SRF: Daniel Schäfer becomes Ticino correspondent
SRF Tagesschau editor Daniel Schäfer is to become the new television correspondent for Ticino and northern Italy. He succeeds Mario Carnevale, who is returning to RSI as editor and producer of "Telegiornale".
41-year-old Daniel Schäfer grew up in Kaiseraugst AG and has lived in Basel for more than 20 years. He also trained as a primary school teacher there and taught at schools. In 1997, he switched to journalism and graduated from the Ringier School of Journalism. He first worked for the Basler Zeitung and from 1999 as a video journalist for Tele 24.
He has been working for Swiss radio and television since 2000. For the first eight years, he was a domestic TV correspondent for north-western Switzerland, so he is no stranger to the job of a correspondent and its demands. In 2009, he joined Tagesschau as an editor and producer. He has also worked on various special assignments, for example as a special correspondent at the UEFA Euro 2012 in Warsaw or as a co-producer of the 2012 US elections. Daniel Schäfer has also been part of the editorial team for the Basel Fasnacht for ten years.
Barbara Flückiger, Head of Domestic TV Correspondents: "Being the sole TV correspondent in Ticino is very demanding. I am therefore delighted that SRF is able to send such an experienced and accomplished journalist as Daniel Schäfer to southern Switzerland.
Daniel Schäfer: "Many German-speaking Swiss like Ticino, but actually know little about it. Conversely, the people of Ticino often feel that German-speaking Switzerland doesn't take them seriously enough. I want to give the southern canton a voice in the programs of 'Schweiz aktuell', '10vor10' and 'Tagesschau'."
Daniel Schäfer will move to Ticino in August 2014 to take up his position as a correspondent.
