Zeit publisher becomes new editor-in-chief at Cicero
Michael Naumann will become the new editor-in-chief of *Cicero*, the magazine for political culture, in Germany. *Cicero*, the magazine for political culture, is published by Ringier Publishing, the German subsidiary of the Swiss media company Ringier.
Michael Naumann currently works as editor of Die Zeit. He will take up his position at Cicero on February 1, 2010. His journalistic career took him from his traineeship at Münchner Merkur to Die Zeit and then to Der Spiegel. There he was head of the foreign department from 1983 to 1985 before moving to Rowohlt Verlag as publishing director. In New York, Naumann founded the publishing house Metropolitan Books and then managed the publishing house Henry Holt Inc. as CEO until 1998, before finally working as the first Minister of State for Culture and Media in the Federal Chancellery until the end of 2000. He then returned to Time, from which he took a year's unpaid leave to run for mayor of Hamburg as the leading SPD candidate. After losing the election in 2008, Naumann worked for Die Zeit again.
