Schweizer Illustrierte: Stefan Regez becomes new editor-in-chief
The new editor-in-chief of Schweizer Illustrierte is Stefan Regez. The 40-year-old has been with SI since April 2010 and had already been serving as interim editor-in-chief since September 1, 2011. Ueli Walther and Monique Ryser are also joining the editorial board.
Stefan Regez (pictured) studied geography, history and geology at the University of Bern, Ringier wrote in a statement on Thursday. He began his journalistic career in 1995 as a freelancer for the Handelszeitung. From 1999 to the end of 2006, he was on the management board of Gossweiler Media, five years of which as editor-in-chief of Jungfrau Zeitung. In 2007, he moved to Zurich as a communications consultant, first becoming head of news in December 2007 and later editor-in-chief of the commuter newspaper News. Since April 1, 2010, he has been Head of News and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Schweizer Illustrierte.
The new deputy editor-in-chief of SI will be Ueli Walther. The 52-year-old studied Swiss history, ethnology and journalism at the University of Bern, began his journalistic career at Der Bund, the Bernese newspaper, was head of the domestic editorial department of the Swiss Political Correspondence SPK in Bern and news editor of the Sonntagszeitung. In 1995 he joined Ringier, first moving to Cash, and from 2000 was deputy editor-in-chief of Blick. From 2004, Walther worked as deputy editor-in-chief of Sonntagszeitung - and since January 2011 he has been head of news at
20 Minuten Online. The date on which he will take up his post is still open.
Monique Ryser will become a member of SI's editor-in-chief with immediate effect. The 49-year-old worked for the Berner Zeitung from 1982, was an accredited federal house journalist for Associated Press AP from 1989 to 1993 and a federal house journalist for Blick from 1993 to 1998. In 1998, Ryser became head of news at SI and founded her own consulting agency in 2004. To date, she has already served as editorial director of Schweizer Illustrierte's special issue Grün, which is published four times a year. Her part-time mandate in the editor-in-chief is limited until the end of the year.
