Gaudenz Looser is the new editor-in-chief of 20 Minuten

Gaudenz Looser was appointed the new editor-in-chief of 20 minutes and thus takes over with immediate effect from Marco Boselli, who will move to the Management Board of Tamedia on January 1, 2020, and will henceforth prepare himself for his future tasks within the paid media.

Gaudenz Looser has been with the company for 14 years. 20 minutes active. He has been a page editor since 2012, and was appointed deputy editor-in-chief in 2016. The veteran journalist already worked as a freelancer during his school years at the Schaffhausen News and founded a youth program at Radio Munot. Later he was among others with the Südostschweiz and the Aargauer newspaper. Gaudenz Looser studied journalism at the MAZ in Lucerne and media management at the Hamburg Media School. He also holds an MAS in Business Communication and Leadership from the ZHAW in Winterthur.

Lorenz Hanselmann is the new Deputy Editor-in-Chief. Hanselmann, who studied media and communications, joined 20 Minuten in 2006 and worked as a domestic editor and later as chief reporter. In 2015, he became a page editor and took over the newsdesk of 20 Minuten at the beginning of 2018. He has been a member of the editorial board since October 2018.

Désirée Pomper joins the three-person editorial team. She has worked since 2009 in the Domestic & Politics department of 20 minutesIn 2012, she took over its management. Since 2018, she has also been responsible for the team of reporters and has headed the new Story department since this spring. She was also a member of the editorial board of 20 minutes. Désirée Pomper studied International Relations in Geneva and was at the Columbia School of Journalism in New York in 2014.