Philipp Gut shares the shareholdership with founder and publishing director Giuseppe Nica in the newly formed Umwelt Zeitung und Medien AG, based in Aarau. Gut holds a doctorate in history, is a non-fiction author and the owner of Gut Communications in Lenzburg. According to a statement, he is considered one of the country's most distinguished journalists.

"We want to look at the megatopic 'environment' in its entire breadth and from different angles," Philipp Gut is quoted as saying in the press release. He wants to position the newspaper as a "liberal platform for innovation and debate in the best sense of the word." "We are convinced that we cannot maintain an environment worth living in against the economy, but only with it," says Gut, explaining his publishing commitment. This is also reflected in the newspaper's subtitle: "Wonders of Nature and Technology.

"We cultivate freedom of opinion and diversity of opinion," Philipp Gut continues. He added that the publishing house itself is politically neutral. "We deliberately hold back on political statements, but do everything we can to cultivate lively democratic debate - with interesting, well-founded and stimulating guest articles by well-known authors." In the current issue of Tuesday, President of the Swiss Confederation and Minister of Agriculture Guy Parmelin writes exclusively why the two agricultural initiatives to be voted on June 13 overshoot the mark in the view of the Federal Council. National Councilor and entrepreneur Matthias Samuel Jauslin and Matthias Betsche, Managing Director of Pro Natura Aargau, provide countermeasures.

Multi-channel strategy with expanded online offering

The Environment newspaper is published monthly initially in the canton of Aargau in the second bundle of the eleven regional newspapers of the Aargauer Woche with a circulation of 145,564 copies. At the same time it is also available online. Soon, the newspaper will appear in other areas of German-speaking Switzerland. It is free of charge and is distributed to households by DMC-Swiss Post.

The company founded in June 2014 Environment newspaper came from 2015 in cooperation with the now deceased entrepreneur and cycling enthusiast Andy Rihs as a Environment newspaper Squadra Mondo out. Following the successful current relaunch of the print product, Umwelt Zeitung und Medien is aiming for a multi-channel strategy in the future, which will include not only print and online, but also video, radio and TV.