Stephanie Hess joins the editorial team of Annabelle

As a member of the editorial team, 39-year-old Stephanie Hess will be responsible for the journalistic direction of Annabelle and shape its face, as detailed in a press release. She succeeds Paula Scheidt, who is the new head of the magazine of the NZZ on Sunday directs.

"I am delighted that we have been able to recruit Stephanie Hess to head up the reportage department. Stephanie Hess knows Annabelle She is a team player and a high-profile magazine journalist with an excellent feel for good stories. With her journalistic experience and her passion for reporting, she will perfectly complement the extended editorial team in strategic matters," says Annabelle-Editor-in-Chief Barbara Loop.

Stephanie Hess has been responsible for Annabelle first as a trainee, later as a reportage editor. She has been deputy head of the reportage department since 2020. Her journalistic interests include socio-political issues, gender equality topics and, in particular, stories and research relating to sustainability. She wrote the guidebook "Ökologisch - Fakten, Wissen, Tipps. Sustainable consumption in Switzerland", which was published in the Beobachter edition in 2020.

For Annabelle she regularly writes reports on environmental issues, most recently on how we will travel in the future. In the "Green question" section, she answers readers' questions about environmentally conscious living.

Stephanie Hess graduated in journalism and organizational communication from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in 2012 and then worked as an editor at the New Zug Newspaper. As a freelance journalist, she also wrote for the Observer, Tages-Anzeiger and for the international news platform Swissinfo. Stephanie Hess lives in Zurich with her partner and two children.