French-speaking Swiss journalist becomes vice director at Le Monde
Serge Michel will join the editorial board of the French daily newspaper Le Monde. Michel, who currently serves as deputy editor-in-chief of the French-Swiss daily Le Temps, will assume his new position on June 1.
"It's a big challenge," 42-year-old Michel told the SDA news agency on Wednesday. You only get an opportunity like this once in a lifetime. Michel is thus confirming reports from the two daily newspapers Tribune de Genève and 24 Heures.
Serge Michel, who comes from the canton of Vaud, will be responsible at Le Monde for strengthening cooperation between the editorial teams of the print edition and the Internet. Born in 1969 in Yverdon-les-Bains VD, Michel began his career as a freelance journalist reporting from Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He later worked as a Zurich correspondent for Nouveau quotidien. Further stations in his career as a journalist were Tehran, Belgrade and West Africa. In 2001, the then 32-year-old received the Albert Londres Prize, France's most prestigious journalism award. He later worked as head of foreign affairs at the French-speaking Swiss weekly L'hebdo and from 2010 he was deputy editor-in-chief at Le Temps. (SDA)
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