was previously deputy editor-in-chief of Newsnet. He will be responsible for digital projects within the editorial team and will be supported in this task by his deputy Samuel Reber. Armin Müller joined Sonntagszeitung in March 2015 from Handelszeitung, for which he had already written between 1999 and 2010. He was previously head of copywriting and author at the Sonntagszeitung. Judith Wittwer also returned to the Tages-Anzeiger in 2014 from the Handelszeitung, where she had previously worked from 2002 to 2010. She was previously head of the editorial office.
Andrea Bleicher and Andreas Kunz, who both joined the Sonntagszeitung in 2014, will continue to be responsible for planning and production as editorial directors of the Sonntagszeitung. Their counterpart at the Tages-Anzeiger will be Alain Zucker, who will take over the management of the Tagesleiter team.
The weekend supplement Das Magazin will work more closely with the Tages-Anzeiger in future. The magazine's editorial team, headed by editor-in-chief Finn Canonica, who reports directly to Arthur Rutishauser, will therefore become an independent team within the Tages-Anzeiger and Sonntagszeitung editorial teams.
Res Strehle, Editor-in-Chief of the Tages-Anzeiger since 2009, will continue to work as an author for the Tages-Anzeiger. He will also develop a quality model for all Tamedia media on behalf of publisher Pietro Supino.
Publisher Pietro Supino: "Arthur Rutishauser has formed an outstanding team. I am therefore convinced that the Tages-Anzeiger and the Sonntagszeitung will succeed in mastering the challenges of the future and combining journalistic quality with the advantages of the digital transformation. I wish Arthur Rutishauser, the new editor-in-chief and the entire team every success in this major task."
