Walter De Gregorio becomes deputy head of Blick

Weltwoche columnist Walter De Gregorio will join Blick effective January 1, 2008. There, he will serve as deputy to the new editor-in-chief, Bernhard Weissberg, alongside Rolf Cavalli. Gion Mathias Cavelty, Marcel Speiser, and Daniel Meier are also joining the tabloid’s team.

 Weltwoche author Walter De Gregorio is joining Blick on January 1, 2008. He will join Rolf Cavalli as deputy to the new editor-in-chief Bernhard Weissberg. De Gregorio will be responsible for interviews and reports and will also support the new head of sports André Grieder in his role, according to a Ringier press release. The 42-year-old De Gregorio wrote as a freelancer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He was then a founding member of Facts, a reporter for the Sonntags-Zeitung and Italy correspondent for Die Zeit and Weltwoche, among others, where he was also a member of the editorial board.
Over the next few months, the 130-strong Blick team will also be joined by author Gion Mathias Cavelty, who previously also worked for Weltwoche, as well as business editors Marcel Speiser, who is moving to the tabloid from Tages-Anzeiger, and Daniel Meier, who most recently wrote for the discontinued Facts magazine.

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