Basil Honegger joins the editorial management of 20 Minuten
Basil Honegger, currently head of domestic news in the SRF newsroom, will assume the newly created position of editorial director of Video News at 20 Minuten effective July 1, 2022, and will join the editorial board.
As of July 1, 2022, Basil Honegger will become the publishing director of Video News at 20 minutes in Zurich. In this newly created position, he is responsible for the further development of the moving image news strategy of 20 minutes.
In his function as journalistic head of Video News, Basil Honegger takes a seat on the editorial board of 20 minutes and leads on the one hand the Video Desk team, which remains under the leadership of Jan Derrer, and the Video News team under the leadership of Lena Wilczek, currently co-head of Video News. Till Burgherr, currently co-head of Video News, is leaving, according to a TX Group statement. 20 minutes as of the end of May 2022 to take up a new challenge as Video Coordinator at Swiss Re.
Basil Honegger is currently still working for SRF as Head of Domestic Editorial TV in the newsroom in Zurich. The 44-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 and heads the domestic specialist editorial team in the new SRF Newsroom.
"I am convinced that Basil Honegger will provide the right impetus for the further development of our successful video news strategy on all channels and I am looking forward to working with him," says Gaudenz Looser, Editor-in-Chief at 20 minutes.
