Basil Honegger new on the editorial board of 20 Minuten - Spaeth leaves
After more than ten years at 20 Minuten, Sandro Spaeth, a member of the editorial board and editor-in-chief of print and online editions, is leaving the company at the end of July 2023. Basil Honegger will become a new member of the editorial board.
Basil Honegger will join the editorial team of 20 Minuten on July 1, 2023, as already planned at an earlier date. This is according to a statement from the TX Group on Monday. Honegger joined 20 Minuten in July 2022 from SRF in the role of journalistic head of video and member of the editorial board. (Werbewoche.ch reported). As a member of the Editor-in-Chief, he will continue to be responsible for the leadership of the Video panel and will serve as a page-turner.
The 45-year-old biologist has many years of experience in journalism. In 2006, he joined SRF as an intern at "Menschen Technik Wissenschaft," then completed a stage at the health magazine "Puls," where he remained as editor for several years before moving to "Schweiz aktuell" in 2010 as editor, producer and topic planner. In 2013 he became deputy editorial director and in 2016 editorial director of the show. From 2018, Basil Honegger built up the domestic specialist editorial team in the new SRF Newsroom and headed it until mid-2022.
Sandro Spaeth, member of the editorial board of 20 minutes and page maker for print and online, has decided to leave the company at the end of July 2023 after more than ten years at 20 Minuten in order to take on a new professional challenge, the statement continues. It is not yet clear where he will go.
Spaeth took over as Head of the Business Department at 20 Minuten in 2012. At the beginning of 2018, he was appointed to the editorial board, and in 2021 he became a member of the editorial board as Print & Online Editor-in-Chief. In business journalism, Sandro Spaeth has attracted attention with his format "Live from the Executive Office," among other things. Before that, Sandro Spaeth was at Bikestyle magazine Ride as well as the agency Swisscontent. He graduated in journalism from the Swiss School of Journalism Maz and continued his education at the Columbia School of Journalism in New York in 2017. In 2022, the 43-year-old completed an MAS in Communication Management and Leadership at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW.
The editors-in-chief of 20 minutes will be composed as follows in the future: Désirée Pomper, Editor-in-Chief, Gaudenz Looser, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Waldmeier, Page Editor, and Basil Honegger, Head of Video and Page Editor. The editorial team is complemented by the 3-person editorial management team, which includes Sofie Erhardt, Head of the Visual Section, Tobias Wedermann, Head of the Sports Section, and Christof Vuille, Co-Head of Politics & Society.
"I very much regret that Sandro Spaeth has decided to leave the company. He has contributed a great deal to building up the business reporting 20 minutes Désirée Pomper, Editor-in-Chief of the 20 minutes, quoted in the release. "Thanks to his curiosity and perseverance, he has been able to bring together many well-known interlocutors* with the 20 Minuten community in his 'Live from the Chief's Office' format. At the same time, I am delighted to have Basil Honegger, an outstanding video journalist, on the editorial board."
