Frédéric Lelièvre, a well-known figure in Swiss business and financial journalism, is returning to *Le Temps*. According to a press release, he will lead a new editorial project starting September 1, 2026, dedicated to major financial and economic issues.
Frédéric Lelièvre, *Le Temps*: A Significant Comeback
After six years as CEO and editor-in-chief of L’Agefi, Lelièvre is set to join «Le Temps,» where he will work closely with the management team, the editorial board, the head of the business section, and the business and finance journalists to strengthen coverage of markets, finance, companies, and economic transformations. According to the press release, his return underscores the publication’s commitment to expanding its editorial expertise in this area.
Lelièvre studied economics and finance at the University of Rennes-I and completed his education at Sciences Po Paris with a DEA in applied economics for business and international finance. He began his journalistic career in 1997 at the French weekly magazine *Problèmes économiques*.
Sixteen years at «Le Temps»—and a stint in Hong Kong
In 2001, Lelièvre joined *Le Temps* for the first time, where he helped shape the newspaper’s business coverage for 16 years. From 2008 to 2014, he headed the Économie & Finance section. He then moved to Hong Kong, where he worked as a correspondent for several media outlets—including «Le Temps,» «Le Figaro,» and TV5 Monde. He reported on the economic rise of China and the Asian markets, as well as on the Umbrella Movement, the first major political resistance by Hong Kongers against Beijing. According to the press release, this international experience has had a lasting impact on his journalistic approach, which focuses on the intersection of global financial issues and geopolitical realities.
After returning to Switzerland in 2017, Lelièvre helped launch CNNMoney Switzerland as deputy editor-in-chief. In 2020, he took over as head and editor-in-chief of L’Agefi, where he is said to have led the publication’s editorial and digital transformation.
Acclaimed author and president of the Club suisse de la presse
In addition to his journalistic work, Lelièvre co-authored the book *Krach Machine* with François Pilet, which explores high-frequency trading and was awarded the Prix Jean Dumur in 2013. Since 2024, he has served as president of the Club suisse de la presse and is thus considered one of the most influential figures in business journalism in French-speaking Switzerland.
«Le Temps» is the only French-language daily newspaper in Switzerland with a national and international scope. It has been owned by the Fondation Aventinus since January 2021. According to the publication, it employs approximately 170 staff members, including correspondents in Washington, Brussels, and Paris, and relies on a global network of freelance journalists. Founded in March 1998, «Le Temps» emerged from the merger of the «Journal de Genève,» the «Gazette de Lausanne,» and the «Nouveau Quotidien.».
For more information about «Le Temps,» visit https://www.letemps.ch.
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From January 2023, the new team at the helm of Le Temps consist of Madeleine von Holzen, Editor-in-Chief since January 2021, and three Deputy Editors-in-Chief: Laure Lugon Zugravu, Vincent Bourquin and Grégoire Nappey, in office since summer 2022. Paris correspondent Paul Ackermann remains deputy editor-in-chief.
Two-time book author Laure Lugon Zugravu is currently a journalist in the Geneva section of Le Temps. Prior to that she worked for La Liberté, Le Nouveau Quotidien, L'illustré, Le Matin and Bilan active.
Vincent Bourquin, currently head of the Swiss section of Le Temps, has been working at the newspaper since 2020. Previously, he worked for twelve years at RTS Radio, where he was parliamentary correspondent in Bern for seven years and later became deputy editor-in-chief. In addition, he had, among other things, seven years at 24 Heures worked.
Serge Michel, who is working with great commitment on the implementation of the new editorial strategy at Le Temps is leaving the editorship and will in the future concentrate 100 percent on the Heidi.news dedicate.
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Against the reporting of Linth24 the city council of Rapperswil SG had filed a complaint. The executive criticized that articles about locations of sports facilities - especially the training hall of the ice hockey club Rapperswil Jona Lakers - had been heavily commenting. These comments had not been recognizable as such. In addition, the author, the editor-in-chief of the portal, had not made his vested interests transparent. He was politically active in a committee on the location issue.
The Press Council partially approved the complaint, as it announced on Friday. The commentary elements were not clearly separated from the rest of the reporting. Furthermore, the author should have been transparent about his vested interests in this matter. The Press Council rejected other parts of the complaint.
Le Temps should have corrected
On one of several points, the Council also rejected a complaint against the French-speaking Swiss daily newspaper Le Temps was approved. It came from the collective "Réinfo Santé Suisse International" and was directed against an article in connection with the measures against the coronavirus.
