20 minutes: Gloria Karthan becomes co-head of lifestyle
Job swap at 20 Minuten Lifestyle: Gloria Karthan is taking over as co-editor-in-chief from Geraldine Bidermann (-Schläpfer). Bidermann, in turn, is taking over Karthan’s position as editor for the Body & Soul channel.
As of July 1, 2021, Gloria Karthan will take over the co-management of the Lifestyle channel of 20 minutes. On an interim basis, Gloria Karthan has already held the co-leadership since the end of 2020 as a maternity replacement for Geraldine Bidermann (-Schläpfer), in addition to her duties as editor of the lifestyle channel Body & Soul.
Geraldine Bidermann will return from vacation on July 1, 2021. She is relinquishing the co-leadership at her own request and will take over Gloria Karthan's previous role as editor of Body & Soul.
Karthan joined the magazine back in 2014 as an intern. 20 Minutes Friday. After completing her journalism studies at the ZHAW in Winterthur, she headed the editorial team of the lifestyle portal Femelle.ch for two years before joining Friday permanently in 2019. During the founding of the lifestyle channel of 20 minutes in summer 2020, Gloria Karthan took over editorial responsibility for the Body & Soul channel, and was promoted to Deputy Co-Head Lifestyle in December 2020. She is also a member of the Social Responsibility Board of 20 minutes, which advocates non-injurious journalism (Werbewoche.ch reported).
