Schaffhausen News: New leadership takes over

The Board of Directors has appointed Stefan Gasser (born 1958), Chief Financial Officer of the company since 2013, as the new Chief Executive Officer. Gasser has a background as a certified expert in accounting and controlling. He brings experience from senior positions in industry. According to a statement, Stefan Gasser has rendered outstanding services as Chief Financial Officer and, since the retirement of Norbert Neininger, as Chief Operating Officer a. i.. He will be supported by Stefan Wabel, Publishing Director, and Beat Rechsteiner, Head of Local.

Furthermore, the Board of Directors has appointed Robin Blanck (born 1975), a member of the editorial team since 2000 and Head of the Regional Editorial Office since 2007, as Editor-in-Chief of Schaffhauser Nachrichten. He graduated in history and linguistics from the University of Zurich. He has made a name for himself in particular through his commentaries on regional issues. The Board of Directors is convinced that in Robin Blanck it has been able to appoint an Editor-in-Chief who will ideally represent the values of a liberal order and social market economy enshrined in the editorial statutes.
Sandro Stoll will continue to perform central editorial tasks as Deputy Editor-in-Chief and will be responsible in particular for managing the regional editorial team.

"With Robin Blanck as Editor-in-Chief, Sandro Stoll as Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Sidonia Küpfer as Head of the First Bund, we have an ideally complementary editorial management team," says Gerold Bührer, Chairman of the Board of Directors. With Stefan Gasser, who will be responsible for commercial management, and with Robin Blanck as Editor-in-Chief, there are good prerequisites for the successful continuation of Meier + Cie Schaffhausen as an independent company and publisher of the Schaffhauser Nachrichten.