Le Temps did not use a misleading title as claimed, nor did it publish an unjustified accusation, writes the Press Council. However, the newspaper had spread an error of fact and a false allegation. "The assertion of the daily newspaper that the collective was the organizer of the demonstration against Corona measures on March 20, 2021 in Bern, however, violates the duty to tell the truth," the press council states. The editorial office of Le Temps should have corrected this information as soon as it had knowledge of it. (SDA)
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"Both the NZZ as well as Le Temps stand for quality journalism and liberal values. The readership is very similar, and accordingly we also work the same customer segments in the advertising market - a strategic partnership was therefore an obvious choice," explains Felix Graf, CEO of the NZZ, the step.
The print and digital marketing of Le Temps will be replaced from 2023 onwards by NZZone and Audienzz are controlled. The two marketers will be responsible for Le Temps target potential national and international advertising customers, covering the entire German- and French-speaking market. The regional advertising customers will be served directly by Le Temps The publisher is setting up a team specifically for this purpose. Zeynep Ersan Berdoz, Director of Strategy and Development at Le Temps, welcomes the partnership with the NZZ: "It's built on solid foundations and has been built on absolute trust, and I'm sure it will last."
In addition to marketing print and online advertising, the two media companies will also cooperate on inserts from next year and jointly drive their further development. In the future, the NZZ-inserts therefore also via Le Temps distributed in French-speaking Switzerland.
The technology developed by Audienzz was also a decisive factor in winning the cooperation. With access to the Adconsole, Audienzz's all-in-one solution for managing multimedia advertising jobs, receives Le Temps like many other publishers, has full transparency over the performance of all ongoing campaigns and can simultaneously handle operational processes efficiently and automatically. "Our systems and proprietary developments are also used for Le Temps The new technology will be put to profitable use," says Remo Baumeler, Managing Director at Audienzz.
In the event sector, too NZZ and Le Temps will increasingly work together in the future. For example Le Temps recently became an official media partner of the national sustainability initiative Sustainable Switzerland, which was launched by the company NZZ was launched with the aim of advancing sustainable development in Switzerland.
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The former editor-in-chief of Le Matin joins as Deputy Editor-in-Chief on June 1, 2022. Le Temps. There, Nappey will be responsible for the current topics as well as for the digital edition of the title. The trained historian and author of "Histoire suisse" is currently in charge of communications at Prométerre.
Nappey is an experienced journalist with expertise in the digital field. He built up Newsnet, the first in-house agency for the production of online content for Tamedia's French-speaking Swiss titles. He also served as deputy editor-in-chief of 24 heures responsible for the Digital division.
More changes in the editorial team
There are other new additions to the editorial team headed by Madeleine von Holzen. Paul Ackermann will become Paris correspondent from June 1, 2022. He will remain a member of the editorial team to help develop the title's digital strategy.
Serge Michel, deputy editor-in-chief of Le Temps, will take over the development of "opinions" (Meinungen) and "debates" (débats) as of June 1. He will remain as editor-in-chief of Heidi.news exist.
Eléonore Sulser, responsible for the new Saturday issue Entre-Temps, and Xavier Filliez, responsible for multimedia, will further develop these formats in the Editor-in-Chief's office. And Richard Werly, currently deputy editor-in-chief and correspondent in Paris, is leaving Le Temps after 20 years of activity, to turn to new projects.
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Aline Bassin has already been with the business department of Le Temps active. Previously, she worked as a radio journalist at RTS. As the new head of department, she wants to "take the pulse of the Swiss economy," as she says in a statement from Le Temps is quoted.
Valère Gogniat, the former head of the business department, is now responsible for the "Events" section of Le Temps.
For the past four years, Aline Jaccottet has been a correspondent for Le Temps in Israel and the Palestinian territories. She is now in charge of the "International" section and wants to use "lively and inclusive narrative journalism" that "brings close what seems far away," according to the statement.
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Both titles will continue to operate independently, according to a statement issued on Tuesday. However, synergies are to be exploited. The editorial, management, marketing and technical departments will be combined. Since the beginning of the year, the two titles have already had a joint editor-in-chief in Madeleine von Holzen and Tibère Adler, as well as a joint director.
The takeover does not come as a surprise. At the beginning of November 2020, the Aventinus Foundation, based in Carouge GE, had given the Zurich media house Ringier Axel Springer Schweiz the newspaper Le Temps was purchased by Aventinus. At the same time, Aventinus also announced its intention to acquire a majority stake in Heidi.news in the medium term.
