Weissberg takes over as Blick editor-in-chief

What had already been rumored is now a fact: Bernhard Weissberg is to become the new editor-in-chief of Blick. Ringier is also announcing further changes: The editor-in-chief of Sonntagsblick, Marc Walder, will also become Editorial Director Newspapers at Ringier Publishing Switzerland, André Grieder will be the new Head of Sport at Blick and SonntagsBlick and Daniel Steil, previously Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Heute, will head the editorial team of the free evening newspaper on an interim basis with immediate effect. Ringier Publishing Switzerland is once again being reorganized. Daniel Pillard, Managing Director of Ringier Publishing Switzerland, is directly in charge of the newspaper division. In the newly created role of Editorial Director, Walder will be responsible for the journalistic and strategic development of Blick, SonntagsBlick, Blick Online, Heute and Sport Magazin. He will remain Editor-in-Chief of Sonntagsblick. The 41-year-old Walder has been working for Ringier since 1991, initially holding various positions at Blick and SonntagsBlick. From 2000 to 2007, he was Editor-in-Chief of Schweizer Illustrierte before becoming Editor-in-Chief of SonntagsBlick in February.
Bernhard Weissberg, currently editor-in-chief at Blick, will take over as head of Blick on November 1. Until then, he will be in charge of the Blick 2010 project. The 48-year-old was head of Radio Canal 3 from 1985 to 1990. At Ringier, he first reorganized the Ringier Documentation Centre, and from 1992 he worked at Blick as head of sports, politics and news as well as deputy editor-in-chief. He was then Editor-in-Chief of SonntagsBlick from 1997 to 2001 and Head of the Newspaper Division from 2002 until he became Editor-in-Chief of Heute in April 2006.

Daniel Steil, until now deputy editor-in-chief of Heute, is now interim editor-in-chief of the free evening newspaper. According to Ringier Group spokesman Marco Castellaneta, the selection process for the Heute editor-in-chief will be opened; Steil is also a possible candidate for the post.
André Grieder, the former head of culture and sport at Facts, will take over as head of sport at Blick and SonntagsBlick on November 1. Since the immediate resignation of Werner de Schepper as Blick editor-in-chief in mid-March, Rolf Cavalli has been interim editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper. He will now become deputy editor-in-chief again. De Schepper, for his part, will be journalistic advisor for the Ringier magazines L'illustré and L'Hebdo in French-speaking Switzerland from September 1.