Further reinforcement for the news network
The online news network of the *Tages-Anzeiger*, *Berner Zeitung*, and *Basler Zeitung*—announced for early August—has announced six new hires: Anatol Heib (Community), Roman Weber (Video), Felix Schindler (Local), Monique Brunner (News), Philippe Zweifel (Culture), and Walter Niederberger (USofA).
New addition to the news network of Basler Zeitung, Berner Zeitung and Tages-Anzeiger: Anatol Heib joins the team at Werdstrasse as community cross-media editor. He previously worked as an online editor at the Bieler Tagblatt and wrote articles for the multimedia section of the Sonntagszeitung. Graduate TV journalist Roman Weber has been appointed video editor at Newsnetz. In recent years, the 36-year-old has worked as an editor and VJ on various TV editorial teams and has produced films for advertising, companies and for theater, art and cinema productions.Felix Schindler
, a graduate of the Zurich School of Applied Linguistics, has been working for the Zürcher Oberländer as a journalist, editor and reporter since 2006. The 35-year-old will take on the role of local reporter for Tagesanzeiger.ch. Monique Brunner will become news editor at Newsnetz. The 32-year-old currently works as an editor at Swiss TXT, writes for cineman.ch and is co-head of the publishing house Scharfe Stiefel. Philippe Zweifel
will be in charge of the culture section at the new Newsnetz. The China and music expert worked as an online editor at 20 Minuten from 2000 to 2002 and is now back at 20 Minuten as an editor after a break. With Walter Niederberger, who worked as a business correspondent in New York for the Tages-Anzeiger from 2002 to 2008, an expert is taking over reporting from the United States. The 54-year-old has been working as the Tagi correspondent for economic issues from San Francisco since 2008.