Le Temps welcomes the commitment of its owner. With the takeover, the Aventinus Foundation demonstrates its will to maintain and further develop a center for quality and innovation in the media sector in French-speaking Switzerland, according to the communiqué. (SDA)
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As Head Subscription, Gaël Hurlimann will be responsible for developing a consistent premium content strategy for the Blick Group from the beginning of 2021. He will also oversee the topic on an international level for the entire Ringier Group. He will report to Ladina Heimgartner, Head of Global Media and CEO of the Blick Group.
Since January 2015, Hurlimann has been the online editor-in-chief of Le Temps and played a key role in the digital development of the Westschweizer Zeitung. Under his leadership Le Temps introduced a paywall and increased the number of its digital subscribers fourfold in the last five years.
Von Holzen will assume her new role as of Jan. 1, 2021, the Aventinus Foundation announced Tuesday. A week ago, it had become known that the foundation, based in Carouge Le Temps from the media company Ringier Axel Springer Schweiz.
Von Holzen worked for more than ten years as a business journalist for the Journal de Genève and for the French-speaking Swiss radio and television station RTS. She then founded a communications company. Among other things, she was responsible for communications at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Since 2018, she has been head of communications and a member of the management team at Geneva Airport.
Tibère Adler, a lawyer and entrepreneur, will become the managing director of Le Temps and Heidi.news. Adler was CEO of the French-speaking Swiss media company Edipresse until 2011. He was also director of the liberal think tank Avenir Suisse in French-speaking Switzerland and co-founder of the digital news portal Heidi.news in French-speaking Switzerland. The Aventinus Foundation also wants to acquire a majority stake in Heidi.news in the medium term and bring the two media titles under one roof. (SDA)
For the past three years, 28-year-old Thomas Deléchat has been responsible for audience strategy and the social media, branded content and innovation teams at the daily newspaper Le Temps responsible. Now he is moving to the Blick Group and will be part of the management team of the French-language version of Blick.ch, which will be launched in French-speaking Switzerland in mid-2021 and headed by Michel Jeanneret as Editor-in-Chief.
Michel Jeanneret in a statement: "Thomas Deléchat is one of the best digital specialists in Switzerland and I am delighted to form an innovative and creative duo with him. Together, we are creating a news platform that uses the appropriate narrative forms and channels to ensure that Blick also meets readers' expectations in French-speaking Switzerland."
Deléchat received the international FIPP "Rising Star in Media" award in 2018. As Product Manager, he will be responsible for setting up and managing a "Creative Lab" fully integrated into the newsroom. This unit will bring together digital experts as well as social media and video specialists to produce interactive content for the new news platform.
"The media are continually questioning the way they prepare and distribute content - partly because user habits are constantly changing. With the 'Creative Lab', we want to find out in particular what potential platforms such as Spotify, TikTok and Youtube offer, which are geared more towards a younger audience. I'm looking forward to building an innovative team and supporting the editorial team in the distribution of their content," says Thomas Deléchat.
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Ringier Axel Springer Switzerland will in future focus on its core publishing products, Ringier CEO Marc Walder announced to the media in Carouge on Tuesday. The decisive factor in the publisher's decision was the lack of synergies with its publishing portfolio, which consists largely of magazines. In the long term, the sale of Le Temps to Aventinus the future of the title along with its more than one hundred jobs, Walder emphasized.
Quality journalism in French-speaking Switzerland
The newspaper will change hands on January 1, 2021. François Longchamp, president of the Aventinus Foundation and former Geneva FDP councillor, would not comment on the purchase price. He said the editorial office will move from Lausanne to Geneva, to a location that has not yet been specified. The editorial move is expected to take place during the first half of 2021.
The newspaper will continue to be printed at the current printing plant, that of the Tamedia Group in Bussigny VD, as Longchamp specified. The foundation intends to, Le Temps as an independent quality newspaper and to take over the entire editorial team. The previous Le-TempsEditor-in-Chief Stéphane Benoit-Godet moves to Ringier magazine in the same position on December 1. L'Illustré. He succeeds Michel Jeanneret, who is moving to Blick.ch's French-speaking counterpart after ten years in his editor-in-chief position. (Werbewoche.ch reported).
Foundation model praised
According to Walder, the Ringier media house came to the conclusion that continuation through the involvement of a renowned foundation is more promising in the long term. When a group of foundations and private patrons announce the takeover of a daily newspaper, this is "very good news," Walder said. The CEO of Ringier went on to say that the advertising direction of Le Temps will remain with the Ringier company - Admeira - for another two years.
