Tamedia streamlines organizational structure

Eric Hoesli is leaving the publishing house due to differences of opinion about strategy, organization and operations. In his letter of resignation, the 56-year-old states that the differences of opinion no longer allowed him to fulfill his responsibilities at Tamedia's Western Switzerland branch, according to a press release issued by Tamedia on Friday. "A certain number of red lines" had been crossed, Hoesli said on Friday at the request of the SDA news agency. He had already been thinking about his decision for weeks and had discussed problems with Pietro Supino, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tamedia.

Supino regrets the move, as stated in the press release. Despite the termination, Tamedia hopes to be able to continue working with Hoesli and has made proposals to him at a national level. According to Tamedia, Hoesli asked to be able to think about this carefully first.

First editor-in-chief of Le Temps

Hoesli was editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper L'Hebdo before becoming the first editor-in-chief of the newspaper Le Temps following the merger of the Nouveau Quotidien and the Journal de Genève. Since the sale of the Edipresse publishing house to the Zurich publishing house Tamedia, he has worked as journalistic director for the newspapers in French-speaking Switzerland. He also represented Tamedia on the Board of Directors of the Swiss News Agency (SDA). Tamedia announced further reorganizations in the same press release. The function of journalistic director, which Hoesli held, will be abolished. The editors-in-chief of the major newspapers 24 heures, Tribune de Genève, Le Matin and Le Matin Dimanche will report to the Director of Tamedia Publications Romandes and Medien Deutschschweiz, Serge Reymond.

Head of Magazines leaves Tamedia

The organization is also being streamlined in German-speaking Switzerland. Reymond is now also responsible for the editorial offices of Annabelle, Finanz und Wirtschaft, Das Magazin and Schweizer Familie. The previous Head of Magazines at Tamedia, Christian Haberbeck, will be leaving the company in the coming months. Walter Vontobel will take over the management of the Swiss-German magazine publishing houses and the publishing house of Finanz und Wirtschaft as of January 1. The Sonntagszeitung will become part of Regionalmedien Deutschschweiz under the management of Ueli Eckstein. According to Tamedia, the new organization is intended to strengthen the journalistic autonomy and responsibility of the various editorial offices and enable more direct decision-making channels.
(SDA)