The foundation model is new for the Swiss media landscape, said Longchamp, president of the foundation. Quality newspapers in France and Great Britain had already taken a similar path. With Aventinus, the long-term continuation of quality journalism, for which Le Temps is guaranteed in French-speaking Switzerland, Longchamp emphasized.
Long-term and independent future
The foundation's mission, he said, is to support and promote high-quality, autonomous and diverse media in western Switzerland. Especially at a time when the media world is going through a turbulent phase, the foundation can support the editorial team of Le Temps assist in securing a long-term economic future for the title.
The Aventinus Foundation was established in October 2019 with the support of several foundations, including the Leenaards Foundation, the FoStiftung Jan Michalski and the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation. Pending the closing of the transaction, the Aventinus Foundation is to form the new Board of Directors of Le Temps which - under the chairmanship of Eric Hoesli, the first editor-in-chief of Le Temps - will consist of five to six independent members.
The new editor-in-chief of Le Temps is not yet determined.
The Aventinus Foundation further announced on Tuesday that it intends to acquire a majority stake in the western Swiss news portal Heidi.news, which was founded in May 2019, in the medium term. This is intended to generate additional synergies for Le Temps arise in order to further strengthen the title's position. Aventinus already owns 5.81 percent of the share capital of Heidi Media SA since December 2019.
Syndicom and imprint pleased
The media union Syndicom and the Association of Swiss Journalists Imprint welcomed the commitment of the Aventinus Foundation to Le Temps and at Heidi.news. The solution reached in French-speaking Switzerland makes it possible to strengthen media diversity in French-speaking Switzerland, said Dominique Diserens, trade union secretary of Impressum Romandie.
The national daily newspaper Le Temps was launched in 1998 as a merger product of the Le Nouveau Quotidien and of the Le Journal de Genève was founded. Ringier took over the daily newspaper Le Temps completely in April 2014. Previously, the newspaper had been owned by the media houses Tamedia and Ringier, each with 46.2 percent. (SDA/swi)
The top media brands in Switzerland 2019. Listed are the media brands that were rated by their users with the highest value achieved across Switzerland in the respective dimension. (Minimum number of cases: n=50)
This is the result of the latest Mediabrands study by Publicom. Publicom has been measuring the brand images of Swiss media brands every year since 2013. With over 4,800 interviews and 172 media brands included, mediaBrands is the largest qualitative media study in Switzerland. It analyzes the assessment of media brands by the population in all language regions.
In terms of the quality criterion "credibility", this year the RTS radio station La 1ère and the traditional newspaper Le Temps The Swiss population ranked SRF 4 News at the top of the nationwide ranking - ahead of last year's frontrunner SRF 4 News. The Swiss population considers social media to be less credible, especially Facebook, which once again came in last place this year, lagging far behind.
Credible regional newspapers and SRG media
mediaBrands cannot confirm the often claimed loss of media credibility. On the contrary, the average credibility of media brands is unchanged compared to 2018 and previous years. The Swiss population continues to consider regional, subscription-based daily newspapers and publicly funded radio and television stations to be particularly credible. In general, the Swiss trust domestic media far more than foreign media. ARD is the only foreign medium to make it into the top 50 most credible media brands. (Regional) Swiss media brands are also ahead in terms of other journalistic and functional quality features: La 1ère leads the ranking in two other quality dimensions (relevance of information and utility value). Further absolute top positions are occupied by New Zurich Newspaper (competence), the bilingual regional television station TeleBielingue (proximity to the audience), the newcomer Republik.ch (uniqueness), SRF Virus (youthfulness) and SRF Musikwelle (entertainment value). The Ticino SRG television channel RSI LA 1 creates the strongest brand loyalty. The Fribourg daily newspaper La Liberté achieved the highest popularity rating. Of the global internet offerings, only YouTube and Instagram achieved top rankings in the dimensions of entertainment value and youthfulness respectively.
Magazines and cinema suffer the most from digitization
In addition to individual brand profiles, mediaBrands also tracks general usage trends. Digitalization continues to leave its mark. Magazines in particular are experiencing a noticeable loss in reach, having lost five percent since 2017. Cinema is suffering from Netflix and other streaming services and has lost three percent of its reach in the last two years. Newspapers are holding up comparatively well, but their use is increasingly shifting to digital editions, even though the majority of the population still (also) reads newspapers in paper form. Those who only consume newspapers digitally still form a small minority.
Every year, Publicom uses the Mediabrands study to determine the brand performance of media brands among the Swiss population. The data is used for qualitative media planning, among other things. The 2019 survey was conducted in May and June and is based on a representative sample of 4,839 people aged 15-79. The statistical margin of error is +/- 1.4%.